Is there any relation between rashes and joint pain?
Patient: About one week back, suddenly i got small rashes in my face and body. The day before my wife got the same. I thought, it was an allergic problem, and so i took some medicine on allergy. However, after two days, i started getting pain in my hand joints, finger joints. On the very next morning, I found that my joints were swelled up and started pain in all the joints in my body. Few months back, i consulted with a orthopedist because of hip joint pain, which I have been suffering for more than 2 years, and he gave me some medical tests. However, I couldn t manage time to make those tests. Now I made those tests and found that my ESR is 14. Now my question is why suddenly these happened? Is there any relation between rashes and joint pain? Why ESR level rises? Thanks a lot. Doctor: Hello,Welcome, and thanks for sharing your concern I went through your query, and I feel, your symptoms are of reactive arthritis, following any viral infection, this can occur even months after the initial viral fever, so see 1 if you have a history of any such febrile episode in the past, 2 Do you have arthalgia, which simply means tender painfull joints3 Any history of inflammatory arthritis in the family members, like RA.check for these and revert back, we could help you reach the diagnosis, if we can have answers to these questions. I hope my advice would have been useful, in decision making regarding your treatment, still if you have any clarifications or doubts feel free to contact back.Thanks.