I’m 38 and have developed little bumps on the sides of my fingers. My mum had the same thing. I showed them to my doctor and she said: “Oh, that means you’ll get arthritis”. Is she right?

Sounds like these bumps are Heberden’s nodes, which many women develop on the fingers in their late 30s or 40s. All they indicate is that, when you are older, you may get a degree of osteoarthritis. This isn’t a crippling form of arthritis. It’s just the type of joint degeneration which most of us develop when we become elderly. So there’s no need for alarm.