# Copper-it does work for chronic pain! I am living proof! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 17, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526 "2012-07-17T15:15:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/101 "2012-07-18T14:33:26Z")
[For those asking, “What’s the harm?”](http://whatstheharm.net/) ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/102 "2012-07-18T17:19:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Not parody. [**kanicbird** on medicine.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12645390&postcount=240) Ho-lee shit. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/103 "2012-07-18T17:31:12Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Not parody. [**kanicbird** on medicine.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12645390&postcount=240) . . .and from that day forward, Paul Harvey stayed away from LSD. And now you know. . .the rest of the story. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/104 "2012-07-18T17:35:45Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > [For those asking, “What’s the harm?”](http://whatstheharm.net/) There goes the rest of my day. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/105 "2012-07-18T17:41:21Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Wouldn’t it be funny if there actually was a [cite](http://www.livestrong.com/article/101854-benefits-wearing-copper-bracelets/) that wearing a copper bracelet could cause some relief? That’s a cite? FWIW I help Cecil out every single week and view hundreds of sites and review scores of sources on topics each week. And I’m sick to shit of the high ratings of the pseudo and non-scientific bullshit on [livestrong.com](http://livestrong.com) and how they keep popping up in my searches. If I ever needed another reason to hate Lance Armstrong, that craptacular website peripherally associated with him is it. ---
**Author:** ![listedmia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e0b2c6/32.png) [@listedmia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/listedmia)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/106 "2012-07-18T18:21:30Z")
I am living proof that copper bracelets cure normally colored skin. For years, I suffered from wrists that were a tannish, pinkish color. My grandmother gave me a couple of copper bracelets and I wore them purely for fashion purposes. Within days, my wrists were a lovely shade of dirty green! It really does work!!!1 (until you stop wearing the bracelets.) ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/107 "2012-07-18T20:30:24Z")
Wait, if copper works because it’s a good conductor, wouldn’t yttrium barium copper oxide be even better? Granted, you’d have to chill your wrist to about -420 F, but hey, you can’t make an omelette without grinding up a few full henhouses in an industrial shredder, amiright? ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/108 "2012-07-18T22:54:28Z")
3 pages? Really? (Yeah yeah, I know I just made it longer, but since I read through all this, figured I might as well stick some words in there) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/109 "2012-07-18T23:47:43Z")
If you don’t take the full course of antibiotics, the infection might return. So, buck up, and maintain the full 12-page (at 50 mpp default) dose of this prescription medication. We don’t want to engineer a rebuttal-resistant variant of the infection. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/110 "2012-07-19T08:17:06Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > We don’t want to engineer a rebuttal-resistant variant of the infection. [rebuttal] Yes we do. [/rebuttal] (just doing my part to engineer the infection ;)) ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/111 "2012-07-19T13:27:32Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > [rebuttal] > Yes we do. > [/rebuttal] > > (just doing my part to engineer the infection ;)) No one engineers festering thread-pustules like you, Cheshiekins. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/112 "2012-07-19T13:30:21Z")
For some reason I keep wanting to read the thread title as **Copper - you’ll never take me alive!** ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/113 "2012-07-19T14:05:21Z")
> [@buckgully](#): > > Wait, if copper works because it’s a good conductor …it’ll never punch your ticket? _“When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer. Superstition ain’t the way…” -Stevie Wonder (Superstition, since 1972)_ …click the dancing cowboy for a new trick to cure ear-worms…! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/114 "2012-07-19T14:36:25Z")
So the OP has not returned? Still think it wasn’t a drive by spamming? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/115 "2012-07-19T14:43:51Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > So the OP has not returned? Still think it wasn’t a drive by spamming? I think it was genuine…a genuine cry for help, not an attempt to drum up business. Ask again in a month or year. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/116 "2012-07-19T15:26:45Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > I think it was genuine…a genuine cry for help, not an attempt to drum up business. Ask again in a month or year. 😕 Cry for help? The OP is living a pain-free life full of rich coppery goodness. Where the heck are you getting cry for help from? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/117 "2012-07-19T15:35:09Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > If you scroll up to the top of the page you’ll see a large blue banner that reads “THE STRAIGHT DOPE”. Underneath that is a slimmer red banner that reads "FIGHTING IGNORANCE SINCE 1973(IT’S TAKING LONGER THAN WE THOUGHT). > **Three guesses as to why it’s taking longer.** I can haz July 2012 join date? > [@leahcim](#): > > Yes, but pacemakers don’t restart a heart. But Motley Crue can! Oh…yeah! Kickstart my heart, hope it never stops! Yowza! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/118 "2012-07-19T15:48:12Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > But Motley Crue can! Oh…yeah! Kickstart my heart, hope it never stops! Great song…but bad advice to follow in a CPR class. Trust me. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/119 "2012-07-19T18:19:17Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Great song…but bad advice to follow in a CPR class. > > Trust me. The song for CPR is [Stayin’ Alive](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3b9gOtQoq4). [Seriously.](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27221281/ns/health-heart_health/t/keeping-beat-cpr-hum-stayin-alive/) ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copper-it-does-work-for-chronic-pain-i-am-living-proof/628526/120 "2012-07-19T18:24:21Z")
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