Posted by Karen on September 16, 2005 at 19:04:45:
I've been giving my husband the pure MSM crystals in water, increasing by 1 gram every week. He has on-again,off-again sore muscles in the back/shoulder up into the neck and frequent headaches when the muscles get really tight. He is up to 3 g./morning, and 2 g./afternoon. Yesterday into last night, the pain in his shoulder muscle/neck was intense and the headache, which was bearable, got worse at bedtime. He didn't sleep at all. Is this a classic detox? Is the MSM removing the lactic acid, causing the intense pain? Does a detox affect a person generally where they have had weakness? The detox that I had after several days on 1 g. was akin to flu, all-over achy, severe chills. Then two weeks later after an increase in dosage, a nasty pimple outbreak and severe irritability. Years ago I found that I have blood-sugar problems and get really irritable. So I'm careful about sugars. For me, I think the MSM was releasing stored sugars. But what about my husband... Should he stay at the 5 g./day? Go down for a day or two? He understands detox, but is very wary of experiencing another day like yesterday.
By the way, the MSM is slowly eliminating a spot of melasma above my lip. And 1 g. of MSM keeps my daughter from getting her almost daily summertime allergy headaches. ~ Karen