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Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)
After 12 years I have now come off HRT. I have started to notice my hands changing shape and stiffening. Can you suggest something to help prevent this?
I am going to recommend you try a very unusual product, which has produced such an impressive body of empirical evidence - i.e. practitioners and patients who all swear it works - that it is now being officially recommended as a natural painkiller by the Canadian Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) Society. RSD is the name given to a type of nerve pain in which the pain is accompanies by changes to the surrounding blood flow and tissue.
I say unusual because this remedy was first developed as an udder cream to treat mastitis in dairy cows. Do not ask me who had the bright idea of trying it out on humans but someone made the leap and you can now try it too.
The cream, which is called Dynamint, is now also being used by sports men and women as a muscle balm for warming up and cooling down stretched muscles. It contains soothing peppermint, calendula, tea-tree and eucalyptus oils and is now available in the UK from a Preston-based company called Marabo (01772-627 200) or visit the website on www.marabo.com.