beside oneself. In a state of extreme agitation or excitement, as in She was beside herself when she found she'd lost her ring, or Peter was beside himself with joyâhe'd won the poetry award.
Symptoms & Signs. Pain in the arm can result from a number of factors. Abnormalities or injury of the skin, nerves, bones, joints, blood vessels, and soft tissues of the arm can all result in pain. Arm pain, depending on the location and cause, may be accompanied by numbness, redness, swelling, tenderness, or stiffness of the joints.
But they're usually symmetric. That means if the joints in your right hand hurt or feel stiff, you'll notice it in your left hand, too. RA symptoms sometimes come on so slowly that you can't tell anything is wrong.