I am a HUGE believer in TENS units. Mine was not expensive and has done wonders. I also take Magnesium supplements to help with muscle health and pain. You can also do magnesium packs or epsom baths.
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I do epsom baths, take a book and soakā¦
I have found Voltaren really does help, but best of all our heated mattress pad. Put it on about 1/2 hr before bed and ahhhh.
I have found I sleep more soundly, and the pressure points in my hip and shoulder get some relief.
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I have a heated blanket, rather than a mattress pad, so I can kick it out from under me if I get too hot.
Voltaren emulgel is good for acute flareups. I like horse-strength MSM gel for more regular maintenance of a tendonitis flare (I have it in both elbows and both wrists) once the worst of the initial flareup is under control.
Epsom salt baths are the BEST though. I add essential oil too. Lavender for headaches or anxiety, peppermint for aches and pains, eucalyptus for cold or flu, etc.
I also have arthritis-strength icy gel (it absorbs better than mineral ice, but is equally as cooling) for summertime pains, and tiger balm or absorbine jr (the absorbine absorbs better, I find the tiger balm leaves a greasy film on my skin) for winter aches.
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For muscular pain I use Life Flo magnesium oil. A bottle is less than $10 and lasts quite a while.
Biofreeze if I have it, Aspercream if I donāt, and lately Iāve been hitting the DMSO again. It makes your breath STINK, so I only use it if I think Iāve really done something, but boy does it just burn the evil out!
And an essential oil called Armor ā pain instantly gone! Question, though: for all the products noted on this thread that knock out pain. Do they actually heal the issue thatās causing the pain?
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Trameel. They use it on the Grand Prix horses. If itās good enough for a million dollar horse, itās good enough for me. You can buy it at Health Food stores and on-line.
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I have arthritic joints, very arthritic thumbs and fingers, and am waiting on a knee replacement. Iām an ageing-not-so-gracefully overweight out of shape rider. Diclofenac (prescription Voltaren) was very pricy, and only worked until I moved one of my arthritic joints and then it stoped working. Now I use the Young Living Ortho-Ease massage oil. I add 2-3 drops of the Panaway with one pump of the Ortho-Ease and it keeps me pain free much longer than any of the prescription meds! Oil my knee, rub it around my hands, take a Robaxaet and Iām good to ride!
I reach into the tack trunk and grab the Absorbine Gelā¦ the same stuff I use on my horse. For me, it works better than Biofreeze or Voltaren gel.
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Teds Brain Science pain cream is something new and different-
and WORKS in a way that most other things have not for me. I have constant muscle pain from probably EDS
Iāve dealt with lower back pain for years and itās of course even worse after a day of riding. I use Absorbine Jr. for my lower back and also my hands which tend to tense up. Plus when you roll it on your skin before an outdoor ride, it keeps the gnats away. Itās my one stop shop and extremely affordable.
I just bought this from a dealer at a local Tack Swap/Sale.
It does help some with my bone-on-bone knees & knuckle joints & smells good.
Yesterday morning I torqued a shoulder shoveling muck & applied Recovery.
Today the shoulder is near 100% - for a late-60s muckraker that is a great outcome!
I am usually too frugal to spend as much as the small vial cost ($25) but after 2 weeks using liberally & almost daily on knees the bottle is still near full.
Iāve been plagued for a few weeks with elbow problems, which is totally new to me. I really donāt know what I did but I suspect itās just repetitive movement from when I was working at the barn mucking stalls, carrying water buckets etc.
My usual go-to creams, arnica gel, Voltaren and even PranarĆĀ“m aromalgic roller, are not working on this 
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I bought a āhot creamā from Amazon which is a blend of essential oils menthol etc., and a 1000 mg hemp-based cream with MSM, arnica among other things. If I religiously apply it 4 times a day (I alternate between the 2 creams) I find it works very well.
Iāll probably have to go see an orthopedic doctor at some point sigh
I have not read the thread :D, but has anyone tried āDry Needlesā? (google it ā it is not the same thing as acupuncture;.It worked great for me.
