You often hear that your bones hurt a lot. What is this, a symptom of a disease or a separate condition? Please note that everything happens in the body for a reason; if you have problems with bones, then there is a problem. Some causes are not associated with a specific disease and do not require special treatment. Sometimes, aching bones are caused by serious diseases that need to be treated urgently. Separately, you need to pay attention to aching bones in pregnant women.
Sometimes patients cannot tolerate the discomfort that occurs when the bones of the legs and arms ache. This condition can be caused by a number of reasons:
Symptoms are observed with deforming arthrosis, when cartilage in the joints is destroyed. The disease develops if a person practically does not move or, conversely, is exposed to constant physical activity. Arthrosis is accompanied by pain in the knees, arm joints, and hip joints. The aches begin to bother you during the day after significant physical exertion. After a person has rested, he feels better. Often the disease is accompanied by a characteristic crunching and clicking sound in the joints.
Aches and pains often accompany rheumatoid arthritis. The disease negatively affects the immune system. Rheumatoid arthritis is often a consequence of acute respiratory viral infection, a chronic viral infection. Most often observed in women. When the disease occurs for a long time, severe aches and pain in the bones of the legs and arms bother you. Most often, unpleasant sensations occur in the ankle joints, phalanges of the fingers, and wrist bones. The joints become red and very swollen.
Aches throughout the body are observed with gout. Uric acid crystals are actively deposited in the bones of the elbows, ears, toes, and hands. Gout is a hereditary disease. Pain and aches occur most often at night. Unpleasant sensations are provoked by fatty foods, meat, and alcohol. Attacks of the disease can be repeated very often.
Rheumatism causes severe aching in the bones. Subsequently, scarlet fever and sore throat occur; most often it is provoked by streptococcus. The disease negatively affects the condition of the heart. Rheumatism most affects the joints of the elbows and knees. The aches and pain are not constant, sometimes one joint hurts first, and after a while the other. The aches may last no more than two days. Keep in mind that bone aches are often a consequence of a fracture or bruise. In this situation, it is important to provide timely assistance to the victim.
Often a pregnant woman faces a problem - severely aching bones. It can be explained by hormonal changes that occur in a woman during pregnancy. Symptoms appear most often in the first trimester, and in some women before childbirth.
Aches and pains during pregnancy also occur due to the fact that a woman suddenly gains weight. The woman has severe pain in her back and aches in her legs. To reduce pain, you need to keep your weight under control. Remember that “there is no need to eat for two”, the main thing is that the nutrition is balanced and healthy.
A pregnant woman often suffers from a lack of vitamin D. During pregnancy, all system organs work harder, so it is necessary to take additional vitamins.
Some pregnant women experience symphysitis, in which the pelvic joint softens, the disease leads to severe pain and aching bones. Symphysitis during pregnancy occurs due to a lack of calcium and increased levels of relaxin.
At the first symptoms, you should immediately consult your doctor, he will help you find out what is causing the aching bones. If the symptom is caused by excess weight, you need to urgently think about losing weight.
When pain occurs due to physical activity, it is necessary to monitor and overexert yourself as little as possible. Consider changing jobs, constant aches and pains in your bones can lead to serious bone diseases.
The aches that occur with deforming arthrosis are treated comprehensively. In this situation, it is necessary to take special medications, and be sure to undergo a course of massage and physiotherapeutic procedures. Additionally, sign up for swimming. Rheumatoid arthritis cannot be completely cured, you can only alleviate the patient’s condition, for this you need to take anti-inflammatory drugs. Gout can be cured with a special diet; pain relief is required to relieve the condition. Rheumatism is treated under strict medical supervision.
So, aching bones can be caused by various reasons; to alleviate the symptoms, it is necessary to diagnose the disease and begin timely treatment. The course of therapy must be comprehensive. Include a special diet, therapeutic exercises, massage and physiotherapeutic procedures.
A situation where the whole body seems to ache and the bones ache, either due to a change in weather, or after any physical stress, and even for some unknown reason, in a state of rest, can lead a person to a nervous breakdown. Bone pain is familiar to many. Let's try to figure out the reasons. Often bones hurt after significant physical stress. This is associated with increased loss of bone tissue nutrients and metabolic disorders. In this case, pain in the bones occurs due to the primary picture of a failure in the nutrition of bone tissue, a deficiency of any structural substances of the bone.
People who are overweight often experience pain in the bones of their legs. The pain is caused precisely by obesity, or rather by the increased load on the bones and joints. In addition, due to heavy load, bone metabolism is disrupted, which also leads to pain. It turns out to be a vicious circle - you can treat the bones as much as you like, but the excess mass still puts pressure on them, causing a new round of metabolic disorders.
And finally, bones hurt in older people, whose osteo-articular system is subject to senile degenerative changes. In this case, the bones undergo age-related changes - they become thinner, lose collagen, which is the main structural element of bone, as well as calcium and other minerals. As a result, the bone tissue becomes weak and brittle and, naturally, bone pain occurs.
There are other reasons - injuries (fractures, bruises), blood diseases (leukemia, lymphogranulomatosis), myeloma, bone tumors, infectious and autoimmune diseases, steomyelitis and allergic reactions, taking any medications - hormones, impaired collagen synthesis. Any of these diseases leads to metabolic disorders of bone tissue, which is manifested by bone pain.
