I am new here and am still waiting to be oficially diagnosed with RA. the first joint pain i experienced was my middle knuckle on my right hand on july 11th of this month. since then i have had pain in all my finger joints in both hands my elbows shoulders and knees feet and toes. My question for all of you with RA how long did it take for the pain to spread? does my case seem to fast to be RA? i can still do alot of my normal activities but my mucles are alos easily fatigues and tighten up on the most routine of activity such as walking fora while. my knees seem to get a lil worse each day and has me prety worried about what will happen to my job soon. well anyway i would like to hear how long it took some of you for ra to develop and how fast it became unbearable or if maybe it was ot as bad as ya thought and can live with it normally?