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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My Gracie is somewhere around 10 years old (rescue, best
guess) and is a 60 pound hunk of Basset who has arthritis. I’ve
only had her since May, and her arthritis really started being a problem once
the weather cooled off. Started her off on coated baby aspirin twice a
day, which helped a lot, but didn’t want to keep her on it because of the
possible stomach problems aspirin can cause. Not crazy about using any
kind of prescription medications if there’s any other option available
because of side effects, and didn’t want to go to Glucosamine because it
works very slowly, and we needed something to make it better now, not
later. My family is big into alternative medicine, so I did some research
and decided to try MSM (short for an unpronounceable chemical name), which is a
sulphur compound that is highly recommended for joint pain and arthritis (there
are no known side effects), and it is working great!! It started working
immediately and we’ve totally stopped the aspirin, I give her one 1000 mg
MSM capsule once a day, it works for 24 hours. If needed I’d feel
comfortable giving her a capsule twice a day, but it hasn’t been
necessary so far. I bought Gracie’s MSM at a health food store, but
checked last week and you can get it at Wal-Mart, it’s with the
Glucosamine. In fact, they actually had a Glucosamine and MSM
combination, I’ll probably try that when we use up what we have. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:JanieHmkBold'>Anita, Gracie, Holly and the kitties</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:a.woodrum@sbcglobal.net">a.woodrum@sbcglobal.net</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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