Hi. I am new here.

Traceyl

I have severe osteoarthritis in both knees so this seems to be the place to be!!!

Pain control is really bad. I can hardly walk and am now on morphine patches also not great. Would TENS help here?

I work from home thankfully. I see the specialist on 11/09.

Louisa77

Hi @Traceyl

Welcome to our Online Community.

Sorry your pain is bad, we have some info about Electronic pain relief (TENS) | Uses, side-effects (versusarthritis.org) which might help.

There are also alternative treatments you could explore such as Capsaicin | Uses, side-effects | Versus Arthritis which seems to work well for a lot of people and scored high on effectiveness in our research.

I thought I'd also give the info about a great programme called "Escape pain" which you might be interested in exploring

https://www.versusarthritis.org/news/2020/january/moving-more-with-the-escape-pain-programme/

Hopefully this gives you some options to discuss with your specialist.

Best wishes

Louisa (moderator)

LindaJJ

Hi

i am new here too.Diagnosed with OA thumb base joint for which I am having a replacement on 15/9. Recently diagnosed with OA knee, back and shoulder as well. I’m finding the exhaustion so hard to cope with. Pain just seems constant. I find it so hard working now but will be off for approx 8 weeks post op so I’m here to chat if you need someone to talk to. X

Traceyl

Linda. Thank you. I mean that. I am struggling. Fortunately I work from home. But I struggle to do my normal daily thing like cooking and dishes.

oh well. Life goes on.