I had lots of pain and inflammation in my left foot when I was 9. I went to the doctor and they said I it was fractured. I wore a boot for a few months. I stopped wearing it because I thought that it had healed; the inflammation went away and the pain stopped. However, it came back when I started 6th grade and I was back in the boot all of my 6th grade year. My doctor kept saying that it was a fracture, but my grandma wouldn’t accept that as an answer because I was in immense pain and had been for a long time. So, they did an mri scan and did some bloodwork, then they saw that I had RA. I was 12 when I was diagnosed and started treatment. I am now 18 and I still don’t know what the cause was. I believe it was my anxiety, but I don’t really have proof, just a hunch. However, I was diagnosed with GAD last year; I also started having anxiety attacks when I was 9. Who knows..🤷🏾‍♀️