Heal-N-Soothe

I read recently that the root of every disease is inflammation. So the natural reaction to pain caused by inflammation is to take something to stop inflammation from happening. When you read about prolotherapy though, the idea is get the body to inflame itself so that it has a chance to heal. So if imflammation is how the body heals itself, when is it too much inflammation that leads to disease? Are there different types of good/bad inflammation? I wish I was a doctor so I had all the answers to these kind of questions.

What I do know, is that I have been told to take NSAID's consistently by doctors for pain caused by inflammation. It first started when I tore a second disc under the one I had had surgery on already. I had just had a baby and I got my daughter's stroller stuck in a very heavy glass door while I was living in London. My first reaction was to pull on it because the right tire was stuck. I was in a sort of half twisted stance and within minutes I could feel this rush of hot liquid running down my right side and an instant back ache start coming on. I knew I had really messed up my back by my own impatience at getting the stroller stuck in the door. If I could ever take back a few minutes of my life, it would be those. We are talking 4 years later and I still haven't managed to get my pain under control from that incident.

So the daily pain set in and I started taking two ibuprofen in the morning. Then I started to need them at night too. Roll forward 2 years and I was having terrible ulcer pains. My doctor then decided to give me a seizure medication 'off label' called neurontin. This made my ulcer worse and after a few weeks I was feeling depressed and double over in stomach pain every time I ate something. I went off it cold turkey which was a frightening experience...never again! Read what you are prescribed and the side effects before you take anything.

I was in and pain and ready for a more natural product. I went back to the Lose the Back Pain website and bought the Heal-N-Soothe. Actually, I tried to buy it but they were all out. That seems to be the case with all of their products. Jesse Cannon must be doing very well! When I did receive the Heal-N-Soothe, it mentioned that you should not take this product if you have an ulcer. All of the information on the website did not mention this. It is advertised as a product to take because it won't give you an ulcer but I find even many months later, it still upsets my stomach. I decided to try something else based on Amazon reviews and I feel it works better for me. It is called Wobenzym M and it can be found at your local vitamin stores as well as Amazon. I do believe in the idea of systemic enzymes because, for me, they do seem to help relieve inflammation in my body. They have made it so I can stop taking any ibuprofen products and that is good for at least my stomach.

I am attaching my own pictures of Wobenzym N and Heal-N-Soothe so you can see these are products I have actually tried. I would not say that the systemic enzymes take care of all the pain but they do seem to help with some of the inflammation and make it so that I can stop taking ibuprofen products. I still take one tramadol a day in the morning but the rest of my day, the pain is controlled by taking different herb products. I will talk more in my next post about hormone testing (especially for women) and how you can try to correct some of the imbalances and control the inflammation in more natural ways.