Anyone else’s joints flare up after the smallest injuries?
My lupus is considered mild, but I’ve noticed a pattern where if I get even a tiny injury near a joint, that joint ends up getting really inflamed and painful for a long period of time.
The first time it happened was with my knee after I banged it pretty hard, so I didn’t think much of it. But then I got a splinter near a joint in my finger. I actually thought part of the splinter was still in there, but it turned out to just be inflammation.
Now I have a small paper cut on my thumb right over the joint (from about a month ago), and I’m still getting pretty significant joint pain there that comes and goes. There's always A dull ache, but sometimes the pain stops my in my tracks.
I’m curious, if anyone else experiences this kind of reaction to minor injuries? This knee bump still bothers me with flares. The splinter pain took about a year to stop. I'm wondering how long I'm going to suffer from this darn paper cut.