DMSO - liquid, gel, cream, or roll-on?

Maybe you should think a little bit before you consider DMSO before "the most evil of all" cortisone. DMSO is an industrial solvent used for cleaning floors. It dissolves almost anything. It is also absorbed into the skin quite readily, taking along anything on the skin with it. Cotisone is a catabolic (not anabolic) steroid produced by your adrenal glands. Its anti-inflammatory properties are well known, and its risks are accentuated prodigiously by mostly ignorant (not stupid) busybodies. Choosing DMSO over cortisone is usually a dumb mistake.

i found the ease of using the roll-on worthwhile

I had best results (near immediate relief from a decade long battle with PF) using the following:

clean the foot really well

roll on dmso

dust the area with crushed ibuprofen (industrial strength)

cover with saran wrap

unwrap and clean well after 60-90 minutes

skwilli

Did you have success with a particular injury because of a cortisone shot?

Is it common to use DMSO with other substances like ibuprofen?

Do you need to know the actual place of injury for a cortisone shot or can it be injected in a general area and help

Do you need to know the actual place of injury for a cortisone shot or can it be injected in a general area and help

Do you need to know the actual place of injury for a cortisone shot or can it be injected in a general area and help

Get a cortisone shot, you dilweed. You've wasted enough time. I had probably about 10 cortisone shots in my arches throughout my injury riddled college career and 1) they worked and 2) I had no problems with them in the following years. I also used dmso roll on for achilles problems.

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RE: DMSO stink 4/15/2005 12:21PM - in reply to Jason Bernstein Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

I've gone over this before on this site, but I'm glad to repeat it here.

In the late 70's early 80's I suffered from retro-calcaneous bursitis, achills tendinitis and other maladies. I was in australia at the time and had heard about DMSO. I got some from a health food store. t

That bottle warned that it was a cleaning agent. I have also used other types that were for vet. use. I crushed pure aspirin and mixed it with the DMSO into a paste. I was sure that the bowl I mixed it with was very clean. i also sterilized a spoon to crush it with. I applied it to the area and covered it with gauze. i then wrapped the area in saran wrap. On top of that i placed a clean, white ace bandage. The taste was very noticable in my mouth before I was done putting on the wrap. People told me that I smelled like garlic for days after the treatments. i would use it for 3-4 days, 2-3 x per day.

At this time, I was also getting blood work done on a regular basis by a friend who worked in a lab. She noticed my liver enzymes climbing dramatically and asked if I had started intravenous drug use. I'm not talking elevated, I'm talking off the charts. They have remained very high since that time, so much so that I have trouble with medicine for my cholesterol.

I also noticed at this time, that my eyesight which had always been 20-20 began to deteriorate. I became near-sited and got a prescription for glasses. I went from needing them for driving to needing them full-time in the space of 1.5 years. My eyeglass prescription was changed 4 times in 3 years. It has only been changed once since.(25 years)

Just an experiment of one, but it made me highly suspicious. In addition, the FDA pulled studies on DMSO after "rabbits, dogs and swine" showed lens failure. I remember my mom calling me a pig in slovak many times, but it shouldn't have caused an effect on my eyes. Maybe all the episodes of I Dream of Genie did that!

The skin in the area will get very dry after only 1 or 2 applications.

Tell you what...the stuff worked! I once badly turned my ankle during an easy run while peaking for Revco marathon. 6 days until the race and it was swollen and dark blue. could not walk on it! DMSO treatments on Monday, Tuesday light jog on wed, with treatments, and by friday I couldn't feel any trouble in the ankle. discoloration was gone race day am.

I'd still be careful. maybe get some blood work before using it and do your own experiment.

Plantar fascitis, peroneal tendinitis and 2 MPJ capsulitis over many years of running. Be informed that getting rid of the inflammation is only 1/2 the battle. I required properly made orthotics etc. to rectify the causes of repetitive injury.

As someone stated dmso will take anything that is on the skin where it is applied with it and saturate your foot to the bone within minutes. This means germs, as well as, what you mix with it.

I have used it on my hunting dogs with great success for snake bite swelling or any other type of swelling as in the joints.

Recently I incurred my first running injury and have been

at it three years. I got disgusted and started reserching dmso uses in animals and humans. I found alot of good reports and some not so good on using it in humans.

