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Back Pain
For more than three decades, hairdresser Liz Miners has been standing on her feet for many hours five days a week cutting, styling, coloring, straightening, and waving the hair of her clients and listening to their problems. Eventually she developed a serious problem of her own, back pain.
Miners, 55, owns and operates Lizanne's Hairdressing Salon in Burlington, Ontario, southwest of Toronto. Five years ago she had to start reducing her workday because of the increasing pain.
"Two doctors told me I had degenerative arthritis from all the years of standing and I definitely had the pain to prove it," she says.
Miners says that her pain required her often to sit down between clients, "ooing and awing a bit," as she put it, and having clients wait until she could resume work.
"At the end of a long day, the pain would really bother me", she recalls. "In the morning, after a night's rest, it would be better but after standing for an hour or so in the salon it would start to get bad again. Work was becoming very difficult and I couldn't sit comfortably in die car when I drove home."
" Miners tried an anti-inflammatory drug but quit after a few days when it gave her an upset stomach. Subsequently she went for regular physical therapy and chiropractic treatments that gave her some relief but not enough to more than take the edge off the pain. She still had to rest between clients to prevent the pain from becoming more severe.
In l996, Miners heard about MSM and started taking one or two teaspoons a day.
"It gave me relief that no treatment or doctor had been able to give me," she says. "The pain began melting away within days and there was substantial relief within a week or ten days. In a couple of months, the pain was 85 percent gone……. But I wouldn't want to be without the MSM."
Fibromyalgia
Joyce Scott, of Arizona, was as good as dead for five years.
"I used to be the most active person you could imagine," she says. "I had raised five children, did aerobics, and made and sold dolls out of my home. One morning after I returned from a doll show, I couldn't get out of bed. I was beyond exhaustion. I could hardly move. It came out of nowhere."
What came out of nowhere is what doctors diagnosed as chronic fatigue and later as fibromyalgia.
"I started to hurt around the clock and after a while the pain would wake me up at night," she says. "It would migrate all over my body and be worse at one time in my knee or in my shoulder or left hip or lower back. I had constant headaches. It was as if my whole skeleton hurt from head to toe. Even my fingers hurt, some-times so bad that it took my breath away."
The sixty-two year old Scott says that her condition also affected her clarity of mind.
"I couldn't remember where the drinking glasses were in the house or how to drive to the bank and I have lived in the same place for more than twenty-five years. I stopped driving because of the mental confusion. If I had a good week friends would take me to play mahjong. Otherwise I was as good as dead for five years."
Scott took anti-depressants because she "didn't have a life any-more." But she says she couldn't take pain pills because they upset her stomach. During her ordeal, friends were constantly recommending different supplements for her to take, including MSM. "I am a very cautious person," she says. "I don't jump into everything. But I saw that a friend of mine with a candida problem had gotten relief-taking MSM so I decided to try some myself. That was July of 1998.1 didn't like the taste much, but things started to happen right away so I stuck with it."
Scott says she has had a rosacea condition and it started to clear up within days. Rosacea is a chronic red coloration affecting the skin of the nose, forehead, and cheeks. "That was the first thing," she continues.
"Then the energy started to kick in. During the second week I had one bad day but I felt I was getting better, and by the third week I had so much more energy. The pain started gradually going away, and after three weeks there was considerable relief. Now, a month and a half later, I am pain-free most of the time. That's why I call MSM my gift from God." "I have a pool that is thirty steps down from my house. I have been in that pool more in the month and a half since I started taking MSM than during the previous five years. I can go up and down the steps with ease and go up the hill now to get my mail. I couldn't do that before. I'm driving again, and I'm living again. Now I feel good enough so that I am about to re launch my doll business, which has been on hold for five years. Scott says she started with a half teaspoon of MSM crystals with water in the morning and evening and then slowly built up to three teaspoons twice a day. As a result of feeling better she has started to reduce the amount of the supplement she takes.
Knee pain
Robert Taylor of Southern California is 78 years old and had been having a lot of trouble and pain in his knees. He had already been to his doctor several times to have fluid drained off both knees. He had also been trying some different drugs to help him with the pain, to no avail. His wife Lois had been taking MSM capsules for a time and had experienced great results. Without telling her he decided to try the MSM himself, and started taking two 750 mg. capsules twice a day. He was skeptical, but after about a month and a half he admitted he had been taking Lois' MSM and "all the pain in his knees was gone." He is now increasing the dose to try to help his back pain!
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