Understanding Foot Pain

[lotswitch]

Oh, I see.

I get the feet pain/crampiness you do and some pain in tendons and muscles near the joints. It's weird, pain can be there for an hour or two, then it will vanish.

 

[LiamTerry]

I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. When I was 17 (ye auld years ago) I knew someone a couple of years older who had RA. This is nothing like that. She could barely walk and was quite obviously disabled from it.

I think it's important, in order to be taken seriously, not to compare this to something worse. (Another friend has fibromyalgia, which she tells people is "like MS" - a gross overstatement.)

My $0.02 - your mileage may vary!

 

[NickRage812]

I'm fine with your reply....

like I said, I feel that RA is worse (should this make us happy ? I think I'll say that to myself more often...I don't have a joint disease).

Perhaps it is equivalent (in severity) to a milder case of RA, since there are degrees.

 

[hCapitalize]

My mum had rheumatoid arthritis, she was one of the few for whom nothing could be done and became totally dependant on me in the end.

Naturally I worry about it too, I have arthritis in various places, nothing yet to indicate it is the rheumatoid variety, though it is a while since I had an ESR test.

I expect when I see my orthopedic surgeon on Monday he will diagnose arthritis in my shoulder, it is certainly giving me trouble at the moment.

I seem to have the same pattern of stiffness in the mornings that my mother had, which worries me somewhat, but I would still rather have RA than ALS.

I take anti inflammatories at the moment.