Without assistance, Charlotte Callan, 72, of
Burlington, Ontario, couldn't put on her own clothes, insert her arms into
her coat, make the bed, or get in and out of the car or the bathtub. She
couldn't put her hands over her head, and when she walked she was bent over.
She had terrible pain and stiffness from fibromyalgia.
In 1988 her family
doctor prescribed cortisone.
In 1996, a year after she started taking an MSM
nutritional supplement, Charlotte was feeling so good she was able to stop
the cortisone.
"I was glad about that because of the side
effects from cortisone," she says. "The MSM worked well for me. I kept
getting better and better. Now I can do everything. I have a little
stiffness but at my age, you kind of expect that. If I sit for too long I
can get a bit stiff. But nothing compared to what I had before. There is
very little pain and a lot of energy. I don't even like to remember how bad
it was. The MSM is pretty marvelous. I can do all the things now that I
couldn't do before. It keeps my life worth living."
Callan takes about ten grams of MSM in her juice
every morning.
"I go for my regular medical checkups and do the
lab tests," she says. "They come out pretty normal. My tests for
inflammation are normal. My rheumatologist looks at the tests, checks me
over, and says, `You have no swelling, no pain, no nothing. I'll see you in
a year.' "
