You can get Boron tabs on Amazon, Walmart or at your local drug store. I personally like the Boron Complex (Boron citrate, boron aspartate and boron glycinate) put out by Horbaach but I started off with just the citrate. The recommended dosage goes from 3-6mg a day but as a very active person in the bodybuilding arena, I take 12-15. 21mg is the maximum that should ever be taken but I wouldn’t recommend going near the maximum. For your use, I don’t really know how long it might take to notice any difference but for me, it took about a week and I noticed that my workouts were more productive and I didn’t have the digestive problems any longer that are associated with creatine intake and my recovery time wasn’t filled with a lot of muscle pain from repetitious lifting. Dunno but you might find that after a couple of weeks into taking it, your ability to think clearly and quickly might amp up and if it was for that purpose only, I would still be taking it. You might also find that your urine will be clearer because you’re not peeing out so many electrolytes. Just a note: Because of my own supplemental intake, I take 4000 iu’s of D3 a day. Seniors should always take supplemental D3.
When I told my VA doctor, after getting a cortisone injection in each shoulder, that the injection in the right shoulder was working, but not in the left shoulder. He will be giving me one more cortisone injection in December in each shoulder. The injection only lasts approx. three months. After that, if the injection in the left shoulder doesn't work (again), he will have an x-ray or MRI done on the left shoulder to really see what is happening and then go from there. Both rotator cuff surgeries were done by two different surgeons that are not with the VA.
Possibly as a “sub” to this thread and many others is the issue of “noticing the difference”. When I peruse through Amazon for supplements and read the reviews, I will inevitably come across a review that says, I didn’t notice any difference” thereby telling others that the product doesn’t do anything. The truth is, no matter what we put into our body, it does something. Good or not so good, something is going to happen whether we feel it or not. Arguably, we live in a “feel good” society which condones any and all things that immediately make us feel better and pain free but chances are, that short period of feeling good is counterproductive to being healthy for the long haul. Just take a small walk down the drink isle at the grocery or convenience store and count how many protein and energy drinks there are. They aren’t there for good health but in the name of having a False sense of feeling healthy right NOW, it’s a billion dollar market. Barring only a couple of healthy supplements that I know of, most of them will go unnoticed by the user as being a quick fix to any deterioration that our body has faced and I thank God that some things don’t take as long to fix as it did to destroy them but it does take time…….and effort.
May I ask, when you had your shoulder surgeries, how much physical therapy was prescribed and how much of it did you follow through on?
Physical therapy is something else that is easy to overlook the healing effects of, because it is not always noticeable right away, and in fact might make the pain worse at first. My example would be my bad knee, which was damaged over the years by at least two severe car wrecks where my knee crashed into the dashboard of the car, plus a few “horse wrecks” , where I also damaged the knee. When I had my broken leg (horse accident), the doctor was not able to put all of the shattered pieces back, so that same poor wrecked leg became even worse because it is now also shorter and put together crooked, so I can’t ever walk straight. A few years ago, when I went to the sports medicine doctor, he said that I needed a knee replacement very badly, due to all of the damage and arthritis that had set in; but he said that he could not do the knee replacement because of the a-fib and heart failure, and an operation could cause a clot and give me a stroke, All that he could do was give me a cortisone shot, which he said could last from a few months, and up to almost a year at best; but that exercising the knee would help it to get better. Since I could barely hobble around, I started looking online for knee exercises that I could do in the water, and started doing that. By the time the cortisone shot wore off, my knee was much better, and I was still able to do the exercises. My knee will never be right; but I keep doing the knee exercises, and I am able to walk much better, and only have knee pain now and then. When I do have pain, it is usually because I ate inflammatory foods, and inflammation is a lot of what causes pain. Weather can affect it as well; and on those bad days, I will take an Alleve for the pain; or more often, fresh raw pineapple, and in a day or so, it is usually gone.
Just read, online/Internet, that the two best states to live in for those seniors, like myself and sometimes my wife, who suffer from some type of arthritis is: Arizona and Nevada. Now, I put the word "seniors" in the title, because, until I had my second rotator cuff surgery in March 2015 (left shoulder), I had no arthritis/osteoarthritis pain going. In 2015, I was 65 years old. Now I know that not all seniors have the ability, or finances, to move like we have had and will do once again. Thing is, we've researched some fairly cold/winter type areas to move to. Those areas definitely wouldn't help us with the arthritis pain we get, which is more of an "annoying/achy" type pain than really serious pain. But, for myself, I don't even like "annoying/achy" type pain. My wife's best friend, who is deceased now, wound up with very serious arthritis pain before passing. Could barely move her fingers and, after the last time we seen her, had to start using a wheelchair. She was in bad shape. Her and her husband were "snowbirds" and their one home was only a few blocks from the beach in Daytona, Florida. Some type of arthritis seems to attack seniors at any time, not necessarily from a surgery/surgeries (like I had). So, we are now looking, and researching, both Arizona and Nevada to live in. Thoughts?
But, do you have/get any kind of arthritis pain? Basically, Marie, that is what this thread/topic is about. Arthritis pain and where many seniors have to move to, or choose to move to, to decrease the pain. You do know that both states have forests/trees and plant life. The one part of Nevada, where Lake Tahoe is, is all mountain/forest area and the same goes for Flagstaff, Arizona. Just saying. For best places for arthritis sufferers to live, Florida wasn't even listed, because it's so tropical.
Have lived in CA 57 and live and manage a body of Osteoarthritis. Mostly worse after hip replacement and knee cleanout. The more surgeries the more arthritis. I take quite a few supplements for OA and I know they save me. Once it gets chilly here, my joints let me know too.