Troublesome mornings

So sorry for you wild rose,my mother suffered for years so I can understand what your going through. I wish there was a cure x

I sympathise with you Wildrose as i also have the exact same conditions and as you said we cannot have anti-inflammatory drugs because of heart problems. I personally cannot take pain killers as i am allergic to the stronger ones as i have skin allergies. Not many folk will like what i have to say next and yes I am a smoker. !!! So here goes. !!! I personally smoke cannabis to help with the chronic pain and mobility. It does actually work.! I want and need to stop smoking, i have tried and failed. So i smoke a joint (cannabis cigarette) in the morning and one before sleeping. I am not a drug addict, just a 68 year old woman in constant chronic pain, as you are. I have also tried it in a delicious chocolate cake, which is a slower release way to work in your body. Needless to say i have tried loads of different legal things, eg: Tumeric tabets, Rose Hip oils, Apple cider vinegar without any success. I have now found a company in Amsterdam where you can order CBD oil that you use in an e-cigarette, also a liquid you put under your tongue and these are all perfectly legal and do not make you high. I do no know whether I can name the online company on here or if you would want to give it a try. ??? If we were MS sufferers (god forbid ), there is a spray for under the tongue called Sativex which has a form of cannabis in it, but because i do not suffer from MS, i am not allowed it. Until our government make medicinal cannabis products legal we have to suffer and usual in silence as no one is interested. I hope this helps.

Wheat bags are great for temporary relief, I hope Wildrose gets some help and relief soon.

bmteal good for you, if that's what works. . Not sure about the chocolate cake though - I thought that you ought to avoid sugar.

I wish that the positive benefits of cannabis could be reduced into an oil or tablet form as I don't want to smoke but I do know it helps with inflammatory arthritis (and MS or any chronic pain)

Turmeric powder seems to be brilliant but as someone said earlier, you can't start take it if you're on warfarin or similar meds. I use it in cooking and the warfarin clinic said it would be fine to continue that but not to go onto hefty doses because it would interfere with the warfarin.

I've had severe arthritis for sometime and it does get me down at times. I too take Tramadol and Paracetamol and an occasional Naproxen. I have done a couple of things to help myself. Firstly I read the book Treating Arthritis the Drug Free Way by Margaret Hills (new edition). Very helpful. I take cider vinegar tablets as suggested in book and its helped a lot. (it takes time to work, in my case a year but oh so worth it). I've also changed my diet to cut out processed food, less bread, cakes etc and in the main eat much more healthily. It has had a dramatic effect. I do go back to bad habits occasionally but the effort is worth it. I also lost 3 stone which helped too! I feel better now than I did 5 years ago although I still need a knee op!I hope you can get some relief, arthritis is a miserable thing to have.

Starbird and Iam64, Yes eating chocolate cake a lot is not advised, but you can make smoothies, soups etc. You still have to buy the cannabis, which also really isn't a good idea.!!!
You can buy the oil, without the illegal stuff, from an Amsterdam Research company, called Sensi Seeds. It might be worth a google.!!!

I wouldn't touch tramadol with a barge pole. Was on it once, it's addictive. Got the shakes when I stopped taking it. Had back go on it and come off it gradually. Dihydrocodeine works great for me.

Wildrose Sorry to hear about your pain.