MSM Good for Frozen Shoulder Pain
June 13, 2003
Ms Yan Yan Ho is a hotel worker.
On June 11, 2003, her friend Anita wrote:
Ho Yan Yan asked me to write you about her frozen shoulder pain at both shoulders and how she got relief from pain. She started her shoulder pain last October. She took 3 Glucosamine a day. In mid-January, she was on holiday and she went to Hong Kong. Her shoulder pain increased, she said probably she did not work and it was worst. So she took 6 Glucosamine a day, but it did not help her much. Her pain used to wake her up in the middle of the night. In May, she looked at the MSM catalogue and found that it can reduce inflammation. Therefore in mid-May she started taking one capsule each of MSM and Ester-C three times a day. For the first two weeks, her pain increased, even to the neck area. She looked at the MSM flyer again and noticed that she
may increase to six capsules a day if there is any special need. Therefore in the third week, she took two capsules each of MSM and Ester-C three times a day and her pain began to ease off. However in the middle of the night, her pain still
woke her up. So she took one more capsule each of MSM and Ester-C before going to bed (7 capsules a day) and she has no pain in the middle of the night. She had pain only when the weather was not good, i.e. if it rained, she had pain and if it was a sunny day, she had no pain. This morning, even though it rained heavily yet she had only little pain in her shoulder tendon. After doing some physiotherapeutic exercise, she has no pain at all. In addition to MSM, she takes one Reishi on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and 1 calcium (500mg) daily. Thank God that she is able to work again when she needs to go back to work on June 23.