I Gave Up 9 Things to Chronic Joint Pain. Changing One Thing Started Giving Some of Them Back.
Written by Carol Linden
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Let me save you two years of trying the wrong things.
My body decided to stop doing the things I loved before I did. Slowly, without announcement, until I had given up nine things that mattered to me.
I tried everything I could find. Nothing brought any of them back.
Then my daughter left a small jar on my kitchen counter and asked me to try it. I did. Some of those things have started coming back.
Below are ten reasons it was different from the things I had tried before.
Note: Read this before you give up on finding something that helps.
1. It actually felt like relief, not like nothing.
Every topical I had tried before had the same quality: something to apply and wait for that never came. The first time I applied this one, within a few minutes, I felt a warmth moving into the joint rather than sitting on the surface of the skin. I noted that something different was happening and waited to see if it would hold.
2. I knew it was working without having to guess.
The warming sensation was the signal I had been missing from every other product. With the others I had to wonder whether anything was reaching the joint. With this one I did not have to wonder. The sensation was the answer. Targeted and specific, the way a heating pad settles into sore muscle when the heat has finally reached it.
3. The pain reduced, not just masked.
Twenty minutes after the first application, my right knee stopped catching the way it had been when I went down the stairs. Not completely. But enough that I noticed the absence of it. I noted the time. I had not gone down a staircase without that catch in over a year.
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4. Bee venom and peppermint extract working together.
Two ingredients: bee venom, which has been used for centuries in topical pain relief and which has natural properties that support joint comfort, and peppermint extract, which is the source of the warming sensation I described in item 2. Together they create something different from anything I had tried before.
5. It works on the joints that matter most.
I have used it primarily on my knees and lower back. Since I started I have spoken with two women who use it on their hands for morning stiffness and one who uses it on her shoulder. The cream goes where the pain is. It does not require a single targeted site.
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6. I started doing things I had given up.
Last Tuesday morning I walked to the end of my street. I made it there and back without stopping. On Sunday I sat on the floor with my granddaughter for ten minutes. I needed help getting back up and my daughter gave it without making anything of it. I was on the floor with her. A year ago I had not been. The farmer's market is next on my list.
7. I sleep through the night again, mostly.
For most of the past two years I woke at 3am and stayed awake for an hour or more. Most nights now I do not. The qualifier matters. I am not claiming every night. Most nights is the accurate thing to say, and it is something I could not have said six months ago.
8. The jar lasts longer than I expected.
With daily use on my knees, one jar lasted five weeks. I calculated the cost per day and found it lower than I had expected. Less than my morning coffee. That calculation changed how I thought about ordering a second jar when the first ran low.
9. It is what my sister-in-law, who is a nurse, suggested I look into.
My sister-in-law had mentioned bee venom topicals to patients with joint pain. She was not making a clinical recommendation. She had seen people report good results and thought I might look into them at some point. When my daughter left the jar I knew enough to open it instead of leaving it on the counter for another week.
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10. The 60-day guarantee made it easy to try.
Sixty days to try it. Email them for a refund if it does not work. No product to ship back. I had spent more money than this on supplements that changed nothing. This was not a large bet, and the guarantee made it smaller. The risk was the time, not the money.
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There is still a hollow shape in my chair. I am not in it as much. I walked to the end of my street last Tuesday morning and the air was cold and good. I sat on the floor with my granddaughter on Sunday for ten minutes and I needed help getting up but I was on the floor with her, and a year ago I had not been. I have not started doing all nine things again. I have started doing some of them. The hope that I might do them again is what came back first.