I have arthritis and want an over-the-counter medicine that will not have the side affects of aspirin but provide pain relief and energy boost.

Need them to cover physiology and anatomy of the disorder.

I crack my neck, back, elbows, knees, ankles and toes as well, i find it kind of stress relieving.
Anyway, i was told it gives you arthritis. But does it?

This has happened to my dog before a few times but I just want to know what it is, his head is down and it hurts him to walk, he cries a lot possibly from pain. My mom says it is his arthritis. I dont know I just feel so bad, what do you think it is?

i have a 8 year old rottie who is eating diet senior food goes for a five km walk everyday and is the size of a giant round sausage gee she is fat how can we get this weight off her she gets bad arthritis if she does any vigorous exercise and eats everything even tissues out of the bin!
help me please

My Mom’s not well.
She has crippling arthritis. She has had it since I can remember. (I’m 19) However she also has a very very bad back. She has had several operations in the past 15 or so years, including a Spinal Fusion. However, lately due to the arthritis she has grown increasingly worse. It takes her 3 minutes to get out of the car.
She has been told that she now has 3 options.

- Continue getting injections into her spine. (These only give about 2 weeks of relief)
- Epidural (these are very painful and last just 3 weeks) or
- Surgery on the plates which are trapping the nerves in her back (This is very serious surgey which could lead to paralysis)

I try to be supportive. My father is doing his best too, however I also have medical problems which I am finding difficult to come to terms with.
I am really worried about everything.
I don’t want to talk to anyone as I am the type of person who bottles everything up and deals with one thing at a time, but this is really….
getting to me. I nearly broke down on the bus on the way to college.
How do you decide between painful injections which last a week or so and serious surgery which could lead to paralysis. ??

My friend says that he will get £250k from the army as a payout for having arthritis. Is this likely? looking at the news reports there are people who lose their legs that don’t get that much.

My greyhound raced in Arizona but has live in BC with us for 5 almost 6 years. She has always had minor coughing and lameness due to what we thought was arthritis. In November of 2006 she was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma (bone cancer). OS tends to take dogs quickly and we opted for pain management only but now 9 months later she has a large tumor in her right leg and is sometimes completely lame and other times looks fine and runs full speed. She eats well and most of the time is a happy dog.
Someone has suggested this could be Valley Fever but is it possible almost 6 years later? Vets up here do not know of Vallet fever so i am trying to do research before bringing this possibility to them.

Is it a myth that you get arthritis from popping/cracking bones such as knuckles?