If you have ever used topical arthritis creams, you know how quickly it helps to soothe the arthritic pain and so you keep using them. Once you feel the familiar twinge of pain in the joints, out comes the arthritis cream. It looks like you may have to rethink your personal policy about using these arthritis creams.
New research results recently came out in the British Medical Journal, which show that the therapeutic effects of arthritis creams can no longer be felt after two weeks. That means the creams will no longer work after two weeks. The conclusion is clear: arthritis creams do not provide long-term relief; they merely mask symptoms.
In a way, you should sigh with relief over these findings. Now you will realise that you can use arthritis creams only for short-term relief, when you really need it: there will be times when you have to perform some tasks but the arthritic pain is just too much to bear; on such occasions, the instant relief brought by arthritis creams will be useful.
But for longer term relief, you’ll have to try something else. Medicines that merely attack the symptoms and deaden the pain can, in a way, do you more harm than good. Pain is a natural thing and should not be feared. Pain is the body’s natural way to signal you that there is something wrong, so that you can take action not to suppress the pain, but to try neutralising the cause of the pain.
When you feel pain and your body hurts, that is your body trying to communicate its condition to you. Now, it may be correct for you to apply topical arthritis creams (in the same manner that you take a prescription drug), to help you get over a particularly painful spell so that you do not get immobilised by the pain. But it would be wrong for you to think that topical arthritis creams (or a prescription drug) will help you get rid of arthritis or the cause of the pain. Topical arthritis creams were never intended to be long-term treatment for arthritis.
Long Term Solution
To achieve a long-term solution, you must find ways to get rid of arthritis. Arthritis is another of those diseases we suffer that is caused mainly by the lifestyles we adopt. And because it is the result of a lifestyle choice, it can also be prevented or reversed by another lifestyle choice.
If you choose to alter your lifestyle, you can reverse arthritis. You will need to introduce radical changes into your dietary practices and to pursue a regimen that supplements your nutritional intake through superfoods like chlorella, spirulina, broccoli sprouts, and healthy oils (like omega-3 and glucosamine). Just as important, you will have to engage in regular physical exercise. It will not do for you to remain a couch potato: you must exercise. All the medical literature available will say that regular exercise helps cure the condition of arthritis and thus removes the pain that you feel.
Gout Treatment
If you have a gout attack, many doctors recommend oral doses of ibuprofen or naproxen, available in both prescription and nonprescription versions, or other anti-inflammatory drugs. If you are taking aspirin, your doctor may recommend that you stop it temporarily. Aspirin can slow the elimination of uric acid and make gout worse. But if you take a low dose of aspirin to prevent other problems such as a heart attack, check with your doctor before stopping it.
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