Posted on 08/06/2015 10:51:12 AM PDT by Farmer Dean
I have an appointment with a specialist next Wednesday.What drugs or other treatments are you receiving now?
I first started having arthritic joints (knees and ankles) in my late 30’s. I was vastly overweight then. I have since lost most of that weight, although my doctor says I’m still too heavy. I tried Glucosamine and Condroitin when they became popular during the mid 1990’s. I stayed with these pills for at least 10 years. Bottom line, both had NO EFFECT on my pains, other than the comfort a placebo, or familiar ritual can bring. I’ve had to use the standards, Ibuprofen 600 or 800 mgs, or Acetominophen with Codine. I get on the stationary bike a few times a week. This also helps.
I may have to add Turmeric and Ginger to my diet. I’m hearing a lot of good things about both as anti-inflamatory agents. They are both cheap, have few side effects, and a few times a week, I like curry flavor anyway.
“...I walk 4 mph again...”
That’s fast...good for you!
15 years ago I had to use a cane. Arthritic right knee. My Asian ladyfriend took my to an acupuncturist. Didn’t help, but the acupuncturist referred me to a Chinese Traditional herb doctor. He mixed me herbs to make tea for a week. First week, no difference. Gal made me go back. Doc said that at 6’3”, I was much bigger than his other patients, so he added some more herbs and made the batch stronger. After finishing that batch, I felt definite improvement, so I went back again. After that third batch, all pain was gone. It’s been 15 years, and I have no idea where my old cane is!
Mine improved dramatically after I went on a sugar-free, low-carb diet. I used to wake up in the middle of the night with pain; now I have pretty much forgotten I have osteoarthritis. I only remember when I eat or drink something that spikes my blood sugar level. No drugs anymore.
I think, when I first started, it was something called Uflexa (or something sounding like that). I honestly don’t know if they changed what they were using or not.
gelatin, 20 mule team borax, turmeric.
“cannabis just acts a a pain killer.”
Some cannabinoids also anti-inflammatories.
I have arthritis in my hands and have had several surgeries. The surgeries provide pain relief but typically do nothing to remedy the clumbsiness that accompanies arthritis of the hands.
I’ve changed my eating habits and have included “good” supplements to my diet. . .I was on a downward slide and decided to change my ways. . . .check out draxe.com, mercola.com and google “Joel Wallach and osteoarthritis”. I was a primary care giver to both of my parents. . .I so wish I had been more cognizant of vitamins and minerals, coconut oil, silver biotics, probiotics, magnesium, DE, B Vitamins, D3, curcumin, etc. etc. I’m not prescribing. . .just sharing that my quality of life is much better now! I was a “box of ding dongs in the refrigerator aholic.”
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They grow cannabis now that has almost zero THC.
However, it is bred to contain all the analgesic and antiinflammatory terpenes you’ve grown to know and love.
It’s a weed. You can grow it in your back yard. Folks will walk right past it without noticing.
I must dislose that I am an enormous pot head. The relief it provides my lower back allows me to live a normal life. I don’t smoke it - that’s for kids. There are other superior methods available to grown ups.
Cannabis has components that possess antiinflammatory properties. It’s not merely a painkiller.
When pot is marketed as medical it purports to have more of the antiinflammatory/antianxiety/anticancer/antispasmodic/antiseizure properties than regular pot, which puts emphasis on a high THC content.
Regarding turmeric:
My doc says the active ingredient is not very bioavailable to our bodies, so if I was gonna take I should take big heaps.
I ingest a heaping teaspoon mixed into water/almond milk to make a paste. Tastes like dirt!
If you go this route, buy it at the Indian market. It costs about 25% what those foolhardy white people pay per ounce at the white people supermarket.
For proper bone metabolism you need vitamin K2.
Eventually I will need a knee replacement. Have many friends who have had the replacement with generally very good results. Plan on months of rehab.
Me too- right knee. That came from a road accident in ‘72 that snapped my femur near the knee. The doc put it back together at a slight angle so 30 years later I had a bad case of mechanically induced arthritis in the right knee (as well as developing arthritis generally). The right leg became quite bent and I was walking on a cane with 1 1/2 inch lift in my shoe. I thought my life was over and I was doomed to be “Gramps” at 55. Then I heard about knee replacement. Now it’s titanium.
I only took the Naprosyn for a few weeks; I only take it now occasionally. I will ask my MD for more info on the G and C.
Thank you for your post!!!
Your MD may well say it is “ineffective” and a waste of money. Try it before you believe that. If he is a homeopath he will know all about it and suggest beginning and maintenance dosages. Due to being a bearer of some of the crotchets of old age I have experience in using several alternative remedies that have proven for me much more satisfactory and without the pages of side effects that come with the prescription drugs that are supposed to deal with the same problems. I took prescribed statins until I read the literature and now accomplish the intended result in a much less perilous way. Ditto some other things.
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