New finger pain

I was diagnosed with chronic osteoarthritis in 7 of my fingers about ten years ago, which crept up and increased from left hand to right, but I didn’t have too much pain to bear. The greatest difficulty was no longer being able to play my guitar, or use my calligraphy pens, watercolours etc. Only two of my fingers can bend now unfortunately, though most of them don’t really hurt.
However, my middle right fingers are now excruciating most days, since these last few months.

I was recommended Ease It by a teacher friend, which controls her pain, but it has little lasting effect with me. It’s as if those two fingers are on fire.

Can anybody with a similar condition recommend any effective pain relief please? My mother had both OA and RA and took various analgesics, but I very rarely take anything beyond vitamins, believing that I can cope with pain because, otherwise, I’m extremely fit at age 75.

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