A couple of months ago I had an iron infusion and a blood transfusion to treat severe anaemia. The hospital doctors recommended that I stop taking ibuprofen, which I’d been using for pain control for my arthritic left knee. Their reasoning was there was a possibility of stomach lining damage caused by that drug and stomach ulcers can contribute to anemia.
So I stopped taking that drug. Since then I have rarely needed to wear a supportive elastic brace on the knee, while taking regular ibuprofen I had needed to use the brace almost every day since mid December of 2021.