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I am in a lot of pain with my knee arthritis this weather has not help is there anyone who could tell me what works with the pains don’t won’t to keep relying on medication

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That sounds horrible and I've heard of people where the pain gets worse with the cold and damp.

Have you discussed with your doctor? He should be able to help with pain medications, but also decide if you need to be seen by an Orthopaedic Consultant, My husband had arthritis and pain in both knees and when they x-rayed it the joint was bone on bone. He has had both knees replaced and now a few years down the line has little to no knee pain.

As alternatives some people find heat treatment helps or TENS machine. I certainly find warmth helps my general arthritis. Some people find physiotherapy helps.

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BenHall1

Hi,

I have only two experiences with osteoarthritis - the right knee and both shoulders. The right knee was fixed with a partial knee replacement surgery. Sorted back in November 2015. No pain only a stiffness when I get on my knees trying to find our cats toys under furniture.

The right shoulder was fixed with a cortisone in jection. No more problems.

The left shoulder is awful, beyond awful in fact ! I have had two injections into it, both only gave temporary pain relief, I have deferred the third ( and final injection ) as before Christmas there were signs it was healing itself. Now having been swamped in damp, moist, humid, rainy weather since christmas it is getting worse and worse. Mind you the weather down here at the pointy end of Cornwall isn't conducive to permanent healing. It definately gets worse and I can often feel a weather change coming on, even in summer by an increase in pain level. Sleeping is terrible too and I seldom get a complete restful nights sleep as at some point I end up on my left side, which triggers the left shoulder.

So for me at the moment its heat patches and CoCodomol 30/500 .... I'm on Warfarin for life and so all the normal over the counter anti inflammatories are not on ... for me anyway. I am considering researching ( but haven't done it yet ) looking at the wisdom ( or otherwise ) of infra red heat lamps - for what its worth for your consideration.

Hope you find a solution.

John

suffer with back& feet pain I rub "Magnesium" into the pain area. i take "Bio Curcumin" tablet to assist pain relief. This i have found most effective relief can buy over the counter at Pharmacy

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Jdunk

I recently went through the same situation apparently and went to a physical therapist, which has done wonders for my knee. I still have a slight pain at times, but I’m walking very well and using it to play golf 18 holes and this is about three months later from first contact of a physical therapist. Hope one.

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Konagirl60

If you are looking for natural pain killers my first suggestion would be to buy some roll on frankincense oil. Rub it in the areas and it will help.

Passion fruit tablets help with pain and sleep.

Turmeric ( curcumin ) tablets help with pain as does magnesium bisglycinate.

The modern day diet is poison to us unlike the near organic way our great grandparents lived, growing their own and getting locally sourced products.

Modified Wheat, sugar, and seed fats have taken away from more naturally assimalable , animal fats. The processed diet causes inflammation.

We dont need Sugar, but boy we want it, but it erodes our arteries, and is like acid to ligaments and nerves, joints, and along with wheat, makes us chronically inflamed. The tissue expands and also, chokes the nerves in your body, so you feel pain, and as the diet never gives up doing this process, its like giving yourself and injury that will never heal.

All well and good when your 20, but its unsustainable when your older. I want to make this short, so I would wholeheartedly recommend a plant based wholefood diet, or A keto diet , (see Dr Berg Youtube), try giving up sugar, and processed food. The modern diet is a killer and its why we have so much obesity, heart disease and cancer, let alone alzheimers , MS, Diabetes, etc etc. Its all chronic inflammation. The Pharmaceutical industry that owns swathes of the food industry, which for me is crazy loves those doctors who push the drug therapy angle, its good to have unhealthy, uneducated victims, who keep hammering that bad back with the wrong diet, and then are given a tablet that never addresses the cause, and so you have to take the drugs until it all fails, then you need surgery.

Thats sounds preachy , i apologise, its just when you say something that is not normal, or new, you cant just say, do this, take that. Its a monumental lifting the lid on the ignorance of why we are so ill, let alone what the vaccines have done to people.

As mentioned by some bright person before, Transdermal magnesium spray works wonders for nerve pain, (cures my afib bouts), turmeric, ginger, lemon, honey and bicarb help chronic Inflammation at the route of all pain. given the tools and the right diet your body is a walking healing organism, feed it the right fuel, it will naturally heal itself. So lots of greens and veg, and cutting down on meat, thats filled with antibiotics and god knows what. The best protein is organic eggs, its known as the perfect protein.

Such is the nature of chocolate and sugar addiction, which i know all about, i promise lol, After a week of giving up sugar and sweets, magic starts to happen, you stop craving it, and very soon after, are not bothered about it at all. Theres a silent hum of peace you feel of a body not fighting against itself, it just needs good fuel and care to keep its optimum god given properties for healing itself.

I am considering a fasting diet, of one meal a day, why? A, im mad, and B, the body has not been allowed to show what healing and wonders it can achieve.

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