RE: dry eyes and collagen 1&3

April 21, 2009

Cooky, I'm so happy for you. What kind of collagen 1 & 3 do you buy and

where do you get yours?

From: rheumatic [mailto:rheumatic ] On

Behalf Of Cooky Stonkey

Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:07 PM

rheumatic

Subject: rheumatic dry eyes and collagen 1 & 3

Hi gang,

I finally found a new opthalmalogist and went for the plugs in my tear

ducts. This guy was good but treated me like I had never had plugs and

did

not know anything about dry eyes. He only put in one plug.he said to see

if

it was the plug that helped my symptoms or the other things he suggested

(very strongly). I think it was to get another payment from my health

insurance.

He said I definitely had dry eyes (duh) and probably was from my

rheumatoid

but I also had rosacea of the eye lids and face. I assumed this but know

there is no cure.

He suggested. as I already do. the lid scrubs with baby shampoo and

stressed warm to hot compresses 2 times a day. He said to open some of

the

glands that are clogged from the eye fluids.

He also suggested 2 new OTC drops. One was OPTIVE moisturizing dry eye

solution and the other I can't remember.

The reason I am writing this is because of the collagen 1 & 3 powder I

have

been taking. About the 6 week time I found I had no more dry eye

symptoms(yes I still went for the plugs) and I was waking up with less

and

less morning eye crunches. I hate to jinx me but I am also pain free in

my

neck and back. I was outside with hubby raking dirt for our garden and

the

next morning I paid for it with a bad " spot " in my back. Usually this

takes

a while to get resolved with a lot of pressure point done by hubby. The

before.

I am not pushing the product but will keep reporting any other good

effects.

For cosmetic results please write to me personally.

cooky

April 21, 2009

Hi ,

I get it at iherb and it is a powder called Neocell collagen 1 & 3. Cheep.only

$12.

I first heard about it thru QVC's beauty group. It is a bunch of women that

are interested in beauty products. One of the women started talking about

this type of collagen. I used Collagen# 2 many years ago when I was first

dxed with rheumatoid and I did not think it did much good but I guess there

is a way to use it that works. Anyway I kept reading her notes and other

people joined her by buying this stuff. They started reporting softer and

more firm facial skin. Then they started to say they had had their husbands

on it for joint and muscle pain. ( I must tell you we are also on

Astaxanthin which is an antioxidant that is supposto be good for arthritis

pain so I am not sure which one is really doing the job..but I was on this

long before I felt pain relief.). It took about 6 weeks but I do feel my

pain is going away in places like my neck . I put hubby on the astaxanthin

because he would not use the powder.

These people do not sell the stuff. They are just ordinary people who found

something they thot others would benefit from.

Good luck if you try it!

cooky

From: rheumatic [mailto:rheumatic ] On Behalf

Of Dixon

Cooky, I'm so happy for you. What kind of collagen 1 & 3 do you buy and

where do you get yours?

April 21, 2009

hi-I also have the rosacea eye thing along with rieters-so is this something you

ingest?

i am definitely interested in trying it.]

thanks

Deb

From: Cooky Stonkey <cookee1@...>

Subject: RE: rheumatic dry eyes and collagen 1 & 3

rheumatic

Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 2:05 PM