Hello everyone.
I was diagnosed with spondyloarthritis in April and started on adalimumab biweekly. My pain over lower back has tremendously decreased with adalimumab. Since I’ve peripheral joints involvement complaints, my rheumatologist suggested switching to tabs.

Does anyone have any experience with the tabs so that I know what I can expect? The side effects and how to go about it and such?
I had a hard time trying to adjust with the immunosuppressants initially and it took me 4 months to understand my body and how it’ll work and how the future is. So, any sort of advice or help will definitely be highly appreciated

Over a month of pretty intense pain and suddenly nothing? I’ve been suffering from sudden onset, but continual pain in my knee that was diagnosed via MRI as bone on bone arthritis, with no cartilage behind my patella. The only relief I’d get is when I’m sitting or lying down. Been wrapping it daily, elevating it as much as possible, and am scheduled for my first cortisone injection tomorrow. Yesterday and this morning, no pain. Is this a thing that happens??

hiya! what are some symptoms you may have noticed before your diagnosis that you shrugged off thinking it was nothing?

Been to multiple doctors. Next up I have a CT scan.

Broke wrist playing football at 16.
In cast for 3 months.
After cast I had to have surgery on it with metal plates added.
Another cast for 3 months.

It's ridiculous cause I see it all now and when speaking to doctors I didn't need the surgery but jesus christ I was a kid and had no idea what was going on really. Just do as your told if it's your first broken bone.

Anyways. It hurts. My favourite sports to train are boxing and martial arts. IT's more about the camaraderie I receive from it. IT's hard as it feels like I can't do it anymore. I havent trained in a year. It takes forever to just figure this stuff out too.

I wish something like AI can find a solution and give me a new wrist.

I put my age also as how will it be at 40, 50, 60+ ? Is it going to get very worse or does it kind of hit a limit of annoyance.

I want to have an active life.

Of their hand where the joints meet? This is what makes it difficult for me to open up a Gatorade or water bottle. My grip strength is so terrible!

This OA started one I hit 50 (I’m 51 now) and my Rheumatologist says it’s bc of my hormones. Yet my fingers are more crooked than they were last year. Not even my parents had OA in their fingers , wrists or elbows like me in their 60-70s. 😩

OA is no joke !

My husband(m43) has had pain and discomfort at night for some years in his knee. The past few months it has been waking him up every few hours. He got an x-ray and they are saying it is arthritis! He's waiting for a follow up and hasn't been able to sleep from the pain for the past few nights. He is miserable! Any tips?! Tried hot, cold, ibuprofen, lidocaine patch...nothing works. Thinking about trip to urgent care for a cortisone shot? Please help! No experience with arthritis!

Fibromyalgia or a does a neurologist diagnose it? My orthopedic surgeon said that a neurologist does. I thought a rheumatologist did.

I have been diagnosed with Celiac disease by a blood test and I will have an upper endoscopy to confirm on September 8th. Ever since I had my knee replacement in April 2024 my physical health has gone down the toilet. I had a knee revision in June of this year and I am worse than before. I have plantar fasciitis in both feet. But now it seems everything hurts. Maybe when I finally start eating gluten free it will help me with some of the issues.

I am young and hoping to avoid surgery as long as possible. Subtalar arthritis is not the most common and finding information on treatment options outside of surgery is a little scarce. I’m hoping this community can maybe provide tips/tricks for your favorite non operative managements. There are other threads discussing PRP/steam cell and corticosteroid injections but what did you do to manage the discomfort outside of those options?

A few questions to maybe spark some suggestions:

1) Any suggestions on life style modification? I would love to hear even your most unhinged examples

2) Any particular footwear provide you with relief? Maybe a specific shoe, brace, compression sock, or did you find any that made the pain worse and I should avoid?

3) Whats your go to ankle mobility exercises for strengthening or stability? And by extension what became your go to exercise for lower impact?

4) Did you ever try supplements, creams, herbs, massage technique, acupuncture or anything else from the more “crunchy” side of medicine?

