Joint pain and fatigue can be caused by various medical conditions, including autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases, and chronic fatigue syndrome. These symptoms are not always clear and should be checked by a doctor if they persist.
Joint pain and fatigue mean pain or discomfort in the joints, along with extreme exhaustion. Joints are areas where two bones meet and can bend away from each other, such as the knees, knuckles and wrists. These two symptoms are caused by many relatively common medical conditions as well as a number of rarer conditions. Some causative diseases include influenza, most diseases accompanied by fever, a variety of autoimmune diseases, different types of arthritis, hepatitis, and hypothyroidism.
Most people will experience some minor illnesses that cause joint pain and fatigue. For example, these two symptoms often occur during the flu, and many people have at least one bout of the flu in their lifetime. In addition, almost any fever-creating illness can cause at least temporary joint pain and fatigue. Fever can cause joints to feel slightly swollen, making them painful, and often cause people to feel unusually tired and poorly rested, no matter how much sleep they get.
Some infectious diseases are major culprits when it comes to these two symptoms. Lyme disease is a relatively common cause. Less common is another tic-borne disease called brucellosis. Mononucleosis can also create these symptoms. Complications of strep infections, such as rheumatic fever and bacterial endocarditis, are also partially identified by the presence of fatigue and joint discomfort. Most forms of infectious hepatitis, which primarily affect liver function, list joint pain and fatigue as additional symptoms.
There are a number of autoimmune and/or chronic conditions associated with joint pain and fatigue. Some challenging medical conditions that aren’t technically autoimmune, but have some relation to autoimmune disease, are chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. Both can lead to joint pain and extreme tiredness. Any form of arthritis that occurs on a regular basis, such as rheumatism, can affect the joints, which in turn affects the quality of sleep. This can lead to chronic sleep deprivation and fatigue.
There are many true autoimmune diseases that cause these symptoms. Some examples include rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Sjogren’s syndrome, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, ankylosing spondylitis, sarcoidosis and HIV. Low thyroid hormone levels, which aren’t necessarily the result of an autoimmune condition, can also cause these symptoms.
Fatigue and joint stitching aren’t usually the only symptoms in a particular disease or condition. Many of these chronic diseases or disorders have other symptoms and markers and are differentiated from one another with refined testing. For the average person, the causes aren’t always clear. Any sign of joint pain and fatigue that doesn’t stop relatively quickly or that has a clear cause, such as the flu, is an indication to see a doctor.
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