Vitamin C and Inflammation

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone,

If you have time websearch " vitamin C and inflammation " ..I did and was surprised

by what I read in many articles.?I have taken Vitamin C supplements for years,

along with many other vitamins, assuming they were good for me and helping my

ReA. Turns out I may have been wrong. I read in many articles how Vitamin C can

actually worsen arthritis and inflammation. Also, I read another article today

at work about how chemotherapy is less effective in cancer patients taking

vitimin c supplements. Thought all of it interesting and worth passing along.

Be well.

[Guest guest]

It never fails that a treatment touted to be the greatest, Vitamin C, gets

debunked down the road.

Remember how bad eggs, butter, and some other foods were totally bad for us????

Now they tell you that was wrong.

Blessings

Fr. Dave

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REITERS PATIENT AFRAID TO TAKE VITAMIN C EVEN THO IT COULD HELP

Hey, mahavior, hope you are out there reading still. I am slow to

catch up on messages this month.

I did do some research as you suggested, and mostly what I found

were lots of study results posted showing that vitamin C seems to be

helpful in reducing inflammation for various reasons. Mostly it

seems that foods rich in Vitamin C are foods which are rich in anti-

oxidants, which counteract damage done by free radicals;

inflammation is usually part of that damage.

But there's always another side to the story. My poor #1 son (21

y.o.) has had Reiters since the age of 3. His primary symptom

shifted (at age 13) from hip joints to urethritis. As the

urethra/bladder symptoms have worsened, the pain causes everything

up and down the line to go into spasm, and that seems to be the

source of constant tummy issues, too. It got so bad in spring that

he is now on leave from college, and has to see rheumatologist and

pain specialist regularly. He's taking imuran (azathioprine) and

just started enbrel.

Anyway, as you can imagine his whole UTI including bladder, plus his

tummy, are exquisitely sensitive. He is a vegetarian, and was

always an adventurous eater, but he has had to eliminate absolutely

ANYTHING that can contains acid or produces gas. THAT MEANS NO

CITRUS, NOTHING WITH CITRIC ACID, NOTHING WITH ABSCORBIC ACID.

Anything like that sends him into screaming pain as soon as it moves

down the line.

I have a sample of a natural very-high (prescription) antioxidant

supplement which I received from someone in remission from Reiters.

I would love to see about getting it prescribed for him but he won't

even try it because he's so worried about all the abscorbic acid in

it........

bethree

[Guest guest]

Hi Bethree,

I've been slow to read my messages lately also. Regarding Vitamin C, I've

stopped taking the the vitamin for over a month now, and I do feel better. So

for me, reducing (not eliminating) vitamin c by not taking it in supplement form

seems to have worked.

I also wanted to let everyone know who is on Enbrel to make sure your

Rheumatologist monitors your cardiac function, I developed pericarditis

(inflammation of the sac that surround the heart) while I was on it...rare but

can happen especially to " off label " use like ReA. I never?had actual?heart

pain...but I?definitely felt like?something was wrong. ?I stopped the Enbrel,

pericarditis went away pretty quickly, and am back to Azulfidine, which I was on

for over 10 years...I'm also back to regular but relatively mild

arthritis....but I'll take that anyday over heart inflammation.

-mahavior

Re: Vitamin C and Inflammation

REITERS PATIENT AFRAID TO TAKE VITAMIN C EVEN THO IT COULD HELP

Hey, mahavior, hope you are out there reading still. I am slow to

catch up on messages this month.

I did do some research as you suggested, and mostly what I found

were lots of study results posted showing that vitamin C seems to be

helpful in reducing inflammation for various reasons. Mostly it

seems that foods rich in Vitamin C are foods which are rich in anti-

oxidants, which counteract damage done by free radicals;

inflammation is usually part of that damage.

But there's always another side to the story. My poor #1 son (21

y.o.) has had Reiters since the age of 3. His primary symptom

shifted (at age 13) from hip joints to urethritis. As the

urethra/bladder symptoms have worsened, the pain causes everything

up and down the line to go into spasm, and that seems to be the

source of constant tummy issues, too. It got so bad in spring that

he is now on leave from college, and has to see rheumatologist and

pain specialist regularly. He's taking imuran (azathioprine) and

just started enbrel.

Anyway, as you can imagine his whole UTI including bladder, plus his

tummy, are exquisitely sensitive. He is a vegetarian, and was

always an adventurous eater, but he has had to eliminate absolutely

ANYTHING that can contains acid or produces gas. THAT MEANS NO

CITRUS, NOTHING WITH CITRIC ACID, NOTHING WITH ABSCORBIC ACID.

Anything like that sends him into screaming pain as soon as it moves

down the line.

I have a sample of a natural very-high (prescription) antioxidant

supplement which I received from someone in remission from Reiters.

I would love to see about getting it prescribed for him but he won't

even try it because he's so worried about all the abscorbic acid in

it........

bethree