What is the difference between regular arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis?
The way I have always understood it, is that rheumatoid arthritis is more like an actual disease. It is systemic, which means it involved the organs and tissues. Osteoarthritis is not systemic, it only involves the joints can be caused by injury, aging and the wearing of cartilage in the joints. I come from a family with an extremely bad history of rheumatoid arthritis. Many people don’t know that this can include several diseases. This can even be found in children and make them very sick by Still’s Disease or JRA. Lupus also has a relationship to rheumatoid arthritis. For the most part doctors do not know what causes many of these issues, but they speculate that they might be hereditary. With the rheumatoid diseases, your body attacks itself. It is a autoimmune disease, which can make you very sick. The pain in the joints is caused bye inflamation. This can also cause fluid in the organs and tissue. Can even damage the eyes with some types. My uncle has lupus, my dad has 4 different
