Joint pain or pectin?

[Bushman]

"It is the closest thing to a miracle that I have ever seen!"

Those were the exact words of my fishing buddy about how his wife has been cured of her shoulder, hip and knee joint pain. He went on to say that she had been getting cortisone shots every so often to help alleviate her joint discomfort. Then she got talking to some people and they recommended that she try some fruit pectin in a fruit juice mixture. Inside of two days she was pain free and has not needed a cortisone shot since.

The stuff that she uses is called Certo made by the makers of Sure Gel. It is a liquid fruit pectin used for thickening jams and jelly's. She mixes one package of the Certo (there are two packages per box) into a 64 ounce bottle of grape juice and drinks 6-8 ounces of the drink per day.

I tried it myself and while I don't have any joint pains, what could it hurt? It sweetens the drink a little and makes the juice ever so slightly thicker, but not noticeably. I put it in the Ocean Spray cranberry-grape 64 ounce drink instead of the all grape because the grape is pretty sweet already. The Certo is in the Jello section of most grocery stores and will only set you back $2.67 plus the juice which you are probably drinking anyway. That is way cheaper than a shot at the doctors office. Just thought I would pass that along for what it is worth.

[Hi Ball]

Bushman if it works for ya, it is a cheap fix for sure! Those shots at the doctor's office will set you back about $300 bucks a pop......:eek::rolleyes:
They are usually good for 2 to 4 weeks and it back to the doctor's once again.:( :rolleyes:

[Bushman]

I take good health pretty much for granted, but when I talk to other people I realize that lots of folks are hurting out there. I was visiting my aunt a week or so back and she has so much back pain that she goes in for an epidural every so often to kill the pain!

I don't know if this pectin stuff works or not, just what I hear from my buddy. There are some strange things that are beyond explanation. Sis is a GP MD and has watched operations done with acupuncture. She isn't going to recommend a cheap home remedy if she can get $300. for an office visit and a cortisone shot.

[ncboman]

I'd heard of it before but forgotten. Thanks for bringing it up.

I'll have a batch mixed up before the day's end. :)

[Bushman]

Let us know if it does anything for you. My buddy broke three ribs the third day up in Canada and that meant that I had to pull the fishing boat up myself. I found that I could pull better backing up than going forward. That is until something in the middle of my lower back said I shouldn't be doing that by myself. For two weeks there have been some twinges in the hinges when I woke up in the morning. I am about 32 ounces through my first bottle of this mixture and I have to say that my back doesn't hurt in the morning anymore. Now that might be just what an extra week has done, but it is more than a placebo effect.

[Sabre]

Let us know if it does anything for you. My buddy broke three ribs the third day up in Canada and that meant that I had to pull the fishing boat up myself. I found that I could pull better backing up than going forward. That is until something in the middle of my lower back said I shouldn't be doing that by myself. For two weeks there have been some twinges in the hinges when I woke up in the morning. I am about 32 ounces through my first bottle of this mixture and I have to say that my back doesn't hurt in the morning anymore. Now that might be just what an extra week has done, but it is more than a placebo effect.

What the heck, I'll give it a try. Severe rheumatoid arthritis runs in my family and it sure didn't skip me.

[ncboman]

I've been drinkin my 8 oz per day and my joints aren't hurting but these jobs I'm doin now sure are beating me down.

I wake up give slam out before I even start ... and I'm not even doin the hard work. :o

[Bushman]

You roofers earn your money out in that hot sun. I suppose you Southern guys are still too hung up over the Civil War to come north, but our high predicted temperature for tomorrow is 65 F. WI. probably isn't the best place to live, but this time of the year it sure isn't the worst either. All those Illinois cars and campers up here every weekend tells me so.

[ncboman]

the Civil War??? :confused:

could care less.

A high percentage of my customers are from NJ so it must not be so bad here. :D

[Bushman]

If I lived in NJ, I would go somewhere else too. Back in the early 90's when the company that I worked for consolidated to their plant in NJ, we had the option of moving or finding something else to do. We all found something else to do.

