Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Thurston Ackerman:

-=> THURSTON ACKERMAN wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC> WC> My knee is badly messed up too but nothing compared to the back.

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 TA> Have either of you tried glucosamine with chondroitin yet?

 WC> Never heard of them. 

That makes two of you guys.  I've heard of them (in combination),  in some
radio ad,  though I can't remember the name of the product offhand.  I
suppose if I'd had a need I would've paid a lot closer attention...    :-)

 WC> Stopped going to doctors in 1995 because they never offered 
 WC> effective pain relief.

A good doctor is hard to find.

 WC> I take it these aren't painkillers but something to directly 
 WC> address the condition causing the pain?

I wish I could address that point...



 WC> I've saved this post to text and shall do some research on the 
 WC> drugs you mentioned.

I could be mistaken,  but I don't think that these are prescription drugs.



 WC> Is this stuff possibly available OTC?

Possibly.  I think so.  Ask your handy pharmacist?



 WC> it's because the driveway here though overgrown is actually
 WC> concrete but doesn't look it.

I hate it when that happens.

 WC> I've an acquaintance that's a prescription drug junkie who has just
 WC> recently admitted to his doctors what he's taking and they gave him
 WC> morphine sulfate!!! The guy is now COMPLAINING because while it
 WC> stops the pain he can't get high off his other drugs!

I got to the point way back where I decided that it was better to find
non-chemical means to seek those kinds of pleasures,  the cost was just way
too high.  But a lot of people just don't seem to see that.  It's amazing
that he could get that given the political climate surrounding such stuff
these days...

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