Hi ladies,

My 4 year old has just got home from 3 days in hospital & has been diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis. She has a swollen middle finger on her left hand.

Am just wondering if anyone else has any experience of this & as i'm shocked that she could have arthritis at such a young age.

Going to post this in a few other forum's too.

Thank you.

Claire & Olivia xxx

Hi Claire - I've just strayed in from ttc and this caught my eye. I had arthiritis in my legs when I was 3. My mum asked me to get up from the floor one day and I literally couldn't. My legs wouldn't work.I spent weeks and weeks in hospital with my legs in traction. The doctors actually think it was connected in some way to my asthma. I am now 31 and have had no problems whatsoever since then - with arthirits or asthma.

Hope your LO is better soon x

Hi hun My niece was diagnosed when she was 4 and is now 11 . She has had various treatment inc joint injections and hydrotherapy etc. She is quite servere BUT you would never know from looking at her that she has it she wears insteps in her shoes and obviously is on quite a few medications , one is an antiflam one is pain relief and another helps with the sickness that the antiflam causes. Other than these things she is fine.

Obviously she does get quite a bit of pain but this helped massively by the support from the childrens hospital. She still gos to main strem school although she had to choose one without stairs etc. She still gos walking but cant go as far as her peers obviously as she gets stiff tired and it causes pain. But seriously unless you knew no one would ever quess!

My cousin has this and I think it get very painful for her but she seems to cope ok. She excersises alot I think to try to keep her joints and bones healthy and it seems to have minimised the problem.

Hi ladies,

Thank you all for taking the time to reply - it has been lovely hearing positive comments through people who have experienced this.

Her finger is still swollen & we are still waiting to hear from the hospital for an apt to have a steroid injection. Chasing them but doesn't seem to be working!

Thank you again, much appreciated x

oh no.... that must be a shock for you all.

I hope she is OK??

Sorry, no experience but wanted to send you my best wishes and hope she can get in under control with treatment

d xxx