2. Slight fever
No one likes a fever. The excessive shivering and constant insistence that the house is freezing, whilst everyone around you is telling you to keep cool. How can you possibly be burning up when you feel like a block of ice? It all seems so alien until you find yourself sweating profusely just moments later and throwing the bead sheets off like a crazy person.
Fever that is an early indication of rheumatism is a little more sneaky than the above example portrays, a little more slight. It comes in on the quiet, in the form of an ever so slightly raised temperature that can often be missed, overlooked or ignored. This early sign of rheumatism often sneaks in the back door with its similarly disguised accomplice, fatigue, and may well be attributed to something nowhere near as serious as rheumatism, until the effects on the joints start to manifest.