For some people, chronic pain that may come with arthritis is its own disease. The good news is there’s hope for relief.

Chronic pain is the worst houseguest ever, sticking around long after it arrives and making it tough to carry on with your life and activities. The difference is you can send your houseguest home. Sending chronic pain packing isn’t as easy.

Most people view pain as having an underlying cause; treat the cause, and the pain should disappear. According to this theory, getting rheumatoid arthritis, RA, under control should get pain under control. And replacing a joint damaged by osteoarthritis, OA, should eliminate pain in that joint.

In this recent study, Candida albicans was shown to cause inflammatory and autoimmune reactions that lead to arthritis, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, and many other conditions and diseases.

“This not only demonstrates that the composition of our microflora has a decisive role in the development of chronic illnesses, but also that the key cells causing illness can develop an anti-inflammatory ‘twin’,” explained Dr. Christina Zielinski, first author of the study. Their work is published in the current issue of the scientific journal Nature.

The 32-year old researcher from the Dermatology and Allergology Clinic at Charité and Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies, and her colleagues identified the basic signals that contribute to whether or not a pathogenic or anti-inflammatory immune cell develops…

At least 1.3 million Americans suffer from rheumatoid arthritis. Commonly known as RA, this is an autoimmune disease that causes the immune system to attack a person’s own tissue lining the joints. If you are not familiar with RA, here is some basic information:

• Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common form of autoimmune arthritis.
• It does not have a known cause.
• While there is no cure for RA yet, treatments have improved greatly over the years.
• Your best chance of limiting damage to joints and maintaining range of motion is to detect RA as early as possible.

If you are heading for rheumatoid arthritis, your body will start giving out signals early on. These signals may not be constant. Sometimes, a person’s RA goes into remission for long periods, only to recur down the road, says WebMD. That is why it is important to know the clues that can signal rheumatoid arthritis.