| Arthritis is an umbrella term used to cover many types | | | | there is nothing that can be done about it, don’t |
| of pain and disease. It is a term many doctors use | | | | believe it. |
| when they don’t know what is wrong and they | | | | You may very well have some arthritis. Most people |
| don’t really want to check it out. | | | | over fifty do. If you have any doubts or concerns |
| For instance, several years ago my doctor told me I | | | | insist that the doctor run some tests. Stomp, scream, |
| had arthritis in my back and there was nothing that | | | | cry, whatever you have to do but get the tests. You |
| could be done about it. He gave me a prescription for | | | | have the right. |
| pain pills and said I just had to make the best of the | | | | Do some research. Find out what causes arthritis. |
| situation. He never did an x-ray or ran any other tests. | | | | Search for ways to alleviate the pain and reduce |
| Several months later I could barely get out of bed. I | | | | cartilage damage in the joints. Did you know that some |
| was 58 years old and felt at least 90. When I tried to | | | | of the pain medicine sometimes prescribed for arthritis |
| get out of a chair I fell into the campfire and blistered | | | | can actually cause more damage to joint cartilage |
| my arm. | | | | while relieving pain. |
| When the doctor saw my arm and I told him it | | | | Dr. Mark Stengler, N.D. says in his book, The Natural |
| didn’t even hurt when I fell in the fire he got a | | | | Physician’s Healing Therapies, “… there’s |
| worried look on his face and said “Maybe we | | | | evidence that NSAIDs and aspirin actually destroy |
| should see what’s going on there.” | | | | cartilage by suppressing the cells and enzymes that |
| Duh!!! I had so many pain pills in me I couldn’t feel | | | | should help to build it.” |
| anything except the excruciating pain in my back. | | | | There are nearly 100 types of arthritis and no one |
| He scheduled me for an MRI and guess what? It | | | | really knows exactly what causes it. Research |
| wasn’t arthritis after all. It was a tumor in my spinal | | | | suggests poor digestion, toxins and nutritional |
| column and I was very close to becoming paralyzed. | | | | deficiencies may be part of the problem. |
| A few years ago my favorite Uncle went to his | | | | I’ve found that herbs and nutritional supplements |
| doctor for back pain. His doctor said it was arthritis and | | | | help to relieve the pain and stiffness that goes with |
| there’s nothing we can do about it. Just take some | | | | arthritis. Since there are so many kinds of arthritis and |
| pain pills and live with it. Finally he got so bad my aunt | | | | because everyone’s body is different not every |
| took him to the emergency room. A new doctor | | | | herbal remedy will work all the time. For this reason I |
| looked at him and said, “My God. You’ve got | | | | take a variety of herbs and supplement every day. It |
| cancer. If you’d come in here six months ago we | | | | is rare that I need to take a pain pill. (Yes, I do have |
| could have helped you. There’s nothing we can do | | | | some serious arthritis. I just don’t take the doctors |
| now. You’re going to die.” He did. | | | | word for it anymore without tests to prove it.) |
| These things happened to me and to people in my | | | | Dr. Stengler recommends glucosamine for arthritis |
| family. They shouldn’t have happened. I hope you | | | | relief in his book. Glucosamine does not work |
| can forgive me if I’ve lost all faith in doctors. | | | | immediately because it must build up in your system. |
| Yes, I know they’re human, just like us. I know they | | | | Give it a week or two and it naturally relieves pain |
| get lazy, just like us. They get tired and bored and | | | | without damaging cartilage and has even been |
| overworked just like us. But if they’re going to be | | | | known to help rebuild cartilage.I like to use a |
| doctors and hold our lives and our loved ones lives in | | | | supplement that includes chondroitin and msm with |
| their hands, shouldn’t they be held to a little higher | | | | theglucosamine. |
| standard than the guy working on the assembly line at | | | | Boswella is a natural anti-inflammatory herb that works |
| the local manufacturing company? | | | | well with all arthritis. It does not accelerate cartilage |
| The message I’m trying to get out with this article is | | | | degeneration and works well with glucosamine. |
| that we all have to take responsibility for our health. | | | | Bromelain, feverfew, and tumeric are also good. Take |
| The doctors aren’t going to do it. When you leave | | | | them along with boswella and glucosamine and within |
| their office, their attention focuses on the next patient | | | | a few weeks you should notice a big difference in the |
| to walk in. | | | | way you feel. |
| When the doctor tells you that you have arthritis and | | | | |