Ankle Sprains

[Please_dont_ban_me]

Good luck trying to walk tommorrow morning.

[Leetonidas]

I sprained it hardcore in September. I still can't really move it much. It was so purple and gross...it's still bigger than my left ankle. It hurts very easily and I couldn't walk on it for a month...I'm not sure what class that was. It sucked badly though. It still does.

[Billy Cobham]

I in no way will claim to be an expert on this, but I can point out obvious problems with that website you posted, tlong.

First, dmso.org is obviously an advocacy site. Not that they're necessarily wrong, but you have to start with the presumption that they work with a bias. The fact that they go way overboard in claiming that DMSO works for just about everything makes it hard for me to believe them as a reference source. There are lots of well-done studies out there that were unable to show it doesn't have an effect, which conveniently they ignore. Believe me, if there was really that much overwhelming hard evidence, physicians would use it.

Second, the author of that information is a guy who, in the very first sentence, is tooting his own horn about how he was the father of DMSO 40 years ago. So clearly he has a vested interest (professional and perhaps financially) in making it sound like it's a wonder drug. He apparently has a good deal of stature at a very well respected medical facility, so he's not a quack, but that doens't mean he's right. Most importantly, he's a surgeon, and I'd be surprised if he had much experience with all of the non-surgical illnesses he claims DMSO works with.

That list of diseases he gives at the end is laughable. Some of those are some of the most complex and difficult autoimmune diseases to treat and people have tried tons of things looking for answers. If DMSO clearly worked, it would be used.

I'm not saying you're wrong or anything, but the possibility exists that DMSO does work and the reason it is not used is because it is so cheap. Drug companies would lose a lot of profits if this substance were allowed to be used in the mainstream American medical community.

[SpursWoman]

Ours should be here soon ... I'm guessing I'm going to have to go out and hurt myself to try it out.

[polandprzem]

Be a man play on it!!!!!!!

Well you are not a man you are still a kid Alvarez, so lie down, heal and do notr play as long as you can...

[ShoogarBear]

I'm not saying you're wrong or anything, but the possibility exists that DMSO does work and the reason it is not used is because it is so cheap. Drug companies would lose a lot of profits if this substance were allowed to be used in the mainstream American medical community.

Yes, it's true that it's hard to get things studied if there's not going to be a profit in it for Big Pharma.

That would explain why for sports injuries and the like, where there are lots of other options, there hasn't been a good study funded.

But for some of the serious rheumatological diseases listed, where there are no other options and lots of money for study available from places like the NIH, if there was anything worth pursuing regarding DMSO I think they would be looking into it.

[Kevin Trudeau]

Yes, it's true that it's hard to get things studied if there's not going to be a profit in it for Big Pharma.

That would explain why for sports injuries and the like, where there are lots of other options, there hasn't been a good study funded.

But for some of the serious rheumatological diseases listed, where there are no other options and lots of money for study available from places like the NIH, if there was anything worth pursuing regarding DMSO I think they would be looking into it.

False. The government and big Pharma want you sick, Period.

I'm blowing the whistle on this corruption.

[ShoogarBear]

So, Alvie, how's the ankle?

[E20]

Thank GOD! I have Cankles, no matter how hard I land or in what postion, my cankles never get hurt.

[Reginald Red Forman]

Ohh an ankle sprain, you sure you're going to live there daisy?
If I were you I would go to the hospital with a booboo like that.