Your first shot felt like a miracle. It was wonderful — no pain for months. You thought you'd finally found the answer.
Then the second shot gave you six weeks. The third gave you three. The fourth gave you nothing. Not one day.
Here's what nobody explains: cortisone treats inflammation. But once the cartilage is gone, inflammation stops being the main problem. The grinding. The clunking. The crunching with every step. That's bone on bone. Cortisone was never designed to touch that. It can't.
So each shot had less inflammation to treat. Until one day it gave you a week. Then three days. Then nothing.
What you actually need is something that works on the muscles locked tight around a bone-on-bone joint with no cartilage left to cushion it. That's the 80% cortisone never reached. Magnesium lotion absorbs directly through the skin into those locked muscles and gives them the release signal they've been missing — so the grip on the joint loosens, the bones stop being pulled so hard against each other, and the grinding quiets.
And before you ask, magnesium pills don't work the same way. Your gut only absorbs 20-30% of oral magnesium before the rest passes straight through. Most of it never gets anywhere near your knee. The lotion skips all of that. Straight through the skin, directly into the tissue surrounding the joint. No stomach. No diarrhea. Just magnesium where your bone-on-bone knees actually need it.