Glucosamine
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On the advice of my sports medicine Dr. I took Spring Valley Glucosamine Chondroitin (2 triple strength tables, 1500 mg per day) for 3 months for hip bursitis and degenerative spine issues. It did not help at all :<(.
(Phoenix, Az)
01/05/2012
I have aggressively been strength training and cardio training in order to come back to my pre-marriage weight. I weighed 205 pounds when I got married, and now I weigh 245. I was an athletic male and never had knee pain. The other day I exercised rather vigorously. My knee froze up on me in the middle of the night and I expeirenced extraordinary pain the next morning. I immediately iced to reduce swelling and "up'ed" my supplements.
ONE THING is never the cure - the body functions as a cohesive system, therefore one cure doesn't always work.
- On an empty stomach I took 2 tablespoons of ACV (raw organic) 3 times daily.
- With a meal I took a multivitamin (whole food), vitamin C 1500mg(antioxidant, great for removing healed debris), glucosamine (the entire suggested amount per day, 3 capsules), triple magnesium complex(DV - this is important because magnesium gets depleted rather fast with injury or other healing pains), and finally siberian eleuthero (DV - this allowed me to muscle through the pain so I could keep my mobility)
- soaked in a hot bathtub with epsom salt for 30 minutes, when I got out I stretched all the muscles in my leg, slowly, easily.
- Then I massaged my leg in a way that forced blood to the affected area.
I suggest to everyone, to use a combination of things that you feel will work for YOUR body.
THIS WEBSITE ROCKS ;)
Magnesium Oil
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Magnesium Oil (Magnesium Chloride Brine) rubbed deeply into my increasingly painful shoulder & upper arm for about 5-10 minutes, reduced incapacitating pain 90%! Thanks to all who posted your experiences with bursitis improving with magnesium!
I had no Milk of Magnesia, but realized the Magnesium Oil in my cupboard massaged directly where it hurt might work even quicker. Almost immediately I began to get pain relief, so I just kept spraying on more, and massaging it in (including under the arm) until the pain largely disappeared. I plan to keep doing this daily. (Had it not worked, I would have added a little DMSO, but that was not necessary.) Recent slight Charlie Horses should have been my wake up call that I needed Magnesium.
I'm thanking God, Earthclinic, and all of you who share your knowledge! I trust this works for others!
(Las Cruces, NM)
12/05/2019
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(Pittsburgh, PA)
03/09/2023
Wow I am going to try this ASAP. I have been having MAJOR "itis" of some sort the past few months in BOTH my shoulders, my clavicles, my breastbone, etc. The reason I believe it to be BURSITIS is I read on this website that if you rub your arm and get red splotches that's a major sign. It's significantly worse on the right-hand side to the point where I get severe swelling under my arm pit. It just hurts and it's uncomfortable. I have been taking ACV, doing cold packs at night, trying to stretch it, etc and nothing seems to work so I have just been dealing with it. I have magnesium oil; I use it for Art Solbrigs solution for insomnia so I will DEFINITELY be rubbing some of this on my shoulders! I hope it works as quick and good as you say!
Hi Kristi,
You said you are using the mag oil as I suggested for sleep. Is it helping you to get to sleep and are you applying it to the areas I mentioned?
Thank you for the feedback!
Art
Manganese
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Manganese
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(Usa)
07/22/2018
A Tablespoon of ground cloves has 2 milligrams of manganese (98%DV). Cloves will make you very thirsty which orange juice is an excellent remedy for. Water just doesn't seem sufficient.
Damaged my knees with too much jogging years ago. Gelatin did not fix them. Whey powder? Nope. Calcium/magnesium/d3 pills gave severe lower back pain (an earlier post elsewhere) and did not help.
Kefir seems to be working finally! The knees used to make a frightening scraping feeling. Now it is more smooth, and a quiter crunchyness when I take the stairs. My lower back and hips are feeling improved, too.
I soaked in the tub with several drops (really too many, I was FREEZING! In a tub of hot water! ) of peppermint essential oil and baking soda/borax/epsom salt the other day, and after I got out I had no pain in my hips.
I'm thinking the pain is from poor diet and an abdominal infection/toxins, bv or an std. Oregano oil is antibacterial and milk of magnesia may be if it contains sodium hypochlorite (bleach). These have both relieved hip pain for people.
For bv I tried douching with plain water and putting a piece of peeled turmeric in my yoohoo after sex and so far no bv symptoms. I read douching can be bad so I was trying to find another way to control the problem while I try to persuade my man to try some remedies.
So! If you are experiencing hip pain you might try antibiotic/antifungal/antiviral measures. Or kefir :)
Keep the remedies coming!
Massage
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I have severe pain in my right arm. It began in the middle of the arm, feeling as if it was where the muscle or ligament attaches to the arm. It felt as if suddenly that was torn. The pain also appeared in the shoulder joint. It appeared suddenly, without any apparent reason. Pressure on the spot seemed to help. Also using therapies such as gentle touch.