[ncboman]

There might be something to this stuff.

I've been doing 'some' manual labor the past week and I doan know, ... I doan hurt like I have in the past. :rolleyes:

[Hi Ball]

Hey Bushman I was in New Jersey for awhile years ago (fight) and I could not wait to get the hell out of DODGE!!! Yep, I do love that 55 to 75 degree weather but I guess I am just stuck here for now.

Now those TAXES in Wisconsin are enough to break most banks!!!:eek: My son when he lived up there, was paying almost 11,000 dollars more a year in taxes. My wife got a book on best places to live and retire for seniors citizens etc. it also had Wisconsin as one of the top 3 places with higher taxes.:eek: :D

I will also be trying out that home remedy on my body too! Lots of pain in the hands.....wonder why my wife says often. I hate to take those frigging pain pills, as the doctor (colon man) told me they mess up one's colon etc.:(

[Bushman]

Being a milk and cheese state, I once read that Wisconsin has more dairy cows than it has people and only us people pay the property taxes. It bites. I'm paying $2,547.44 just for my cabin up north and I hardly go there.

As a boxer you probably worked those hands over pretty good in training. Your joints just have so many miles in them and it pays to take care of them. I've got an elderly aunt who at one time weighed over 400 pounds! Now she can't figure out why her knees don't work so good anymore. My father-in-law was always a pretty athletic guy and was starting to feel some knee pain later in life. The doctor told him to knock off the racquet ball if he wanted to keep on being able to play golf. His cartilage was down to its last remaining miles. The cortisone shot is a lot like putting a piece of electrical tape over the warning light on your dashboard.

[ncboman]

2 1/2 weeks and this stuff is amazing.

only a glass a day and a BIG effect on me. :)

[Bushman]

I was talking to my cousin yesterday and she said that the red juices alone have been shown to contain some anti-inflammatory component. Joint inflammation is contributory to the pain I suspect. I'm mixing mine with cranberry juice now because it could use a bit of sweetening and the pectin does that. Barb's original recipe called for grape juice.

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

I started the "Pectin Program" yesterday. Will try to give weekly updates. I'm using cranberry as well.

Alan

[ncboman]

I'm gettin mine in regular dollarstore grapejuice.

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

I think pectin has a new convert. I wonder if you take it for a while and then stop if you revert to joint pain?

Alan

[Bushman]

For $2.67 a package enough for a gallon of juice, I'm not going to try to find out. I suppose that the stuff has some calories to it, but I should start thinking about bulking up for hibernating this winter anyway.

[ncboman]

128 oz to a gallon.

8oz a day comes to 16 days. :rolleyes:

Let's say the whole gallon mixture runs eight bucks. That's fifty cents a day. :eek:

maybe I should cut back to 4 oz a day. :rolleyes:

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

My rpoblem is that I usually drink about two days worth at a time.

Alan

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

I've still been keeping a jug of this stuff going in the frig. I stopped for a few days and the pain reminded me that it was in there. Sure seems to work still.

Alan

[Bushman]

Alan and others, I'm really glad that the "pectin program" seems to be working for you. This thread has had longer legs than I would have ever imagined that it would. I have taken feeling good pretty much for granted all my life and I am beginning to realize what a gift that it really is. Most of my ancestors make it well into their 90's so I think that genes have a lot to do with how well you hold up into later life. Not abusing yourself along the way counts for a bunch too I think.

Case in point, back when I was a kid in school doing summer jobs I had a job in a local packing house helping out in the shop. One day they needed a wall knocked down so they gave me a big air hammer and said to go to it. I was probably all of 150 pounds and that air hammer shook the dickens out of me. That one day and from then on both the middle fingers on each hand don't quite align with the other ones. It has not been a problem ever, but sure looks like a site where arthritis could get me. I had a doctor tell me that any time that you break a bone, it will be a likely spot where arthritis can start later in life.

