I was wondering how common it is for some of our aches and pains to move around almost daily.
I may have pains in my wrists one day and it may be in my knee a day or two later. There have been times I didn't want to go to sleep for fear of what I may wake up with.
What have others experianced?
That is pretty common. Like yesterday my knee was killing me. This morning I woke up and my wrists are swollen to the point where I am going to have wear both braces all day today. Bad enough that I have to wear them at night. Grrrr!!! I'm pretty much like that as well. Today my right hip is killing me (sleeping at my sons place while visiting..I need my own bed!) tomorrow I'm sure it'll be something else.very common......you aren't crazy. You are not crazy, Jay boy. This is what it does. And it does it so well...don't you think. It is so nice to know that I am not crazy. I am new at admitting to myself that there is a problem. I finally realized that ignoring it won't make it go away. To hear that the travelling pain is not just my imagination does a lot for me. Thanks.It's okay, babyjeepwoman. We all feel like that at the beginning. I must be crazy because this stupid pain keeps moving.Things do jump around quite a lot in the early years. Frankly I do not know what is worse- always having feet that hurt to walk on etc or having OK feet one day and bad feet the next. It does make ya feel nuts either way.
Instead of knowing that RA has my wrists aching, I am always looking for some sort of over doing whenever anything hurts more than usual.
Even though this has been going on for 30 years, I still think I 'sprained' whatever is bugging me today.
My left hip and foot bother me constantly. My pain travels from moment to moment. I sat one night and told my hubby "it's in my hip, then a couple minutes later I get a jabbing pain in knee, then a couple minutes later it's in my shoulder. The only way I can describe it is it is like a voo doo doll and someone is jabbing me with a big needle here there and everywhere! My stiffness seems to come and go. I wake up stiff and about an hour later after taking relafen & cymbalta I feel better but if I sit too long.....I get stiff again. I always limp after getting up from sitting down but if I walk around it eases up. Strange but true this ra is one crazy disease!
It seems like for me my pain is in places that are not even swelled, or at least do not seem to be swelled. My swelled body parts do not bother me while it is starting to swell, you know the soft swell - where you can move the inflammation around and feel it as squishy. It is when the swelling goes into the hard swell - hard as a rock - that I get a lot of pain and anytime after that hard swell goes away is mostly when I have bad pain.
But I am thinking some of that is due to the pred use, on how I do not feel much pain when I have soft swelling.
Mine has settled in my left foot/fingers of my right hand, but 3 months ago, before all the medication I'm taking now, I had pains everywhere, and they did change around. Knee, ankle, elbows, neck, it was scary. Sorry you have this traveling around. It is a mystery. LyndaI have PA and my pain can jump around from one minute to the next. If I am going out for the day I will take all my braces, as my knee might be bad one minute then my elbow the next. it is so frustrating. Ally [QUOTE=CinDee]OH MY! *have the Wizard of OZ tune running through my head*
My left hip and foot bother me constantly. My pain travels from moment to moment. I sat one night and told my hubby "it's in my hip, then a couple minutes later I get a jabbing pain in knee, then a couple minutes later it's in my shoulder. The only way I can describe it is it is like a voo doo doll and someone is jabbing me with a big needle here there and everywhere! My stiffness seems to come and go. I wake up stiff and about an hour later after taking relafen & cymbalta I feel better but if I sit too long.....I get stiff again. I always limp after getting up from sitting down but if I walk around it eases up. Strange but true this ra is one crazy disease!
[/QUOTE]Yep.. Some days its my toes that are the worst, other days its my knees. Occasionally its my hands, but usually my hands just tend to be clumsy, where as the other joints HURT.
I've found that in general when everything hurts equally I'm heading into a bad flare, or within a few days of my infusion.
It also depends on what you did that day, or the day before. And overuse of one muscle group can and will travel to other muscles and joints. Daily chores can mess you up! That's why I try to wear shoes, any shoes always help. Those back braces you see everyone using now, are the bomb. My husband starting using one after his beer belly started growing & his lower back said "uncle". I've used one off and on for years. And if I'm painting or gardening, I use my wrist braces. Knee pads are always around. Ain't it great to have pain where you didn't even know something was there? Really. Hopefully you'll get a good drug cocktail that will give you relief and stop it's progression. Feel better.