I'm weighing up surgery on my thumb joints
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I have osteo arthritis of both thumb joints. I'm 70, still very active ( currently on a skiing holiday) and work full time in my business. My condition is getting increasingly painful. I get by with painkillers. I have seen a surgeon but I'm really concerned about the long recovery time.
Has anyone here had basal thumb surgery and if so would you mind describing...briefly...what the surgery and recovery like and any complication. I would be most grateful.
Cheers.
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Back to your original notification, this gelatin is it liquid or what?
Cheers
Peter
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The gelatin is granular...like jelly crystals.
There is a ton of info online....just Google " beef gelatin for osteoarthritis".
There are a lot of ways to take ....I prefer to mix it into a hot drink at bedtime..after 20 minutes I'm out to it and wake up not hungry and with minimal pain in my hands.
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ANy updates as to the progress with the Gelatin? I finally get my hard cast off on the 22nd of this month and then I will have a removable splint for four weeks as I start the hand exercises.....still some pain with the right hand...probably typing to much..trying to let it rest more for this final week.
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Judith, I'm 27 days now without pain killers...but whose counting...lol.
I'm not entirely pain free but it's totally maneageable . I'd say on a scale of 10 my pain levels are between 1-2.
10 is the pain level I used to experience without pain killers.
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Unfortunately after around 3 weeks using the gelatin, I can report no effect at all on my left thumb it is still as sore as ever, so unfortunately it does not appear to be working for me. Worth a try though. As far as the right one, I am full on doing exercises and weening off the splint. My therapist wants me to be able to touch the tip of my little finger with the tip of my thumb, that is a going to be a challenge as the closest I can get at present is around a cm away. He also has me using a square piece of sponge squeezing it to make a fist, that is relatively pain free, he reckons in 3 months I wont know myself, let me tell you that cannot come quick enough.
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My 27 days without painkillers were due to Gelatin not collagen.
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yeah maybe that is why it is not working. I would have expected the joint formular to be better, It is from the same manufacturer after all. Might be time to change to the beef Gelatin, nothing to lose but a painful thumb hey.
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Yep, I found out about the Joint benefits of gelatin by accident Peter. I originally bought it for gut health. Then I began researching it and lo and behold I found all these articles about how gelatin could ease arthritis pain and by the fourth day I found the pain in my hands was dramatically reduced by 80%. It was quite a surprise to me.
Totally agree that it's worth trying. All the reports I read stated that the effects kicked in fairly quickly and that was my experience.
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Thanks Peter, I will try the local distributor tomorrow, pretty sure that they have the green pack.
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Yes Peter that's the one
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Judith, I'll send you a PM with the link. What country do you live in?
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