Any drug store, big, small, super family sized to nearly driven by has them. Any grocery store, organic, overrated or convenient stacks them tall on the wall, heck Hank’s got em too at Wild Willie’s flea flickin flea market along the highway—over the counter pills that claim to take the wick-it-tee whack whack out of your legs, hands and back.
Nothing destroyed my uneducated completely erratic teenage attitude more than hearing Dr. Balltrush try to explain to Mom that her extremely active son had arthritis in both his knees. Not even fifteen and the medical world was set to silence my efforts of becoming the world’s first professional bowler from Billings, Montana.
While Earl Anthony continued to dominate the round rock into slender pins act, each effort presented on my behalf was listening to the doctor, “Take these tablets four at a time, four times a day.”
Even as a child it was extremely too easy not to grasp onto the rules. 4x4=16…to which I took the very second the sun peered over that crisp Montana horizon. Who has time to watch time? The doc in the box said 4 arthritis pills every four hours…what’s wrong with doing all 16 in one sitting? The one word I didn’t learn how to spell in the first grade was S.T.U.P.I.D.
According to Dr. Jason Theodosakis sixteen million American’s suffering from osteoarthritis shove aspirin and ibuprofen into their personal computer system six or more times a day and night. Added to the game plan are nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs or NSAID’s, which do nothing to treat the underlying condition. Even worse, new studies show NSAID’s tend to trigger a host of troublesome side effects including digestive problems and high blood pressure.
You’d think the bad news would end there…no wonder Dr. Ronald Mack of Wake Forest University screamed at me like a chicken who’d just seen a snake. One look at the cute little pills being shoved into the mind, body and soul and he became livid pushing me into a chair and warning me that NSAID’s, purchased over the counter aggravates arthritis by blocking key molecules that help draw much needed water into dry damaged joints.
Wait! Wait! Double click the mouse a few pages back and instantly you’ll discover written pieces that unveil the trail to which I keep—my family doctor was furious when he learned of me drinking 140 to 160 ounces of water a day. There were no signs of diabetes but he noticed the blood pressure was sharply climbing. Not even three weeks later I was waking up in a hospital room with two stints in my heart.
Is this what caused the heart to jump from Donna Summer, to Hootie and the Blowfish, then Green Day then back to Taylor Swift all within three seconds?
While the highly overpaid medical officials that obviously know more than me aren’t shy to blame this twist of fate on family history…I did mention in these computer papers that I would connect all the dots and take you with you. What family history? Nobody in the chapters before this current generation suffered from any type of heart condition! Welcome to this weeks edition of CSI Arroe. (song playing in the background John Denver’s Rocky Mountain High. I wanted The Who but CSI Miami grabbed it years before me. Dang it! Always a day late and a penny short!”
Dr. Theodosakis is a professor of medicine from the University of Arizona and through his efforts we’ve learned that glucosamine and chondroitin controls pain while boosting joint mobility plus helping to undo cartilage damage which is the hallmark of osteoarthritis.
World wide those who suffer with daily if not minute by minute pain in parts of their body that once gave them a happy life are learning how to live again. Sadly, these peace makers seem to be in an area of the store that come with absolutely no medical attention. Here we go again. The weight of your body is the key secret to these over the counter pain relievers working—106% of the time the printed rules and regulations that come inside every box are so tiny it does nothing more than take up room in the garbage can. Talk to a doctor first or you could be forking out a bunch of worthless money on a product that really doesn’t have an end result.
Other incredible natural tools to help take the stress out of your joints include antioxidants like Vitamin A, C and E plus Selenium which is rich in bioflavonoids., it makes collagen, a tough protein that your cartilage digs because it becomes stronger and less prone to inflammation. Bioflavonoid sources include green tea, berries, onions, citrus fruit and pitted fruit like cherries and plums.
As tough as it can be, regular exercise is another incredible step toward a peaceful today, tomorrow and next week. The goal is to locate an exercise that doesn’t trigger the pain. Don’t suddenly take up running because it lifts the level of your heart rate…ouch!
Another good idea is to befriend a chiropractor. Proper body mechanics makes incredible harmony. Allow yourself to have a biomechanical check up, it’s nothing more than lifting the hood of your car and making sure those pistons are delivering. The video tape documents how your body moves and whoa if you think its being done right, what until you see this puppy in motion.
Face the facts the Jonas Brothers aren’t the only one’s getting old—so are the Osmonds, Boyz II Men, The New Kids on the Block are now parents and one day Hannah Montana will be an extremely late night 30 minute sitcom on Nick at Night.
I got arthritis pain at an early age because I played hard and wild as a kid, jumping off houses and mountain cliffs in Montana…I was a walking talking Mountain Dew commercial before it became cool. Today, we painstakingly make our way into the fix it up store and pop a pill believing some relief is better than nothing—totally forgetting what its doing to the rest the body.
I am no doctor but I do know the end result of over the counter abuse.
Getting back to living…
arroecollins@clearchannel.com
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