Shirley Martin
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I think Ken was making a play on words, or in this case letters. MSM = Mainstream Media.
Healing as we grow older
- Thread starter Ken Anderson
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I was watching a video today and the lady was saying that both DMSO and MSM will help repel ticks and chiggers. She didn’t say anything about mosquitoes, but it seems to me like it might also help with mosquitoes as well, since all of these are blood-sucking insects.
She said that because both DMSO and MSM have sulfur, it the smell repels the insects, and she said it will also help kill the chigger if one does get on you and bite you.
She said that if she does get an occasional bite, she just uses her roll-on DMSO, and it does not itch or swell up, and disappears overnight.
I have been adding the MSM to my protein drinks, but only use the DMSO when I need something for pain; but with the mosquito season getting here, I will be trying this and see if it works for mosquitoes, and maybe even for fleas on the dogs.
She said that because both DMSO and MSM have sulfur, it the smell repels the insects, and she said it will also help kill the chigger if one does get on you and bite you.
She said that if she does get an occasional bite, she just uses her roll-on DMSO, and it does not itch or swell up, and disappears overnight.
I have been adding the MSM to my protein drinks, but only use the DMSO when I need something for pain; but with the mosquito season getting here, I will be trying this and see if it works for mosquitoes, and maybe even for fleas on the dogs.
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Don Alaska
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I know sulfur is used to repel chiggers, but i have not heard of it used for mosquitoes. Give us a report @Yvonne Smith
Bobby Cole
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Maybe helps with mosquitoes in the lower 48 but that Alaska breed ? Those things are hatched in the sulfurous depths of hell to begin with.
Don Alaska
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Ah, you remember them @Bobby Cole !
Bobby Cole
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I’ve worked and played in the Everglades of Florida and fished in many a bayou of S. Louisiana and all it took was a bottle of “Skin So Soft” to ward off the insects.
Sadly, I have found no such thing in the form of prevention other than high wind that will keep those prehistoric critters ya’ll call mosquitoes from drawing blood.
Maybe bear grease…..?
As a side, imagine a company spending a couple of million dollars to find the perfect skin softener for the ladies only to have the product known as one of the best mosquito repellents.
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Don Alaska
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We used SSS on the window screens too, as some of the smallest critters could come through a window screen. If it was greased with SSS, they would even try to come through. The only thing that worked when the mosquitoes were really bad was a head net and "helmet" to keep them out of your nose and ears. The homesteaders used DEET-saturated coats that were hung on a hook outside the door, and they would periodically use a Buhach powder fire in a jar lid in the cabin. You can no longer buy the real Buhach, as it was rotenone. The pyrethrum powder works, but not as well.
Tony Nathanson
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Three years ago (when I was 70), I hadn't learned to change how I went up or down stairs. I used to run up & down two stairs at a time without holding the rails. I leaned the hard way by tripping on the second stair & going head-over heels into the wall. I got lucky - just a big cut on my knee that took over a month to heal. I'm still surprised nothing broke or moved out of place.
I'm also finding it hard to deal with having to rest after mowing the 1/2 acre back yard.
And that oldie: "Once a king, always a king, but once a knight's enough."
I'm also finding it hard to deal with having to rest after mowing the 1/2 acre back yard.
And that oldie: "Once a king, always a king, but once a knight's enough."
Marie Mallory
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I keep reminding myself to slow down and not fall.
Faye Fox
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I'm exhausted reading through this thread with talk of mowing 1/2 acre yards (mine is 1/2 acre) and Alaskan mosquitos. The summer I spent in Alaska convinced me those aren't mosquitos, but blood sucking hummingbirds! We have bumblebees smaller than those mini Tetradactyly's. 
There is little healing at my age now.
I tear it, I bear it. Instead of healing, I have peeling. Instead of whining like the men, I apply some Voltaren.
(apologies for my Voltaren spamming)
Poetic comedy helps ease my hurting muscles. I don't claim it heals, but it distracts and I forget about it. Well, that is until I try to get out of my recliner.
There is little healing at my age now.
I tear it, I bear it. Instead of healing, I have peeling. Instead of whining like the men, I apply some Voltaren.
(apologies for my Voltaren spamming)Poetic comedy helps ease my hurting muscles. I don't claim it heals, but it distracts and I forget about it. Well, that is until I try to get out of my recliner.
Tony Nathanson
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When I was 40, I went with a friend to visit her father who was 88. I greeted him with "Hi, how are you?" He replied,
"Everything hurts & nothing works."
"Everything hurts & nothing works."
Marie Mallory
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Whatever works for you Faye is alright with us. I enjoy your company.I'm exhausted reading through this thread with talk of mowing 1/2 acre yards (mine is 1/2 acre) and Alaskan mosquitos. The summer I spent in Alaska convinced me those aren't mosquitos, but blood sucking hummingbirds! We have bumblebees smaller than those mini Tetradactyly's.
There is little healing at my age now.
I tear it, I bear it. Instead of healing, I have peeling. Instead of whining like the men, I apply some Voltaren.
Poetic comedy helps ease my hurting muscles. I don't claim it heals, but it distracts and I forget about it. Well, that is until I try to get out of my recliner.
Beth Gallagher
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My father-in-law was the type of person you quickly learned to never casually ask "how are you?" unless you had an hour to kill, listening to his ailments. He's the reason I always say "fine" when some unsuspecting well-meaning person asks me.
I've never had the courage to actually do so, but have often played around with the idea of launching into a full story when someone casually asks, "How are you doing?" - just to see how they react. They surely wouldn't ask that question of me again, and might never again ask it of anyone.
Marie Miller
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Faye, these darlings are being referred to as Alaska’s Air Force. Main mission - target tourists and the unsuspecting.I'm exhausted reading through this thread with talk of mowing 1/2 acre yards (mine is 1/2 acre) and Alaskan mosquitos. The summer I spent in Alaska convinced me those aren't mosquitos, but blood sucking hummingbirds! We have bumblebees smaller than those mini Tetradactyly's.
There is little healing at my age now.
I tear it, I bear it. Instead of healing, I have peeling. Instead of whining like the men, I apply some Voltaren.
Poetic comedy helps ease my hurting muscles. I don't claim it heals, but it distracts and I forget about it. Well, that is until I try to get out of my recliner.
We had to smuggle Voltaren crème from Europe. Now it is available over the counter.
Lois E. Winters
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After seeing the results of my PET scan on Monday, I am afraid healing is not in the cards for me. I learned one other thing that is wrong with me, Baastrups Disease. I never even thought of this, and should have with my spinal problems. Oh well, what's one more to add to the already existing problems. They all can get together and party, maybe.
Tony Nathanson
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When I'm in the mood, I mess with telephone sales people who always start their pitch with, "Hello, how are you doing today?"
I keep a list of ailments by the phone, including some embarrassing ones that people don't talk about & say, "I have.........."
Complete silence on the other end.
