What Does Elevated Inflammatory Diseases Markers Mean?
- Arthritis associated with inflammatory bowel disease
- What Is It? & Symptoms
- Diagnosis & Expected Duration
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Symptoms
Besides the symptoms of IBD on the intestinal tract (such as bloody diarrhea, crampy abdominal pain and fever), people with the arthritis of IBD have pain, swelling, stiffness (particularly in the morning) in those joints that are inflamed. Symptoms tend to vary over time, sometimes better, sometimes worse. Often - but not always â the joint symptoms correlate with the bowel symptoms; that is, the joints tend to be more painful and swollen when the gastrointestinal symptoms are...
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