Anonymous
Post 03/25/2024 17:35     Subject: Re:Epsom salts are *miraculous*
You have vitamin deficiencies- the salts are filled with magnesium and other things that enter t body through your skin.

You are welcome.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2024 17:31     Subject: Re:Epsom salts are *miraculous*
Anonymous wrote:I'm so jealous! I wish I had a bathtub. Alas, rent control, so I can't move. .
Glad you're feeling better.
you can get the foot soaker tub
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2024 17:26     Subject: Re:Epsom salts are *miraculous*
Anonymous wrote:I'm so jealous! I wish I had a bathtub. Alas, rent control, so I can't move. .
Glad you're feeling better.


PP, you can go to Berkeley Springs Park in WV for very hot bath for $27/half hour bring a friend for $17 and split in half? This is the first SPA...
The Rome bath is very hot, you can bring Epsom salt to add to the bath but the mineral is suppose to be good for pain!
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2024 17:17     Subject: Epsom salts are *miraculous*
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’ve had a lousy upper back - bad discs, bone spurs, and spondylitis - since my early 30s. When it began, I tried every drug and alternative and allopathic treatment on the planet short of surgery (three medications, antidepressants, myofascial release, dance, core strengthening, significant weight loss (75+ pounds), ergo assessments, Flexeril, endless NSAIDs, physical therapy – multiple rounds thereof – topical creams, lidocaine patches, deep-tissue massage, chiro, acupuncture, Alexander method, Pilates, yoga, tough cardio, weights…everything.

I gave up when my bank account ran dry. The pain still allowed me to keep working until recently, twenty years later. I began the merry-go-round again: PT, trigger point injections, THC, CBD, dry needling, you name it. Nothing worked. Work was agony. I could barely sleep.

Out of desperation I recently started throwing mass quantities of Epsom salts into my bath. Twenty minutes’ soak at the hottest temperature I can stand – and the pain is practically gone for 24-36 hours straight. I go through three cups a night. I’m med-free now. I can sleep through the night again, and work with only minor discomfort.

If your back pain sucks ass as bad as mine did, give it a try. I buy a cheap fifty-gallon barrel of Epsom every month.

If you use 3 cups a day x 30 days a month, it's a total of 5.625 gallons of epsom salt. Is this another weird troll?


Don't be a douche. Every time you can't understand something, you don't need to yell TROLL. I'd troll about something far more interesting, Mary Sue.

Oh Mary Sue, can't you read? There's a big difference between a 50 gallon drum and 5 gallons. Especially when you claim to bring said 50 gal. object into your home on a monthly basis.


And yet, somehow the rest of us understood the typo without having to be ass&s about it.

And yet, you are speaking for OP, who has not returned to explain. Who's the ass&s here?
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2024 16:08     Subject: Re:Epsom salts are *miraculous*
Last year I bought a 3 large epsom salt jars of lavender salt. I use it to soak my feet at night. It smells so good. Supposed to relax you before bedtime so the magnesium does it's job.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2024 15:46     Subject: Re:Epsom salts are *miraculous*
Anonymous wrote:Did you have nerve pain shooting down your leg from the disc issue? Did the salts help with that?


I didn't, no. It was just extreme tightness and pain extending from my thoracic spine out across my shoulder blades, especially on the right side (as I'm right-handed).
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2024 15:44     Subject: Re:Epsom salts are *miraculous*
Did you have nerve pain shooting down your leg from the disc issue? Did the salts help with that?
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2024 15:32     Subject: Epsom salts are *miraculous*
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’ve had a lousy upper back - bad discs, bone spurs, and spondylitis - since my early 30s. When it began, I tried every drug and alternative and allopathic treatment on the planet short of surgery (three medications, antidepressants, myofascial release, dance, core strengthening, significant weight loss (75+ pounds), ergo assessments, Flexeril, endless NSAIDs, physical therapy – multiple rounds thereof – topical creams, lidocaine patches, deep-tissue massage, chiro, acupuncture, Alexander method, Pilates, yoga, tough cardio, weights…everything.

I gave up when my bank account ran dry. The pain still allowed me to keep working until recently, twenty years later. I began the merry-go-round again: PT, trigger point injections, THC, CBD, dry needling, you name it. Nothing worked. Work was agony. I could barely sleep.

Out of desperation I recently started throwing mass quantities of Epsom salts into my bath. Twenty minutes’ soak at the hottest temperature I can stand – and the pain is practically gone for 24-36 hours straight. I go through three cups a night. I’m med-free now. I can sleep through the night again, and work with only minor discomfort.

