Hand arthritis: what are the main symptoms?

Who typically suffers from it? What are the main symptoms? What causes arthritis of the thumb and fingers?

Dr Jean-Paul Brutus answers your questions.

[drrd]

I have been having pain in my hands but this doesn't sound like my pain. Makes me so happy.

[debradurling]

4.00 am my hand is killing me the pain is excruciating like somone hitting me with a hammer constantly, my fingers are swollen it's so painful
I have osteoarthritis and reactive arthritis all over my body joints the pain is unbearable it burns to like somone is burning you with a iron it comes and goes the burning
I have bursas in my shoulders thoracic bone adema sacrillitas hip joints and tail bone my left finger joints have fused naturally on there own I have savonilitis
liver cerroses non alcoholic, its like torture how can someone go through all this pain and still be alive its so exasting
I feel for everyone who suffers from any arthritis.
God be with you

[brendaechols]

I use my hands alot at work. I was told i have arthritis in my thumb and both wrist. Sometimes its wakes me up at night and im literally in tears. My hands will feel hot, and start to throb and ache. To get some relief i will slip my hands face down under my pillow so they can cool off. Part of the problem is that i have trigger finger on both hands and a bone spur on the back of my hand sticking out.

[myrtleanderson]

Compression gloves works wonders for hand arthritis

[foodplug]

Im 19 and i think I overused my hand at work. The movement is stiff and doesn’t feel as smooth as the other. It’s been a couple months now since I quit. I’m scared haha.

[believeroftheword]

Suffered a traumatic hand injury in 2017 and have early arthritis as a result. Looking for relief because I am way too young to have swollen, red hands that keep me from finishing preparing Thanksgiving dinner for my family because of the pain.

[mobkiller]

I’m only 14, but I’ve been showing symptoms such as stiffness, a gravely feeling in my knuckles, discomfort and tension in my hand and pains in my index finger joints, along with the bump at the base of my thumbs. I was wondering if this was arthritis or something else. I’ve been told that it rarely affects people at a young age, but I still don’t know what else it could be.

[sameeru]

I'm trying to make a clothespin for the person who faces hand arthritis. As this is my college project so I'm doing this : )

[carla]

I'm so scared to lose the use of my hands,
I love drawing, painting, knitting anything using my hands.
My Mum died and I put a ring to remind me of her on my right hand ring finger, then I thought I had an injury to my ring finger, I couldn't take that ring off because of swelling on said ring finger.(I managed to take it off)
Now I can't wear it on my right hand.
Is this arthritis?
The swelling is on my knuckle and is not going away. Not painfully but stiffness.

[iqrahanif]

I am 21 years old and I felt pain in my thumb and fingers joints now a days 😭

[sarahsmith]

I have pain in my fingers in the cold weather gets worse when I bend them is that Arthritis?

[montanawhite]

What is up with all the comments saying “ever heard of (insert disease) on google”??? I have this and I’m a 25 year old male, had it in my left thumb since 19, it’s in both now.

[zMooziii]

I don’t have burning but my fingers hurt when I try to crack them. And I also have pain around my thumb. Is this arthritis?

[benjamind]

When I squeeze my left hand I can feel a couple of bones rubbing. Feels kinda crunchy but not painful. When riding my motorcycle though it hurts having to hold my hand in the same position. Is that arthritis? I just turned 40. Have done a lot of automotive manufacturing but never had this before.

[CCFC_]

I’m a male in my 30s and my hand feels sore in both hands like they are stiff I can move my hands but the movement isn’t normal. Don’t know whether to see a doctor or not

[lizlaksh]

My right thumb hurt for a long time and now all right hand side fingers joints hurt...my 2 fingers of left are also showing same symptoms...I m in my mid 30s

[thSaint]

used to play rugby and once tackled somone and they landed on my hand but my fingers got stuck under my hand which over extended them backwards never got any x rays or anything but i genuinly beleive i fractured two of my fingers they have been "swollen" at the base ever since and they lost abit of range of motion not painful but feel different from the rest of my fingers this was like 2/3 years ago lol i think im cooked

[terrenceharris]

Everything he talked about is what's wrong with Terrence Aris T rollem Harris right wrist and hand I broke my wrist at 13 in a half years old playing with my little sister Tashonna tata Harris but with aniexty and pain in my broken wrist I punched a bullet proof glass window with half my strength and broke my hand the bone in my right hand ring finger and deformed my ring finger knuckle but at least since 14 in a half my right wrist been give me irritations and feels always like the bone is still separated and bone in half even though its healed and in the area where it was broken always feel like its still broken extreme nerve damage I'm now 27

[jayp]

i started getting gaps in my fingers they wont go together anymore.

[eddieisgreat]

Can finger pain be cancer? My fingers on my right hand have been hurting for 4 months, and on the palm of my hand looks like someone blew it up with an air gun.like 3 little spots.