I was wondering about natural ways to reduce joint aches. I have the pain in my thumb joints and in my right arm. If I lay on my right side at night, I wake up sore. The ache in my right thumb has been there for a few years, and is more severe. I fell on my right side at the same time I was diagnosed with MC (received a concussion, too), and that's when the shoulder & down to my elbow pain began. I never knew if the soreness was from the fall or the MC or both.
I had told my doctor about the arm pain, but he said my range of motion was alright. I've had it now for 1 1/2 years.
I read so much about getting the gut healed, but I can't do any of it! Fermented foods, probiotcs, glutamine, supplements like slippery elm & marshmallow root, veggies.....but I react to all of them, and can only eat my simple bland diet. I keep wondering if I should try something, or just keep with what I'm doing and eventually try to reintroduce veggies first. Are we (MCers) so unique that it has to be all about diet first, and things will heal? I read articles daily about how to heal leaky gut, and the digestive tract, and it seems the only thing I'm doing is the protein by eating meats, and there is so much other advise out there....it's hard to filter it all!
But guess what . . . now that I no longer work as hard (I used to spend a lot of time stacking bags of corn on pallets, and then re-stacking them when I delivered them to feed stores), I notice that my left arm has the same range of motion as the other one. 
Apparently, I never allowed it to heal properly, because I was always using it for hard work.
