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Hello everyone, just registered, and I am looking for some advice. I am 21, just graduated college, and I am very concerned about my joint problems. I was diagnosed with tendonitis in one arm about 5 years ago and the other 3 years ago by an orthopedic surgeon. At the time I had no doubt they were overuse injuries, but they never seemed to go away, even with rest and PT. 3 months ago pain struck in one of the tendons in my right knee, not too bad just difficult to sleep when it was straightened out. Now 2 weeks ago my left knee started hurting, much worse. I know I need to get to a doctor and I'm planning on seeing a rheumatologist. My main question is, did anyone have the experience of pain affecting one joint at a time, or did it all kind of strike at once? Thank you! My initial diagnosis was palindromic arthritis. It would hit a certain joint or two last a few days and move onto to a different joint. Eventually it developed into RA a few years later. I believe I had read since that if you treat palidromic arthritis aggressively early you have a real good chance of going into full remission. But this was all JOINT pain not tendonitis.My joint pain has always been bilateral, I also have a lot of tendon issues as well.

My pain struck me all at once. I hope you find relief and that the rheumy figures out what is going on. Best Wishes to you. Initially and for years: major pain... all joints.. all at once..

Now, after medicating.. I find that here and there a joint will bother me more than any other
Initially pain and swelling started in one finger only.  Then several years later several of my toes joined the party and this went on with various joints taking turns being painful.  Ten years later I had a severe onset of RA.  I developed damage from those 10 years of being undiagnosed.  I seeked out a diagnosis but was told by several university arthritis clinics that I didn't have RA.  I had negative labs and traveling pain without bilateral joint pain.  Best if you get an appt. with a RD and have it all checked out.  Early, aggressive treatment will keep damage at a minimal and may put you in clinical remission.  Keep us posted on how you're doing.  Lindy

hello, mine started out in my shoulder, then my knee, then the other shoulder, and so on

after 4 months of this, it all hit at once...i was first told I had lupus and finally few months later i received the dx as RA

you describe a pattern that may be palindromic rheumatism or potentially some level of hypermobility syndrome..seeing the rheumatologist is a good idea.  Keep notes of your symptoms up until you see the dr so they can see a pattern if there is an appearent oneWhen my RA first started, I would experience pain in one joint.  There were times it felt more like tendonitis to me.  It would last for about three days and then move to another joint.  It wasn't until I was a couple years into my diagnosis and my first DMARD started failing that I experienced pain in multiple locations at once.  Several years before I was diagnosed, I had a problem with tennis elbow that just didn't want to go away.  I went through many, many therapy treatments.  It finally did go away and now I wonder if it wasn't a sign of things to come. I have PA and it affects all my joints and it likes to move around alot. Sometimes Twisted,   It varies from a sore stiff neck at the base of the skull to extreme pain and not being able to turn my head and feeling like my necks a bag of rocks.
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