How can I convince that I have rheumatoid arthritis to my rheumatoligist?

Your doctor bases his diagnoses on physical exam, x-rays and blood tests. Although you may believe you have these conditions, unless they show up in one of the above tests, you probably do not have them and there would be no need to "convince" your physician that you have them. If you are young (under around 22), pain in various parts of your body comes from growth spurts and is completely normal and taking some motrin regularly when these pains occur would be common sense.

Ok I hope you don’t have RA. I have RA. It took the doctors years before they diagnosed me with it and by then it had gone pretty far. The symptoms showed me having what they call "Filaria" (which acts up only at night). Also a few years back I was diagnosed with Osteomylitis….however I proved them wrong on that one because even though I had some of the symptoms..it wasn’t actually that. I pray you get better. As to your previous answer you received…from the TOP CONTRIBUTOR…I was approx. 6 yrs old when it started and they said I was growing…but the pain never stopped…it was my cousin who is a doctor that diagnosed me and that was long after I was going through it. RA is something that you have to start dealing with at an early stage. I hope and pray dearly that u get better. Why not consult the Arthritis Foundation?

If I understood right you suffer from pain in your joints but your doctor does not find any pathologic signs during clinical examination nor any laboratory discrepancies. If that’s the case I would ask for an ultrasound examination of the affected joints. This way you will see if there’s arthritis, tenosynovitis or some other pathology in the region, above that you can quantify the degree of inflammation (if any). Let us know what happened!