Me too. Sitting down makes pain increase. When I stand up, it hurts a lot -- I have to walk around to get limbered up. I feel best in the afternoons and evenings when I have been active all day. Waking up is the hardest. Most of the pain is those sensations of burning/stinging/numbness that we are familiar with. Some of it is aching from the beginnings of old age-related-arthritis.

I saw my orthopedist today -- he said that we can take up to 3000 milligrams of Tylenol each day without damage to the liver. That's nice to know. I take 650 mg time release caplets. I didn't know that I could take more. I'll try it. Peggy