However it began to spread. It felt as if different muscle areas would bunch up and become hard and painful. The pain would occur if moving the arm in one specific way or another, frequently associated with twisting the arm. For example, I could not reach behind my back to pull up my pants.
I discovered if I deeply massage the hardened area, it relieves the pain. It feels as if there might be fluid in the cells or the area which somehow gets massaged out, and then the muscle cells relax and pain goes away...at least for a while. Flexibility is then restored, at least for a while. It does not feel exactly like a cramp, though I suppose that is possible. However, it seems to me that the relaxed muscle or ligament or whatever areas then begin to atrophy, although I don't know if that is due to probable less use.
Range of motion is limited: I cannot raise that arm straight up in the air. I have been to the doctor, who sent me for xrays to see if the ligament is lifting from the bones. But I don't think it's just ligaments, because of the hardened areas that are larger sections of muscle tissue, and because deep massage to the painful portion removes the hardness and restores flexibility. If I slide the fingers of my left hand over the affected area of my upper right arm, I can feel the muscles lumped up and hard. Again, though: massage removes the hardness and restores flexibility. The pain is definitely associated with the hardened muscle or ligament or attachment.
However, the pain is sudden and excrutiating when moving in a suddenly "wrong" direction.
Also the problem is spreading, though still confined to the right arm. Plus I can feel the ligaments or whatever getting caught on the bone at the shoulder joint.
When this began to be an obvious problem, drinking 2 teaspoons of soda in juice of four lemons, allowed to foam, then added to 20 ounces of water, seemed to be helping. It actually tasted good. I drank it once a day. I stopped because the price of lemons skyrocketed and while it seemed to temporarily help and maybe be actually getting better, it seemed maybe I needed to take even more. Or that it wasn't really curing it, just slowing it down. Also I was about to have to go to the doctor, so I became discouraged and stopped the remedy.
The range of motion is greatly improved over what it was, mostly seeming as a result of deep massage. However, the problem is spreading to more of the arm. Also I've noticed that if I relax my arm at my side while sleeping on my back, there will be a painful accumulation of fluid in places like immediately next to the outside of the bone in the elbow joint. This pain can be removed by deeply and carefully massaging the affected area, which seems to remove the fluid along with the pain, and then movement is no longer painful, and so flexibility is restored to wherever the pain was.
It's difficult to research this because I have no idea what it really is, though bursitis sounded like a possibility. I am going to try the lemon/soda "cure" again, using even more lemons and soda, to see if that helps. If not, I am going to try some of the remedies for bursitis listed here.
If anyone has had a similar problem, or has ideas as to what might be causing this or what might help it, I'd be interested in hearing. Thanks
(York, UK)
08/05/2009
(Atlanta, Ga)
09/16/2012
Sound like I have the same exact thing! I went to a sport medicine clinic and their pre-diagnosis was bursitis, but still waiting for X-rays results. Anyway my description is identical to yours. I tried the massages, but like you've said, its temporary relief and the pain has spread. I'm going to start the ACV with molasses today & perhaps a pineapple, ginger, turmeric juice mix. Also, I'm going to take some liquid magnesium as well. All of these treatments have been list on this site. I'll let you know how it goes :)
(Nannup, Wa)
09/26/2012
Milk of Magnesia
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I took one teaspoon of MOM every 8 hours, and it worked so well. I also tried taking magnesium supplements, (chelated form) but the MOM worked far better.
Milk of Magnesia
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(Sarasota, Fl)
03/03/2016
Is this a diuretic? A laxative? I'm very sensitive to those as I'm a paraplegic and I can't take laxatives. Is there anyway to take a small dose? Sounds so promising.
(Tennessee)
03/03/2016
Dear Edye,
Milk of Magnesia does have a laxative effect and too much could cause diarrhea.
Transdermal magnesium therapy - applying Magnesium Oil (which isn't really an oil) to the skin is a way to get magnesium into the body bypassing the digestive system and allowing the body to get the needed magnesium without affecting the bowels. But, some people do report diarrhea from the use of magnesium oil on the skin.
Whichever way you decide to take magnesium, start slowly and see how it affects you.
Likely it would take a lot more Magnesium Oil to cause a laxative effect than just about any other method.
~Mama to Many~
Milk of Magnesia
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I'm 40 years old and a keen cyclist. I recently started up running and basically overcooked it too soon...and after seeing the physio, he told me that I had inflammation of a bursa, or bursitis as I have come to know it.
The damage was caused on a 17km run the monday before last and I tried everything, ice, ibuprofen, rest, turmeric for its anti-inflammatory properties. Now, I'm not saying these didn't have any effect - the ice was soothing, the Ibuprofen killed the pain (I needed full dosage) and I have every faith in turmeric but the Milk of Magnesia - I believe - has done the trick. I started taking MOM yesterday morning - 1 x10ml which I repeated twice more so I had 30ml. This morning I had 10ml and another 10ml this afternoon and the improvement is significant. The pain is bearable - I've had no painkillers since 4pm yesterday and the affected area no longers hurts as much to the touch as it did yesterday...I'd say by about 50% at least.
