Describing osteoarthritis

This is hard to explain. Not every person with osteoarthritis is the same, this is how I describe my osteoarthritis.

I get up in the morning, not in pain. But the minute I got to move, I can't. Its like the pain paralyzed me. My pain does be that bad, where my arms would only move an inch, and when I do move my arms, my back would go into a spasm, I would be holding my head side ways, my back and my ribs do be killing me, the only part of my body that doesn't be sore is my legs. I just wish I hadn't had arthritis.

 I remember when I first got arthritis, I couldn't even eat, because when I did, I would choke on the food. My neck would be so painful, I wouldn't be able to move at all. I would be weak, from not eating. And the medication I was on, was working, but I ended up putting on weight, which I'm currently trying to lose. I would wake up in the early hours of the morning in really severe pain, like if my head was going to fall off, and the heat of my head was unbearable. I ended up losing 2 weeks of college because of it. I was like that for a month and a half, trying to figure out how to help myself.

I will be living with this nasty condition for the rest of my life, I wonder how I could have prevented it, but its just one of those things that you can't prevent I suppose if it runs in the family.