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Bizzybee
11-06-2008, 06:23 PM
Anyone use or have used DMSO before? It was on the market years ago and was used widely for arthritis before it was pulled from the shelves. I remember seeing signs at the drug stores at the time telling folks to stock up it was going away.
I see it on the net now at some of the herbal stores, along with a list of disclaimers and statements to use as a solvent only.
Seems the FDA has taken a hard line on not allowing any kind of clinical tests to be performed. But have may have recently allowed some limited testing?
dragonfly
11-06-2008, 06:46 PM
I had a bottle of it sitting around for years and years, but I don't know if I even have it anymore. I remember the controversy, but don't remember specifically what it was over. Next time I go to the health food store, I'll try to remember and check it out.
Bizzybee
11-06-2008, 07:03 PM
Seems odd that there is very little in the way of bad implications out there. I found one reference to a death by allergic reaction, but even at that the implications were that other substances were involved and no investigation followed.
I could see the concern possibly that because it is a solvent and carrier that extreme caution should be used in handling. We wouldn't want to hear that Billy-Joe Jim-Bob was building sand castles out of rat poison and then decided to use DMSO without washing his hands first! :)
I dunno, I'm still digging................
mattoleriver
11-06-2008, 07:46 PM
I have a couple old bottles around the house. One is like a roll-on deodorant and the other is a gel. I'm pretty sure it came in a liquid also but I never bought any of that. I haven't checked recently but until a few years ago I could buy all I wanted at either of the feed stores that I shop at.
George
Bizzybee
11-06-2008, 07:54 PM
What did you use it for and what were your results?
Be VERY careful with DMSO. Anything dissolved in DMSO will pass through the skin and enter the bloodstream.
BEES4U
11-06-2008, 08:19 PM
DMSO was used on horses for joint and tendon pain.
When you see a DVM administer the DMSO to your horse that is "lame' and the hose can walk much better in a short period of time. It made the wheels start turning in the head to try it out on your self.
One side affect was an odd chemical taste in your mouth. But, people claimed to feel better.
Ernie
Tom G. Laury
11-06-2008, 08:36 PM
You old horse speaking from experience? I could probably use some myself
Bizzybee
11-06-2008, 08:38 PM
Yeah, it has the odor of garlic. From what I was told by a couple of people a long time ago, the taste and odor of garlic shows up in the mouth within seconds of the application. Those folks were using it to administer herbal remedies and not being applied for any kind of pain that I'm aware of.
Michael Bush
11-06-2008, 09:05 PM
>DMSO was used on horses for joint and tendon pain.
Is and for other things as well. It's used a lot in horses still.
>When you see a DVM administer the DMSO to your horse that is "lame' and the hose can walk much better in a short period of time.
Exactly.
magnet-man
11-07-2008, 07:12 AM
Be VERY careful with DMSO. Anything dissolved in DMSO will pass through the skin and enter the bloodstream.
Does that mean I can soak pizza in it and just rubb it on?:D
Bizzybee
11-07-2008, 07:18 AM
ROFL!!! :D:D
Don't forget the Root Beer!!!
Pizza without eating it? Doesn't sound like much fun to me :(
Just keep in mind, anything that you've come in contact that day will enter your bloodstream when you apply DMSO. Also, how sure are you that the DMSO that you are using is pure?
Very risky...
BEES4U
11-07-2008, 08:53 AM
Tom,
You old horse speaking from experience? I could probably use some myself.
Old horse, yes. Speaking from experience, no.
My Mom and Dad had used DMSO and it does leave that garlic taste in your mouth.
Ernie
Bizzybee
11-07-2008, 11:36 AM
Probably about as sure half the food I bring home from the grocery store won't have Salmonella or E. coli added in for good measure, Bobo :( But that's another whole discussion by itself...........
Bizzy
I only say this because I care. Food and drugs are regulated. They're supposed to be free of toxins and pathgens. The DMSO that people buy for Animal use aren't held to high standards, which is why the aren't labeled for human use.
Bizzybee
11-07-2008, 12:33 PM
I understand, but I don't think at this point any of it is labeled for human use.
That's an FDA issue and would wind up in a political discussion that would need to be carried over to the tailgater. Otherwise I would have to keep deleting my own posts until I eventually wind up banning myself! :D
mattoleriver
11-07-2008, 03:17 PM
Just an observation:
Some of this discussion seems to parallel the discussion of using oxalic acid in the hive.
George
Bizzybee
11-07-2008, 05:10 PM
Noticed that myself. The issue being neither carrying a seal of approval. But being very different compounds.
magnet-man
11-07-2008, 06:26 PM
Pizza without eating it? Doesn't sound like much fun to me :(
I just got a lap band and I have two more weeks of just liquids.:cry:
Michael Palmer
11-07-2008, 07:16 PM
DMSO...I remember stories from the 60s. The hippies sprayed DMSO/LSD on the doorknobs at Blue Meanie central, in Chicago. Don't know the outcome, or if the tale was myth or truth.
BEES4U
11-07-2008, 07:17 PM
Does your liquids include Mead & beer?
Ernie