What helps you? It's mid back between shoulder blades and seems to spread out and up. Any suggestions or feedback helps thank you!

Hello everyone my mom (50) is a dog groomer so she has bad carpal tunnel and arthritis making things hard as she needs to save her hands for work here's the issue she used to be a very avid cross stitcher it's honestly her only hobby and she can no longer grip the needle without pain anyone have any ideas we can try so she can continue her interests thank you:)

So I recently bought an arthritis hand brace - the type that's like a stretchy compressive fabric, that goes from your lower forearm, up to your knuckles (don't think I can attach photos here?).

Now I bought the correct size of brace for my wrist circumference (if anything, my wrists were slightly too small for this size).

I feel a good amount of support & compression on the wrist & rest of my hand.

However on my thumb, the skin is slightly more purple when I wear the brace, and I also get a bit of a tingly pins & needles type feeling (I think it's due to blood pooling slightly, due to compression of the brace)

The rest of my fingers are fine, though the compression brace ends at my knuckles for the fingers, yet the thumb piece is deviated from the main brace, and goes up to the middle join of the thumb.

This is my first time wearing a brace like this, so I don't know whether this is normal, or should I get a bigger size?

Thanks

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I took a marine collagen with type 1 and 3 10000mg for around a week and one morning my ring finger middle joint started paining. I thought it must be due to something and will heal. Next day the middle finger joint also started paining. I soon started reading posts on reddit and found out that collagen can cause it. I stopped taking it and now it has been more than two months but still the ring finger middle joint pains a lot. Has anyone else encountered this and can help me understand the mechanics?

Just had the results from an mri arthrogram. Apparently my shoulder is completely buggered. Surgeon suspects i will need a shoulder replacement in the next 5 to 10 years. Could be sooner though. Ive been referred to physiotherapy for now but its simply not going to get better apparently.

Im in to calisthenics so I want to be able to keep doing press ups and pull ups. I dropped any pressing a long time ago and as of today I have dropped clubbell and kettlebell stuff over the head.

Feeling a bit crummy. I guess this is the first time in my life that ive been told I have something that wont improve. I feel very human today. Anyway just wanted to share. Any words of advice would be welcome.

Edit: thanks all for the kind words. It could always be worse so gotta count the blessings.

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced crazy fatigue with HCQ/Plaquenil!

Hello everyone! I keep dropping my cell phone bc my OA is messing up my grip to be able to hold my cellphone.

I used to buy otterbox phone cases but I cannot find them anymore in stores.

Any recs for cellphone cases with rubber frame for a better grip?

I’m looking for real-life experiences from anyone dealing with arthritis in the distal radioulnar joint (DRUJ)—the joint on the pinky side of the wrist that controls forearm rotation.

I’ve had worsening left wrist pain for over a year. Gripping, lifting and rotating my forearm are painful. My MRI reportedly shows significant synovitis/thickening of the joint lining, and my X-rays show joint-space narrowing and bone-spur formation. The hand specialist said there is still cartilage remaining and it is not bone-on-bone yet.

I’ve had two cortisone injections in the wrist, but I don’t want to keep repeating them. One specialist told me this is a difficult joint to treat surgically and recommended hand therapy, strengthening and ergonomic changes for now. He said the traditional surgical options—ulnar-head resection/Darrach procedure, fusion-type procedures or DRUJ replacement—may cause more problems than they solve at my current stage.

I’m also being evaluated separately for bilateral radial tunnel syndrome, but I’m trying to understand the wrist-joint problem itself.

Has anyone with DRUJ arthritis and synovitis tried any of the following?

• Certified hand therapy or targeted strengthening
• A custom brace used only for certain activities
• DRUJ arthroscopy
• Arthroscopic synovectomy or cartilage debridement
• TFCC treatment or repair
• Ulnar-shortening or another joint-offloading procedure
• Wrist denervation
• Darrach, Sauvé-Kapandji or Aptis DRUJ replacement

What actually helped? What made things worse? If you had surgery, how was your grip strength, forearm rotation and pain afterward? Is there anything you wish you had tried—or avoided—earlier?

