I have RA that affects my hands. A few years ago snapping my fingers was painful. Putting on socks was painful.
I could spend several minutes putting on socks, actually.
No pain today. I'll get an occasional discomfort, but overall its fine.
I went a while without seeking out treatment (or knowing I had RA) which was probably a stupid thing to do.
If I relax my fingers flat in either hand, the fingers in my left hand follow the line of my arm.
My right hand fingers do not, they go off to the left at an angle of maybe 20 or 30 degrees (palm facing me).
I've learned that you can''t just ignore RA.
Don't know what the future holds but I plan on being medicated when I find out.
I take methotrexate & folic acid for it. Under my BCBS the methotrexate copay is zero. I forget what the folic acid copay is, but its cheap.