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There’s no shortage of pain meds that are available on the market today.  Regular strength, extra strength, night time, this brand, that brand.  Everyone seems to have their go to pain medication that they use.  There are even some natural pain medications out there.  If you’ve been considering trying natural pain medications you should check out Lakota.

Lakota uses traditional medicine with natural ingredients. Using natural ingredients like white willow bark, yucca root, and devil’s claw.  They make a whole line of natural pain medications for arthritis, back, whole body, and even for dogs.  It’s available in capsules and roll-on gels.

Prior to this review, I had never heard of or tried any product from Lakota.  This box came at the absolute best time, or worst time depending on how you want to look at it.  I would swear I have arthritis already even though I’m only 34.  Each year it seems to get worse too.  I have a hard time getting off the floor, my knees pop sometimes, and more recently when the weather started getting that cooler fall feeling my ankles, knees, fingers, and wrists started getting stiff and even sore. It wouldn’t be a far stretch since my younger sister has already be told by her doctor she has arthritis and my dad has it as well.  At night, I really notice it.  I’m a side sleeper but I find myself switching sides often as my shoulders and elbows ache if I’m on them too long.

One of the first products I pulled out of the box to try was the Lakota extra strength arthritis.  I’ve never taken any kind of pain medicine specific for arthritis before.  I took a dose in the am, then again in the pm as the bottle states.  I realized my joints felt more fluid and I did notice a reduction in the joint soreness I was having.  These capsules were a light weight capsule that were easy to swallow.

This past week, my oldest son came home from football practice and said his left lower back was sore.  He asked me if I could put some of the Lakota back pain roll-on relief on his back.  The roll-on pain relief comes in a bottle similar to a roll-on deodorant. This made it easy to apply the pain reliever where we needed it.

Initially my son said he didn’t feel anything but after a few minutes he said it burned a bit then after a little while longer got cold.  He felt it for about half an hour after putting it on.  He said it did actually make his back feel better for a while.  Unfortunately later on that night my son was helping me clean up the house.  He bent over to roll up the vacuum cord and had such terrible pain in his back that he couldn’t even stand up straight.  I had to take him to the ER because I wasn’t sure what was going on. Long story short they said he sprained his back.  We were in the ER until 1:30 in the morning so of course I wasn’t able to fill the prescription pain medicine script they gave me.  In the mean time I had him try the triple action back pain capsules.  My son is 5′ 7″ and outweighs me.  He normally has to take adult doses of medication.

Unfortunately with the amount of pain my son was having in his back, he said the Lakota triple action back pain capsules didn’t help much with that.  Being that he needed prescription strength pain medication to help with the pain I don’t even know that an over the counter like Tylenol would have worked either.

Last night I tried the Lakota arthritis roll-on since the capsules had been working so well for me.  My left lower back had been aching all day. I put some of the arthritis roll on on just the left side of my lower back. Initially I didn’t feel any sensation at all.  I layed down in bed for the night and started feeling a burning sensation.  Not burning like a muscle rub burning but an actually burning almost like a fire burn feeling.  It intensified a bit then it started itching.  I thought, oh now I bet I’m allergic to this. It itched me all night long.  I got up this morning and looked in the mirror as I was getting dressed and saw a dark pink patch on my back where I had applied the Lakota arthritis roll-on.

 

This was the only product I tried that I had any issues with.  I think I may be allergic to the Lakota arthritis roll-on.  It would probably be a good idea to spot test the topical products in a small area for the future.

You can check out the full line of Lakota natural medicine products on their website lakotaherbs.com you can also find Lakota on Facebook

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Which Lakota product would you like to try?