On my tenth wedding anniversary, I had a fender bender – I stopped at a pedestrian crossing to let a women with children cross the road, and two cars hit me from behind. It did not seem terrible, no one called an ambulance or the police, but that day marked the beginning of radical changes in my life, and there was not festive dinner.😉
The impact strained my spine in several sections (cervical, thoracic, lumbar), as well as my right shoulder, which I learned about 6 months later after stopping painkillers and relaxants.
At first, I could hardly move my neck so I got a referral for lasers, currents and cryotherapy. After the second series of treatments, which did absolutely NOTHING, the doctor spread her hands, said that I had accelerated my aging by 10 years and she could no longer help me. Thank God for my friends who referred me to a physiotherapist!
Manual therapy unblocked my neck and increased the mobility of other sections of my spine. It took many months and after some time I reached a wall but at least there were some effects compared to lasers 🙂
The downside of this method was that it did not eliminate pain. After a few years, I decided that I would have to live with this until I died.
The damaged shoulder had significantly limited mobility, it clicked and hurt so much that in the worst periods I changed gears with my left hand. In the meantime, I also gave birth to a baby, and because I couldn’t lie on my right side, I had to feed it at night sitting down. A terrible experience. Not to mention that I had to carry it with one hand.
So I am permanently in pain, I struggle because of real limitations in caring for a newborn, I live with the awareness that medically speaking, there is nothing more that can be done for me except regular physiotherapy for the rest of my life, and then suddenly I learn that my joints have the ability to regenerate. Really, why didn’t anyone tell me that before??
So I start digging and searching and I find out that the joints need collagen and magnesium above all. So I look for collagen with magnesium in liquid form from Finclub and start drinking twice the recommended dose. I don’t think much about it when one day, after a month of supplementation, I suddenly realize that I slept on my right side!
Something that hadn’t happened for two years suddenly happened without me noticing it.
I examine the mobility of the joint – it is much better, does not click and does not shift when raising the arm above the head. In a word, SHOCKING, UNEXPECTED SUCCESS!
However, I didn’t like the composition of this Finclub collagen, packed with sugar and preservatives, and since I can’t find a comparable product with a better composition, I look for other solutions.
It turns out that collagen can be supplied quite naturally in the form of the so-called bone soup, and because it is an amino acid produced by humans, if you provide the body with the right form of sulfur (MSM), it will produce it on its own, in the best form (there are several of them) and will immediately start repairing itself.
It sounds like a fairy tale, but does my it now make sense that I constantly express my love for sulphur 🙂
This love began when I made ABC MSM syrup for my own needs, started drinking it to maintain the effect achieved by collagen supplementation and I felt better and better with each passing day. Because in this version of ABC I combined MSM with vitamin C in a 1:1 ratio to achieve the maximum bioactive and oxygenating effect, while the raw form of the syrup with honey made its bioavailability higher than any other available supplement.
After about 2 months, my shoulder stopped hurting completely, it never crunched again, and I was again able to feed my daughter in my sleep; I also didn’t have to parade around covered with blue tapes, or change gears, or try to cut vegetables with my left hand 🙂 When it comes to my shoulder – I regained full control!
As for the rest of the spine, it was much better, although the multi-level discopathy meant that the pain did not leave me, especially after exercising.
I started going to an osteopath and found another reason for happiness – osteopathy is a method related to physiotherapy, but it focuses on a slightly different task: to find a point of tension, relax it, leave it alone and give the body a chance to repair itself.
This method turned out to be really effective, and in addition, you go to the osteopath at most once a week, while in the case of physiotherapy I had to reserve several hours a day, e.g. for 10 days in a row in repeated cycles. I breathed a sigh of relief, I started to sleep better, the headaches disappeared.
Of course, my spine was still unstable, even if only slightly, and the pressure on the nerves and bulges were a constant nag, but I was no longer a slave to the physiotherapy clinic and I felt much better than I had ever felt since the accident.
I never returned to the shape I had before the accident, but after about 2 months of supplementation, the nourished shoulder was actually like new and did not deteriorate for several years, and I only visit the osteopath maybe 2 times a year.
That’s why we drink it at home every day, as a preventive measure, and when my wrists and knees start to hurt, I know that I’ve neglected myself and I need to replenish my sulfur reserves. Then I treat myself with a few tablespoons of MSM syrup a day and after two weeks I feel better.
With regular supplementation we also take advantage of the additional benefits of organic sulfur combined with vitamin C, i.e. nutrition of joints and vertebral discs, and thus rejuvenation of the entire osteoarticular system and prevention of degeneration, which – as it turns out – can be postponed to later old age. We cannot overlook the favorable side effects in the form of better oxygenation, greater respiratory efficiency during exercise, which is important especially for athletes, improved digestion, skin condition, sealing of mucous membranes (important especially for allergy sufferers), strengthening immunity… Given the fact that sulfur is present in every cell of the body, we can find dozens of diseases that are caused by its deficiency, so it is difficult to estimate how many ailments can be eliminated by a constant, daily supply, including improved digestion.
To sum up my story, after the accident I went through:
1. cryotherapy, magnets, currents, lasers, bells and whistles – completely ineffective, and I started opposing the idea of blowing a -10000000000 degree gas from a pipe onto my bare back. At the end I came to the treatments in a down jacket and eventually skipped the last few treatments :). Solux brought a relief from pain, but that’s probably it when it comes to these methods,
2. manual physiotherapy and exercises – within a few weeks they helped me regain neck mobility, unblocked the thoracic spine a bit, but were least helpful for the lumbar spine (I think pregnancy and breastfeeding did not help),
3. osteopathy – all in all, cheap, not burdensome, with good, long-term effects on the whole body.
However, for the shoulder with rotator cuff calcification, MSM supplementation brought the most effective and fastest relief – the fed body healed it so quickly that I couldn’t believe it.
It was only 4 months after the accident that I went to a real physiotherapist and it was 3 months too late, so the physiotherapy that followed had to deal with much greater calcifications and tensions than if I had started right after the neck brace was removed. I wore the stiff collar for a month and I also have a suspicion that it was too long, it weakened my muscles excessively, and my neck is long.
If I had such an accident today, I would IMMEDIATELY go to an osteopath and IMMEDIATELY take large doses of MSM and bone soup, trotters in jelly, etc. I would also definitely bathe every day in salts with a full spectrum of minerals (Kłodawa, pink) and necessarily with Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) to help relax my muscles and efficiently replenish magnesium deficiencies.
We laugh that ABC is the kind of syrup that grandparents buy for their grandchildren for immunity, and ABC MSM is the kind of syrup that grandchildren buy for their grandparents for their joints, but the truth is that if you do sports, sweat out minerals intensively, if you suffer from problems related to joint degeneration or want to avoid them – MSM is your best friend.
In this post, you will read about the ailments that can be alleviated by organic sulfur supplementation and in this one about MSM dosage.
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