arthritis question

I have CD arthritis but lately my wrist seems to be acting up more often than my hip,knee and ankle ..sry for the bad typing painful and have a brace on.

is it common for cd arthritis to effect wrsts too?

Dragonfly -- My hands hurt too. I've always associated with CD arthritis, but don't have a confirmed diagnosis. My lower back is from osteo arthritis and can be a real pain. As far as I know, it can be any joints in the body. Sorry you're hurting right now.

My wrists and knuckles seem to be where I hurt the most (the elbows knees and ankles are not far behind though!).  It stinks since I bake and do cake decorating on the side and that makes the hands area hurt more.

I have found that stretching my fingers and wrists helps a lot.  Trying to touch my middle finger to my arm and pressing the tips of fingers against each other (all I can think of now is the old visual joke...What's this....a spider doing push ups on a mirror).

I also found getting a full body massage and asking them to concentrate on my hands and ankles was very comforting.  If it weren't so dratted all hot here....I would recommend a heating pad too.

I will not forget when in college the arthritis opted to bother my big toe on my right foot (right side has always been the worse of the 2 for the gut and joints...granted due to resections my ilium (whats left neway) is on the left)...seems my CD arthritis always gets worse right before my gut acts up to...time to watch for syptoms i guess

The only joints that I don't have pain in at the moment are my toes. It started when I came off pred at beginning of May and whilst I initially thought it was pred withdrawal it has been going on since then and getting worse. It seems to be effecting the joints/muscles and nerves and after seeing my GI this afternoon am stopping the Humira and reviewing in 3 months to check CD flare has not returned.

I will still be taking azathioprine which has always worked well when I have been on it. Stopped it for a year following advice from my GI and had worst flare ever which is why I ended up on Humira as well. Co-codamol and tramadol aren't touching the pain so hope it goes when Humira out of my system and that the CD stays settled. If CD flares up again will have to restart Humira and deal with the pain and refer onto a Rheumy as isn't just arthritis.

If it's not one thing, it's another. Talk about shuffling around like an old woman, it starting to really annoy me now.