Arthritic pains really hurt.
Yup. It's not confirmed but it looks like it.
In my twenties I lived in a very damp house, without central heating. There were days I could not use my hands without pain. Sometimes I could barely move them. Around the same time my mother went to the doctors with arthritic symptoms, she got a bloodtest, and it came up negative. A month later she fell and broke her pinkie. It could not be set properly, because on the X-rays it showed it was completely deformed because of arthritis.
When I saw the doctor, he said he would not even do the bloodwork, because it would probably not tell a thing, and I knew what I was blessed with genetically anyway.
Moving house, to a dry and central heated place, kept me without problems for over twenty years. Now the joint in my right thumb is damaged a bit, they say. But it is not giving me too much trouble.
The hand troubles I did have a couple of years ago had nothing to do with arthritis. I stored my stress in my fingers. Could not hold a pen long enough to write my own name, without needing a break. Very glad my physician sent me to an occupational therapist then. She was the one telling me my thumb has now got some actual damage.
You seem to be lost in your own thoughts.