Joint and tendon problems?

Question

I am 20 years old. Last year I was diagnosed with tendonitis in my shoulders, yesterday I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthiritis in my hip. Both od these allments usually only affect people twice my age. I am wondering if any one knows of a disease that would cause pains in joints and tendons. I'm finding it hard to believe they are both just coincidental.

Answer 1

The two problems could definitely be linked, but it might be hard to tell for sure.

Reactive arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and Gout are known to cause both of these problems at the same time. In reactive arthritis, any number of common diseases can cause your immune system to go into overdrive if they spread throughout the bloodstream, and trigger you immune system to start attacking your joints and tendons. This is called reactive arthritis because it is a reaction to so underlying infection.

Reactive arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis are very similar--the presence or absence of an infection helps distinguish the two. Gout is diagnosed by uric acid levels in the blood.