Facebook reminded me that yesterday was my one year hysterversary. I still have mixed feelings about it, given all the complications that followed, but they're about 90% good feelings
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I think one of the benefits of cloves is finding pain relief while smelling of something other than Ben Gay. I don't know if you ever heard of DMSO. Many years ago it had been mentioned on 60 minutes and even though it was not strictly legal in the US it was obtainable across the border. My mother used it for a long time and the major side effect was having obscenely potent garlic breath. I mean light the side of the house on fire garlic breath. It was nauseating to even be around her during those years but it gave her some relief so we all bucked up and shut up. So for me, cloves breath for relief sounds like a decent trade off (grin). I am really heartened for you to hear that the therapy is beginning to show results!
I think my uncle used to buy it across a state border when he lived in Florida and he'd ship it up to my mom for years. She finally stopped using it when her body had grown used to it and it no longer gave her the same relief. It did take a long time for that to happen though.
Well, look at that. I had no idea it has gone on to be so widely used.
I think it had been used for many years to ease pain in the legs of racing horses and the jockeys had found that they absorbed it through their own skin when rubbing down the horses and found their own aches and pains being eased, too. That aspect of the story has been lost through the years but it was not all that important.
It helped my mother and she had severe, chronic bone and muscle pain.
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I am really heartened for you to hear that the therapy is beginning to show results!
Thanks, me too!
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https://www.google.com/search?q=DMSO&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Well, look at that. I had no idea it has gone on to be so widely used.
I think it had been used for many years to ease pain in the legs of racing horses and the jockeys had found that they absorbed it through their own skin when rubbing down the horses and found their own aches and pains being eased, too. That aspect of the story has been lost through the years but it was not all that important.
It helped my mother and she had severe, chronic bone and muscle pain.
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