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The magnetic bracelet was so beautiful. Jet black stones glistening in-between silver links. The label said it would help arthritis sufferers. So many of my friends raved about what a wonderful experience having magnets, on their bodies, had been.

So, as a starving graduate student, I spent the ten dollars I needed for a bill. Hoping the pain in my wrist would go away, I slipped it on my wrist, and fought with the clasp. Now I had two wrists that hurt. The one on the hand used to chase the clasp around my wrist until the claw finally opened and shut the circle-loop into it. And the arthritic hand found the magnetic bracelet way too heavy.

First day, maybe my wrists will get better tomorrow. The chaser wrist became better. But the magnetic bracelet wrist became worse. The magnets seemed to pull my wrist into an unnatural position. Every time I went to use my wrist, my hand and arm felt weaker and weaker. By the end of the day, my chaser hand took off the magnets, because my bracelet wrist couldn't take it any more.

For me, magnetic therapy did not help me maintain my health. My wrist felt better with rest and worse with the added weight. My friends had a different experience. But somehow, I wonder if they experienced the "placebo effect," they felt better because they wanted to feel better. Maybe their brain or body sent out some natural pain killer that mine didn't. All I know, is that ten dollars plus tax could have been better spent as a copay for my Doctor's appointment or to pay a bill.

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