Fibromyalgia is a problem of the brain delivering too many pain messages to your body even though nothing is wrong where it hurts. Medicines don't help much as you have discovered because the problem is in the brain rather than with tissue damage. Poor sleep due to current or past stresses is often ...

Unfortunately there are a few people who will experience persistent pain even after surgery, especially after CRPS which can be especially disabling. Your question doesn't mention footwear or insoles which are absolutely vital in helping with the kind of pain you describe where the footpads are thin...

I agree completely. Fibromyalgia is often wrongly diagnosed and inflammatory arthritis which causes joint swelling and pain that is better with exercise, has to be excluded before making this diagnosis. Inflammatory arthritis, however, does not cause pain all over all the time or some of the other s...

Hello, Your father should definitely not stop methotrexate as having active rheumatoid arthritis carries a significantly increased risk of many infections so he is much safer on the methotrexate overall than off it, although he may need a higher dose or another medicine as well if his arthritis is s...

Hi, Just a quick note to follow up on the excellent comments from Wendy, Matthew and Tracy so far. In addition to all the comments I would add that often a local authority may have exercise referral seems in your area which your GP can refer to. Its always worth a call and also checking with a local...

Firstly well done for losing the weight over lockdown. It is not an easy thing to do but certainly the most effective thing you can do to decrease load and in turn pain from a joint. For every one pound in weight that you lose this equates to 4 pounds less load upon your knees and other joints when ...

Hello and that sounds like a nasty injury. Exercises may well help but as you have probably discovered, we use our shoulders for so many normal activities that managing the pain can be quite challenging. Pain from the shoulder may not just be coming from the joint, but from the soft tissues, for exa...

Hip joint pain is felt in the groin or front of the thigh, never in the buttock or back of the leg so whether or not you have minor osteoarthritis in the hip, this is not the cause of your pain. Get some help from a physiotherapist or osteopath as it sounds as though it could be like mucular or mech...

As you have young children I would guess that you are also young and therefore would doubt that your pain which sounds quite severe is due to osteoarthritis as you say that you have had it for many years. It is normal to have small amount of x-ray change with age that doctor's often call "arthr...

Midfoot pain is a common site for osteoarthritis, but as with other types of arthritis, there is a lot that you can do to help yourself. Keeping to a healty weight is definitely very important as is keeping moving, so you are doing the right thing with Tai Chi. Insoles can definitely help, so podiat...