Is there a difference between inflammatory arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis?

[Ms-D]

I assumed they are the same....

[helixhelix]

Rheumatoid arthritis is one of the inflammatory arthrites, there are quite a lot of them. You can think of inflammatory arthritis as a bowl of fruit, and RA is the lemon.. other fruits are available.

[Ms-D in reply to helixhelix]

Love that definition lol. Just wish i know which fruit i am lol

[Lolabridge in reply to helixhelix]

Yes RA is definitely the lemon 🍋😁

[Ms-D in reply to Lolabridge]

Too funny. U love lemons but this is not nice. Why do they not diagnose you clearly and wait around for it to get worse?

[Lolabridge in reply to Ms-D]

I think it’s very hard even for the experts to pinpoint exactly which one you may have as many of the inflammatory arthritises have similar presentations. Time and patterns seen in your blood work, scans and X-rays usually helps to get the diagnosis right.

[Ms-D in reply to Lolabridge]

My bloods are always normal but but mri showed a damaged tendon in bursa and bone spurs in hand. Ive got tendonitis and tennis elbow already. Its fruatrating as all my joints hurt and are so tender to the touch x

[helixhelix in reply to Ms-D]

Don’t worry, as the treatments are pretty similar for all of them - trial and error!

[Ms-D in reply to helixhelix]

You have made me chuckle so much. Thank you x

[Dspooky01 in reply to helixhelix]

I knew that gin always helps, now I know why! 🍸

[Lolabridge in reply to Dspooky01]

And we all need a tonic from time to time ...