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Consider eliminate gluten and dairy from diet. (Also causes inflammation/pain.)
I am 80 and today my "Old Nurse's Back" complicated by the fact I can't take pain meds which exacerbate diverticulitis and the fact that 80 means spinal compression--well it has been laying me low.
Pain is a part of it at a certain age, pure and simple and we have to play around to find whatever works to whatever degree. Heat or cold, exercise of being able to lie low a while--movement or none. Just have to do the best we can.
I recently said to my Doc that old age is something else again, and not for sissies. She asked what was wrong. I told her I could start at the scalp and falling hair and work my way down through failing eyes and ears and fracturing teeth, but how much time did she have as I was nowhere NEAR my toes yet, and the ingrown toenail is killing me.
I wish you the best. Some pain is going to be there. What will work is the individual mystery we each face down. I sure wish you all luck.
You need to find that source of the pain. Has she been properly diagnosed, or is it a oase of the doctor saying "you're old -- it's arthritis?"
Take her to an orthopedist.
I like Advil for my pain. Tramadol you have to be careful with in older people. It made my Mom hallucinate. Also a friend who was in his 50s at the time.
Make sure her shoes have good arch supports. After wearing just sneakers, or just fuzzy socks, or just plain barefoot that I started to have knee pain walking up the stairs. One day I needed to put on solid shoes to show a workman around the yard, and I noticed I didn't have that knee pain walking up the stairs. Hmmmm. I experimented with that, and sure enough it was lack of shoes vs. solid shoes with good arch supports that made the difference.
Oops, I am starting to sound like an info commercial. Anyway, it is worth looking into.
PT helped with arthritis pain in both my knees and in my thumb.