What is this?!

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Looking for some advice as I feel a bit silly seeing GP with what feels to me like vague symptoms.

I've had leg pain on and off for around a month. It appears and is mainly outer right knee but radiates down to my foot, which then feels numb. It also travels up to my hip.

Perhaps TMI but it also passes across my crotch area in spasm and in to other thigh.

Its incredibly intense pain. I can hardly move my leg in a regular way. And then just as it comes on, it disappears.

Coupled with this I have started popping up in tiny lumps under the skin on my fingers.

The tendons in my hand are super sore and now my hand, again right side, is all swollen.

I've also started to get big lumps in lower jaw. Both sides. Again they pop up. Very tender and large and then disappear after a few days.

I've actually seen a Dentist and Dr about that but a they had no idea what it was.

Any thoughts would be so appreciated. I feel like I'm falling apart. I'm 39 of that makes an difference

I would ask for a referral to a rheumatologist.

Definitely see your GP. There’s no need to feel silly - you have a health problem and that’s what they are there for.

Thank you both.

I'll definitely look in to seeing a rheumatologist.

And will book a GP appointment for next week. I just feel a bit daft as it's all a bit vague and comes and goes. I feel like I'm being dramatic but actually it's very painful

I've got rheumatoid arthritis, and started with problems age 33, but it wasn't diagnosed for many years as I'm seronegative (ie rheumatoid factor in blood tests didn't show up). Eventually I did see a rheumotologist who told me 40 per cent of all rheumatoid disease is seronegative.

Quite often, some GPs are ignorant of this fact. When I finally got onto methotrexate at age 42 it made an enormous difference to me.