Posted on 05/05/2010 11:14:42 PM PDT by blackbart.223
That's kind of where I am right now. The hands are the worst problem for me at this point.
My surgeon was mighty miffed not to be able to grab a nice insurance payoff for cutting me. Hint.
I'm a believer. My health is much improved in the last year.
Definitely, do some googling and readuping.
btw: a female acquaintance of mine has fibromyalgia, and goes for regular blood screens, and takes a lot of meds. After one month on the alkaline diet, with me coaching her, her docs were mighty impressed with her numbers...all of them. They told her to keep eating whatever it was she was eating. Her symptoms are much less severe, and the side effects of the drugs, largely gone.
One more thing to look at. Thank you.
Glucosamine with/and Chondroitin for relief. It kept me walking for 10 years before I finally had to have a knee replacement. It is no good for you if you have a shellfish allergy. It does seems to have a bit of a rebuild capacity or at least it slows the damage somewhat. I was to the point of riding on the grocery store scooters when I started it. I was walking well again after a couple of months and quit taking it after a year. I felt no call to go back on it for two more years. I swear by it now. At my age my forebears were pretty much housebound with arthritis.
I tried that but was told by my doctor it is of limited value. It did me no good but I will stick with it for a little longer. Can't hurt.
I’ll check it out tomorrow morning. Or better yet later this morning. Thanks. Time for my beauty rest. As if that will help.
I swim laps about an hour each day.........helps all the joints and muscles I injured over time. Tylenol Arthritis helps when it gets really bad. Mine was brought on allegedly due a third degree strep infection while I was active duty military. .....and of course age now I suppose. Crap almost crippled me at age 29..... Rheumatoid Arthritis per the bad strep infection that went to my heart supposedly is my nemesis these days.
Swimming / keep moving. I also drink hot jello and vitamins before bed as it stays in the system longer that way. Lots of OTC BS out there but staying active seems to help the most . If impact exercise like walking or tredmill bothers it hit the pool friend..........
I’m surprised it’s not better known, but the cure one doctor claimed for fibromyalgia, seems to address most of the autoimmune conditions, of which arthritis is one of the most common.
Illness is usually associated with the thickening of the mucus in the body, and as the body become diseased, injured or just ages, the mucus seems to thicken in the body, which is the lubricant for movement in the body, and is particularly notable lining the passageways of the respiratory and digestive systems.
When one has a cold or the flu, the mucus in the lungs and respiratory get thick with mucus, as well as (arthritis-like) body pains. Thinning or liquefying the mucus, restores the body to proper functioning and good health.
The curative agent is guaifenesin, which is the ingredient in cough medicines that does that one thing — liquefying the mucus so that one can eliminate it. Many other herbals also have this curative property — of doing nothing more than thinning the mucus in the body, which as it thickens, is the diseased condition — usually thought to just be symptomatic.
So when I heard about this doctor’s cure, I tried it immediately not because I had crippling back pain and an old football knee injury that never healed right, and the pain went away and never came back, nor have I had problems of bronchitis, colds, or flus since — when all my life previously, they had been my chronic afflictions, along with arthritis, back pain, etc.
Fifteen years before I attended the doctors presentation on his cure, I had discovered personally that Robitussin (guaifenesin) made me feel very good, and recommended others try it until I informed my doctor, who said I should not take cough medicine regularly because it was habit-forming. But when I attended the doctors lecture on his cure for fibromyalgia, he was certain that guaifenesin had no negative longterm side effects, and so I also adopted that protocol of taking guaifenesin regularly, and since then, have not experienced arthritis pain, or any of those other chronic disfunctions that plagued me all my life — and I don’t seem to be aging in the normal pattern of stiffening up, getting phlegmatic, etc.
Others I have suggested this protocol also note that regular intake seems to eliminate many of the chronic conditions they have come to accept as the normal process of aging.
The other well-proven protocol, are supplements that thin the blood, which is the rationale for taking daily doses of aspirin, headache and pain relievers.
Guaifenesin should not be mistaken for other indgredients used in cough medicines, with designation of DM, PE, etc., as they have powerful other properties. But guaifenesin seems to have no other effect but to maintain the desirable liquidity of the cells, tissues and organs, which as they solidify, becomes dysfunctional.
This might be the unifying theory for why cells, tissues, organs break down — as the first line of explanation and defense, since the medical establishment, offers no satisfactory cure or treatment.
You start with a lot, 9 500mg tabs(3 a.m.- 3noon- 3 p.m.) a day for a month, then reduce it to 6 for 1-2 months then experiment with a little less or a little more. It takes a couple of months to realize you don’t hurt anymore. Usually if the doctor prescribes it or allows it he is only talking about 500 mg or 1000 mg a day. It is like the doc telling you to take 400 iu of D-3 a day. Not. For D-3 take 10k iu a day in the winter and less or none when you get sun every day.
I am presently taking 3 750mg tabs a day and do not notice the arthritis at all. If I lay off for a couple of days or try to reduce to 2 tabs for a week or so my hands and shoulders begin to tell me about it.
And stay with the D-3, 10k a day if you don’t get out in the sunshine. Wife and I started the D-3 last Sept. and, without shots, had no colds and flu this season. She is a teacher and previously has brought flu and colds home to me several times a year.
I used to be pretty skeptical of health nuts who take all those vitamins and herbs and stuff and only reluctantly started with the G&C but for that and the D3 I am now kind of a fanatic.
cut back on tomatoes, tomato juice products, acidy juice drinks and red meat. I can always tell when I am overindulging. Tomatoes are my weakness but when I am practicing moderation tomatoes on my salad are ok. I take Mobic daily, mostly because I work and the extra stress on my hips and hands requires the anti inflammatory and my stomach doesn’t agree with taking ibuprofen all day. I think when it first starts, there is a period where I just had to get used to it being there. I am now because my left knee has always been my ‘good knee’ until I was in a car accident and suddenly it is the ‘bad one’ and the previous ‘bad one’ is now the ‘good knee’. I’m getting in perspective. A little cortisone didn’t hurt either.
magnesium malate 800+mg/day
1/2 gallon or more of clean water per day
2 heaping tbsps diatomaceous earth in water per day
that will cure it if you really want it gone.
otherwise you kill your liver with the drugs they put you on.
Had my first hip replaced last September, and the second in February. The pain in my legs that used to keep me up at night or moan while driving in the car is totally gone.
It has been worth every bit of toil and trouble.
Synvisc and Celebrex have worked wonders for my bad kneee. The Celebrex helps all the other bad joints too.
Celebrex helps.
I'm 59 and very active in volleyball during the winter and now softball for the spring and summer. Here in S.E. Michigan the weather really kicks my rear end too. But now that the weather is heating up, I'm starting to feel much, much better and the celebrex is much more effective.......
I agree with your assessment on mucus. Diamaceous Earth (food grade only) SCRUBS your entire intestinal wall of mucus, mold, etc., and allows nutrients to absorb. It flushes the mucus out.
What course of action oes he/she recommend?
I'm taking Relafin. It has helped to certain degree. But I agree with you about cold weather. I don't tolerate it very well these days.
In my case a drug called Relafen and exercise. And from time to time when I need it, steriod injections. Not fun but those do give some relief. There is no cure for OA.
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