This could be down to a variety of factors but there was no progress being made before I had MOM and whilst I'm not out of the woods yet I have every faith that I'm getting there.
One other problem in England - MOM is very hard to get hold of due to EU legislation which says it contains too much sulphate! Old stocks are all that is available and most of those are found In Boots the Chemist.
There are side effects, - the laxative (and diuretic) properties have well, flushed me out and I am having intermittent headaches which I think is down to dehydration.
Either way, I'll report back when I get more of an idea...
(Clevedon, Uk)
10/27/2013
Okay, been away since Friday but can confirm that the following day I had the same dosage - 3 x 10ml totalling 30ml a day for two days and the pain was gone by Friday morning - 48 hours after first dose.
What has aggravated the situation is my young son - bless him - who likes nothing more than to pullme around when he doesn't like the plan! That and having to walk everywhere. But the pain has gone and I believe it's in large part down to MOM, despite the side effects.
Nice one Earth Clinic!
(Houston Texas)
04/19/2022
I'm glad you mentioned sulfates, sulfur got rid of a ganglia cyst I had. Same as bursitis, just on my wrist. I'm glad you mentioned it, because I have some in my medicine cabinet :) thanks
Milk of Magnesia
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Milk of Magnesia
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BETTER BUT WITH SIDE EFFECTS
sounds like a good thing! Buttt, . As I told my friend about all this she mentioned her constipation issues and I told her from what I read magnese (magnesium?) in vitamin form at certain levels are laxative effect also and she said that explained her all of a sudden regularity. And she asked about my vitamins. And I had read that iron may effect that as that is what I found in my multi vitamin. so I wont take that anytime soon.
So all I am saying is for people like myself coming across this information, .. Please be careful. My unaffected arm was shaking this morning because it may have dehydrated me. So I dont know how people could take 2 tblsp of this stuff twice a day! I dont have that much stuff to evacuate to begin with lol. If anyone has any info on what to replenish besides gatorade, . Or what to eat while doing such a thing I would love to hear about it. When I looked up gatorade and MOM I got nothing but what one would do before having a colonoscopy! But I have to say thumbs up because I havent felt this good in months!!
(Leominster)
07/18/2016
Take coconut water for dehydration
Milk of Magnesia
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(Venice, Louisiana/usa)
09/17/2011
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I tried the MOM because it was the easiest to obtain. I had immediate relief from hip bursitis from which I had suffered for a year or more. I had tried several things: light exercise and stretching (when I could), corisone shots, naproxan sodium, acetiminophen, rest... The MOM work immedately to relieve pain so I can returned to a better quality of life! Since I didn't need the laxative effect, I have had to cut back to 2 T. once a day, right after work. I am amazed at how well it works! Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing this!
(Viborg, Sd)
06/08/2012
I was just wondering if you are all still pain free after taking MOM I started taking it yesterday, and woke up this morning without pain.. It did return this afternoon but I have only been taking it for a little over 24 hours.. I am starting to get bursitis in both hips, I am very active and only 45, it has been going on for 4 months and the pain has been unbearable. I have seen two chiropractors and had one cortisone shot.. Nothing has helped. I am just hoping this is the answer to my prayers.. I would love to know if any of you that have been doing the MOM for bursitis in the hip are still pain free..
Milk of Magnesia
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Milk of Magnesia
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(Calgary, Alberta)
07/28/2011
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I have suffered with hip bersitus for almost 2 years now. I stumbled on this web site and started taking Milk of Magnesia yesterday in the pill form. I took 2 pills 3 times yesterday and I have taken 4 pills so far today. OMG! I can't believe the difference in that short time (better). It is really working for me. Thank you all so much for the relief of pain in the last 2 day! I will contuinue to take this for another few days and I am confident it will be totaly GONE!
Milk of Magnesia
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I used it and within 24 hours I was cured 90%. this was about 20 years ago and it has work for me and my friends, usually when I have bursitis immediately I take a tablespoon of milk of magnesium (I don't care that it will upset my stomach) and 1 teaspoon before I go to bed then for the next 3 days I take on teaspoon in the morning and another before I go to bed,after that I am 100% cured, this year I had to take it 3 times and always works, the only time that I have to go and see a Dr. was when I had the bursitis in my hips (2 times) mybe if I had waited long enough would had work but after a week of pain I had no choice.
One time I was on vacation and I had a bad sunburn since I only had milk of magnesium I used on my back and I was able to sleep.
Your web site is wonderful, I am addicted to it. For the last 3 months I had been doing the oil pulling and ACV, thanks to everybody for their feedback.
(Huntington Beach, California, Usa)
05/15/2012
(Socal, Ca Usa)
06/13/2012
(Latin America)
11/12/2017
Does anybody knows what would happen if instead of taking 1 table/teaspoon of MOM twice a day, only 1 is taken for several days? Would it still work?
I took two tablespoons yesterday, and 1 tablespoon the day before, but it seemed to be too much for my stomach, plus the bursitis is not much better.
Multiple Remedies
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