I’M one of the ten million people in the UK with arthritis. Nearly half of sufferers depend on the use of painkillers to manage symptoms. But GPs should tell patients to exercise and lose weight ...

SEX with my partner is a pain in the neck . . . and the back . . . and the knees. I have arthritis and every time we try to ...

“If lower back pain is disturbing people’s sleep and they have to take regular painkillers, and limit what they do ... The other difficulty is that no one stays still when they sleep, they may start ...

Dosed up to the eyeballs with painkillers and anti-inflammatory tablets, I ended up in bed for weeks just trying to sleep my life away. I managed to see a GP, but my blood test puzzlingly came back ...