Working out when you're chronically ill

Hello people, I want to rant a bit because ever since I went on my last trip, I've been dealing with chronic illness flares. However I don't have my "usual symptoms". This time around, I have my "old" symptoms - the ones I had way back when I was 16. It sort of mimics rheumatoid arthritis, in the sense that my joints (mostly hands and feet) get swollen, red, and even deformed if the flare gets intense. I lose strength in my grip and sometimes I can't close my hands. At the time, I remember I had done blood tests, went for X-rays and echographies, and I perfectly recall the doctors being confused because everything seemed fine on paper - despite the fact that they could see that my fingers were deformed. And for some reason I can't recall, nothing was done besides telling me to take over the counter anti-inflammatory meds. The symptoms went away once I finished high school (almost immediately). I suspected the trigger was stress. For more than 10 years, I happily lived without this…

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