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Q: Muscle And Joint Pain
asked by: purplekate on February 28th, 2007
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Hi, I just wondered if anyone has any advice/is going through anything similar/any ideas doctors won't have suggested.

It all started when i dislocated my right knee. The next day my left knee started hurting and they haven't stopped since. A month later my fingers and wrist joints began to hurt, so painfull i couldn't write. Sicne then the pain has moved into all of my joints, even my jaw.

A lot of the time the left side of my body is painful and has an odd numb feeling. Like when you've been lying on your arm...except that it's not actually numb.

The worst I have been is when I woke up on 2nd Jan with a shap stabbing pain in my stomach, low down. I sat up and fainted cause of the pain. I felt like I was going to be sick and needed the toilet all at the same time. I could hardly move at ths point for all the pain in my joints. Shortly after I started to shake uncontrollably and my fingers and toes turned blue.

I was rushed to hospital and put on ibuprofen and a drip and recovered slowly. The rheumatologist thinks it might be arthritis but nothing has been done about it, no tests, no diagnosis, no cure.

Help! I'm only 20, I can't have this for the rest of my life!
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