pain in joints--good news

[cdv_63701]

I wanted to share my discovery with you people so I hope this is the right place to put it.

Last summer I was walking about an hour every morning (I have a tape that ticks off a 15-minute mile). Then, all of a sudden, in August, I got a terrible pain in both knees. I had to stop walking and on some days it got so bad I could hardly stand up.

I went to 2 different doctors and even had an MRI done and the only thing they could come up with was arthritis. So they put me on some different medications--the last one being Vioxx.

Now for the good news. This June, my daughter told me about a friend who also suffered from pain in her joints. Her friend stopped using sweetner and the pain went away. I thought I'd try it. Sure enough, I cut the amount of Sweet-n-low that I use in half and started drinking more water instead of diet soda and I'm back to walking again!! I still have a little pain every once in a while but a tylenol or aspirin will take care of it.

I hope this was ok for me to post this message. I'm not a doctor or anything...just a teacher who is happy to be standing pain-free again. And I love taking a morning walk. It just seems to energize me for the rest of the day.

Carole

[tamarian]

Originally posted by cdv_63701

I hope this was ok for me to post this message. I'm not a doctor or anything...

Carole, if only doctors were allowed to voice their opinions here, they would have told us long ago, to shutdown, stop low-carbing, and join Weight Wtchers. :)

Thanks for sharing, and congrats on finding what ails you!

Wa'il

[Karen_Mc]

Carol, that is so interesting for me.

About last May, a friend of mine told me that diet drinks could cause join aches; and i have problems with the top of my feet. So I totally quit drinking any diet drinks. This was before the low carb life. I went to drinking straight Pepsi and Coke. BIG MISTAKE!! I gain about 15 pounds over the summer and that is what is coming off now. I can't wait until I can get to the weight I was in May and then be loosing 'old weight'. It is close.

I started back to drinking diet stuff and it is not hurting me now. But I may even cut it out too. I am loosing good and still drinking caffine in diet coke and diet Dr. Pepper.

Thanks for the confirmation on the connection between join ache and sweetners.

karen

[shelley]

I'm not sure about sweeteners but I do know that all carbonated beverages are very bad for your bones! Water is the best I think.