may have helped [SEP] i used this consistently for over a month three to four times a day my forearm hurts a bit less than it did when i started using the cream whether the dmso is responsible there is no way to know if so the effect is small and slow there was no immediate lessening in pain i also got an ergonomic keyboard which may be the cause of the lower pain level or it may have been the multiple daily massages that i applied to the sore areas when i rubbed in the dmso cream