Arthritis

Redness, Heat, and swelling. on the rite of the inflammation. accompanied by pain at times.

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is achronic painful and often progressive condition that brought about by inflammation of the joints of the spine. It affects the joints between the vertebrae and the sacroiliac joints, i.e, the area where your spine meets your pelvis.

Yes any injury to sites that involve the joints can lead to osteoarthritis.

Just having Rheumatoid factor does not indicate that you are suffering from any particular problem. Many people with RF never have any health problems. So I would assume as long as you are able to satisfy the people that run the program that you have the physical and mental capability's you should be fine.

Well, none of us has a neck that's getting any younger. Arthritis in the middle of the neck (C4 C5) has resulted in a bit of bone spurring (osteophytes). Those are taking up some of the space in the vetebral holes (foramina) through which the nerves pass.

Now, whether or not this finding is causing the symptoms that led to your getting an MRI is another question. Whether they have symptoms or not, the majority of adults 40 and over have similar findings on MRI.

The next step is to talk with your health care provider for advice specific to your situation. Nobody gets treatment based on MRI alone.

No the drugs used in controlling RA do not increase the risk of developing cancer.

Yes arthritic pain can radiate a long way from the source . Arthritis can cause narrowing of the spaces between the bones or inflammation around the places that nerves pass through. this can interfere withe operation of the muscles and feeling all the way down the arm.

they can relieve the symptoms of arthritis by reducing inflammation. They don treat or reduce the harmful effects involved with arthritis

it is unlikely as tens machines stimulate muscles and arthritis is not a muscular condition.

No gout is caused by uric acid.

Articular cartilage.

Glucosamine is one of the factors that make up cartilage. According to its manufacturers it is helpful in restoring damaged cartilage, and reduces arthritic pain. It is one of the most popular arthritis treatments sold over the counter without prescription.

Red swollen painful joints particularly in the extremity. often starting in the joint in the big toe. deposits of uric acid crystals forming lumps under the skin near these joints {tophi) and on the cooler regions of the body like the ears.

In any rheumatic disease muscle weakness can result atrophy, ie the joins in the area are painful to move leading to the muscle not being used, this in turn leads to the muscle weakening.

If you have any sort of procedure that involves the destruction of tissue then the system has to get rid of the dead cells. These cells have purines which in turn creates uric acid. If you are predisposed to developing gout and are close to saturation point of uric acid in the blood then this could tip you over the edge.

No it is moderate to low in purines.

That is up to the doctor at the time of the procedure.

Humans as part of their urine, sweat and also feces.

Allopurinol is a structural isomer of hypoxanthine (a naturally occurring purine in the body) and is an enzyme inhibitor, inhibiting xanthine oxidase. Xanthine oxidase is responsible for the successive oxidation of hypoxanthine and xanthine resulting in the production of uric acid, the product of human purine metabolism. In addition to blocking uric acid production, inhibition of xanthine oxidase causes an increase in hypoxanthine and xanthine, which are converted to closely related purine ribotides adenosine and guanosine monophosphates. Increased levels of these ribotides causes feedback inhibition of amidophosphoribosyl transferase, the first and rate-limiting enzyme of purine biosynthesis. Allopurinol therefore decreases both uric acid formation and purine synthesis. (source wikipedia)

There is talk about that antioxidants help RA however there is not hard and fast evidence that this makes any difference at present. RA is an Autoimmune disease, that means that the immune system has developed an immunity to the body own tissue.

Rheumatoid Artritis.

Gout is nothing like arthritis and therefore arthritis medicine would do nothing. Gout is high uric acid in your blood stream crystalizing. Once it is crystalized, it stays in the bloodstream and stabs at nerves. Arthritis is stress on bones and therefore very different.

A lot of foods that are high in protein are also high in purines thatcause a raising in uric acid in the blood. this can lead to gout.

Prolonged periods of pain can have that effect on some people.

I didn't see gout as a side effect of gabapentin. But there are a lot of side effects of this drug, and I mean a lot of them. See the link below for a list of side effects of this drug.