[at-l] aches and pains

[orangebug74@yahoo.com (Orange Bug)]

Ibuprofen.

Bill...

BTW - This is just an athletic jargon. Not too different from Vit X
(Xanax) in my business. One of my favorites from Beetlejuice "Don't
worry about scaring my mother, she's sleeping with Prince Valium."

--- "Billie H. Cleek" <cleek@csc.smsu.edu> wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > ----------
> > 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"
> > 
> > 
> 
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