Re: Re: RA and Blood Sugar - from Dew

[Guest guest]

Congratulations on your weight loss and on your excellent blood sugars.

It's amazing the effect that weight loss surgery can have on diabetes.

And in some cases, it happens before the weight loss. I know that you

must feel much better.

As far as RA goes, I am on Enbrel, and it does an excellent job of

keeping the pain and inflammation at a minimum. I have also been on

methotrexate and Arava, but they lowered my white blood cell count too

much. But you do need to be on a medication such as this, called

DMARDS, or disease modifying arthritic drugs, or something like that.

Are you on one, and do you have a rheumatologist?

Sue

On Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at 09:05 PM, Pacific NW Dew wrote:

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> My blood sugars were immediately under control when I had the

> surgery. Now insulin immediately after or since.