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So much for that.
I had gout in both knees, arthritis in hands, wrists, shoulders and neck. The
doctors called in a "shrink" to tell me I would not walk again. He told me to get a
motorized wheel chair.
That was in 1977. In 1978 I got diabetes and mother persuaded Dr. Jacob to accept
me as a patient in March of 1979.
To make a long story short-I not only walk, I do my own gardening and drive
my car again-in one year-with external applications of DMSO.
I got neuritis in my right arm and a lump on my finger and Dr. Jacob shot the
DMSO in my shoulder and in 5 weeks there was no pain at all.
DMSO helps clear up small wounds which are difficult for a diabetic to heal-and
no scars. Most of all it has given me a new life!
Side effects? One. I had very grey hair (I loved it) but in the past year it is coming
in red again—and curly (it was straight before). Hardly something to complain
about!
I do hope you can do something to the FDA to release it so others can have a new
life too. When I think of the pain other arthritics are having just because of the
FDA-I really get mad!
If you need more details, please me know.
Thank you,
Mrs. R. F. BAXTER.
BELLEVUE, WASH., April 1, 1980.
Hon. CLAUDE PEPPER,
House Select Committee on Aging,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR REPRESENTATIVE PEPPER: I want to urge you and your Committee to release
the drug DMSO.
I have used DMSO myself and it has worked in the relief of the arthritic pain in
my knees. The only side affect is the odor of oysters for a day or two following a
topical application. I use DMSO because other drugs have proven ineffective (corti-
sone, butizolodin), and a surgical technique suggested by my doctor would require
that my legs be immobilized for a period of six months with a 50 percent chance of
improving my condition.
DMSO works for me, I know it has worked for other people. Please do what you
can to get it out of the bureaucratic quagmire of the FDA.
Sincerely yours,
RICHARD L. BAKER.
THE FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP OF COMPANIES,
SEATTLE, WASH., April 1, 1980.
Hon. CLAUDE PEPPER,
House Select Committee on Aging,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR PEPPER: On Saturday March 29, 1980 I was able to locate a small
quantity of DMSO, which I immediately began using on a shoulder which was
quickly becoming frozen and with muscle deterioration beginning. I began with
bursitus a year ago, and at the end of the year, and after cortisone shots directly
into the shoulder, and many, many aspirins as well as other anti-inflammatory
agents, it has grown progressively worse.
I have a very capable doctor, who I trust, but her hands are tied. She can only
prescribe that which is available to her, by law. I have advised her that I located
some DMSO.
As of the moment, my shoulder is pain free, and I am beginning to get some
movement in my arm, that was not able to make on Saturday morning when I woke
up. I have only taken two aspirins since Saturday. I am not healed yet, but I know
that I am on the way to being cured. The medical folks have been telling me, that
because I was fifty years old, I was just going to have to learn to live with these
kinds of infirmities, for the rest of my life. Somehow, I just can't believe that God
would intend to keep us alive just so that we can suffer, but it does appear as
though the medical, pharmaceutical, and governmental folks would like us to think
So.
