arthralgia

arthralgia /ar·thral·gia/ (ahr-thral´jah) pain in a joint.

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ar·thral·gia (är-thrlj)

n.

Severe pain in a joint. Also called arthrodynia.

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ar·thralgic (-jk) adj.

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Arthralgia

Sharp, severe pain, extending along a nerve or group of nerves, experienced in a joint and/or joints.

Mentioned in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Ross River Virus, Sydenham's Chorea

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arthralgia

[ärthral′jə]

Etymology: Gk, arthron, joint, algos, pain

joint pain. arthralgic, adj.

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arthralgia (ärthral´jē),

n pain in a joint or joints.

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arthralgia

pain in a joint.

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arthralgia

Pain in the joints

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Patient discussion about arthralgia.

Q. I’ve been having joint pain for the last two months or so, do I have arthritis? I’m a 32 year old dancer, and those pain affects my work and my life.. What can it be and what can I do with it? Is there a way to ease the pain?

A. Need more details, is it in all of your joints in general? Is it coming and going? Could be that you are having a Rheumatoid Arthritis. This is an autoimmune disease. Your body attacks your joints, the outcome is swallow joints and pain. After a few years without treatment there is deformation of the joints. My grandmother has is and it’s painful. So I recommend- go to specialist and next time don’t wait 2 months to do so...

Q. Heart serious, Lungs swollen. My brother Bennet, seventeen, and it is birthday tomorrow. But I guess he already got his seventeenth birthday present: lupus. He is recently diagnosed with lupus, yet some complications are still under-diagnosed. He have always had huge aspirations. Now, as my health deterioates at a weird rate, he can't walk around. His heart is in serious condition, his lungs are swollen, so are his joints. His voice is almost not there and he is, thinking about his eighteenth birthday. His face is swollen, as some gland in his neck has bloated and somehow he don't enjoy what he see in the mirror he says. He is very sensitive to sunlight and so he stay in for all day and when he decide to go out, it is after 8 or 9 p.m. He is despondent, yes. Because he see his dreams shattering, his family life is breaking apart and he feels as if he is getting more useless EVERY single day. How long will he continue? Maybe another thirty years...maybe not another day. Could anyone help him to SURV

A. Sorry to hear about your brother being so miserable with his symptoms, and the apparent distress it understandably is causing you.

With sunlight bothering him, that is called photophobia and is a symptom of certain types of lupus, or can be an effect from a medication he may be taking. The swelling on his neck may be due to hyperthyroidism, asthma, or an allergic reaction perhaps to prednisone, which is given to lupus patients.

You should get your bother to see a doctor soon, if you have not already. You don't want him to stop breathing or anything.

Dan

Q. Our GP said that I have a greater risk for joint disease because I am HLA-B27 + . what is he talking about? My mom and dad have a spondyloarthropathy. they went to our GP and he did us some genetic tests and said that I am HLA-B27 positive, and that i have a greater risk for several diseases. what kind of diseases is he talking about?

A. HLA-B27 is a part of our immune system. Some of us )like me) have this gene and some of us don't have it. The fact you have this gene says you might have some diseases.
Those diseases are mainly arthritis for its kinds and inflammatory bowel diseases (witch I have and its totally manageable.
if your parents have only spondyloarthropathy I guess you can expect you will have a spondyloarthropathy too.
Go to your GP and ask him to explain you more about this.