I’m not looking for a diagnosis from Reddit. I’m hoping to hear honest experiences and learn what questions to ask a wrist specialist.

I’ve (33F) had lupus for 20 years. It’s drastically changed my life. With that I got RA. I got MRIs of my feet and hands two weeks ago, and the results show OA in my right hand and right foot, and RA in all 4 places.

More context: I have CPTSD, and the last few years were very challenging. I’ve had more stress than I could imagine. I’ve gained a LOT of weight, my ankles hurt, my knees and hips are starting to hurt after a period of time. Everything feels difficult. Physically and mentally.

I know something needs to be done about my weight; I have about 130lbs at least to lose. I tried GLP1s a few years ago but had to stop after 3 months because I was nauseous CONSTANTLY. I don’t really want to go back on them, plus I can’t afford that expense right now - I’m working less due to pain.

I feel like I’m climbing up a never ending mountain. Alone. I think I just need a pep talk. That it’s not the end. I used to be a runner. Now a 20 minute walk just kills my body and my mood.

I’ve seen from other posts that some folks have completely cut out all sugar minus fruits and are having less inflammation. What else works for you?

I've become very worried!

I have advanced osteoarthritis with enough pain to have kept me mostly horizontal for several years. I have excruciating lower back and shoulder pain. I have had periods of remission after certain procedures, but the results don't last long.

I broke my foot in a BAD fall 4 weeks ago. Doctor's orders: NO weight bearing until my followup next week. This fall has exacerbated my back pain exponentially and has added weeks and will add more weeks to living nearly motionless. I was an athlete years ago (black diamond skiing and figure skating.) There is so much grief ...

I am 68 and have never had a DEXA scan, but my biggest concern is bone loss and muscle wasting. There HAS to be something I can do. I'm using opioid therapy under close supervision, but that only helps so much.

On the upside, i've been taking a GLP-and have lost 70 lbs over the past year.

I'm seeing my favorite orthopedist tomorrow and asking if he will manage all of my ortho needs.
That would be very reassuring. I met him while seeking joint replacement surgery. I didn't have it (another story). But I touched base with him about getting a cortisone shot and he made that happen within a day.

It feels like I'm asking for magic. I'd love tp hear your thoughts, any suggestions, recovery stories would be wonderful. Thanks for listening.

diagnosed with bilateral MTP big toe joint arthritis, now over the past 3 months, its in my neck.

it feels tight on the neck to the point that it’s straining my shoulder.

I have mild asthma, the fact that this is affecting my breathing a little is a nightmare. I just want to sleep but I can’t sleep lying down flat because of the pain, and even reclining on my cushions which give my back a 45 degree angle, will make my head tilt to a painful direction if I even do sleep.

I had paracetamol just now. What are your tricks which help you?

I have severe rheumatoid, and osteoarthritis in my feet, and hands, and have been on IV’s of Cymzia, Simponi Aria, and Actemra, without any noticeable reduction of pain, or swelling, in fact my pain in my feet has gotten worse…
Since the beginning of my treatment with my Rheumatologist, I have been taking Methotrexate on a weekly basis.. Now the Dr. wants to put me on Orencia, an IV every two weeks three times and then once a month…
Should I just stop this jumping from one IV to another, having to get blood tests to check for TB EVERY three months, and just stay on the Methotrexate…?

First picture: my right hand, whiteness when I extend my fingers. Second picture: my left unaffected hand.

I was diagnosed with mild, likely hereditary psoriatic arthritic arthritis 10 years ago when I was 30. I’ve only really had issues on the right side of my body and recently noticed my right hand looks odd. It’s my dominant hand and is feeling stiff but not overly sore.

I often get Reynaud’s syndrome in both hands (white finger tips) but this is different, it’s concentrated around my knuckles only.

Can anyone help me understand what this could be?

I’m not sure if this is