osteoarthritis treatment

osteoarthritis/degenerative arthritis treatments?

I have degenerative arthritis in a disk in my lower back. Does anyone else have this or know someone who does? What treatments are available? Is there anything I can do to heal it, besides just treating the pain? What has worked for you?

An 80 year old lady told me to use baby oil [ I had cortizone at 4 to 8 pounds per shot, I had Ibuphrofen until my stomach was an ulcer mess, then I had baby aspirin with yogart and buttermilk until stomach well, then I had [ other med to no help to Bextra until my heart was flying away ], the baby aspirin and baby oil works, I put pads around ankles, knees, wrist and on bottom of feet with feet in plastic bags and soak all with baby oil, even make shirts for shoulders out of diapers and put on diapers and soak them with baby oil, it will unfreeze my joints, arms can be saturated with baby oil with plastic bags over them for a while, from age 35 to 67 and I did not use the baby oil, it really has worked for 5 years. I just do it when and where I need it most now.

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