I have not had a flair up in several years. When they started my hands would swell up and the joints would hurt and the swelling and pain would go up my arm any my wrist was so swollen that my blood had trouble flowing. I would hold my arms, walk the floor and cry (this was before they said I had RA) I would wake my husband to take me to the emergency room. They would run all kind of tests. They would give me wonderful pain medicine in an iv. It only happened at night. The next day my hands would be sore and I would be fatigued. Did not know what was happening. We made several trips to the er. I can’t imagine having flair ups like some of you. My pain was so severe that I would rather have surgery with no meds. As I said somewhere before I suffered 5 months before anybody put a name to it. It took a while for Dr Razzaq to get the right mixture of meds that would work. That’s methotrexate and Simponi Aria by infusion every 8 weeks. I use a spine and pain doctor for my OA which can get pretty ugly. Today is a good day

I agree with everything others said. I have Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis, as well as Psoriatic Arthritis and of course the original RA. My doctor talked to me about the different joints affected my the different Arthritis. My hands swell and hurt and my feet. My back hurts in certain places and shoulders and neck, and knees which is Psoriatic. Usually when I have a flare I ache like my bones have a toothache. It’s all over not just the joints, but joints are very sore. The exhaustion gets worse and I just feel awful. I’ve had several fractures in my back so the Osteoporosis causes back pain. One flare seems to start the others. It’s sure no fun. But in a few days, usually better.

Hi Marie
I just got over a big flare that lasted about 2 1/2 months. Befor it would last a week or so, this one time I'm hopping this will never happen again. I had my Orencia infusion yesterday and it helped my pain. I hope this will last until my next infusion in 4 week's. My Rumotolgist gave me a refill for gavinpentin this helped me with my other medications. Orencia makes me tiered very tired, I don't plan anything no shopping for groceries, or do earens, or anything. I go stearate home and go to sleep for 4 hours. But this time I had to go to Phical Theropy, the guy asked how I feel I told him I'm tiered he just siad I will just massage your foot and ankel. He's helping me to walk with out a brace or boot, we do excersizing stretches and getting on my foot and ankel to get stronger. Getting my ankel stronger and it hurts but I knew it would, I sweat 😰 working out but I want to go back to hiking walking 4 to 5 miles. I'm walking half a
mile. It's so hard but I'm not letting it keep me from getting back to what I was doing. But when it gives me flares it starts with a headache down to my neck goes down to my shoulders, then down to my arms, rests back, hips, knees, feet and when it starts to hurt my ankels boy wow that's a diffrent kind of pain. Here in NM they don't give us pain killer's for the pain, you have to go to the ER.
I have been in the ER over 5x were in first name bases now that's bad. I have been on Orencia infinfusion for 8 years and sometimes it works and I can breath, so I hope that it will help me longer than 2 weeks.
So when you have a flare take a warm bath 🛀
rest with your feet up watching TV. You can read a book or garden just relax. If you are really hurting go to the ER they can help you. Ihope you feel better soon.
GOD BLESS YOU

When I am about to get a flare up I get fevered and start to stiffen up. I find the best solution is to take two Tylenol and get in a hot bath. Yes a hot bath. With the fever comes chills and I found that if I could stop the chills with hot water the Tylenol had time to kick in and I felt a lot better when I got out of the bath. Everyone is different though and what works for one may not work for another.

So sorry you are having such a tough time prayers being sent. I was told RA can effect your hips but RA is systematic so it hits both sides ar same time. I also have OA and Dr told me I can tell the difference if only one hip is hurting it's the OA if both flare its RA same with other joints.