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I have a question for anyone that may have had experience with this. For about 2 to 3 weeks our daughter who is 26, has been waking up with severe stiffness and joint pain. It involves literally every joint in her body. This morning, she could barely get out of bed and the pain in her joints is constant, no letting up. She does not notice any swelling or redness. A week or so ago, she had 3 days of constant vomiting, diarrhea. During this time, she also had numbness to her arms between her elbows and wrists. These symptoms all went away and now she is left with the constant joint pain. She does not have a doctor (she is getting one). Has anyone ever had numbness with their arthritis? I told her to get on some fish oil and naprosyn until she can get to a doctor. I hate to see another child with this. By the way, this is not the daughter that has had the hand and ankle swelling....this is another one. Thanks for any thoughts or input. I get numbness/tingling in my arms mostly and sometimes my legs.  I also have had numbness/tingling...usually hands, arms and feet.I had numbness and tingling in my hands in the morning right before my onset but I thought I slept wrong on them.

I've had numbness in hands.  I thought it was the fibromyalgia. I first had obvious joint invovlement in December 2007.  In July 2007, I had an MS-like episode that still has not been explained by any doctor.  I had an MRI--fine.  All nerve conduction--fine.  All bloodwork--fine.  I'm like Jan. My dr. says it is the fibro. I usually don't even try and seperate the two any  more.

I have numbness/tingling in my feet.  My joint pain and stiffness is worse in the morning but is also constant all day.

The only numbness I've had is if swelling in my wrists compressed the nerves traveling through the ulnar and/or carpal tunnels.  The numbness was always confined to my hands, and it was alleviated by using splints at night for a few weeks. Mine is numbness in the hands, and I have been in night splints for 10 months now, and its slowed down to maybe once a month I wake up with one or two hands completely swollen numb.  It shakes off as you stand upright and the fluids move around.  That's how I started out.  I woke up with numb hands and a week or so after (can't remember) I couldn't turn on a faucet or button a button, etc. I'm curious that a couple of people's doctors said the numbness was fibro.  I already had fibro, but the numbness was my first RA symptom.  I would wake up with hands and feet numb on a regular basis. However, the only time I had numbness from my wrists to the elbows was related to pinched/entrapped nerves.I get some transient numbness in a few places. Fibro is weird.

My guess is that they should do the usual lab tests, but it sounds like FM. I couldn't get out of bed either at one point.
I've had and continue to have numbness and tingling in my hands, arms and feet..  I've gotten blisters on my feet from shoes and never felt them rubbing.. I have a friend who experienced numbness out of the blue. She has been diagnosed with MS. I don't want to sound alarmist, but I would want to have that ruled out as a possible cause. I personally have numbness that goes away when I get trigger point injections. I'm so sorry that your daughter is going through this.

DawnDawn...that totally occurred to me but I didn't want to say the word. It worries me. She is making an appt. Did your friends numbness last for a while? And where was the numbness? I don't have fibro, RA is the cause of the numb hands/feet.  I have had numbness from elbow to fingers, but that is from a car accident, nerve damage.

When my husband had food poisoning and was vomiting and couldn't get out of bed for 3 days, his arms and hands went numb.  When he recovered, that went away completely.

lorster.. they tested me for MS first due to the numbness and tingling..  all was negative.. and it pushed back my DX by an RD.. because we were focusing on the "nerve" issue not realizing it was RA.  if you can, schedule for a RD visit too.  there is family history Lorster - I believe my friend's numbness began in her legs and feet, and it would come and go. She didn't wait very long to go see a doctor which was fortunate because they believe they caught her MS early.
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