Many people in the world are suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid is the long continuing disease (rheumatoid arthritis) causing pain and stiffness in the joints of the legs and arms and often making them lose their proper shape whereas arthritis is a disease causing pain and swelling in the joints of the body. In this news report we bring to you some of the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.

The symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis are inflammation, pain, tenderness and discoloration in d joints, usually the shoulders.

Other symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis are pain in the elbows, writs, fingers, ankles and toes, morning stiffness, lumps under the skin at the site of damaged joints, deformity of joints in long-term cases, fatigue, weight loss, weakness and occasionally fever, chronic infections.