Voltaren Arthritis Pain Relief Gel, 1% Diclofenac Sodium Topical NSAID, Original Prescription Strength, 5.29 oz

Have not used for long; think it helps with pain in my knee joints maybe? Thing is - the directions and cautions freak me out a little. The plastic card measuring thing was hard for me to do accurately so I said heck with that and just directly and carefully squeeze out what looks like a reasonable amount on each knee and rub it in. Then I wash the dickens out of hands, like twice. lol I also don't wait 10 minutes to pull my pants back up, but at home it's just lounge type pants anyway. I've been using it twice a day at most, usually in AM when I'm first up and knees are really creaky, and maybe in late afternoon, not 4x a day like it says. That's partly because I still take Tylenol arthritis strength if I'm going to be driving for a while, and at bedtime. So yeah hopefully it is doing something, and the smell doesn't seem to linger as long as other ointments, but I have to do it my way within reason.

I order the Voltaren Arthritis Pain Gel because I have a very mild arthritis in my knee and it usually works well. But this time instead of sending me the Arthritis pain gel, they sent me the Voltaren Back and Muscle Pain gel. I was highly disappointed because I needed the other. It's such a hassle to send it back when you're sick so I kept it. In the future I'll be buying in the store. But a couple of times I used this cream on sore muscles and it was ok. But I like the Voltaren gel for arthritis a lot better. Mostly what I use for my knee.