The trouble with all treatments designed to reduce the symptoms is you're never sure if they're working or not. When the pain's bad, taking nothing also works, as the pain comes and goes. When bad, you know it'll improve in a day or a week or two. And when there's no pain, you know it's going to come back again eventually.

So the ideal time to start taking any such treatment is when you have no symptoms at all. And stop if they come back, since it's obviously not working.

A quick check show there's completed studies of Zeel which suggest it works, but none yet finished for traumeel.

I'm always skeptical of any treatment requiring ongoing medication. They just seem designed to extract a nice, steady revenue stream out of you...

I did some taxes yesterday, which I've been procrastinating over for a couple of weeks. That seemed to help!