DIMSO for joint pain?

Joan, I believe DMSO's primary value is as an epidermal penetrant. It will carry anything transdermally. Why one would want to do that with orange peel, I couldn't begin to guess. I was given a prescription, filled at a compounding pharmacy, for a topical pain ointment containing DMSO, anti-inflammatories, analgesics and anesthetics (for musculoskeletal pain due to my autoimmune diseases) that worked pretty well - mostly because it worked quickly. I gave some to my NCAA volleyball athlete daughter for her overworked/multi-injured knee and she got 'some' relief. It treats symptoms, not causes.

Of course, after my first (generous) course, the insurance co. denied any refills.

Personally, I'd give this come-on a pass. DMSO itself is very cheap.

Lisa

Finally, a question I know a lot about.

DMSO on it's own is an one of the best anti-inflammatories known.  It can carry any molecule into the body that has the right physical size but unable to normally go through because of negative polarity. So, you must apply it with gloved hands, and use a high grade formulation. You must be careful that nothing comes in contact with the area for 20 minutes(the penetration time)

It has a very long half life in the body and was found superior in one study to conventional treatment for arthritis.  However,and this is the really big however,  there has not been any study on long term effect in the body. It will be exuded from the body through skin, lungs, urine. You will have an "oyster" taste in your mouth for approximately 3 days. 

It originally was used in the lab as a cleaning agent and to lyse cells.

In 1960 it started being used on people and animals. Very few good quality studies have been done on it but there has been a great deal of anecdotal evidence but we don't know if it causes problems later.

Yeah, I remember back in the 70's or early 80's there was a big scandal about industrial grade DMSO being circulated for arthritis and it was pretty poisonous.  You need to be really careful where your DMSO comes from if you decide to use it.

Again, almost ANYTHING dissolved in it may pass into your body whether you want it to or not.  That includes so many "impurities." It's pretty scary stuff in the wrong hands.

Tina

Since many of you seem to know about chemicals , do any of you have advice on deoderants and what is safe since  the arm pit is so close to the breast and I wonder what actually causes those calcifications in the first place?...chemicals in deoderant?  I'm wanting to go for the source in my hope to avoid cancer from reoccuring.  arby

I didn't know anything about DIMSO's so this site is fabulous for information now I can read up on it and gain more informtion on it. My sister really wants me to start Ambertose by Mannotech.  We met a women in the London Cancer Clinic who uses it daily and she is on palliative care because her breast cancer Stge 11 turned into bone cancer five years ago they gave her two years to live.  She swears by the ambertose and she gets a small weekly dose of Docetaxil for her bone cancer. She looked really good her skin was glowing her weight was great and she said her blood counts were good.  So now I have to find out more about this Ambertose, it's apparently expensive 100.00 per month and I can't really afford it but if it ends up I have no choice becuase of my liver tumours I guess I'll try it.  But what I really wanted to write about was deodarant I bought Naturally Fresh deodarant roll on and made by TCCD International the reason I bought it was because it has the pink ribbon on it so it's been approved by the cancer society. It works okay but heavy sweating I still had to wash my pits and reapply, but now that it's cooler its working just fine.