[at-l] aches and pains

[stringdm@yahoo.com (Dawn Stringer)]

don't feel like an idiot.  that's how waterfall made me feel (on purpose, 
i'm sure) when i told her that i couldn't find any at the drugstore.
vitamin i is hikereese for ibuprofen.

belcher

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>From: "Billie H. Cleek" <cleek@csc.smsu.edu>
>To: Dawn Stringer <stringdm@yahoo.com>
>Cc: Sunny Riggs <gsriggs@mindspring.com>, AT-L@mailman.backcountry.net
>Subject: Re: [at-l] aches and pains
>Date: Thu, Jan 4, 2001, 11:43 PM
>

> 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"
>>
>>
>
> .
> n maintaining "hiking knees and hips"
>>
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