This post has been made in partnership with KETRO.
Your knee has been bad since Saturday and you’ve got the routine down by now. Two pills with breakfast, two more around three when it starts talking to you again, and a third round before bed so you can actually sleep.
The pills work well enough, but they also go everywhere in your body when all you need is joint pain relief.
KETRO RX: Pain Gel lets you target what’s hurting. It’s ketorolac, a prescription anti-inflammatory, but instead of reaching for a bottle of pain meds, you just apply a gel.
You don’t need an appointment for it either. You fill out a health questionnaire online, a licensed provider reads it and decides whether the treatment makes sense for you, and if it does, a US compounding pharmacy mixes your gel and ships it to your door. You don’t have to take morning off work, and you don’t have to sit in a waiting room reading a nine-month-old magazine.
Ketorolac is a proper prescription anti-inflammatory, not a drugstore cream, so don’t treat the questionnaire as something to skim and answer in a hurry. The provider is checking whether you’re on a blood thinner, whether you’ve had stomach ulcers or bleeding, how your kidneys are doing, what your heart history looks like, whether you’re pregnant, and what else you’re already taking. Tell them everything, especially if you’ve been taking ibuprofen constantly.
Once you’re cleared, you’re set. Rub the cream where you’re aching and get on with your day.
The formulation came out of a compounding team with a history of working with professional sports orgs like the Boston Red Sox. Makes sense: athletes have the same problems you do, but usually more aggravated from the intense training.
The gel suits a specific kind of pain: the kind you can actually point at. Your knee, shoulder, or your lower back, for example. If your stomach’s hurting, this isn’t the way to go.
A single questionnaire is all you need to get on the road to treating your pain at the source instead of waiting for a pill to make its way through your whole body.
