Erosive osteoarthritis pain but can't take NSAIDS

Hello, I see that several months have passed since your last post on this site, but have you found the solution to reducing your joint pain other than Tylenol?
I have aching knees and one hip replacement from 2018 that now is bothering me often, plus the other hip that is bone on bone (occasional aching but not chronic). I have a huge amount of temporary pain when I get up off the couch, lasting a minute or so. What would you vouch for that is working the best for you at this point in time? Has gabapentin been effective for you? I'm 77 years old. Thanks!

Hello.....just a thought, but you might want to ask your doctor about using Celebrex for your pain. I've read where it can be used with blood thinners without the side effects of other NSAIDs. Or even poossibly a low dose of Aspirin 81mg twice daily if approved by your doctor. I know how painful arthritis is and thankful I can take my NSAIDs daily. Good luck.

Don’t be afraid to try everything! I’ve gone through all the nerve medications. They don’t work for me. I’ve gone through all the NSAIDs only a few work for me. The low-dose Percocet is the only opioid that works for me over 30 years and because arthritis itself is not painful. I’m sorry to say after 30 years of dealing with it. It’s usually an inflammatory property that has to be controlled. For me it started with the recommendation taking ZAZZEE tart cherry capsules. It’s sold on Amazon for 20 bucks. It got rid of my arthritis. Pain in 24 hours in my hands. I complain to the doctor and she said be thankful. And I said no you’ve been sending me to specialist for 30 years. I wanna know what the deal is. It’s a simple test for uric acid. My uric acid was out the roof. That means I have gout arthritis something The specialist don’t look for. They test for RA. They look at the x-rays and they say oh you have OA and that presents like RA but I test negatively for RA for 30 years. Turns out it was the gout keep the door open always. I also exercise now a lot after having many joints replaced. With all the joint replacements, I really didn’t get rid of the inflammatory pain which happens where my joints are required to move a lot like in my hands, my wrist and my neck. I am now on allopurinol, which doesn’t really have much in the way of side effects and that takes care of most of it, but some days are extra special bad so then I’ll take the ZAZZEE in addition to The once a day allopurinol. This weekend I did exercise and weeding and did a lot compared to what I did 10 or 15 years ago. There’s hope it can take a long time. Good luck.

I am full of osteoarthritis. I have had one hip replacement and two toe operations as I had bone on bone in my toes. I also have cervical radiculopthy and go to a pain doctor to get injections in my neck. I have pain in my lower back and my pain MD suggested Radiofrequency Ablation to shut down the nerves. Has anyone had that procedure?

I know RA does help. But like anything else more for some than others.

I've had ablation in my low back and it does calm the nerves for months to year at a time if you are lucky until the nerves grow back. i was getting shooting pain into my butt and hip and it helped quite a bit.
Yeah many doctors treat everyone alike and we are all sooo different. Sometimes inflammation can be helped by anti-inflammatory supplements like turmeric or MSM, and like you said tart cherry. I'm going to try that again.