"My husband had replacement hip surgery in April, due to many years of top-level squash and tennis; he had totally worn away the cartilage. After the surgery, which was totally successful (he is back playing tennis) he had severe pain in his back in the lumbar area and between his shoulders - possibly because of realignment, which aggravated an old back problem - who knows. But even the strongest pain killers, massage, chiropractic adjustments, rolfing, essential oils, (you name it, he tried it,) only gave him temporary relief for a very short period of time. i.e. a few hours.

Anyway, despite great skepticism - he agreed to try the patches! Day l, we put them on his feet and a small amount of brown appeared on the patches the next morning. As he was in severe pain with his back he suggested we put one on his lower back during the day. It was the lumbar region of his back, and we did not realize that the belt on his pants would restricted the contents of the patch, but one half of the patch was dark brown when we took it off. For some reason, he did not want to use the patches at night again. (Probably because we only had one box at the time, he felt they would be more beneficial on his back.) The following morning we put one patch in the same area of his lower back and one up between his shoulder blades. These were probably on for about 12 hours and when we took them off that night - my goodness, they were full of dark brown "gunk" - don`t know how else to describe it - it was amazing! I asked him how the pain was; he said still there but it had taken the edge of it and so he was able to cope with the pain better.

The next day we did the same thing and this time, there was hardly anything on the patches. I said - well how is the pain and he said I am totally pain free. And he has been ever since which is now ten days ago. However they work, these patches work - and the moral to the story is NEVER only order one or two boxes, because once the toxins start coming out of your body, you don`t want to stop until the patches are clear.

For me, just putting the patches on my feet - the first night, there was a little on the patches and then this gradually increased and by the fourth night there was quite a lot - and for me being a reflexologist, it was very interesting to see the pattern that the "toxins" followed on my feet ie. relating to all the reflexes in what I call the "plumbing areas" on both feet. On the fifth day, there was much less on the patches - and then we ran out of patches. I also noticed that a problem with my eyes that I had been having has cleared up too and my vision is once again clear.

As I said before, order enough - don't run out before the job is complete! I personally think that the effect is cumulative too, the first time; you may not get very much on the patches, but keep going and see what comes out." Anne Orchard Park, NY