I have the strangest, achiest wrists/hands/fingers. Sometimes accompanied by a numbness or pins and needle type feeling. It can be on the inside of my wrist and shooting pains down into my thumb, sometimes the outside of my wrist with shooting pains into my little finger. It can't be something as simple as carpal tunnel as it's on the outside too. Also getting sore finger joints intermittently.
There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes wakes me in the night. The pain's not there all the time, comes and goes throughout the day and sometimes isn't there at all.
I've plucked up the courage to go to the doctors today and he has ordered blood tests but not for another week and then a week for the results. He said he is testing for rheumatoid arthritis or other joint infections. He said the lack of swelling though (had a good feel, I haven't felt swelling either) was a good sign and he didn't expect it was rheumatoid arthritis.
I'm getting in such knots about it. My great aunt has MS and that started with odd aches and pins and needles. Also have a family history of arthritis.
I keep imagining terrible things.
There ends self pitying post.