What are you doing for muscle pain??

What is everyone doing for muscle pain here??


One of the most foremost symptom when it all started was muscle pain.
Can anyone here suggest some thing good for muscle pain??
What are you all taking.

Am already taking curcumin,magnesium,B12,Glutho.


Any suggestions will be more then welcome

What type of magnesium are you taking? Different types are better at different things: www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/types-of-magnesium/

I have also used tonic water with quinine in it. It's really, really hard to overdose that way.

The Epsom salt soak could help, as it would allow the magnesium to be absorbed through the skin and into the muscles - that's if you can use them, if not, sometimes just a warm bath helps.


While the lymph nodes are an important part of our health/healing, to say that all pain is related to clogged lymph nodes is very short sighted - a broken bone would have it's own pain not due to lymph nodes, as does many other things. I do recommend lymph massage for detoxing, but I don't believe that all pain is due to this - be careful of what information you believe online. Reliable sources that can be checked out and backed up are a must!!

Thought I would chime in.

I have to agree with Traveler that you can't blame everything on the lymph nodes. I also have lumps everywhere but they are rarely in the areas that I have pain. They are primarily under the skin in my arms. If you push deep in some muscles you can feel some but they are rarely in an area where the pain starts.

Be aware that muscles pain radiates. Where you feel the is not always where it is coming from.

Chiro is definitely a money maker for the dr, but I also found it doesn't work. A friend in a support group once said that she didn't know about everyone else, but after going for chiro she would find that once she got to the parking lot the benefit is gone. That was the last time I paid $35 for a chiro visit because that was exactly true.

astroman hit it right on the head. Our muscles are in a constant fight or flight reaction and this cause them to not release. I describe as feeling like when you ring out a wet towel and have to keep squeezing to get the water out.

So I do have a couple of suggestions. They won't get at the route of the problem, but they may help.

First, if you can tolerate heat then take a man's size sock and fill it three quarters with rice. You tie a knot in it and then throw it into the microwave for 30 seconds or so. You don't want it too hot but after you've done it a few times you'll figure out how long is best for your rice sock. You can then use it as a "heating pad". I like it because I can wrap it around my neck and get the major muscle connections that cause headaches.

The second is get a tennis ball and place in the area where the pain starts. You can find this on a trigger point chart or a referred pain chart. I use it mainly for my shoulder blades and neck. I can place at my shoulder blade and sit back against it. This way you are using your body weight to apply pressure instead of trying to do it with your hands. You can also use a sock (and maybe put in two balls). This gives you more control over where the tennis ball is placed because they have a tendency to roll away if you move around.

One final comment on massages. I never found them to make me feel better at all. I went for many years and spent a lot of money. People would saying things like oh, a massage would be wonderful. My response was that it was the most excruciating experience ever. I'm not trying to discourage anyone, but it's not fun if you have major muscle pain. At the time I didn't know anything about detoxing so I would have a massage and she would tell me to drink plenty of water because toxins would be dumped into my blood stream and I needed to clear them out. What neither of us realized is that it's very unlikely that my kidneys and liver are functioning well enough to clear the toxins so they ended up going back into my muscles.

Sorry to be a downer, but i hope these ideas help a bit.

Everyone have a good day,
Kim

astroman said...
I save about $2000 a year that was previously spent on going to chiros.

Chiro is not a fix, and partial scam (not a total scam, it does some good )to keep you coming back.. Joints get mis-aligned because of tight imbalanced muscles. Chiro moves the joint, but will not address the tight damages muscles. Very few chiros will admit this fact, they would lose customers. Chiro only works, and stays, if you use other methods to fix damaged muscles like trigger point and myofacial or active release - and some younger chiros actually do this! (the older chiros are stubborn in their ways, mostly).

I have to respectfully disagree with that,Astro. It is not a scam. The chiro I go to does the Upper Cervical manipulations - which is adjusting the atlas (C1). In my early twenties, I went to physiotherapists, and 'regular' chiropractors...but never got relief. My mom had headaches most of her adult life ....and then found the Upper cervical chiropractor...and within a few treatments - headaches were gone. Once her adjustment was holding better, she only had to go monthly or every two months for a tune-up.

After her great results, I went to her chiropractor...and same thing...issues cleared up.
I know many, many people who have had the same results.

It is a gentle approach...no crunching, snapping, or pain.

And it's not expensive...I pay $40 and only go every two months. I have paid a lot more on physiotherapists..that didn't help, and in some cases hurt me. I went to 4 different ones...and each one had a different reason for my pain...and different therapies to address it.

What works for one, doesn't always work for another.

Okay, Astro...I see what you meant.

I will never ever let any Dr. twist and pull my head again. ever.

My husband went to a regular 'chiro' after his car accident...and this guy wanted him back three times a week...on the third adjustment, my husband got tremors in his body. He stopped going after that.
He would do the big bear hug/squeeze and crunch him...as well as the head turn/pull...

I know my chiro isn't trying to 'scam' - because many visits he says I don't need an adjustment after I've spent 10 minutes with him...and no payment is due.