 So those are the two things that a lot of times get missed and are causes of joint pain. Now, what if you have ruled out all these things and you just have plain arthritis from wear and tear from getting older, what can you do? So people usually drown bottles of ibuprofen and Tylenol, but there's huge downsides to these medications. Ibuprofen, Motrin, Aleve, all of these kinds of medications