Hi Jane,
 > AF> I can feel for you but there is no cure for osteo (what is gone is
 > AF> gone) only relief or an artificial joint. If you can get harmless
 > AF> relief (whereby I would claim that anything which kills pain is
 > AF> not harmless or without side-effects) then go ahead. I personally
 > AF> know of no cure for osteoarthritis. Even if bone begins to grow
 > AF> again it would seem that the bone (body) does not seem to remember
 > AF> the original form and this thus usually ends up in a deformation.
 > AF> In this respect I would certainly like to be proven wrong.
 > We shall soon see what the Glucosamine does.  I will not have surgery.
 Personal experience is the best experience. Let us know how you
 progress. Just remember what I was implying when I said a few posts
 back that one can walk on one's own stubs by merely taking
 morphium. To my knowledge there is no cure for osteoarthritis and
 you are thus (IMOHO) faced with having to relieve the symptoms
 and remain mobile.
 > AF> > AF> Because you yourself are a sufferer it is understandable that 
ou
 > AF> > AF> place a greater accent on relief rather than on a cure..and even
 > AF> > AF> more understandable when an ailment such as osteoarthritis is 
ot
 > AF> > AF> curable. Nevertheless, this is not the way to go for the future,
 > AF> > AF> more effort (i.e. research funds) need to be pumped into
 > prevention
 > AF> > AF> and hence cure (prevention is the only cure) and thus into the
 > AF> > AF> causes of diseases and ailments.
 > Anything is curable if we understand it.
 Only the body can cure anything (and there is no medication known
 to mankind which can assist the body in this taskwithout producing
 serious side-effects).
 > That is the first step.
 The first step is to put more money into research on how to achieve
 health rather than in the mostly futile attempts to repair the damage
 caused by the way most of us live at present.
 Alan
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