Supplements for joint pain? What works?

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Cod liver oil.

Are there any others?

Started in my knuckles and gone down to my wrists. Just about to go out and buy some supplements that might help.

Vitamin D.
Ginger in all forms.

Vitamin d? I didnt expect anyone to say that!

Maybe I'm wrong but I was having all sorts of joint and bone pain and threw it in the mix. I try to get sun at midday and eat some fish weekly but I do take a supplement if the weather is poor and every day October to May.

High strength Turmeric which apparently works better when it has black pepper added. My joints are pain-free for the first time in years!

Interesting, which brand have you used @MinchieMoo

Thank you! It's going in my list.

Vitamin D and glucosamine

I think it was EcoVits - I buy quite a bit of stuff from them via eBay.

Interesting about turmeric as I have been taking it for a while and it's not made any noticeable difference- perhaps I should try a different brand.

Have a look at motivationaldoc on youtube.

He has lots of videos about joint pain relief and supplements

youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Motivational+doc+joint+pain

Of course your cod liver oil will contain vitamin D.

@MinchieMoo

High strength Turmeric which apparently works better when it has black pepper added. My joints are pain-free for the first time in years!

Turmeric is BRILLIANT. don't buy loads other wise how will u know what works!

Seven Seas Green Lipped Mussel,complete life changer for me.

Could you be perimenopausal? I get sore joints and apparently this is a symptom. HRT has helped quite a bit.

And yes to vitamin D - blood tests while looking into HRT showed that I was deficient and joint pain is a symptom of deficiency too. I was given a mega dose of vit D for six weeks, followed by a lower daily dose and perhaps that's helped too.

Vitamin D made the most difference to me.

I've recently added curcumin (the active ingredient in Turmeric) and MSM on the advice of my sister and it has made a bit of difference but nothing has helped like the high dose vitamin D3 (plus vitamin K to aid absorption)

I didn't take the D3 for joint pain originally but quickly realised my knees and ankles had stopped clicking and my ankles were no longer painful first thing.

Nothing has totally controlled the pain in my fingers though - but it hasn't spread to my wrists.

I take 8000 iu per day from October to March and 4,000 any day in summer when I haven't been able to get any sunshine.

Vit D. DH spent years with mystery joint pain and with many visits to GP it was still unresolved. We started to take daily Vit D at the beginning of the pandemic and DH realised after several months that all his pains had gone. It transpires that joint pain is one of the side effects of Vit D deficiency.

Thanks to all those that have helped. I ordered a couple of things from Amazon yesterday.

I'm breastfeeding and this happened last time I was breastfeeding (10 years previous).
I'm easing that it's not uncommon, do you think the supplements would
Still help?

I recently started taking regenovex and it's made a huge difference. It's about £20 a month from Amazon so isn't as cheap as the other options, but I'd tried all of those and they didn't help.

Magnesium is amazing for this as are magnesium / epsom salts bath flakes. You can also buy magnesium in a bottle to spray on directly.

Turmeric

I have joint hypermobility syndrome and take high strength codeine for the pain.
I take vitamin D as standard but have recently added cbd capsules. I've noticed I've been able to drop my afternoon painkillers and the hand pain that keeps me awake a fair bit has subsided. Might be coincidental but my joints don't seem as flared as normal. Winter will be the real tell though.

Turmeric and glucosamine here, plus I take vitamin D.

@HurryUpAndWait23

Thanks to all those that have helped. I ordered a couple of things from Amazon yesterday.

I'm breastfeeding and this happened last time I was breastfeeding (10 years previous).
I'm easing that it's not uncommon, do you think the supplements would
Still help?

What did you order ?

Depends what's causing your pain. I have severe post-traumatic arthritis and my doctor prescribed chondrotin to help rebuild cartilage - but 800-1200 mg a day, which is more than you get in many supplements, where it's typically combined with glucosamine.

Also for your hands, bromelin might help - i heard it might help with trigger finger and it turned it around for me! I'd had two cortisone injections and the doctor said he wouldn't do any more, he'd have to operate. So when it came back a while after the second injection, i started taking the bromelain... I was sceptical but it went away.

I take vitamin D too - I just got my annual blood tests back and my levels were not low but less than optimal - and that's after the summer and I was already supplementing 4000iu but not every day. So will take it every day this winter.