Tingling and numbness affecting your hands and feet are among the early symptoms of RA. Before you develop these symptoms, you may experience some early warning signs. These early warning signs are related to how you feel overall.
Fatigue is one of the first early warning signs of Rheumatoid Arthritis. You may experience extreme fatigue and lack of energy. If this fatigue lasts more than a few weeks and you have no other symptoms, you may be dealing with an RA flare-up. You may also feel depressed along with fatigue. If you feel tired, this is an early sign that inflammation has started in your joints.
Low-grade Fever
At first, you may have a low-grade fever. If you feel sick and have a fever as well as a warm feeling in your body, it can also be an early sign of rheumatoid arthritis. In RA, your immune system turns on, and attacks your body's own tissues in an autoimmune response that can cause a low-grade fever. This low-grade fever can range from 99° to 101° and last for a long time.
Weight Loss
Weight loss is another warning sign of RA. Your body starts to lose weight suddenly, which can be an indirect effect of inflammation. Loss of appetite due to fatigue and lethargy can also be a reason for weight loss.
Warm Joints
A feeling of warmth in the joints is also an early sign that problems are going on in your joints. When your body is tired, you may feel warmth in the joints before swelling or redness.This is also one of the early symptoms of RA.
Joint Redness
Redness in the joints is another sign of rheumatoid arthritis. Inflammation in your joints can make them look red. Redness in the skin on the joints of your hands and feet is caused by dilated blood vessels. Dilated veins allow more blood to flow to that part of the body, causing reddened skin.
Swollen Joints
Swollen joints also indicate that you may be suffering from joint pain. Subtle swelling in your toes can be an early symptom as the disease affects the smaller joints first. As the disease progresses, swelling in the joints increases, which is a worrisome sign.
Joint tenderness
Joint tenderness is an important warning sign of rheumatoid arthritis. The joints between your hands and under your fingers feel tender with pressure or movement and feel painful when pressed.
Similar joint pain on both sides
Bilateral joint pain is also a hallmark of Rheumatoid Arthritis. You may notice that if you have pain in one hand, the other hand also feels the same pain.
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