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Arthritis picture of my left index finger

My arthritis symptoms started with a minor joint pain at the top joint of my left index finger (the finger I use for cutting garlic). As you can see on the arthritis picture below the red arrows: the joint was swollen as well.

The X-ray clearly shows that the top bones are rubbing on each other.

Obviously that is what is causing my constant – yet minor – joint pain.

It was not an inflammation as I wanted myself to believe in. Who want to acknowledge he has arthritis symptoms at 43? Not me!

First thing my doctor gave me was some arthritis pain medication – Celebrex -, which made me sleep like an angel.

When the pain medication was finished, the symptoms of arthritis were still there.

I would have been too much an optimist to believe that the little bony growth causing my swollen joint would become smaller.

It took me some time to get real actually: no swollen joint because of inflammation, yet because of osteoarthritis. Which is still better than having rheumatoid arthritis…

Please share your arthritis story

Anyone having the same or similar arthritis symptoms like me, please leave a comment:

• what you tried for arthritis treatments
   
• what works and what doesn’t
   
• how does arthritis affect your life
   
• how do you cope with arthritis?

Thanks!

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