Freeze It

As I’ve mentioned a few times on here before, but primarily on my livejournal; I have fibromyalgia, the illness primarily affects my knees but sometimes also my wrists and ankles. I look around quite a bit and have friends and family members also who will put me on to various new ideas for things which might help when I have flares. I even had one whose ‘pet’ massage therapist mixed a special blend of essential oils in the hopes that I could get a massage and have that help, but especially with really bad flares just someone brushing my skin sends me into twitch fits, so there’s no way I would tolerate a deep tissue massage

I’ve been prescribed various things including something which is basically a triple strength version of an OTC pain reliever, and I’ve tried heat patches and warming creams before to little avail, which was odd because to me the fact that cold is what often causes flares should mean that warm would help…but one of the things about fibromyalgia is that the way it affects your body is more than a little nonsensical at times, and that often sufferers will have varying symptoms and triggers.

I was sent some free samples of Freeze It to try and figured I may as well. I used them the last few days on my knees and was pleasantly surprised by the results after I got over the “OMG this stuff is GREEN!” moment. But despite it being such a bright green coming out of the packet it absorbed into my skin very quickly, and I’ve had no problems with color or overpowering scent lingering around. The only problem I really had was the munchkin thinking that I must have some kind of new and wonderful food I wasn’t sharing and trying to glomp on to me and eat my legs.

My pain didn’t go away completely, but it definitely eased up a lot within a very short time of applying the gel. This was evidenced by the fact that I could get around the house without limping or looking like I was crippled. I’ve started doing some working out this past week and in times past this meant that I would be hobbling around for days and unable to work out more than once a week. Considering I have a toddler to race around after as well that’s just not acceptable. The sample packs have run out but I was gratified to see that my favorite local store, Target, carries the over the counter sizes of the gel so now I have a big pack to use.