[Hi Ball]

Bushman I am starting to believe that old saying about broken bones down the path of life, I have had several problems with my hands in the past but nothing I could not remedy with various acts, weather that be horse linement or hot water baths etc. ;)

However, lately the hands just don't want to cooperate like they used to and making a fist is almost impossible in the mornings nowdays. The doctor told me the last visit, that I had arthritis in both hands and several finger joints too. The majority of those breaks were hitting objects with my hands. I guess you could say, that if a person abuses their body, they will pay the Piper in the end and suffer the pain as well. :rolleyes: :eek:

[Mod 12]

I've got knee pain and thumb joint pain x 2. I'll give it a try and report back.

[Mod 12]

Well, I mixed up my first jug today and forgot how good grape juice is. I may do this in the evening with a hooker of vodka in the glass, as well.

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

I was on my feet for the last 7 hours most of it running up and down a football field with a bunch of middle schoolers (We won all four games incidentally!) and I really hope my pectin mix is helping me. Every bone, joint and muscle in my body aches right now. If the pectin treatment isn't killing some pain I would be in agony. Actually I've been hitting the pectin twice a day this week in anticipation of tonight. I think I'm going to get some Dr. Scholl's too!

Alan

[Mod 12]

After two weeks, two packages, and two bottles of juice, I see no improvment. As a matter of fact, my knees have been worse the past few days. I know I should lose some weight, too. :D

[Sabre]

I tried it for a couple weeks too and saw no effect. My right knee has gotten so bad it kept me from deer hunting about half the season this year. Probably about time for another operation. Had my left knee done a few years ago and by the time I finally went to see the Doc I couldn't even walk to the mailbox anymore without stopping to rest. Knee swelled up so big I had to wear sweat pants cuz it literally wouldn't fit in my jeans anymore.:eek:

[Bushman]

Wow Sabre, that sounds painful. I guess it is just for inflammation and I drink grape or cranberry juice anyway and if anything, this stuff sweetens up the cranberry juice so I like it better. I don't know if it is the pectin or just the dark fruit juice as that is supposed to help with inflammation all by itself. Knees are kind of complicated structures though and it is a wonder that more people don't have trouble with them. I see these football players getting hit and it is a wonder that they can even walk by the time that they are 40. It just depends on what is wrong with them to begin with. I see these guys get their ACL blown out and a year later they are back in the line up. Pretty amazing and the healing power of youth.

About three years ago I rolled over my right knee on a side hill and it swelled up to twice it's normal size by the next day. $70. for a knee brace was some of the best money that my insurance ever spent for me. To this day I still don't trust that interior medial ligament. I get off the beaten path pretty good when I'm hunting and I've come to realize that knees are really important for getting back to the truck. That knee brace goes on every trip with me now.

[Bushman]

For what ever reason, calories probably, I laid off the pectin and cranberry concoction for a couple of months this fall. I noticed that my joints were starting to crack more and my left thumb joint was aching and the pain wasn't going away after a couple of weeks. Arthritis I was thinking, but then when I was in the juice isle I thought what the heck did I have to lose? The reality of what I had to lose was my grip around a tree limb without an opposable thumb, so I brewed up a new batch of the Certo and cranberry. That was just two bottles ago and the joints don't crack and the thumb is back to acting like a thumb again. Now the only problem is the kid found out that he likes it too and he drinks the stuff like water. Cheap fix, but fixed none the less and while it might be all in my head, at least it isn't in my joints anymore.

[jamaini]

In any pain or injury contact to the doctor soon and don't make any kind of the delay otherwise
you will got the big one problem and have the much tension and pain in effected area...

[Lyndon]

I want to mention one thing that in a pain, we should not continue our workout..
The reason is that it can be cause of serious injury for your health..

[Lyndon]

I want to mention one thing that in a pain, we should not continue our workout..
The reason is that it can be cause of serious injury for your health..
any comment..
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