You are looking at a very recent \u00a0picture of my 72 year old hand. \u00a0About 19 years ago I spit a circular chunk of disc about the size of my small\u00a0finger nail (10mm) from between L3 and L4. \u00a0About two months of PT and a lot of Prednisone and I was able to resume normal function. \u00a0Since pred is not really good for the body I went to work on a more natural form of inflammation control. \u00a0Through the first two or three\u00a0years it became 975mg or three regular aspirin, 1000mg turmeric, 1000 to 1500mg turmeric, along with misc. vitamins my doctor\u2019s have recommended as I aged, per day. \u00a0I remain active; yoga, crabbing, fishing, boating, home repairs, home maintenance, etc. \u00a0Before you say 975mg\u00a0is excessive, I\u00a0had two severe flare ups of my back in late 22 and early 24. \u00a0Both required pred and up to 36 sessions of PT to get me back on my feet. \u00a0What led to these two recent flare ups? \u00a0I cycled off my daily \u201cvitamin\u201d regimen at the request of my orthopedic specialists\u00a0and paid dearly. \u00a0Placebo effect or not, it works and my back specialist and knee specialist (no cartilage left in the left knee but no pain) have agreed that my regimen is much easier on my body\u00a0than the gabapentin and prednisone they would prescribe.<\/p>\n
Now, why did I tell you this. \u00a0Because I have been taking\u00a0975 mg of\u00a0aspirin a day for well over fifteen\u00a0years and as active as I am I do not bruise anywhere near as bad as the \u201casshat\u201d who currently resides in our daily\u00a0\u00a0nightmare. \u00a0I do bruise but nothing like he does and any\u00a0heavy bruises (like I suffered when I replaced the starboard\u00a0cylinder head on my boat in March 2025) usually go away in a week to ten days.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You are looking at a very recent \u00a0picture of my 72 year old hand. \u00a0About 19 years ago…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490],"class_list":["post-433119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}