Re: and others...treatment is between you and the rheumatologist

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---hi ebony

your dead right in my expereince

one should look into things very carefully .. and ask this very

important question

why are you being offered this or any specific healing route

this you may find food for th0ught

There are quite a few points to consider one of which is why if

this is so good as you say why are we not being told about it. Why

indeed?

Well I am going to tell you about something that maybe less than 1%

of the population even understand.

The answer –vested interest and quite a bit of apathy and scientific

arrogance.

There are a few very important points that I would like to cover on

the subject of drugs and research and treatment At present the

system in England is this, all treatment recommended by the NHS

should be tested and approved and quite rightly so. Obviously it

costs vast sums of money to test and approve treatments because of

the possible damage to people and the subsequent litigation costing

millions of pounds. The point is this Where does this money come

from to test and approve treatments?

By far the biggest source is the drug companies.

So take for example a researcher might go along to his local drug

company and tell them his findings about this treatment he has been

working on which is of outstanding value but needs testing further

or approving, you might think they would be falling over themselves

to know more –right, you could not be more wrong.

By and large only treatments, which show the promise of good deal of

a profit, will even get examined.

Because they are in business to make a profit, not for serving the

people.

So many of the thousands of therapies which they see as having no

profit potential do not get approved and thus by and large do not

get recommended by your local doctor or hospital.

Despite The fact that some of them do have overwhelming benefits

some, which have saved needless operations, needless amputations,

needless pain and trauma, needless kidney failures and much loss of

life.

This will apply to any country where most research is being done by

drug companies –

they would probably laugh in your face if you went there with a

promising therapy which was so cheap anyone could get it.

Do you really think they would invest thousands of pounds in any

therapy which did not show the promise of good profit.

Your local G.P/ doctor is not a researcher,

in the main he is told…………… what to prescribe …………. he does not

even have the time often to look at research.

In fact some G.P .s doctors have had action taken against them for

prescribing simple supplements. They are in a difficult position in

a way many would like to prescribe many different therapies but many

feel they cannot for action could be taken against them.

This does not help you does it though.

At this minute 2004 approx 5000 Beds are being taken up by people

in the UK who have had adverse reactions to drugs. Some will die

others will be maimed .A serious amount of suffering is taking place

on a scale that makes some wars look like a minor infringement. That

is a fact

So Mr/Mrs patient in 99% of the time because of this system you will

probably only get recommended drugs.

Primarily because of deliberate government policy not to fund

research into other therapies.

Have you heard your local doctor recommend, Massage, Spiritual

healing, Knieisiology Herbs, Light therapy, Colour therapy,

Regression therapy, Osteopathy, Zappers, Magnetic devices,

Electrical Frequency devices.

Has he ever mentioned the power of nutrition what you eat how much

protein, carbo, vitamins, water you take in etc.

Has he ever recommended a detox ..

All of these have shown their inherent worth with thousands if not

millions of testimonials.

As you can see this system in its present state is inherently

flawed, that is

Until the day comes when most of the research and testing is done

by an agency with no vested interests attached and a very clear

agenda of being objective. Acting for the people. Printing and

revealing all results good and bad.

What also clouds the issue further is the fact that some of these

drugs work well but that is not to say that there isn't something

more natural better.

In , Gardenia blossoms

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> You have to do what is right for you. Please don't allow

anyone to bully you into a certain medication or use scare tactics

(for or against a particular medicine) or give the impression all is

well with any particular med.. Depending on the severity of your

condition you may do all of those things and still end up crippled

or you may be helped greatly. Some hate to admit this fact, even

researchers. It is all trial and error and it is all personal to

your particular autoimmune disorder (RA is putting it too

mildly). There are side effects to all of them and it can be as

serious as your friend's reaction or it may be mild. I had them

too.. I took Claritin, Zyrtec, and Flonase a lot of the times, and

also sudafed. It was the loss of effectiveness over time that

eventually caused me to give up certain medicines. Risk of the side

effects as long as there is relief of the pain makes the only sense

to me, when the side effects outweigh pain relief, it is really

> quite pointless isn't it. With some of the meds, you can go up

on the doses, however, as with anything the higher the dose the more

side effects. My hair never quite grew back and my stomach never

fully recovered, and now elevated liver enzymes, so some side

effects I could have done without -- making it difficult to take

the needed pain meds for pain relief without Prevacid and I still

get stomach cramps with the Prevacid I take everyday. That said, I

truly believe you can never know how a medication will work for you

until you try it and I have tried many, you can't know by someone

else's experience. Let the doctor come up with a regimine for you,

then ask lots of questions why he/she is choosing this route. Some

have mild RA and the medicine is a miracle to them, hopefully, you

have mild RA. Just like with any other class of meds, you might

have to try different ones to see which works for you. For example,

I am allergic to penicillin. However, there are many

> people who can safely take penicillin. Your friend might be

like that in that she was allergic to Enbrel and yet others can

safely take enbrel with mild side effects. I think 4 months is long

enough time to take any medication and if you are not better, try

something else. Also, it's okay to ask the doctor when you should

notice a difference after starting a new medication.

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> wishing you all the best possible outcome for remission or to

save your joints for as long as you can.

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> peace and healing,

> Ebony

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