Pain?

I have a stupid question. I have mild RA. I recently had x-rays of
my wrists which were normal. I take Plaquenil and Relafen.

What I don't understand is why I have pain every time I try to do
something. If there isn't any damage in my joints and my inflammatory
markers are normal, what causes the pain? We just had a bad snow
storm and I had to spend an hour or two shoveling snow and boy am I
paying for it. It's not muscle pain. It feels like the tendons
around the joints. I took some Arthritis Tylenol along with the
Relafen but it didn't do anything.

Is this kind of pain normal?

"ShuShu" <cherlyn.kay@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a stupid question. I have mild RA. I recently had x-rays of
> my wrists which were normal. I take Plaquenil and Relafen.
>
> What I don't understand is why I have pain every time I try to do
> something. If there isn't any damage in my joints and my inflammatory
> markers are normal, what causes the pain? We just had a bad snow
> storm and I had to spend an hour or two shoveling snow and boy am I
> paying for it. It's not muscle pain. It feels like the tendons
> around the joints. I took some Arthritis Tylenol along with the
> Relafen but it didn't do anything.
>
> Is this kind of pain normal?
>

Yes,,,, if your dmard is not controlling your inflam.arth.... Many of us
have the same types of pains that you do in the support structure of a
joint. You should make a copy of what you and I have said here and hand it
to your doctor.
Harv