Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Update- Rain and no Riding

Roger - 
Missed the info about your "injury" at Biltmore??  I left Sat. afernoon. 
What a routh weather ride!  What happened?
Good luck healing.  I'll see you at OD.

Karen Zelinsky, ESMT


On Sat, 18 May 2002 01:29:33 -0400 Roger Rittenhouse <roger@xxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> FROM   Roger Rittenhouse     roger@xxxxxxxxxxx
> The ridecamp digest sure is slow -? seems I get responses before I 
> see
> the post to RC-   They all show up  but later. John T???
> 
> Anyway - since I am NOT riding, not even a short ride, and since 
> this
> weekend is the Longstreets Ride in GA and I am missing another ride, 
> I
> thought I would do some posting.
> 
> First the injury is a bit more serious then expected. I have had 
> some
> real bad days lately.
> I seem to be having some sort of unstable moments, walking sort of
> weeble wooble, not bad, but a few bad steps here and there.
> And no Howard, its not the drugs and beer.
> So I went to my chiropractor and we agreed I
> need to see 'other professionals' I am just not healing very well.
> My regular doctor had me start an anti- inflammatory, I have been on 
> this
> drug  randomly, but he now insists I take it every day. I am also
> going to a orthopedists Dr next week- to have the MRI  re-evaluated
> by someone else.  And to just look at the situation and see what
> should be next.
> 
> I have no idea when I will be  OK to ride. Looks like the whole year 
> is
> shot.
> Seems there have been a number of riders getting hurt this year.
> 
> I have tried the alternative forms of meds to help this problem. 
> Let
> me tell you I have not had very good results. Now that may well be
> because I did not apply the remedy correctly but all the herbs and
> the homeopathic meds did not do very much to help.
> So I dont think we really need to worry about this form of medicine
> making lame horses sound (aka Rule 13).
> 
> I have also taken enough MSM to help support the MSM mfgrs. It had
> little to no effect. SO much for the anti- inflammatory properties 
> of
> MSM. I took up to 3 times the horse dose. Now I have been told 
> humans
> require higher levels of MSM then a horse to gain a pharmacologic
> effect. But I have not found that level.
> 
> I tried static magnets  JOKE  NO help no way, Did a blind test, 
> with
> the wrap -  both with magnets and without. No difference. Now they 
> may not have been
> the 'correct' (higher priced) magnets  but it did nothing.
> What DID work ok is the ELECTRO-Magnet. I have been using that from 
> the
> incident. Not a cure all but it helps when I am really sore.
> 
> What REALLY worked is DRUGS good old WESTERN hard DRUGS, CODEINE, 
> and
> the BEXTRA (valdeoxib)  and Aleve (naproxen sodium. This stuff 
> really
> works.  ( Note to Howard, yes at times the drug enhancing 
> supplement
>  does help)
> 
> So that's an update, not too great, sure miss going to the rides.
> Biltmore - with all the cold rainy weather really trashed me. I do
> think I will try to make the OD, I have not missed a ride there for
> the past 10 or 12 years, either riding or working.
> 
> Horse looks great, going barefoot, keeping the toes short and 
> opening
> the heels. Had to cut back his feed, getting too fat.
> Few other posts coming on other issues
> Roger Rittenhouse
> 
> 
> 
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