I choose to use it. My injury is in my calf, so i shaved my lower leg, scrubbed it with betadine, then washed the area with rubbing alcohol and sat a minute. I have found the best way to applie is by liquid in a spray bottle that was sterilized also. Use sreril gloves and rub alcohol on them just in case. Now I spray the affected area and I use the liquid 99.9% pure that I use on my hounds. After spraying it on I massage the spots that hurt for awhile..I let it stay on there ten minutes then I go wash it off with water first then antibacterial soap two or three times.

It's job has been done in probably five mins or less but so washing it off is a safety precaution so that nothing bad gets on the site and is taken into your body.

Your question was what form....the liquid works for me and I must note, they are dogs but we never clean our dogs at all before we spray it on them and have never seen anything but positive signs.

But considering the fact that dmso will have saturated the part of your body you spray it on within a minute I am not taking any chances on myself or any other human being.

The Russians have been using it for years on humans for arthritis, and other injuries.

Even here in the good ol USA it is the chemical that organs that are to be transplanted are kept in. Also there are several diseases that they will give paitents IV DMSO.

Do a search yourself on dmso and its uses in humans.

The worst side effect I have seen is the minute you spray it on your breath is going to smell something like garlic but worse. A buddy at work told me he can smell mine ten feet away and that it stinks. It last for hours and the wife won't sleep in the same bed with me now.

I have been applieing it like every twelve hours..and it kills my pain in ten or fifteen minutes and last about five hours or so.

It is an awesome anti-inflammatory agent but alot of controversy surrronds it in use on humans...yet they will do it at the hospital.

I suggest not running when the pain subsides from the DMSO, I myself am going to do it a week then try a short run but after the Dmso has worn off.

Good luck and brushing your teeth won't stop the smell and don't be suprised if you see smoke or a fog come off your body when you applie it. If there is really something bad that can happen to us by it short term use probably won't matter.

Like I said earlier I have been using it on my foxhounds for years and thought it was working but when i put it on my self I found out how good it actually is working.

I wouldn't mix anything with it unless you could get cortisone, though I have mixed things in it on dogs.

The reason being is dmso is already a very good antiinflammatory agent and it kills pain also....I know this for fact now.

DMSO is not a "cortisone" nor is it a steroid. Interesting that you are demeaing to others and unfortunately very ignorant about what you are commenting on.....

Don't do it

1) DMSO gets transformed in the body to dimethylsulfide which smells like satan's a$$ crack. It will come out of your pores and you'll stink. You'll be able to taste it in your mouth, which. The only way to kill the smell is washing in hydrogen peroxide which transforms it back to DMSO.

2) Many chemicals dissolve in DMSO, which can then pass through the skin, taking the other chemicals with them.

DMSO in and of itself will do NOTHING. It is supposed to work as a carrier to promote absorption of other substances into the body. Actually, it isn't supposed to work that way, it just does. It is not designed for human use on your body. That said, responses to cortizone are poor for bottom of the foot issues.

DMSO no no wrote:

Don't do it

1) DMSO gets transformed in the body to dimethylsulfide which smells like satan's a$$ crack. It will come out of your pores and you'll stink. You'll be able to taste it in your mouth, which. The only way to kill the smell is washing in hydrogen peroxide which transforms it back to DMSO.

2) Many chemicals dissolve in DMSO, which can then pass through the skin, taking the other chemicals with them.

^smart guy- and there aren't many of them here!

DMSO no no wrote:

Don't do it

1) DMSO gets transformed in the body to dimethylsulfide which smells like satan's a$$ crack. It will come out of your pores and you'll stink. You'll be able to taste it in your mouth, which. The only way to kill the smell is washing in hydrogen peroxide which transforms it back to DMSO.

2) Many chemicals dissolve in DMSO, which can then pass through the skin, taking the other chemicals with them.

^smart guy- and there aren't many of them here!

DMSO no no wrote:

Don't do it

1) DMSO gets transformed in the body to dimethylsulfide which smells like satan's a$$ crack. It will come out of your pores and you'll stink. You'll be able to taste it in your mouth, which. The only way to kill the smell is washing in hydrogen peroxide which transforms it back to DMSO.

2) Many chemicals dissolve in DMSO, which can then pass through the skin, taking the other chemicals with them.

^smart guy- and there aren't many of them here!

I prefer the gel with aloe vera. The liquid is messy, as you only need a little on the affected area. This form doesn't sting on application, at least not for me. Good for temporary inflammation relief, nothing else. Been using it for more than 30 years, off and on.