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Nowadays it is difficult to meet a person who has never experienced pain in the joints or spine in his life.
Let me give you a typical conversation scenario at a doctor’s appointment. To the question: “What are you complaining about?” - the patient answers: “Yes, everything hurts!” The dialogue begins: “Well, can you tell me more specifically where exactly it hurts?” - “Yes, mostly bones and joints hurt . Especially at night. I even wake up when I have to turn over to the other side. Also, my arm can’t lift at the shoulder joint, I can’t step on my heel, they say it’s a spur. And I’m already silent about my back - it also hurts!”
One might think that the poor patient was beset by many diseases. Meanwhile, such a common pain syndrome is a manifestation of metabolic disorders in the most representative tissue of our body - connective tissue. She is practically omnipresent. These are all bones and cartilage, ligaments and tendons, the membranes of all organs and intervertebral discs and, what may seem surprising, all fluids.
Chemically, connective tissue includes compounds of carbohydrates with proteins, so-called glycoproteins, and water. Their different ratios determine several types of this amazing tissue: solid, gel-like, fibrous or liquid, including blood, as well as everything that is produced from it.
Let me remind you that a deficiency of water in metabolism forces the body to exist in an extreme situation, by turning on the so-called “emergency redistribution of water.” Tissues that are not important for survival at a particular period of time are “cut off” from the centralized blood supply. In them, the vessels narrow, and the blood, which contains water, predominantly goes to vital organs, especially to the brain.
The worst things in this situation are cartilage, tendons and ligaments. Dear housewives, while cutting up meat, you, of course, noticed that some of the tissues are white - those same tendons and cartilages. This is due to the fact that nature has generally removed vessels from them due to their ability to change their volumes during movements, namely: the cartilage is “flattened”, tendons and ligaments are stretched. If there were vessels inside them, a completely impossible situation would result. The animal needs to get food or run away from danger, but at this important moment the organs of movement would be deprived of blood supply. Nature acted wisely by providing nutrition to these tissues through a special “lubricating” fluid, capable of penetrating to all joint and tendon “nooks and crannies,” but ONLY AT THE MOMENT OF MOVEMENT. This is very similar to lubricating a bearing, which must be rotated so that the lubricating fluid is evenly distributed over its entire inner surface.
Dear reader, it is this mechanism that makes physical activity generally the key to our survival. But let's return to the situation when bones and joints in all parts of the body hurt. We have already considered this “scenario”: a lack of water leads to a thinning of the protective mucus in the stomach and intestines. The access of hydrochloric acid to the intestinal walls is blocked by alkali produced by the cells of the submucosal layer of the stomach. The result of these reactions is increased amounts of salts, to which salts are added after neutralizing acidic foods. The overall result is the same: the amount of different salts exceeds the physiological threshold, which forces the body to look for ways to resolve this unthinkable situation for it. What should he do? There is little water - DON'T DRINK, and we sit - DON'T MOVE. Therefore, it is impossible to remove these salts naturally - through urine or sweat - and the body dumps them in places where there are no blood vessels. We already know where - in tendons, ligaments and cartilage.
This protective mechanism restores the necessary chemical parameters in the blood, but in these organs, salt deposits change the anatomical parameters, irritate the nerve endings, causing pain. At the beginning of the article, some diagnoses were listed, but most often the first to appear are “bells” from the spine. This is understandable, since it is in it, in our central axial rod, to which all our internal organs are attached, that there are countless joints and ligaments.
When examining X-rays of, for example, the spine, the doctor may see a decrease in the height of one or more intervertebral discs. The patient will be diagnosed with “Osteochondrosis of the corresponding part of the spine” and treatment will be offered. How? As a rule, painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs, various ointments, lotions, compresses and physiotherapy are used.
But this treatment only helps while the medication is being taken. Dear patients suffering from pain in various parts of the skeleton, how long have you been receiving treatment? As a rule, it takes a long time, since the pain syndrome stubbornly returns. Naturally. The main source of such pain is not eliminated - metabolic disorders due to CHRONIC DEHYDRATION. Of course, there are a number of other reasons that contribute to disruptions in the functioning of connective tissue structures, in particular, protein deficiency associated with thermal processing of food. But water is the reason that MUST BE ELIMINATED FIRST.
Only this should not be done in one day, this can cause a lot of harm, but gradually over 1-1.5 months bringing it to 2 tablespoons per 1 kg. weight in summer, and in winter by 0.5 liters. less.
Another tip: when increasing your water intake, replace some of your favorite drinks with pleasantly hot water. In this case, water will enter inside in its purest form, but it will be released through all excretory systems ALWAYS IN THE FORM OF SOLUTIONS - with some impurities. And these systems are not indifferent to what and in what quantity is dissolved in the excreted fluids: in urine, sputum, saliva, sweat and sexual secretions, milk, tear fluid, bile, etc. With an increase in the water regime, all excretory systems are activated, washing away “deposits” unnecessary substances accumulated during the period of dehydration. If you do not add various impurities to the water (tea, coffee, cola, etc.), you can unload your excretory systems much faster and finally get rid of these debilitating pains.