Possable RA ?

[2Young4This31]

painful knees on the inside of my knee caps where the bone is its tender , they burn sometims , after sitting and getting up they feel stiff and very painful , same with sometimes at night and in the morning after getting up out of bed . when i walk around for more than 20 mins in a store they start to be very painful and it hurts to walk . i also noticed sometimes when i get really cold my knees ,wrist and sometimes my elbow ache . but its mostly my wrists and knees . i do beleive my mother may have rheumatoid arthritis ,(bone and joint disease) dunno if both are connected meaning if the same.what causes a person to lose height? in the last 10 yr ive lost 1/2 inch in my height i was with shoes 5 f3 w/o 5 2 1/2 now im about 5f2 w/o shoes also been feeling pain and tenderness in my upper left abdominal regein feels like a bulge . is this all signs of possable RA ? . anyways i was wondering if anyone else has these symptoms and if so what causes it ? i know i should make a docts apt . but i just wanna know what i may be dealing with before i go ..... thank you  

[2Young4This31]

hmm well  idunno what it is but i know this morning i woke up both my hands were swollen , i couldnt even move my rings , and both wrists/hands  and to the knuckles were aching really bad,  and then my knees started i was cooking breakfast , my right one was worse . i finally went and took a naproxen   that my doc prescribed me a few months back because  i kept having a burning painful feeling in my left shoulder blade in the back.  (the bone)  he said its prob a pulled muscle or something . but ive also told him that ive been having this burning ,sensation under my left rib cage at the bottem basically where the spleen is located  sometimes i feel like its swollen or something . or something is there that shouldnt be . he just said we will look into that later and just brushed me off . i mean what is it ? is it because im only 32 im to young or something . from what ive heard your never to young to get or have arthritis as far as im concerned. Anyways its really starting to be a bother ive looked up the self diag symstems thing and came up with nothing ive even typed in the pain i was having and just googled it . yes i know i should stop and just go back to him and tell him listen i know im only 32 but i cant help on what im feeling !  last year i had a total hysterectomy  done  and after it i felt my left knee doing the same as what my right knee is doing now . i just dont understand  it . i guess if he keeps brushing me off its time for a new doc but i just dunno where to go cause im in a small town and i dont wanna travel  over an hr to a docs office !

[CinnamintStick]

To me it does not sound like a classic case of RA. RA normaly starts in the hands or maybe the feet. The fingers are swollen and it hurts to bend them. The pain is everyday and does not go away with over the counter drugs. If it is in your right hand, it will also be in your left. I felt so exausted I could sleep all the time. Within a few months it was in all my joints. I couldn't get out of bed or off the tolet without help. I couldn't sleep with all the pain.

I was diagnoised early and the meds are working pretty good. What ever it is, you need to be seen right away.