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MSM : Testimonials

Arthritis Testimonials

Please note that testimonials are considered heresay by the FDA.  Please consider these examples as unusually beneficial results from taking MSM.

• Robert Culp Bounces Back from His Battle with Arthritis

  Actor, writer and director Robert Culp has played many roles in his life. It was a credit to his talent that few people saw the agony he battled daily in his fight with arthritis. Now, having found a way to manage the pain and return to a normal life, Culp is ready to talk about his recovery

  Always an active man, Culp used his talents to play action roles such as Kelly Robertson in “I Spy,” and FBI agent Bill Maxwell in the early 80’s series “The Greatest American Hero.” Little did he know the wear and tear he was putting on his body, or that one day he would have to pay.

  Culp’s arthritis struck him in all the places he had sustained injury when he was younger. “Whatever I had done to my body in my youth was coming back to haunt me,” he admits ruefully. He had broken toes without knowing how he had done it and repeatedly torn the cartilage in his knees playing tennis. In high school, after landing on his head and injuring his neck when his pole broke during a vault, Culp competed in a meet less than two weeks after the accident to letter in track. “I hope you enjoy your letter when you’re 40,” he remembers his doctor telling him after the meet.

  Although arthritis never brought his acting career to a complete halt, it did slow him down by becoming the main focus of his life. “I can not think of anything that affects my life more severely than my arthritis,” states Culp, looking back at a time before he had learned to manage his pain. Previous to taking dietary supplements the actor could not walk without a limp, and many times found himself unable to move without crouching forward. He was forced to wear extra wide shoes and cut holes into the false soles he would place inside them, allowing room for his swollen joints. “I would wear black shoes with a tuxedo,” said Culp. “”I couldn’t get my feet inside regular dress shoes.”

  Now, Robert Culp has his pain as well managed as his career. Culp has been using MSM, a sulfur-containing supplement that lessens inflammation and reduces pain, for over a year, and believes the results were dramatic. Stated Culp, “I walk like a normal person now.” Although he admits that his life is not pain-free, he feels he can manage it. He has a reoccurring role in the successful sitcom, “Everybody Loves Raymond,” and is working on the TV pilot, “Hold the Baby.” And the arthritis? “Although I never really let it get in the way of my professional life, I finally feel like I have it under control, something I never thought would be possible.”

• Betty suffers from severe arthritis all over her body and osteoporosis in her knees. In addition to her regular prescription medication, Betty used to take 6-8 extra strength painkillers per day. Since beginning to take Lignisul MSM the second week of December, 1999, Betty has discontinued her use of painkillers completely. She leads a very active life and claims, “although I am never free of pain, MSM has taken my severe pain down to an ache and there is a big difference between pain and an ache.”

• M. Scamahorn, Daytona Beach, Fla., gave MSM to her mother whom she described as an invalid, suffering from arthritis, constipation, muscle soreness and respiratory problems. By the third day, she reports, her mother was up and about. “She actually is back to her old, peppy self.,” she says.

• Sam Bungo, 46, of Frenchville, Pa., suffers from bursitis and arthritic symptoms in his knees and one shoulder. His knee problems, he says, are probably the result of joint damage from jogging. “A lot of times, I would have to go down the stairs very slowly in the mornings,” he says. Since he began using MSM almost a year ago he reports, “I have no trouble with my knees. However, the shoulder pain returns if I stop taking MSM for a few days.

• Katherine D., 38, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., has arthritis in her knees and spine, affecting the base of her neck and middle and lower back. After finding no relief in various pain medications, she tried Lignisul™ MSM capsules at a level of 12,000 milligrams a day. Katherine reports, “MSM is the first product to relieve my arthritis pain without side effects. Within a half hour of taking it I can feel the difference.” She also uses MSM in a cream preparation to ease sore joints and muscles.

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Fibromyalgia Testimonials

• I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia a little over a year ago. After taking all types of pain killers I discovered MSM. After one month I no longer have the pain and muscle spasms that I had so bad that I could not walk. I am off my pain pills and my celebrex. There is no doubt in my mind that MSM works. Vickie/GA
  Submitted by Vickie Crow

• Charlotte Callan, 72, of Burlington, Ontario, Canada, was diagnosed 10 years ago with polymyalgia rheumatica and fibromyalgia, diseases characterized by muscle pain and weakness. In 1995, she traveled to Portland, Ore., where Stanley Jacob, M.D., treated her with MSM, and she has continued to take it. “I was pretty close to being an invalid,” she says. “Now I do my washing, ironing, baking and cooking. MSM is a pretty marvelous, wonderful thing.”

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Pain & Inflammation Testimonials

• I have a herniated disk in my lower back that was causing constant pain for nearly two years. I experienced pins & needles and numbness in my right leg and was unable to stand for extended periods. I walked with a noticeable limp. Occasionally, I would experience muscle spasms, which would require prescription drugs and several days of bed rest to recover. Physical therapy and anti-inflammatories made very little difference. Within a week of discovering MSM, I was able to walk 2 miles without pain. Now, after 3 months, my pain level is dramatically reduced, and I no longer limp. I have walked over 4 miles on several occasions, and not had any muscle spasms since. I take 2500 mg each morning and evening.

• Having suffered for some 25 years with chronic back pain, after surviving a debilitating car accident, I have tried many pain relief methods. These included years of chiropractic treatment (which helped) as well as resorting to various drugs, at times. I would awaken many times during the night in pain, having to readjust my sleeping position. Since I began taking one capsule of Lignisul MSM on a regular basis, the pain in my back is non-existent! Absolutely gone, overnight. Not only that, the pain in my left knee resulting from a cartilage damaging ski injury has also disappeared. I used to limp down the stairs in the morning, now I don’t even think about sore knees. I can’t believe how good I feel.
  Submitted by L. Gerry

• Mark was accustomed to taking 1000 mg of ibuprofen or Motrin twice daily for his tendinitis. After taking Lignisul MSM for seven months, he no longer suffers from tightness in his legs and has discontinued the painkilling drugs.

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Pet Health Testimonials

• I use MSM as a natural anti-inflammatory product for the animals. There is nothing that works as well.
  Submitted by Ann Grell, JAG Ranch

• Two of the race horses were near their lifetime records in their second starts after being on 20 grams of MSM for just less than a month.
  Submitted by Dr. Ronald Reigel

• I saw a BIG difference in the horses receiving MSM. They are doing better overall and have fewer medical problems. The most impressive thing is how much better they are training.
  Submitted by Mike Fisher, experienced standardbred trainer

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