joint pains Options

[Smarmosaur]

lately, my joints have been hurting so freakin bad when I go to bed. specifically my hips, ankles, wrists, knuckles, elbows, and shoulders. they're fine when I'm awake (except for my right hip).
I thought it was from working out more than usual, so I stopped completely. now I can't get back into the habit. but anyways. It's been over two weeks since I've done any sort of major activity, so I'm thinking that's not the reason for the pain.
the pain is so bad that the only time I sleep is when I'm absolutely exhausted. I typically go to bed around 11 or 12 (I don't sleep much), and I lie awake for hours, sometimes I don't even sleep at all, because of it.
any opinions/suggestions on what to do? I already told mom about it but she didn't seem to care, and I can't take any sort of over the counter drugs.
thanks in advance. :]

[rosetaylor]

You should see a real doctor instead of asking the quacks here (besides, a lot of herbal 'medicines' will interfere with your other medications).
Homoeopathic medicines are just distilled water so they won't have any side effects but they also won't have any effects either (if something does not have side effects it probably isn't strong enough to be worth taking).
Herbs aren't generally worth taking since the active ingredient of the ones that actually work is available as a drug that because it isn't contaminated with a whole heap of other junk has more predictable dosing and side effects (herbs tend to have unreliable dosing and also a lot of other stuff, some of which is not at all good for you).
You'd be better off just sticking with evidence-based medicine and staying away from quackery like homoeopathy and herbalism.



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This post has been edited by superstitious: Aug 25 2008, 03:30 PM