Good paper on NSAIDS for arthritis (meloxicam is "mobic"): http://www.consumerreports.org/healt...gs/Nsaids2.pdf

That's great that you have lost that much weight/gotten it off your knees! I'm going to have my doctor check my knees next time I see him; I fell on one hard (had to go to the orthopedist to make sure nothing horrible had happened/that it wasn't broken or something) Christmas Eve 2010, the second time I fell hard on that knee, that spot (first time in the late 1970's) and suspect it's all arthritis now. Otherwise I'm having a heck of a time with the arthritis in my shoulders.