Rheumatoid Arthritis Support Group

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, inflammatory, multisystem, autoimmune disorder. It is a disabling and painful condition which can lead to substantial loss of mobility due to pain and joint destruction. The disease is also systemic in that it often also affects many extra-articular tissues throughout the body including the skin, blood vessels, heart, lungs, and...

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rosetears143 09/22/2015

So, not necesarily painful, but noisy. Does anyone else have that happen? Just simply standing up or kneeling/sitting down my knees and ankles pop. Or raising my arms or moving them my shoulder will pop or crack.

rosetears143 09/22/2015

PS my ribs and back/hips are KILLING me today!! And I'm still on prednisone...currently 15mg. I felt invincible on day two of 40mg. fml

rosetears143 09/22/2015

My jaw sometimes locks..I have to be very careful about yawning when i first wake up in the morning otherwise it will get stuck open and it's excrutiatingly painful. Always been told it's just TMJ issues..but with everything now going on I don't think it's simply TMJ anymore lol. But yes...the stealth factor ! no fair! haha Thank you buddha

MarleneJ 09/22/2015

My left jaw pops and grinds all the time. It subluxed in Feb with a flare, and although a physiotherapist put in more or less back in place, and the pain is minimal, the sound is so grating in my ear.

I think popping is a better thing than swollen joints. The joints don't really pop when they are in full flare. But of course, there is that previous damage! So when the joints settle down, they try and work their way into a comfy place? Just a theory I have!

rosetears143 09/22/2015

Marlene that's a really good theory actually. Because now that I think about it all the ones that were pretty swollen, tender, and very sore are the ones popping. Even minor movements make me pop right now.

lindamassey 09/22/2015

Yup - popping all the time.

deborabarlow 09/22/2015

Definitely snap, crackle and pop! Seriously have a lot of loud and hard popping in my elbows sometimes hurts but mostly not. My shoulders pop and grind when I'm trying to adjust on the sofa or turn in bed usually and doesn't hurt as much as it did last yr when the disease was so acute.

My question is, along with all of the popping, do you guys experience a bunch of slipping and sliding with clicks and of course pain in the joints that just doesn't feel right, like they're too loose? Probably a dumb question but wondering is this causing consistent damage even if your inflammation levels are normal? I was hoping that treatment was going to make all this stuff quiet down and feel normal again

rosetears143 09/23/2015

Debora I can feel what you're mentioning in my knees sometimes and my wrists

etain11 09/26/2015

For as long as I can remember in my fingers, wrists, ankles, and toes. They've always been kind of a novelty, I can roll my wrists and really gross people out ;)

More recently, my back, hips, neck, elbows, knees etc ...

It's not usually painful.

rosetears143 09/28/2015

Etain yea the popping isn't painful for me either, just noisy and sometimes it surprises me lol.

buddha lol!!

Bride1006 09/28/2015

I pop all the time too, I asked my husband all the time "Did you hear that?"

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