A Pain In The Joint

My Engineer son, (youngest) was having some joint problems, arthritis I think and he was one of the first people I ever heard of taking Glucosimine . I heard him telling others about what a great job it did for him so a year or so later my head webmasters husband was having terrible back problems and was going to have an operation, stop working etc. They had spent quite a bit of money on various doctoring, chiropractor treatments, tried about everything.

Told them my son had taken Glucosimine with exceptional results and she should have him look into trying that.

Got some from the drug store and about a week later, she said, "What a joke, we went thru all that and wind up fixing the whole thing for 18 bucks worth of Glucosimine".

He continues to take it and no longer has back problem's.  (this is not a paid testimonial, remember we do not sell or make a commission on anything, we just try to get you to subscribe to help pay our printing bill)

It is a great source of sulfur and has a couple of additions now and makes it even better.  Be sure it has the two additions including MSM.

Anyway, my story, I had a real bad left hip pain and was having to quit going for walks and thought, oh oh, I am in big trouble now, I was not getting enough exercise as it was and if had to stop going on walks it was going to really make my controlling diabetes a difficult situation, I was already short on exercise.

We were talking maybe I was going to have to have a hip operation, my dad had a hip replacement around my age.

So I tried 1,000 mg of Glucosimine , chondroitin, and MSM daily, (mixture) plus I had gotten on to the Anodyne treatment for diabetic neuropathy. This is an infrared (near) special light wave device, (LED's) developed by NASA to grow plants in space. A firm uses them to treat neuropathy with several studies showing about an 80% success rate with dramatic improvement.

We looked into that and developed my own sunshine, light system that cured my neuropathy about 50% in the first three days. (for free)

See issue two on how to use this to fix your neuropathy, for free. (Medicare pays for 20 sessions of 30 minutes Anodyne light treatment, but sunshine works as well in my experience)

After fixing my neuropathy with sunshine treatments, to make a long story short I found a light system using the same LED's available for $70 bucks or less when you can find one, smaller and less bulbs but found it really helped my hip a lot, 30 minute treatments a couple of times over night.

It is about six inches square and couple of inches thick. (shuts it self off after 30 minutes) Anyway it is a Bell and Howell product (used to make projectors, remember them?) and it really helped my hip, in two weeks with Glucosimine, mixture, my hip pain was no longer an issue.

Next, I had a bicycle accident with riding with my dog running along side on a lease, and she took off after another dog and upset my bike at a good rate of speed. I did not let go of the lease fast enough.

Tore my rotator cup and had one sore shoulder.  Specialist, Doctor said it was bad one and needed an operation to ever work again.

I worked in two treatments a night on my shoulder with the light. (invisible frequency but has red LED's also so you can tell it is on)

Kept two a night (I get up a lot to pee) so move it around, on hip also but now do that only now and then but have to do my shoulder several times a night to keep it in tolerable shape.  Hardly notice any injury affect except when I over use that arm during the day.

Was supposed to have it operated on/or live with big pain and hardly able to use it the rest of my life, was the medical prognosis.

Opted out, and now getting along fine, just can not do much above my head and rolling up a car window is the most painful thing I do, so use the other hand for that. Without the light treatment I notice the difference during the day.

Not sure if the glucosimine etc is helping with that but I am working actively on stuff outside and ease off with carrying much with that arm but otherwise do normal activity.

Turns out that glucosimine and the current formula are really an anti-inflammatory (slows your body survival system from attacking yourself) see Modernitis (Define) so sounds like this may help shut down these self degenerative actions that bring on cardiovascular attacks, heart complications, cancer etc.

There are many other supplements that help that too, but will get into those elsewhere, this is sore joint article, dealing with my light and glucosimine mixture.

Anyway, it works for me, and I feel guilty not telling you about it before, but was not sure where it fit in with diabetes, and after all this is a diabetes newspaper, but all us oldies have pains, and they are not necessary, so this may be a big help to several unaware.

If you have joint aches and pains, remember that is usually inflammation they say, telling you where it is going on, so wherever your aches and pains, inflammation caused joints etc., if it was me I would sure give this glucosomine a try, even my HyVee Grocer sells it, very common usage.  I take liquid, also available in dry tablets.

Now about the light, very hard to find, was sold on TV infomercials at one time as pain negating device.  I finally found one on the net (googled) after two months use the first one up and quit.  I got a refund but they had no more, found one on e-bay after month of looking for half price, and over time bought two more as spares, when they showed up on listings over the next six months. (you have to buy stuff on e-bay when someone lists one, not necessarily when you want it) Anyway, was taking no chances of not finding one when I needed it.

Now I find there is a Colorado firm that makes a similar one.

Here is what it says on the box of the one I have.  (3) one active for a years use and the other two as spares.

This may help you find one or contact me if need help in locating one.  Bio 7, Pain Therapist.

It has a battery pack available though I just plug mine in.  4 settings.  Do not use setting four, always use three or less.

Burned myself by accidentally being too sleepy and set it on 4, once in last year, and that burn is another whole dramatic story.

You would not believe how difficult it is to heal a quarter size skin burn when you are a diabetic.

Previously I had trouble healing leg and foot injuries (small sores from knicks like the trailer hitch run into etc.) but this was a hip burn.

Will talk about how you cure these later.  Read about a guy who spent six months hospitalization and over 100,000 dollars trying to heal a foot knick and wound up still having two toes amputated. That was when I started taking small injury as a serious hazard that can kill you.

A small knick can become a serious ulcer type long term injury, when you are diabetic......beware.

EDITORS UPDATE: Just read an article from the Toronto Star that says the Russians have developed a low level laser light system they call LILL , that they are using for healing purposes. Ten sessions heal diabetic sores that would not heal and previously would have resulted in leg amputations.

There were also using the "light therapy" to treat rotator cup injury.

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