Symptoms of Arthritis

Different types of arthritis have different symptoms. In general, people who have arthritis feel pain and stiffness in the joints. Some other common symptoms of arthritis are:

• Swelling in one or more joints

• Stiffness around the joints that lasts for a least one hour in the early morning

• Joint pain or tenderness that is constant or comes and goes

• Feeling like it's hard to use or move a joint

• Warmth or redness in a joint

Sometimes a person can lose weight, feel weak, and have fevers or joint pain for no reason. See a health care provider if you have any one of these symptoms for longer than two weeks.