A few weeks ago, I wrote about how I was trying something called prolotherapy to try to help my knee problems. It involves getting about 50 injections in each knee every week or so. The injections are actually sugar water with some calcium in it. The goal is to inflame the tissue in there, speeding healing that rebuilds the tendons and ligaments to be larger, stronger, more fibrousy. The purpose of this is to stabilize the joint itself. Most joint pain actually does come from instability in the joint.

I am pleased to say that, though I still have more sessions to go, the prolotherapy is definitely making a dramatic difference. My knee pain has decreased significantly.

Now, if the idea of 50 injections in each knee doesn't make you wince a bit ... here is something that might ...

I have also started getting injections in the back of my neck ... about 25 of them. I have been having a lot of migraine headaches ... frequently ... the doctor thinks they are stemming from neck problems ... the prolotherapy should help. I have had the neck injections only twice but I have not had a full-fledged migraine since starting them, which is unusual for that length of time.

Many folks with fibromyalgia are having success with prolotherapy ... I am sure it doesn't work for everyone but, thus far, I certainly feel blessed to have found it.