Naproxen.

It suits some but not me. When it was prescribed for me I suffered dreadfully stomach pains and it became obvious that it was caused by naproxen. Just see how it goes and report any problems
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I have been taking anti inflammatories for over 20 years now, not all the time of course, but at times for several weeks. I'v been prescribed Naproxen for a couple of years now, I take omezrapole first thing in the morning and the anti inflammatory after a main meal. So far, so good. Paracetamol doesn't touch arthritic pain. I read today that research has found it's no better than a placebo.

I heard about that on the radio news as well, Iam64. I'm feeling no aches and pains at all, and I've only been taking the tablets for a few days. I'm using the 500mg so I'll try halving the tablets in a day or so to see what happens. If the pain returns I'll up it to 500mg again. I'll also give it a wee while because I think there may be an issue with indigestion, so will need to see GP re omeprazole.
It goes against the grain for me, (or indeed most of us) to have to take painkillers like this, but the alternative means we stiffen up, get less mobile, get heavier etc....as they say, 'there's no such thing as a free lunch'!

I think paracetamol is better than a placebo. Paracetamol syrup works on children with earache and earache is a diabolical pain.

MiL lived on paracetamol for years for her arthritis. I found that it never touched the pain at all!

Our GP prescribed Naproxen for DH a while ago. Fortunately I had a vague memory of reading something about it. We checked with the haemotologist and he said definitely don't take it with Myeloma. Some of the drugs really turn out to be worse than the illnesses!

I find paracetamol works for my arthritic back pain. Which is just as well as I cannot take Aspirin or NSAIDs

Deeda, I agree. Naproxen seems to be one of the first choices for GP's to prescribe, so many people seem to have been given it. It must be cheap.

I'd check out the omeprazole before you get any indigestion problems. It may have been an oversight to not give you any [it does happen ]. nsaids go in and out of fashion all the time; the complete no no when I was working was diclofenac unless people begged for it except in gel form.

Oh how we love to worry! And how our forebears lacking everything but alcohol and laudanum would have loved to have some of our painkillers available to them.

Naproxen may be cheap. So is aspirin. Both are effective.

They may be cheap and effective for some but as someone who cannot take naproxen or aspirin I'm very glad that there are alternatives.

Of course, but that only underlines our good fortune even more.

At the moment, I'm having no pain and no problems, either! I shall go with the flow just now. When the tablets are due to finish, I'll make a GP appointment and see what he thinks about my continuing with them. Last week we took a short break in Northumberland, and I was so disappointed that we weren't able to walk about much because of me and my sore feet/ankles/knees (etc!!)

Are you drinking enough Marelli glad you're feeling better.

Of course I am, Elizabeth1! We ex-health-workers know the importance of that (don't think it takes gin into account, though !!