Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 22 Location: Los Angeles
She's In a Lot of Pain, And I Can't Help Her Posted: 11-06-03 11:59am
My mother has arthritis in 5 discs of her
lumbar vertebrae, (lower back), and
rheumatoid arthritis. It affects how she
walks, and basically her life is
controlled by her pain. She is very
strong, works four jobs, and takes care of
my teenage sister and her sick father. I
do all that I can to help, by running
errands for her or my sister. She takes
motrin, vicodin, and occasionaly flexeral.
But because she works in a hospital with
babys, she wont take her meds @ work, in
fear she might hurt one of them. Are
there supplements for this, that help the
pain. She suffers every minute, but is
to strong to say so. If anyone knows of
anything that may help, please get back to
me.
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manda panda
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 33 Location: New York State
Hi Posted: 11-13-03 02:23am
Rawkeze,
i used to have bursitis in both of my
shoulders, and sometimes even now I have
flare ups. Your mother's pain is probably
considrably more than my own, so I don't
know if this will help. I used to take
several capsules of citrus bioflavonoid
each day when I was suffering. It did
help some. A friend of mine suffered from
bursitis as well and recommended it to me.
He swears by it and says it's the only
reason he could keep working his
construction job. I looked in my herbal
remedies book and it's supposed to be a
natural anti-inflammatory. You can get it
at drug and health food stores, maybe even
at wal mart.
I think some herbal remedies work better
for some than others. I remember that
there were some other natural
anti-inflammatories listed in my book.
I'll do some more looking and let you know
what I find out. Hope this helps some.
Best wishes.
Manda panda
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rawkeze
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 22 Location: Los Angeles
Have U Tried Revil Posted: 11-13-03 11:25am
Hi, thank you for suggesting that, I will
try to find it this weekend. I also read
somewhere in here that revil is a good
supplement. Do you know anything about
this, or have u tried it? Thanks again