If your back pain sucks ass as bad as mine did, give it a try. I buy a cheap fifty-gallon barrel of Epsom every month.

If you use 3 cups a day x 30 days a month, it's a total of 5.625 gallons of epsom salt. Is this another weird troll?


Don't be a douche. Every time you can't understand something, you don't need to yell TROLL. I'd troll about something far more interesting, Mary Sue.

Oh Mary Sue, can't you read? There's a big difference between a 50 gallon drum and 5 gallons. Especially when you claim to bring said 50 gal. object into your home on a monthly basis.


And yet, somehow the rest of us understood the typo without having to be ass&s about it.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2024 15:20     Subject: Epsom salts are *miraculous*
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’ve had a lousy upper back - bad discs, bone spurs, and spondylitis - since my early 30s. When it began, I tried every drug and alternative and allopathic treatment on the planet short of surgery (three medications, antidepressants, myofascial release, dance, core strengthening, significant weight loss (75+ pounds), ergo assessments, Flexeril, endless NSAIDs, physical therapy – multiple rounds thereof – topical creams, lidocaine patches, deep-tissue massage, chiro, acupuncture, Alexander method, Pilates, yoga, tough cardio, weights…everything.

I gave up when my bank account ran dry. The pain still allowed me to keep working until recently, twenty years later. I began the merry-go-round again: PT, trigger point injections, THC, CBD, dry needling, you name it. Nothing worked. Work was agony. I could barely sleep.

Out of desperation I recently started throwing mass quantities of Epsom salts into my bath. Twenty minutes’ soak at the hottest temperature I can stand – and the pain is practically gone for 24-36 hours straight. I go through three cups a night. I’m med-free now. I can sleep through the night again, and work with only minor discomfort.

If your back pain sucks ass as bad as mine did, give it a try. I buy a cheap fifty-gallon barrel of Epsom every month.

If you use 3 cups a day x 30 days a month, it's a total of 5.625 gallons of epsom salt. Is this another weird troll?


Don't be a douche. Every time you can't understand something, you don't need to yell TROLL. I'd troll about something far more interesting, Mary Sue.

Oh Mary Sue, can't you read? There's a big difference between a 50 gallon drum and 5 gallons. Especially when you claim to bring said 50 gal. object into your home on a monthly basis.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2024 15:17     Subject: Epsom salts are *miraculous*
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does it raise your blood pressure?


Nope.


I ask because DH and I drove out to Hot Springs a few years back and I felt like my BP rose, and I had never given BP a thought before that in my life.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2024 15:17     Subject: Epsom salts are *miraculous*
I’ll suggest this to dh! Thanks!
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2024 15:14     Subject: Re:Epsom salts are *miraculous*
I'm so jealous! I wish I had a bathtub. Alas, rent control, so I can't move. .
Glad you're feeling better.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2024 15:14     Subject: Epsom salts are *miraculous*
Amazon has 50 lb bags. I buy special feed for my horse from online places in 50 lb bags and I can lift it myself, despite back trouble.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2024 15:08     Subject: Epsom salts are *miraculous*
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP can you clarify the amount you use? How do you even get a 50 gallon drum delivered? I would think just moving around a drum like that would cause back pain.

Three cups per soak.

Amazon.

Husband.

If you're using that much salt, have you ever thought of having a salt water tub created instead? I don't have one, but a friend does and you just leave the water in the tub.


I rent. Can't install some other tub.


How do you even get that much delivered? Wouldn't it weigh like 500lbs? Forklift?


look, OP clearly made a typo. A 5 gallon bucket is a bit under 50lbs, amazon does not sell 50 gallon epsom salts, and the other person that did the volume math confirms that 3ish cups per soak would work out to about 5 Gallons per month. I would guess that OP is not spending $1000 a month on epsom salt, but $100 per month on directly absorbing magnesium seems to work for her.

Maybe OP can drop a link to her favored epsom salts.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2024 14:55     Subject: Epsom salts are *miraculous*
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP can you clarify the amount you use? How do you even get a 50 gallon drum delivered? I would think just moving around a drum like that would cause back pain.

Three cups per soak.

Amazon.

Husband.

If you're using that much salt, have you ever thought of having a salt water tub created instead? I don't have one, but a friend does and you just leave the water in the tub.


I rent. Can't install some other tub.


How do you even get that much delivered? Wouldn't it weigh like 500lbs? Forklift?