collagen!!!

dinkidi

Hi all, I went to a health and beauty party last night. The woman that was running the party, has arthritis from her early 30's. Since working for this company she has been taking collagen in capsules and she now has no pain from her arthritis. She was unable to pick her hands up to brush her hair, her pain was severe. She was on loads of medication and steroid injections. Four weeks after taking collagen her pain had virtually disappeared. She now swears by these for any one who has any type of arthritis. My question is, has anyone on here tried this or know anything about this?? Many thanks Dinkidi xx

stickywicket

This was a new one on me although those of us with many years of arthritis under our belts are used to enduring everyone else's 'miracle cures' :roll: If you google 'arthritis collagen' you get some tabloid newspaper articles about how it's a cure and some other stuff about it causing arthritis. I ignored all that and went for the reliable Arthritis Research UK site. This is what they say.

http://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/arthritis-information/q-and-a/complementary-therapies-and-supplements/collagen-fo-arthritis.aspx

(If you can't be bothered clicking on the link - as I usually can't :oops: - there's no evidence that it works.)

elnafinn

Hi there

Yes, I have heard of collagen plus and tried it. Silly me! :roll: A lovely old man I did some caring for, swore by it for his arthritic knees, although he was practically housebound but he was in his nineties. He treated me to some pots of it. Very expensive and made no difference to me. This particular one was in powder form.

Did this lady you talked to, sell it?

Elna x

daffy2

As with all these things, including conventional treatments, we are all different in our responses. It may be that the collagen did work for this lady, it might be placebo, it might be coincidence - but it doesn't mean that the effect can be replicated in another person. A lady on the AC course I did last autumn had found that chondroitin/glucosamine had made a big difference to the pain and mobility in her hands, but two of us had found it of no use.

dinkidi

Hi I am very sceptical, and yes she did sell it but she also works for the NHS. I almost think its to good to be true and thought of how it could be placebo to. She does reckon who ever she has sold it to for those reasons have had the same affect. She lives in my village but all of what she was saying just seemed to good to be true. Hence why I came here to ask other peoples opinions and whether it had been tried by any one xx

wynnie

as the consultant said to me one time when i asked her about the margret hill alternate treatment for arthritis ,if there was really a wonder cure out there ,i wouldnt have a waiting room full of patients ,that was me told !!!!,id keep your money there isnt a wonder drug or alternate medicine out there or we would all know about it ,its maybe she is just one of the lucky ones whos arthritis went away ......wynnie

barbara12

There are so many things being bounded around..the only things I take now are my fish oils and calcium with vit D...must say I have tried loads of things in the past but nothing has worked x