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Fibromyalgia is a disorder that affects the muscles and soft tissues. Symptoms of fibromyalgia are severe body pains, mental distress, joint pains like arthritis, fatigue; sleep problems, which can be managed through proper medications and lifestyle changes.

These symptoms accumulate over a period of time due to many reasons such as physical trauma, surgery, infection or psychological stress. There is no particular reason for this problem. No lab tests or X-rays shows up the problem. Doctors diagnose it based on the symptoms. Fibromyalgia does not damage your joints or organs.

Symptoms:

The main symptom of fibromyalgia is muscle pain throughout the body, sleep problems, stiffness in joints and muscles in early hours, headache, irritable bowel syndrome, painful menstrual cramps, sensitivity to cold and heat, restless leg syndrome (RLS), fatigue, anxiety or depression, numbness or tingling.

Fibromyalgia often comes with other painful conditions such as

Migraine

Interstitial cystitis or painful bladder syndrome

pelvic and urinary problems

nausea

joint disorders

Lupus is a systematic autoimmune disease which affects the body’s tissues and organs by your own immune system thinking that they are foreign. Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects various parts of the body including joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, brain, heart, and lungs. Lupus is also known as systemic lupus erythematosus or SLE. The exact cause of lupus is very difficult to diagnose, although it’s a combination of genes, hormones and environmental factors. It affects women between 18 and 40 years of age.

Symptoms of lupus is unpredictable, a combination of medications and lifestyle changes can make the person lead a normal life. Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease with many health risks like cardiovascular disease, kidney disease and stroke. There is a chance of developing atherosclerosis, mayocarditis and endocarditis, which can lead to heart murmurs.

Vasculitis is inflammation of the blood vessels. It happens when the body's immune system attacks the blood vessel by mistake. It is rare disease. Vasculitis can affect arteries, veins and capillaries. Arteries are vessels that carry blood from the heart to the body' organs. Veins carry blood back to the heart. Capillaries are smallest blood vessels that connect the small arteries and veins. Vasculitis are 3 types- based on size of vessel inflamed, which varies in symptoms, severity and duration

Large vessel vasculitis- Takayasu arteritis, gaint cell arteritis

Medium vessel vasculitis – Kawasaki disease, PAN (Polyarteritis Nodosa)

Small vessel vasculitis- Wegners (GPA), churgstrauss, HSP etc.

Most types of vasculitis are rare, and the causes are generally unknown. Vasculitis affects persons of both sexes and all ages. Vasculitis can be mild or severe, or even leads to death. Patients can have one episode of vasculitis or repeated episodes over years. A few forms of vasculitis affect certain age groups only. Example Kawasaki disease occurs only in children. IgA Vasculitis (Henoch-Schönlein) is much more common in children than adults. giant cell arteritis occurs only in adults over 50 years old. Vasculitis leads to poor blood flow to organs, such as the lungs, nerves, kidney and skin. Thus, vasculitis has a wide range of signs and symptoms, such as:

Shortness of breath and cough, blood in sputum

Tingling,numbness or weakness in a hand or foot

Red spots on the skin (“purpura”), lumps (“nodules”) or ulcers

Osteoarthritis is caused when a protective cartilage that cushions the ends of your bones wears down due to wear and tear. This is the most common type of arthritis affecting worldwide. It mainly affects the joints of your spine, knees, hips, and hands. The development of this disease can be controlled by being active and leading a healthy lifestyle. To improve the joint movement and pain certain medications are used.

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a type of joint pains, that affects people who have skin psoriasis — a condition with red, raised skin, with white and silvery flakes. Around 30% of psoriasis patients will develop Psoriatic Arthritis. Most people develop psoriasis first and later develop psoriatic arthritis, but the joint problems can sometimes begin before the skin psoriasis. Psoriatic Arthritis can affect any age group (from children to old age group).

Symptoms-

Osteoarthritis is caused when a protective cartilage that cushions the ends of your bones wears down due to wear and tear. This is the most common type of arthritis affecting worldwide. It mainly affects the joints of your spine, knees, hips, and hands. The development of this disease can be controlled by being active and leading a healthy lifestyle. To improve the joint movement and pain certain medications are used.

People with osteoarthritis suffer with pain and joint stiffness. Unlike rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis does not affect skin tissue, lungs, blood vessels and the eyes.

Symptoms of Osteoarthritis:

The osteoarthritis symptoms usually develop very slowly and turn into a serious problem over time. Few symptoms are:

Severe pain may occur in the joint after every movement.

The first noticeable sign is joint stiffness that occurs while awakening and after being inactive.

You might feel tender even by applying light pressure near the joint.

Full movement of the joint is lost.

You may feel grating sensation when you use the affected joint.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory arthritis in which joints of the hands and feet, are inflamed, which results in joint pains, swelling and frequent destruction of joints. Small joints of the limbs become painful and have stiffness which persists for about 60 minutes on awakening and after inactivity. Due to weakness, fever and damage to other organs may also occur. RA affects both sides of the body. For example, if a joint is affected in one arm or leg then a similar joint of the other arm or leg will be affected too. This is one of the ways RA is identified by the doctors from other forms of arthritis like Osteoarthritis (OA).

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common disorder that causes pain, numbness, tingling, and weakness in the hand and wrist. It occurs when there is a high amount of pressure within the wrist on a nerve called the median nerve. This median nerve provides sensation to the thumb, index, and middle fingers, and half of the ring finger. The little finger (the “pinky”) is typically not affected. This median nerve also provides strength to few muscles at the base of the thumb and index finger.

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a type of arthritis that mainly affects the back, by causing inflammation in the spine and sacroiliac joints (lower back). This can make your back, neck, rib cage, stiff and painful predominantly in morning or after periods of rest . In the early stages, ankylosing spondylitis is likely to cause:

stiffness and pain in your lower back in the early morning that lasts at least 30 minutes and then eases through the day or with activity

pain that wakes you in the night

pain in one or both buttocks and sometimes the backs of the thighs

In advanced cases this inflammation can lead to fusion/linking of the spine bones (ankyloses), resulting in immobile spine. In serious case this can make the spine curve forward more. This may be prevented, if you

keep active

have effective medical treatment