Multiple Joint Pain Without Swelling. The synovial membrane is the main site affected by inflammation synovitis. Joint pain may range from a mild ache to a severe burning or sharp sensation in one or several joints.
Treatments include medication. Reactive arthritis may also occur as a result of an infection elsewhere in the body or after an infection post infective like in rheumatic fever but is usually inflammatory in nature and affects multiple joints. I would like to add that patients with autoimmune diseases such as lupus scleroderma and mctd can often have joint pain without swelling which is not fibro.
Polyarthralgia is a condition in which pain affects several joints in the body with no signs of inflammation.
I have mctd and my rheumy never blames my joint pain on fibro even though i have no visible swelling. Symptoms include tenderness stiffness and swelling. Symptom overview covers definition possible causes of joint pain. Joint pain but no swelling.