I had to stop taking glucosamine, which had controlled most of my arthritic symptoms, because I found that I had an intestinal sensitivity to chittin and shellfish, from which it is derived. I can not even take the "vegetarian" glucosamine, so I suppose I am now sensitised to glucosamine. I had taken it for 10 to 15 years, and was having increasingly severe intestinal and gall bladder symptoms (inflammation). These are going away slowly since stopping the glucosamine.
I found that taking boron, specifically "Borax" (not Boraxo) worked for certain types of arthritic symptoms. It seemed to "harden" the joints in my hands so I no longer had pain from things like making a really tight fist, or twisting a really tight cap off of a jar, etc. I had had pain between two knuckles where they had been crushed together from someone demonstrating a kung fu locking technique. This had lasted for over a year. Within a week of taking borax as a supplement the pain went away, never to return. Food sensitivities cause arthritic symptoms in many people. As Nenah says, some are sensitive to nightshade family plants. I don't think that is true in my case, although I have never been off them completely for long enough to really tell. For me it is coffee. If I drink it I have increasingly severe pain in the connective tissue around my joints including the top back edges of my hips and lower back. I had to completely get off coffee in any form for about a month to really tell the difference. The problem is that the symptoms occur after one or two days of ingesting the offending substance. You have to be really rigorous in you analysis to make the connection. It was very hard to not drink coffee as its use is so pervasive. One thing that works for some is Hyaluronic Acid. I have not tried this, but it sounds interesting. I have tried CMO, which works for some people. It is not a cure for me, but it may have reduced the symptoms in general, but I can't really tell for sure. Maintaining the proper body pH is also helpful. (Don't let your body get too acidic.) This also helps for gouty symptoms, I believe. Cellery seed extract often helps for gout from first hand reports I have heard. Cherry juice is supposed to help as well for some. Dan On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:40 AM, A. Reid Harvey <reidhar...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the quick responses! I'm now recalling what someone recently told > me; that the third constituent of a remedial regime includes vitamin B5, > a.k.a. Pantothenic Acid. The first two constituents are, of course, are > Glucosamine and Chondroitin. > > If this is true I'll certainly return to this regime, though I would probably > make the assumption that one cap daily of the B5, at 500mg. would be > adequate. I'm certainly not averse to other, prospective remedies, and in > fact I earnestly solicit these. However I would tend to favor whatever has a > basis in explanation. > > I'm sure that there are otherwise some prospective remedies that have an > anecdotal basis, but I'm most inclined to reasoned approaches. Again, the > frequent assertion here, that *there are no incurable illnesses...* has been > comforting. > > Reid Harvey > www.SilverCeramicSystems.com > > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org > > Unsubscribe: > <mailto:silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com?subjectunsubscribe> > Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/silver-list@eskimo.com/maillist.html > > Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com> > List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com> > > >
