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SandyDSA@xxxxxxx wrote:

> In a message dated 11/28/2006 7:46:51 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
> sherman@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>     I started taking glucosamine & chondriotin 7 years ago (at age 50
>     & it has done wonders already) and MSM if joints start feeling a
>     little stiff or my tendonitis starts acting up. I have just a
>     couple spots of arthriti
>
> I hope my PC doesn't go awol before I finish - having snow, sleet, and 
> power outages. Some dumkopft must have hit a pole.
>  I have had arthritis since I was 17 and got up one morning and fell 
> to the floor - my hip wouldn't work. Over the years, I found that my 
> first felonious orthopod was WRONG - he said I better quit doing most 
> everything active or else I would be in a wheelchair by the time I was 
> 30. Contraire, Herr Doktor!!! Two OTHER OPs told me - HECK NO! Get 
> GOING! So I did. Now, a couple of decades (well, 30 YEARS) later, I am 
> NOT in a wheelchair, and only have some bad mornings or bad moments or 
> events - but I still ride, swim, walk (I would JOG, but I shattered my 
> ankle and with all the metal I scare small children jogging down the 
> road since I resemble Quasimodo far more than Jim Fix.
>     When i saw the reference to MSM and GAGS etc., I thought to speak 
> up. Over the years, I have used Arnica for those mild, lactic acid 
> issues post exercise; but in the past few years, the same Dynamite I 
> fed my horses I started using myself (thank God for Jim Zamzow who 
> FINALLY put them in capsules so I can quit sifting them into capsules 
> myself). Being diagnosed with lupus - two of 3 positive tests, at 
> least it explains the fatigue and arthritis - I started charting my 
> condition with and without the combination I take and it was amazing 
> to me, when I have my Plus, MSMS and Free and Easy each day, I can do 
> pretty much anything (but I still look like Quasimodo when I run); but 
> if I forget for 3 or more days, I start getting so stiff and even sore 
> that it takes me a dozen or so steps to loosen up enough to walk to 
> the toilet during the night or even in midday!
>     I would consider the arnica to be a mild compensatory supplement 
> for muscular soreness due to lactic acid build up post exercise; but 
> if there are other soft or boney tissue issues such as I have, the 
> MSM/free and Easy type of combo is a blessing.
>
> S

You go Sandy!
   About 6 years ago, I had a  trailer hitch break  and  the trailer 
tounge  fell on my left foot. I was about  42 then.  The trailer was 
loaded with  heavy  band and sound  equiptment.  It crushed my foot. I 
went from having been the runner of the year in southern Il a couple of 
years before to being told I would never run again and would end up in a 
wheel chair. I was told most people would end up amputated. I just 
simply refused to quit and kept working and praying.
I have completed two ironmen triathlons and several 500 mile bicycle 
events since then and while I do not currently have the speed I used to 
have I have not given up hope of that returning.
I also take msm ,chrondroytin and glucosomine  and  it keeps me from 
being ahead of the weatherman on  front changes.
My hat is off to you!
Keith 
   

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