[at-l] aches and pains

[cleek@csc.smsu.edu (Billie H. Cleek)]

Ok, I'm scared to ask, and I'm sure I'll feel like an idiot, but what the
heck is vitamin I?


On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Dawn Stringer wrote:

> I fell down a mountain in '98 and ripped my right knee open.  I was sewed 
> up.  I felt fine.  The doctors said that I'd torn some of my
> tissue/muscle/ligament but it should heal up nicely without any adverse
> effects if i refrained from strenuous activity.
> 
> everything was fine, i had my stitches off (although I'd popped a few from
> climbing up and down the stairs in my apartment building), and i thought my
> knee was just fine.
> 
> then i started waking up in the middle of the night to shooting pains in my
> right knee.  it hurt to walk up and down stairs, and was always stiff in the
> morning.
> 
> a friend reccommended "Vitamin I," and I didn't know what that was
> (uproarious laughter from the seasoned hikers).  I went to the store looking
> for vitamin I, though I'd never heard of it.  (more laughter).  Instead of
> vitamin I, I found glucosamine.  I took that home, took it for a few weeks,
> and the aches and pains subsided.
> 
> I took it with me on the trail, but after I ran out of my first bottle, I
> didn't take any more.  My knee is just fine.
> 
> And that is my glucosamine story.  I will now sit back and watch as everyone
> makes fun of the smart-ass elitist thru-hiker (SAETH) for not knowing what
> vitamin I is.
> 
> belcher
> 
> 
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> From: "Sunny Riggs" <gsriggs@mindspring.com>
> To: <AT-L@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Subject: [at-l] aches and pains
> Date: Thu, Jan 4, 2001, 11:19 PM
> 
> 
> Does anyone know about the use of the "glucosamine chondroitin" (sp?)
> products out there for "joint health, tissue regeneration, etc" Some have
> told me it has helped them greatly in maintaining "hiking knees and hips"
> 
>