I would say the anti-inflammatory effect that you used to have, it gone. I would guess, and not being sure, that a narcotic would work less effectively than another anti-inflammatory type since that would be the issue.
I would suggest talking to a pharmacist about an OTC anti-inflammatory to see what you can do - as well as search for anti-inflammatory foods etc to see if any of that helps?
i'm on a prescription anti-inflammatory. i take mobic 7.5 mgs twice a day. my shoulder aches alot, but i didn't wnt to do an MRI yet, so i asked if i could try the anti-inflammatory first. i think i've been on it for 2 weeks. I've also been starting to get pain deep inside my hip joint--i don't even know how to describe exactly where it is. it feels like it is about as far into the center of the joint as it can get--but it doesn't hurt to move my hip---it is just and ache that i can feel deep inside and it seems to ache down my leg for a ways. i had the same sensation in my knee a week or so ago. it didn't hurt to move my knee, but it just ached deepinside the joint and for a little way above and below my knee.
my knees used to hurt really bad at night--but it was a different kind of pain. my hips used to hurt years ago--sometimes sharp pains when i moved them--but then it disappeared for years. it will occassionally hurt every once in awhile, but it is movement related.
what i am feeling now is not movement related.
maybe it is weather changes--the arthritis one of my feet is hurting a little and i have a little pain in my fingers. we're in the midst of Idaho spring---you never know what you will have from one day to the next--or from one part of a day to the next!!
I have taken mobic too! Yeah... I find the weather to be a huge factor - low pressure systems are killer.
i've heard that it is a pressure change either way--low to high or high to low--just any presure change. have you heard that low is worse? do you know why? of course, i live in idaho where the joke is "if you don't like the weather in idaho, wait 15 minutes and it will change." basically, we get alot of weather changes. i need to live somewhere that is more stable--if such a place exists!
I have not heard anything - I just know it effects me quite badly. I have not noticed too much going back high hurting so much but when rain comes, I hurt badly.
They say the same about New England. I have no idea where there is a stable weather area...
maybe we should take a trip to hawaii---aren't they supposed to be pretty temperate? how do you look in a swim suit?LOL!!
We can go visit Horselip! I am all for it!!!!
As for the swimsuit, er, yeah, that would not be pretty... between the purple stretch marks, the excess hair... ah... are muumuu's still in style?
Hawaii- Come on over ladies.
We can have a Pit-i-party Hawaii-style.Folks who live here don't tend to care about that "shallow" kind of stuff anyway. Living aloha :-{)
Horsey