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October 12, 2008  
EDUCATION CENTER: Symptoms

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  • Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Symptoms
    Symptoms


    • Shoulder, neck, foot, ankle and/or knee pain, often bilateral (similar pain in joints on both sides of body)
    • Pain in fingers, toes, hip, ankle, wrist, shoulder, even when resting
    • Pain increases with activity
    • Pain increases with changes in weather (especially cold)
    • Morning stiffness lasting an hour or more
    • Joints red, warm, swollen, or tender when touched
    • Thickening around joints
    • No fever/low-grade fever
    • Nodules under the skin, especially around elbow, on fingers (20 to 40 percent of patients)— firm, but not painful
    • General fatigue

    Last updated: 02-May-07

       
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