 [ Symptoms ] how is anxiety blood pressure and joint swelling with pain related anxiety panic my husband who is 73 has high blood pressure  will not admit it so when ever we have and argument or misunderstanding one of his joints will get extremely inflamed with swelling and pain he takes aleve for pain and after a day or so the pain and swelling go down the doctors first thought it was rumuthoied artherites like last night it was his right arm that went numb and painful the day before it was his thumb a while before it was his ankle and so on [ Disease ] clinically there is nothing can be done until his immunity improves allergies may decrease in cases of high immunity so keep him active and maintain a healthy diet as possible as you can