The difference between general rheumatism and postpartum rheumatism Patient: After catching cold during confinement in July last year, she immediately felt general discomfort and joint pain. Before weaning the child, I had been doing acupuncture, moxibustion, and cupping. I also drank some Chinese medicine, but it never recovered. The hospital blood test showed anti-O 538 and erythrocyte sedimentation rate 36. The doctor said it was rheumatism and had nothing to do with confinement. The test results were the same when going to Xiehe, but Xiehe said he was not sick. Is my disease a common rheumatism or a postpartum rheumatism? Test results and examination results: Last hospital visited: Oriental Hospital Gansu Provincial People’s Hospital Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Rheumatology and Immunology Department Wang Jinping Gansu Provincial People’s Hospital Immunology and Rheumatism Wang Jinping: Postpartum rheumatism is only a Chinese disease A disease in medicine that specifically refers to postpartum pain in the whole body and joints in women who have no symptoms of rheumatism. Western medicine does not have a diagnostic name for this disease. Common Chinese and Western medicine for rheumatism do not have this diagnostic name. "Hospital blood test, anti-"O"538, erythrocyte sedimentation rate 36" refers to the results of the test, which was "rheumatoid arthritis" or "rheumatic fever" in Western medicine diseases at that time.

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