Okay, this really works and it works well. I had to find an alternative to anti-inflammatory drugs due to the effect it was having on my kidneys.
I tried lots of things, some hear-say, some talked about, and some recommended. What I eventually tried was a combination of Cinnamon, Ginger Root and Turmeric Curcumin (all from relatively cheap Puritan's Pride Vitamin store online.
The combination was 1000 mg each twice daily with food. My pain had gotten to the point that I couldn't even lift my cup of coffee in the morning, I couldn't open an ordinary jar, and I went up and down my stairs as if I were 100 (not 57). My leg bones were hurting to the point I couldn't sleep. It was horrible and I had to stop taking pain killers, so I was really in a bad way.
After a day or two, I could feel all my aches subsiding and my joint swelling diminished some. After about 3 weeks, I was pain free, no swelling, no aches and I had my full strength back (I'm a fairly big guy and been known to lift a washing machine or dryer when we needed to move them, etc.). In fact, I started feeling so good I quit taking it and what a mistake. In a few weeks it was back to Mr. Crippled. I've started and stopped this a dozen or more times and 100% of the time I would get full relief after a few weeks of staying on it. Getting lazy and forgetful, I sometimes skipped one or more and thru this process I found that Cinnamon alone kept me pain free. However, I can't say that it alone could get me there.
If you have tried anything or everything and could not find something to work for you, try this. I'm no "green guy" that believes big oil is bad, that garden veggies are the only ones to eat, or that natural treatments are better than real ones! I'm just someone that had to find something else and this is it.
I also found that I could QUICK START my pain free mode by taking 2 Naproxen Sodium (Aleve tablets) twice a day for 1 day then following up with the full package of Cinnamon, Turmeric and Ginger and it would hold me in a good place.
Now I've been doing this for over a year and I'm finding that my symptoms have lessened. I don't know if this is a natural lessening of symptoms or if what I'm doing is changing it, but more than once I wondered has it finally gone from me.
I don't get much opportunity to check here for messages, but if you care to find me and write, just go to
www.streetglo.net and click on any link to send a Formmail to streetglo and that message will come to me. I would absolutely love to hear from you if you try this. It's something I wanted to share for a long time but never found the right way to share it. Maybe someone will see it here and be helped by it. I sure hope to hear how it works for you.
Thanks,
Bill