Sometimes when I get a headache, I would also like to take some Tylenol. If you are taking Vioxx, you may take Tylenol also but you should not take ibuprofen, Celebrex, Naprosyn, or any of the other aspirin-like medications. No one has described why changes in weather affect arthritis. Most patients describe that weather changes do affect their arthritis, but they disagree as to what kind of weather changes are helpful and what kinds make it worse. In other words, I have had patients who have moved to the upper Midwest from Arizona because their arthritis is better in a moist, cold climate and others who live here who want to leave for Arizona because they think a hot, dry climate will be better.
Arthritis is the main joint disease.
Arthritis means that there is pain in the joint, and most diseases of the joint cause either pain or limitation of motion, so we use the term arthritis to cover all of them. Glucosamine is a constituent of cartilage, kind of like a brick is a constituent of a brick wall. When you eat glucosamine, it is digested and does not go to build up cartilage. However, clinical trials have shown that there is some benefit in osteoarthritis pain in patients who take chondroitin sulfate or glucosamine. This effect commonly takes two or three months to develop, even in patients who describe less pain in taking these medications.