Case Anna
Anna comes with rheumatic pains. The hands are mostly afflicted with shooting pains, pains after exertion such as turning the hands in opening a bottle. The pains are often in the metacarpal and first interphalangeal joints but the rheumatologist says that it’s not a joint problem, but one of the tendons and muscles. The pains are also located sometimes in the inner sides of the arms, hips and chest. The pains wake her up at night sometimes and she feels stiff on rising in the morning. It’s all worse from cold and better from warmth. She presenses rain and before a storm the complaints are the worst. A cold wind hurts, even respiration is painful then as if there’s a band around her chest. She has a shawl on her mouth with wind. Motion helps.
In the past she has had migraine, once in to 3 months. It starts with loss of parts of the field of vision. The pains rise from the cervical region to the vertex, with the feeling of a stone, a heavy head that’s difficult to hold upright. It’s better from rubbing the neck.