@matigo We do not have Tylenol in this country, but it's just acetaminophen or paracetamol as we know it.
I use two forms of the drug, two x 500 mg tablets spaced 6 hours apart during daylight and four x 665 mg sustained-release ones between 7am and 10 pm.
This come in just under the 4000 mg daily maximum.
Other pain control is from various NSAID creams/lotions or menthol/camphor ointments like Tiger Balm or Golden Cup Balm. The latter has in excess of 11% menthol, at such levels menthol has an analgesic effect in its own right.
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.
It's winter. I need comfort food. Collected some pre-chopped mixed vegetables (carrot, leek, celery, parsnip, turnip, broccoli and parsley), two big meaty lamb shanks, pearl barley, red lentils, yellow and green split peas, black turtle beans, red kidney beans, toasted farro grain, vegetable stock powder and water. All of these went into the 11 function-in-one device multi-cooker using the pressure cooker/steamer lid with the pressure vent open in low power slow cook mode for seven hours.
I then removed and deboned the shanks and shredded the meat, returning it to the pot and giving it all a taste.
I hadn't added enough water at the start so I added two litres of boiling water, stirred it and tasted again. After allowing the mix to settle for a few hours it thickened and was very rich and intense with vegetable and meaty flavours throughout.
Absolutely delicious result.
@matigo The carpet I had was over 40 years old and quite tatty, I had it replaced by polyurethane tiles shaped like wooden floorboards. Long wearing and very easy to clean. I need to get some rugs for the bedrooms.
I've dragged an old electric kettle out of storage and set it up in the bathroom, I use it solely for filling hot water bottles. This current winter I've been afflicted just about every 2nd day with Raynaud's Syndrome in my feet. The "trick," according to a podiatrist, is not to let the feet go cold in the first place. Easier said than done.
I place a folded hand towel on the cold floor with a single thermal sock on it. Then I add a two-litre hot waster bottle containing 600ml of 80ºC water. The soles of both feet rest on this bottle.
I then lay another folded hand towel and a second thermal sock over the top of my feet topped with a 2nd similarly-filled hot water bottle. This keeps the feet warm enough for several hours.
The podiatrist recommended wearing thin socks underneath the thermal socks once the hot water bottles have done their job.
Safari is no longer supported on this 2008 macBook pro running macOS 10.11.6 (El Capitan). However, Firefox, brave (if you can track down an earlier version) and Chrome work although the latter two tell the user that to get updates I have to be using at least maOS 10.13.