co-codamol

herbolive
herbolive Member Posts: 2
edited 28. Nov 2023, 14:07 in Living with arthritis

diagnosed osteo (knees) recently. End of my Walking Football!🥲 But now on course of co-codamol for toothache, knee pain has eased a lot. Any experience out there?

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  • Ellen
    Ellen Moderator Posts: 1,983

    Good Morning @herbolive

    I am very pleased to meet you. I see you have recently been diagnosed with Osteoarthritis in your knees. I take it from your experience with co-codamol prescribed for your teeth, that you have been using over the counter medications for your knees up until now. Initially GPs are very likely to advise a conservative approach, but there are options out there including non-drug treatments.

    Being newly diagnosed I wonder whether some information might be useful for you:

    https://www.versusarthritis.org/about-arthritis/treatments/
    https://www.versusarthritis.org/news/2020/november/ask-the-expert-newly-diagnosed-with-arthritis/


    I am disappointed to hear that your recent diagnosis has meant the end of your walking football, but maybe you might be interested in more 'Arthritis friendly' activities to keep mobile?

    https://community.versusarthritis.org/categories/letsmove

    Best wishes

    Ellen.

  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,403

    I would expect co-codamols to help with your knee as well as your tooth @herbolive

    If your pain medication isn't doing the job I think you should have a chat with your Dr. or at least the pharmacist to start with.

    Most of us here take a painkiller (paracetamol as an example, but there are stronger kinds of pain relief including Co-cos) and a lot use an anti-inflammatory like ibuprofen too. They are also known as NSAIDs or non-steroidal anti-inflammatories. One problem with those is they can affect your stomach with long-term use so those of us who take them a lot are usually prescribed a PPI (proton pump inhibitor) like lansoprazole.

    I like to add in some non drug methods too like a warm wheat-bag (the type you put in the microwave or an ice pack (in a tea towel). I have used a tens machine too many many times in the past.

    Shame about your walking football the exercise would be good but i can't imagine kicking and twisting would be 😕

    take care

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