You can OD on the "inert" ingredients. I'll see if I can find it, but this girl in high school sports, died from using icy hot and bengay every day... On the advise of her mother. (can't imagine how bad she felt afterwards)
Ill see if I can find the story/link..
Hope you feel better FP, my back is still jacked, so I feel ya on the pain...
Damn..that is crazy! And sad....
Owl, what exactly is wrong with your back? It's crazy how much doctor's
don't know about back pain. My man and I both have had problems....when I was 12, I was jumping on a trampoline that wasn't properly tightened...got enough bounce to go up to 2 stories, then in mid air, I leaned backwards to fall on my back...apparently the screen was so loose that instead of catching my weight, it gave and I caught mostly ground. I couldn't feel anything in my body for about 10 minutes. I thought I was permanently paralyzed...scary shit. Have had problems ever since.
My fiance got a piece of glass lodged in his spine trying to jump a bike off of a roof...was a large piece of glass in the ground where he landed. Lost his football scholarship, had to learn to walk & talk all over again. He still gets spasms every once in a while and I have to massage it out just so he can move.
Ever since we started smoking, we've had much less problems. When we smoke everyday, he never gets spasms and it takes me only minutes to pass out...used to take me 4 hours because I could never get comfortable due to my back aching. Another thing that helps is weight lifting...I had many more problems before hitting the weights and he had more spasms. I think it helps your back to be more resilient against the pain. Might actually try a chiropractor one of these days. Massage is wonderful too. His back used to hurt so bad that he wouldn't want anyone to touch it, but one day I convinced him to let me and it helped immensely!