Congrats on the new baby!

I don't think you have arthritis...I mean I guess you could, but for the pain to come suddenly like this, it rather indicates that it is not arthritis. I think you have what most moms get: a general post-partum fatigue. Your joints are trying to go back to normal as your hormones are switching over to the non-pregnant hormones, and you won't be as flexible as you were during pregnancy. Plus there's the fact that you are holding the baby quite a bit and picking her up and putting her down is going to make everything ache, not matter how light she is.

As far as I know, arthritis does not cause hair loss or tiredness.

Warm baths while the baby is sleeping, plus a supplement of Calcium and Magnesium should help with your tired and aching joints and muscles.

I don't know what your diet is like, so I don't know what you would need to add or take away besides the supplements I mentioned above.

Thanks for your answer!!

I really hop it is not - but all sympthoms seems to be, but it behaves a bit strange to meet all the criteria for arthritis... I can have a horrible pain in my knees for a week of which I can hardly walk for two days and the other days I walk like a 90 years old then one day after that I weak up with stiff arms and the knees are better and so it goes round.

Maybe it is post-partum fatigue and all the stress a delivery involves? When does the hormones in teh body setlle? 3 months after giving birth?

My diet is a mix of everything- low on fat otherwise quite a mix of everything. I do take supplements of Calcium and Omega and a multivitiamin

Yes that sounds right! Just give yourself time, especially if your baby needs extra care. Your hormones will settle when they want...it's different for everyone lol, but three months is a good time to expect things to get back to more reasonable. When your cycles start back up is completely back to "normal". Just think about how much extra weight you carried around while you were pregnant and how much you had to do, plus what you have to do now: it's tough on your body.

I hope you feel better soon. If you still are afraid that it's arthritis, of course you can call your doctor.

Thanks!!

Yes I have been to the doctor- and first he thought it was nothing. But the analysis showed that I do have an inflamation in my body so he want me to come back for more analysis. I am just afraid that he will say that I have arthritis - so I was looking if one could have "post natal arthritis" that has exacly the same sympthoms but dissapeard after the body goes back to normal.

Yup, it probably is just water retention, which can hurt just as badly! You can be retaining more water, especially if you had your baby at the hospital and had IVs, which are salt based....and we all know lots of salt makes for lots of water retention!