The most common symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis include:

• Joint pains
• Joint swelling
• Joint stiffness
• Joint warmth

The most common locations for joint pain in rheumatoid arthritis include:

• Hand pain (bilateral) and finger pain:
• Metacarpophalangeal: the large knuckle at the base of the finger
• Proximal interphalangeal: the first knuckle in the finger
• Wrist pain (bilateral)
• Shoulder pain (bilateral)
• Ankle pain
• Neck pain
• Hip pain (bilateral)
• Elbow pain
• Jaw pain

Additional symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis include:

• Inability to move a joint
• Deformed joints
• Rheumatoid nodules:
• Soft lumps beneath the skin that covers the joints
• Fatigue
• Fever
• Chest pain
• Eye pain
• Raynaud's disease
• Shortness of breath
• Vision loss
• Unintentional weight loss