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Check the AERC list of banned substances to see if MSM is on it.  I 
think it is which only means you can't give it before a ride.  I use it 
myself and think it's great.  Never given it to my horse though.  Knock 
on wood, he's never seemed to need it.
laney

sherman wrote:
> Having suffered for a long painful year of tendonitis, I’d say it’s more 
> likely that the use of the carrot stick was “the straw that broke the 
> camels back” and not necessarily from overuse of the carrot stick.  I 
> suffered for quite a while from tendonitis, from throwing flakes of hay 
> over the fence into the feeders. It was only about 6 flakes a day, 
> didn’t seem like much to me, but it was too much for my tendons.
>
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> My year of pain from the tendonitis ended within 2 or 3 weeks of 
> starting MSM supplements, thanks to the advice of Mary Anne. I still 
> cannot carry a flake of hay with my arm, have to put it in a bucket and 
> carry it to wherever it’s needed.
>
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> So that takes me to asking another endurance horse related question. 
> Does everyone give their horses MSM? If you do, is it on a regular basis 
> or only before/after long hard rides? I don’t take it regularly anymore, 
> just when I overuse my arms, and then just for a few days providing I 
> can quit doing whatever aggravated the tendons.  
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> Kathy

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