My back hurts.

You're always such a delight.

Ice is often best for immediate, localised pain, especially a muscle injury. After a few days, if there's no swelling, you can alternate the ice with some heat. A topical medicated rub, like something meant for arthritic pain, should also bring you some temporary relief.

I don't want to live forever, either, but there's more to life than suffering.

 

Having 3 corrupted lower spinal discs as well as 3 neck vertabrae that are shot, I go though this every winter. In fact, I visit the doctor come first cold snap, and he writes a script and I am good to go! I find having a bottle of prescription pain killers in the medicine cabinet comes in handy!!
Daniel I know your pain, I wish you the best, and Happy Holidays!!

 

That really sucks D. Man, I am rethinking out Hawaii vacation. Merry Christmas to you. If you would like I will pray that your back would be healed or at least feel better.?

 

Swear to God*, I first thought you were going to complain about the Prius seats. :madgrin:

















* Or whatever deity you would like to swear to.

 

Maybe beer is your answer, then.

 

Oh good because I really want my family to see and feel paradise. I really enjoy the nearly two weeks I was there long time ago.

Well I probably won't pray for something (the poor, homelessness, etc) He already mentioned will be with us till the end of time [Mark 14:7]. But if you have a particular person or family in mind, I would be happy to.

 

DMSO Gel is very effective for reducing pain from muscle injury. Too high a concentration of DMSO can cause a skin rash, but I've found the gel form to be ok. I've run a 10K the day after twisting my ankle so badly that I could hardly walk. With DMSO, it was ok to run.

Strange as it may seem, high dose vitamin C reduces (perhaps the better term is prevents) pain. Real unbuffered ascorbic acid is the effective form, in as high a dose as you can tolerate. The game is to identify the dose required to neutralize the free radicals at the injury. Too little and it doesn't work, too much and you get, ah, GI track problems.

I remember Dr. Robert Cathcart explaining how he had taken 65 grams of C in the two hours after a half dozen stitch injury. Without the injury, his max was probably 10 grams or less.

You'll have to figure out the proper dosage yourself, based on your individual response to your situation. I certainly wouldn't start at 65 grams. I've treated a cold with a teaspoon of powdered ascorbic acid (about 3-4 grams) every 2 hours for a day. UMMV.

Back in 2003, Dr. Tom Levy gave a two hour presentation to Smart Life Forum on the clinical use of vitamin C. I don't think he mentioned pain relief, but he did cover an amazing range of effects that are not generally acknowledged. The presentation is available online at Thomas Levy, M.D. Vitamin C, Electrons, Toxins, and Disease Click on "part 1" and "part 2" to view the Quicktime videos.

 

Dr. Cathcart used to classify colds by the number of grams of vitamin C per day required to control them. As he said, nobody goes to the doctor with a 30 gram cold, but they do with a 60 gram cold. There are numerous studies that show that you can't cure a 30 gram cold with a half gram dose. Duh.

In the video referenced above, Dr. Levy talks about research and experience with higher dose treatment with vitamin C. He wrote a book that is filled with journal references to the positive effects of high dose vitamin C. Things like curing polio and keeping aids patients alive before the modern antivirals. One very important aspect is that vitamin C is a general antiviral that doesn't have to be customized for each virus.

The video is a snapshot of what Dr. Levy knew back in 2003. Since then he has done a lot with dental toxicity and cancer. His website is Dental Toxins, Dental Toxicity, Toxicity, Mercury Fillings, Root Canal, Periodontal Disease, Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin C, TomLevyMD.com - Welcome

Vitamin C and DMSO have a lot in common. They are cheap and effective. That just doesn't cut it in today's medical marketplace. To make it in today's profit oriented medicine, a substance has to be expensive enough to support a lobbying effort for it. The lobbying has to have "scientific evidence" behind it, which requires another whole army of people working on proving/disproving/comparing the substance with competing substances.

Another treatment you might consider for pain is a bowl of cherries. I don't have the link, but if you google "FDA cherries", I'm sure you can get to the actual research. It seems there is some university research showing that a cup of cherries is about as effective in reducing pain as an aspirin. When the cherry marketing board tried to link to the online research, the FDA came down hard on them. Apparently linking to university research qualifies as a medical claim, and anything making a medical claim has to be vetted by FDA procedures. So the FDA protected us all from the danger of knowing that cherries can help with pain.

 

Merry Christmas, Daniel.

 

Does Rob post anything else besides controversial homeopathic remedies? Lol

 

Ya know F8L, nothing cheers up a man in pain like pictures of Elves.
If one cosses your path again this year, snap a shot and share!!!

HoHoHo...

 

Actually, we've used large doses of Vitamin C here for everything from a cold (generally, we have it down to 3 days, total), to major inflammation - when DH ruptured his disc, both his doctor and the neurologist that he worked with approved "massive doses" of C to reduce inflammation.

Resources: DoctorYourself.com - Health, Naturally!
Orthomolecular News

 

Heavy drinking has solved all of my problems, or at least I no longer remember them