These pains only last a minute or two, but they are worrisome, they hit me at night, day, in the store, or everywhere I go. Is this normal?
Q: I sometimes have sharp pains here, there, and everywhere, is this part of rheumatoid arthritis?
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10/ 7/09 2:43pm
It could be part of the RA, but it could also be fibromyalgia. Are they joint pains, or muscle pains - or is it hard to tell? Are you on treatment? Hate to say it but sometimes even the meds can either not take away all the pain, but sometimes have side effects of a little different kind of pain...when my RA is under control I can still have fibro pain. Read about fibro elsewhere on this site...
2/20/10 3:31pm
Any particular joints on a regular basis? For example, wrist/hand pain can be carpal tunnel. SImilar stuff can happen in ankles. I think it's called nerve entrapment. I had shooting pains up my arm, ironically after a cortisone shot in my wrist (not supposed to do that), and after 3 weeks of that was when my wrist & hand swelled up for the first time, leading to the diagnostic MRI. But the all-over-ness and randomness sounds like fibro. If you haven't read up on it, check out the section on this site
11/ 7/08 11:27am
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I believe they are joint pains