Joint pain
It is very important to understand when joint pain is caused by rheumatoid arthritis or another health problem. It is not sudden or intermittent joint pain. Rheumatoid arthritis often features a persistent pain that involves many different articulations at the same time. It is symmetric joint pain, which means that if your left wrist is hurting, your right wrist is hurting as well.
The severity of pain is variable according to the stage of the disease and the times of acute flare-up episodes. As time passes, pain in rheumatoid arthritis becomes a cause of physical limitation, but not performing movements makes it worse by promoting stiffness. Thus, advanced patients may require steroid anti-inflammatories to control pain and improve their symptoms.