Try cutting all sugar out of your diet except what is natural and see if your arthritis goes away. No soda, beer, cake, pie, candy-bars, energy bars, no anything with sugar, corn-syrup etc. as one of the main ingredients. Eat apples and other fruit for sugar. Most arthritis is greatly magnified by poor lifestyle choices. Both of my parents have bad arthritis in their mid-80s but have had it for decades, twisting their fingers and feet and making them wince with pain. I know I have it too, and if I eat crappy food and sit on my butt it pops up, but if I eat mainly a fruit, vegetable diet and keep on moving it disappears and I don't even think about it at all.