Is it still MRI if you don't feel stiff in the morning?

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Just wondering if stiffness is an absolute requirement of RA diagnosis... right

now my elbows and inner knees are sore but not actually stiff. (In the past few

months I have been a bit stiff but not currently.)

I'm wondering if I should wait for it to get worse and then get a blood test to

see what my results are... on a past test my RF was 20 (should be under 14) but

I didn't have any inflammation, so my rheumy isn't sure if I have RA or not. Any

advice? if I get a blood test when I'm in a lot of pain, the test results would

show that, would they not?

Soni