Re: Joints (was RE: rough month)

Hey...no laughing over here.  I believe there are other forms of healing
besides the medical folks.



On 6/1/09, Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:
>
> You girls can laugh at me if you want, but I feel I must ask
> Do you wear a copper bracelet?
> On our honeymoon in 1952 we had a minor automobile accident -
> ran into a mailbox post.  I was sitting with my legs crossed under
> me yoga-fashion - no one had even heard of seatbelts in those
> days - and slammed into the dashboard with both knees.  Both
> knees swelled and were very painful - were x-rayed and shown
> not to be broken, but the doctor said I could be sure to have
> arthritis in the future.  Sure enough within the next five years
> my knees were so painful I could hardly walk. One doctor said
> it was not necessary to have x-rays - he could just feel the
> crepitation with his hands.  I'm not sure just who got me
> started, but I started wearing a copper bracelet that Chet had
> given me before we were married, and another for the other
> arm that I had picked up in a craft shop.  To make a long story
> short, I am still trotting around pretty well fifty years later.   I
> can't claim that my knees don't hurt, mostly at night, but it
> seems more connected to a degenerated disk than arthritis.
> Another interesting fact is that twice I have had falls, unrelated,
> but both times the copper turned bright green with corrosion by
> the next day.  Some doctors look at my bracelets and laugh, but
> others look at my hands and say "well, you have no deformation
> in your hands, so they obviously don't cause any harm."  I know
> two other people near my age who wear them and swear by them.
> I know it seems improbable, but they are not expensive, so why
> don't you give the bracelets a try.  I have had numerous ones
> over the years - some have been lost, some I have given away,
> and a couple have just broken.  The ones I find most comfortable
> are just flat bands, but I have had a couple of very pretty ones I
> picked up in the Southwest  in Indian craft shops.  Laugh if you
> want to, but I hope maybe this will help.
> Auralie
>
> In a message dated 6/1/2009 2:25:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> dp2413@comcast.net writes:
>
> Glucosamine pills didn't work for me, either, nor for my dog, Annie. An
> injectable form worked quite well for her for a couple of years. (This was
> a
> sub-cu, not into the joint injection. ) The vet said that some studies had
> shown that the glucosamine tabs were mostly broken down in the gut so
> didn't
> get to the joint, but that the injectable form bypassed that.
>
> I hear you about the stairs. I not only squeak, but sound like Rice
> Krispies.
>
> If you're having pain, ask your doctor about the Synvisc or Supartz.
> Neither
> are related to glucosamine.
> My doctor prefers the Supartz - says it has a better carrier, if I remember
> correctly. I've also been told that if you use it before your knees get as
> bad as mine that there are better results because it helps to prevent more
> damage by cushioning it.
>
> I had to give up hiking in my 40's. I  remember getting off the plane after
> some day-hiking in the Tetons, and my knees were so bad that I not only
> couldn't stand the extra weight of my camera bag,  I had to support myself
> on each seatback as I walked by. I got to the terminal and needed wheeled
> help.
>
> d
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI"
> <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 10:45 AM
> Subject: Joints (was RE: [CHAT] rough month)
>
>
> > I'm getting pretty creaky in the knees too. I stopped taking the stairs
> > a couple years ago because I could hear the grinding noise from my knee
> > in the quiet stairwell and it made me cringe. Didn't hurt but I couldn't
> > stand to listen. Now I'm getting pain occasionally while I hike and I am
> > very careful about squatting down or jumping off my horse. I guess that
> > glucosamine stuff doesn't really work; I gave it to my dog for years and
> > I thought it helped her but I've read a lot of studies since then that
> > say it's mostly a placebo.
> >
> > Cyndi
>
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