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#1 Post by MartDude » Sat Oct 23, 2010 1:56 pm

Please could you remind me of the name of the arthritis treatment you recommended at the Norfolk meet? Totally forgotten it - I blame your tequila & jaffa cakes.

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#2 Post by BikerGran » Sat Oct 23, 2010 4:39 pm

Could be interesting!
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#3 Post by Kwackerz » Sat Oct 23, 2010 6:02 pm

I thought tequila jaffacakes were an arthritis treatment??

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#4 Post by Shebee » Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:27 pm

Sorry for the delay I have been taking Mum to Gibralta for a few days.

The stuff is MSM - Originally reccomended to me by a vet who used it for horses (not a lot of placebo there) ... as I said before it seems to help for me but give it a go....Methylsulfonylmethane

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#5 Post by HowardQ » Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:27 pm

So do you get it from a chemist or the local Vets!???? :smt017

I might try it as I have had arthritis for nearly 30 years, and my GP won't prescribe anything at all.
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#6 Post by mangocrazy » Fri Oct 29, 2010 9:22 pm

Hi Howard, I use these people for vitamins and supplements. Here's their MSM page:

http://www.healthspan.co.uk/joint-care/ ... -c124.aspx

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#7 Post by Gio » Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:15 am

mangocrazy wrote:Hi Howard, I use these people for vitamins and supplements. Here's their MSM page:

http://www.healthspan.co.uk/joint-care/ ... -c124.aspx
Mango try these people then I've found them the cheapest around :smt001

http://www.simplysupplements.net/search ... 20&go.y=13

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#8 Post by MartDude » Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:57 pm

Thanks for the reminder, Shebee. I'll give it a whirl

Fellow cripples might find this useful :

http://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/arth ... erapy.aspx
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#9 Post by Shebee » Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:14 pm

HowardQ wrote:So do you get it from a chemist or the local Vets!???? :smt017
Actually when I first tried it you could only get it from the local equine supplies place... which gave the question of dosage... It was decided that I was a "Thewell pony" and so we based the dose on that :smt101

As others have posted you can now get it from health food shops.

I am not claiming it to be a miracle cure but it certainly seems to help me... its one of those where you take it for a while and then you let it slip... then one day you think why am I feeling so crunchie and sore all of a sudden and realise that you have stopped taking the MSM, a quick double dose week and then back on course and it all smoothes out again. As I said Im not evangelising it but it certainly seems to help for me.

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#10 Post by BikerGran » Sun Oct 31, 2010 5:09 pm

It says it's 'the perfect partner to glucosamine' - which I take. Do you take both Shebee?
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#11 Post by Shebee » Sun Oct 31, 2010 5:53 pm

I did try glucosamine at one stage and it did nothing for me - ditto with green lipped mussel extract, but I have never had the 2 together - might give it a go this winter as its always worse in the cold/damp weather.
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#12 Post by mangocrazy » Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:32 pm

Gio wrote:Mango try these people then I've found them the cheapest around :smt001

http://www.simplysupplements.net/search ... 20&go.y=13
Cheers, Gio. I'll give them a try.

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#13 Post by HowardQ » Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:57 am

I'll have to give it a try, been using different things for many years, starting with high strength Cod Oil, (more recently Omega 3 oil), then added Bio Selenium, and latterly Glucosamin Sulphate.
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#14 Post by MartDude » Mon Nov 01, 2010 5:48 pm

I've ordered Glucosamine with Chondroitin, and MSM. If it does any good, I'll let you know.

I've a slight worry about the effect of a sulphur compond on my bowels, as they have more than a slight tendency to vulcanicity
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#15 Post by mangocrazy » Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:30 pm

MartDude wrote:I've a slight worry about the effect of a sulphur compond on my bowels, as they have more than a slight tendency to vulcanicity
I seem to recall Hydrogen disulphide was affectionately known as 'rotting eggs' in my school days... :smt003

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