My biggest and most constant challenge/complaint is back pain. Our friend and ICU nurse Tog has passed on a solution for us, and it comes from her home country! Sounds like it would be worth a try!
http://elmoreoil.com.au/articles/new-extreme-sports-pain-relief-launched-in-the-usa/
I could use a truck load of this right now!
Hi Susan...I hear you on back pain... I had six lumbar surgeries between the ages of 22 and 32. Now my spine is fused from L2L3 + L5-S1 but have major degeneration at L1-L2 . I have facet arthritis at all
levels...last MRI said that damage is severe. AnD now my cervical damage has joined the game...2 spontaneous fusions from psoriatic spondylitis. And 3 or 4 degeneration (herniations) as well. My neck sounds like fire crackers when I turn my head. I cannot tilppt or tip my head in any direction. Thus no more driving. Now my SI area is severe if I stand for more than three minutes.... I couldn't read your article because the type was too small, even when I magnified it on my Kindle (I'm waiting for a new computer to be delivered) I just wanted to commiserate with you.
I Am sorry for describing my issues in such detail. You can delete it if you want. I was just wanting to tell you that I intimately understand the havoc that back pain can wreak in your life. Sending gentle hugs.
Hi Cynthia,
My heart goes out to you, girlfriend! If anyone has the right to complain, it's you! My degeneration has not yet reached this level, but I'll tell you, I have a new ratings on the '1-10' on the pain scale on a regular basis! The hips have gotten into a competition with the back too, right where the leg connects to the hip. It will be the next MRI, I'm sure!
Take good care of yourself, I think of you often!
Wishing you well,
SK
I have that same hip/leg/back pain . Seeing as I've had both hips replaced and this pain appeared after my hip surgery, I've come to the conclusion that it is my SI joint...and this was confirmed when my pain doc stuck his thumb into that spot Conn my spine and I shot across the room like I'd been launched.yep,... that's the spot! He was going to doN injection..but when I told him 'll other injections had failed, he decided to give me exercises...how ever when I got them home and looked at them, I found that they are all done on the floor. Well the last time I'd been on the floor was after I fell. I can't get down OR up.
SK said:
Hi Cynthia,
My heart goes out to you, girlfriend! If anyone has the right to complain, it's you! My degeneration has not yet reached this level, but I'll tell you, I have a new ratings on the '1-10' on the pain scale on a regular basis! The hips have gotten into a competition with the back too, right where the leg connects to the hip. It will be the next MRI, I'm sure!
Take good care of yourself, I think of you often!
Wishing you well,
SK
Yes, my SI joints are my hot spot too! Excruciating pain that never stops! My GP thinks I should have them surgically fused, and have the lumbar central canal stenosis surgically corrected, so much so he called me at 9:30 at night to tell me so when the results of the last MRIs were in. My Rheum is not yet a fan of this idea, and my Chiropractor can see both sides. They keep reminding me that surgery is NOT always a solution, until it is as bad as it can possibly get, and there are no other options!
I went through ALL of the pain management injections, and I know they help so many people, but here was the thing with me, first of all they could either never get me numb or wait for me to get numb and all of those needles into the spinal nerve root in the end, just made me worse, but I am thinking of retrying it. Desperation...
sounds like this may really work and not a scam?
Thanks.
It would be interesting. Heaven knows I get the pain in the same spots you were describing, I think. Low back, where the spine meets the hips. Then is creeps around the hips. I've had the joint pain get so bad that after a couple days, the skin is so sensitive to the touch, I can't even stand a t-shirt resting against it. Relief would be nice and oils do work.