About one week back, suddenly i got small rashes in my face and body. The day before my wife got the same. I thought, it was an allergic problem, and so i took some medicine on allergy. However, after two days, i started getting pain in my hand joints, finger joints. On the very next morning, I found that my joints were swelled up and started pain in all the joints in my body. Few months back, i consulted with a orthopedist because of hip joint pain, which I have been suffering for more than 2 years, and he gave me some medical tests. However, I couldn t manage time to make those tests. Now I made those tests and found that my ESR is 14. Now my question is why suddenly these happened? Is there any relation between rashes and joint pain? Why ESR level rises? Thanks a lot.