[FormerACLUmember]

Useless garbage. Bextra (removed today) works far, far better.

[Petronski]

My father, now 77, has seen great benefit from Glucosamine and Condroitin.

[llama hunter]

Yes I'm giving it a try, because an family friend, a real smart guy not given to hocus pocus swears by it, he has arthritis of the knees and he says it was recommended to it by his own doctor, who had been taking it for years himself

however I did hear recently a doctor who said, first of all you have to be diligent in taking the minimum recommended dosage every day, he said if you are going to get a positive effect, it will take about 3 months to show up and if you are one of the people it benefits, the effect starts to fade after a period of time which I thought was interesting

[LizardQueen]

It's worked for my dog for 5 years. She has hip dysplasia and has been on a glucosamine preparation since she was 7. It's worked great - we haven't had to resort to NSAIDS yet (they're tough on the dogs liver so we're holding them back as a last resort).

DH also takes it for his knees. If he misses a few days his knees start to hurt again.

Great stuff, IMHO.

LQ

[cowboyway]

I've been using Tart Cherry juice concentrate for a couple of years and it works better those other products for me.

Tart Cherry Juice

[Roses0508]

Well, its worked great for my cat. She had arthritis in her hips so severely she was dragging her back legs. At 12, she's not exactly kitten-like, but her mobility is very good (she can make the bed in one graceful leap) and she is no longer in pain. Anti-inflammatory drugs are NOT an option for felines.

[MikeHu]

They have to improve the reporting on things like this.

Nothing is the cure for everybody -- nor are risks equal for everyone. For those that it works, it works 100% -- and for those it doesn't, it works 0%. It doesn't work 75% for everybody.

That's pretty much how it is with all phenomena and experiences. Yours is the 100% truth of what it is -- for you. Somebody else's is the 100% truth for them. If something is promising and nothing else is, it makes sense to give it a shot. The amazing thing is that in some people, results are even instantaneous because of their hypersensitivity -- while others may not notice the difference for months; and then they'll be the one in a million who has an allergic reaction. But that we'll back off everything that anybody has shown a toxicity to or unfavorable reaction is ludicrous -- just as maintaining that any cure must work for everyone.

I recall about ten years or so ago bringing up the glucosamine cure to my local Arthritis Foundation and being told, "Anybody who claims they have a cure for arthritis is a con artist." Now, the Arthritis Foundation's chief fund raiser is the book on alternative cures for arthritis, insisting that they wrote the book on this subject matter -- when they used to be discrediting those who did.

As one person scolded me, "Mr. H--, I don't think you understand the purpose of our organization. We're not here to cure arthritis; we're here to raise money to cure arthritis."

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[Coleus]

Vitamins

[teenyelliott]

The stuff is a godsend, and my husband and I swear by it. We are not nutjobs, I promise.

So here's the deal. My husband had a bacterial infection in his spine when he was a teenager. It left him with arthritis in his back. I have suffered a couple of serious falls, which have messed up my lower back. I also was in a wreck ten years ago (NOT my fault!), that reversed the curve in my neck. I now have bone spurs and arthritis in my neck. As bad as all that sounds, we are only 35. G/C really has worked miracles for us. When we take it, we have no problems at all.

[SunkenCiv]

I'd read about the studies, and tried it. Gave me joint pain all over. But that figures, I usually fall in that "reported by less than 1 per cent of study" group.