Did your arthritis start in a day?

Asked by JLeslie (65417) October 30th, 2016 from iPhone

I just saw another Q posted about arthritis, and it made me think of this Q I have wanted to ask for a few months.

My husband and I have a term we use for sudden onset of a medical problem, we say there must have been an “event.”

I have never had arthritis in a joint, and then suddenly I started having pain in my left hip. I think maybe it’s arthritis? I’m not sure, because I’ve never had joint pain before.

It has lasted now for months. It only hurts if I turn my hip a certain way.

I believe there was an event. I also think maybe it’s an infection the researchers haven’t discovered. There was some work being done with antibiotics and rheumatoid arthritis in the past, I don’t know if there still is. I assume this is osteoarthritis if it is arthritis. I think that type of arthritis might be infectious also. I am admittedly obsessed with infection being an underlying cause for many things.

The onset was so sudden that I believe something changed. Either an injury that I don’t remember, or something entered my body. I completely reject that it’s related to simple aging.

That doesn’t mean I think it’s impossible for aging to be a factor in our aches and pains.

How about you? Was your arthritis sudden onset? One day you suddenly realized your joint hurts? How old were you when it started?