I am blessed to not have been bothered by much pain in my life BUT NOW, as age has caught up with me, my back has occasional flare-ups. I was hit with a sciatica attack about two yrs ago, and it was hell on earth. My dr. gave me oxy and it didnāt help at all, so she gave me muscle relaxers. That helped a lot, but I couldnāt drive. Now I do have occasional flares, actually, it is almost always a presence in my life. Not bad, just, āhello, Iām hereā, sort of thing. I had a friend give me some of the cannabis cream and it was amazing! I am still looking tho, I will keep this list as a good reference point.
Hi Larksmom,
I used to have flare-ups of sciatica.
When I discovered homeopathic combination remedies I ran into several labeled āSciaticaā. This was a few decades ago. I started taking them (it only takes one drop or pill in spite of the directions on the package, [by reading homeopathic literature and by my experience]) and these remedies worked for me, I would take a few drops during the flare ups, then stop taking the remedy when the pain stopped. There are several manufacturers with slightly different combinations. The first decade I had to use these remedies rather frequently as I would have a few flare-ups a year. Over the decades I would need fewer drops in a year, until lately when Iāve just needed one drop in the last three or so years.
DO NOT use these remedies all the time as a preventive. Use only during the flare-up and when the pain stops STOP TAKING THE REMEDY until the next flare up or the remedy will stop working at all.
I have MS, my muscles can get into spasms and I used to suffer a good bit before I ran into these remedies. Nothing my MDs gave me worked as well, and I do not suffer side effects with the homeopathic combination Sciatica remedies as I did with the doctor prescribed medicines.
If you drink coffee or do mint teas, candies or toothpaste, wait at least 10 minutes before taking the remedy.
These remedies are rather cheap (under $20.00 US) and, according to the volumes of homeopathic literature Iāve read, keep their potency for a long time. I still use some that I bought almost 30 years ago and they still work.
Jackie, thank you for your kind answer. But I am unsurprisingly, confused. Did you mean the CB oil? or other mixtures?
Hi Larksmom, the homeopathic remedies have nothing to do with CBD oil or other topical remedies, though they can be effective by skin application.
The homeopathic remedies go from low dilutions (like 6X) to high dilutions (like 30C to 200C) [the X dilution is 1/10th, the C dilution is 1/100th, the number in front of the X or C is how many times it was diluted and potentized by vigorous shaking.]
The low dilutions are for quicker results, the high dilutions for results that come from my body doing the healing work. All the ingredients in a homeopathic combination remedy go from a 1X dilution to a 200X dilution. I am not sure which particular homeopathic sciatica combination remedy worked the best for me (I have several), but I do know that sciatica used to bother me regularly, and that the flare ups persisted for weeks sometimes. Now, like I said earlier, I think my last flare up was around 3 years ago. I have other pains, but the sciatic pain has gone away and rarely returns.
The sciatica homeopathic combination remedies Iāve used go from the 3X to 6X dilutions, to one with 200X dilutions. They are usually in a water/alcohol base though some use little sugar pills to carry the remedies. I found most of them in health food stores. Each combination remedy has a list of symptoms for which it can work, and I pick the remedy according to how close my symptoms are to the list of symptoms. My symptoms and the symptom list do not have to agree completely, but at least one of my symptoms has to appear on the bottle/box.
One thing Iāve noticed is that when I feel less depressed or even happier after Iāve taken that one drop (or pill) that the remedy will work for me. This is also validated by what Iāve read in the homeopathic literature. The only times I take a second drop is if I start hurting again, and if a particular homeopathic combination remedy does not work after the third drop I take I just go to another of my 5 or 6 Sciatica remedies Iāve accumulated since 1993.
With homeopathic remedies the āuse by dateā is nowhere near as important as it is for regular medicines. I have combination remedies that are over 25 years old that still work. This means that in the long run these remedies are MUCH CHEAPER than regular over the counter or Doctor prescribed medicines, especially since I stop taking the remedy once it has worked. DO NOT take these remedies regularly or as a preventive; if you take too much of a remedy for too long a time it will quit working. With homeopathy less is more.
Just look for a homeopathic combination remedy that is called SCIATICA. There are some homeopathic combinations remedies labeled PAIN that include sciatica in the list of symptoms, these can also work for sciatica.
I hope these remedies can give you relief from sciatic pain.
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