Help me, please. You fuckers

Maybe RATES. Good news is there's plenty of drugs to get this under control if that's what it is. Corticosteroids, Methotrexate, various other immunosuppressants, monoclonal antibodies. There's no shortage of meds that would help RA

* RA damn autocorrect

smoke pot, it helps with the pain and anguish.

it could be dietary, or some of your meds reacting badly

Shit I was hoping to not become dependant on pain killers at the age of 23.
What do you mean with RATES?

I don't take any meds.
I eat pretty much everything.

Alright, how old are you? Do you have any other diseases? Anyone in your family suffer from autoimmune disease? Is there any stiffness in the joints? Do you have a fever? Have you had a cold recently? Any rashes? Any other complaints?

I meant RA rheumatoid arthritis. Autocorrect fucked it up. Also none of the meds I mentioned are painkillers at all. They either just reduce inflammation in the body so you feel no pain in the joints or as biologics stop major inflammation at all early in the process. Not painkillers

Sry.
I'm 23.
Not that I know of.
My mother said she had/has gout at the age of 40 and had to stop eating certain things.

Yes. My joints do feel quite stiff.

No cold, no fever, no rashes.

But aren't there any drastic side effects?
Don't they weaken your immune systemand cause alot of problems?

It's not gout. Gout is a monoarthropathy (as in usually effects a single joint, most commonly one of the toes), and you wouldn't have gout at 23. Yeah, sorry dude, from what you're describing it sounds like RA, although it could be an early presentation of another autoimmune connective tissue disease; Lupus, polymyalgia rheumatica, and so on. You went to your doctor, and they drew blood work, which was def the right thing to do. The good news is there are very effective drugs (not just NSAIDS) that target the cause of the inflammation, so you should be A-ok.

Thank you for trying at least.

Well the corticosteroids are not something you want to be on forever. Many of the others do have side effects that are usually well tolerated. Since they suppress the immune system yeah you will be more susceptible to infections. In that case many meds will be suspended for a time. With a good doctor and your compliance user it can be well managed. The key point is that you need to follow their advice and figure out what you have.

Thank you for your response.
But gum disease can't be the reason for this right?
It mostly hurts at night.
I've heard that when you have periodontitis it also hurts mostly at night.

He'll be put on a TNF-a inhibitor most likely. So unless he has TB, he should be fine.

I've also heard several "experts" say that in the 30's they just pulled out the RA patient's teeth incase periodontitis was the cause.

No, gum disease will not in itself cause joint pain, you might have read something about Strep being the cause of rheumatic fever, and by loose association saw that certain Strep species can seed heart valves after dental procedures (which is a "carditis", part of a constellation for rheumatic fever) Now, as I said before, non-infectious gum disease can be a sign of another autoimmune disease together with arthritis. So it's not that your gums are causing your joints to hurt, it's that something is causing your gums and your joints to be hurting together.

And please take everything I say with a grain of salt. I'm not a licensed doctor yet, so I can't be offering medical advice. This is all just speculation. Please go off of whatever your actual doctor says.

Ok thank you for the response.
I was just hoping.
Are you a doctor?

Maybe eventually something like enbrel or whatever. Usually though they wouldn't start out with biologics but see if something else would work first like methotrexate or pred etc

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Huh, didn't know that. Figured that you'd just go straight for modulators. Thanks for the insight, as I said, I'm still learning.