Mechanical pain or JIA hand pain?
Hi, I (19F) was wondering if/how it's possible to differentiate between mechanical pain and pain from JIA?
I have quite bad pain in my hands to the point it wakes me up sometimes, and I struggle with writing sometimes.
But it is worse in my dominant hand so I am not sure if it is just mechanical - I'm a physics uni student and write by hand and type day to day.
I'd describe the pain as a quite bone deep achy pain that I can't really pinpoint.
I don't really have very obvious swelling, the joints are a little warm, but I have darker skin so I can't tell if they would be redder or anything.
Any advice would be appreciated!
-- For context I started showing symptoms at 15 - was hospitalised for it then for a month, and was only diagnosed last month after joint pain started presenting. I'm on hcq and naproxen.