Chris /resigned to taking DMARDS

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Thanks Chris... I'm trying very hard to be grateful and positive that these

drugs are available to me, and see this a positive step in the right direction,

instead of something negative.

Thanks for the reminder... I now realise there's a fine line between chemical

and natural, so yes, no need to be so scared of drugs as you say. For example,

one supplement i recently took is chlorine dioxide. Now if that isn't a potent

chemical, i don't know what is ! If i can ingest that stuff, i can take

anything. The trouble is that it burned my stomach so i had to stop. Otherwise

i thought it was helping me. I know a lady who says she cured herself of RA

with it.

all the best,

Leonie

[ ] Re: resigned to taking DMARDS

Date: Saturday, 4 October, 2008, 3:28 PM

Leonie,

I understand how you could want so badly for RA to be treatable with

other means than powerful drugs. Try not to be too hard on yourself.

It isn't as if you sat around and did nothing about it.

I am not saying that some people don't get results with alternate

treatments, but I have to wonder how many were misdiagnoised with

their illness from the beginning.

My poor mother tried any and everything to help her osteo arthritis.

No matter who gave the advice, she would follow it. Nothing helped,

ever. Having both knees replaced was the only thing that ever gave

her relief and mobility.

I pray that you get good results going forward.

Shirley

>

> Hello all,

> After years of taking " natural " remedies for my RA, i've finally

> figured out that while they help to calm the disease, they don't

stop

> join and organ damage, and I've finally becoming crippled after

all,

> like the doctors warned me. Besides, i haven't had a life all

these

> years anyway - i've still been terribly fatigued and depressed,

and

> not terribly mobile due to bad knees. I've been too sick to work

and

> just sat at home lonely and confused most of the time. The

thought

> of taking all those toxic drugs always scared me to the point

where

> i've allowed my health to deteriorate rather than take them. I

don't

> know whether i would be better off now had i taken DMARDS from the

> beginning. There's always someone to tell you a horror story about

> how DMARDS chew you up inside and kill you, which doesn't help.

Sure,

> it doesn't make sense to throw toxic chemicals at a sick person,

but

> what choice do we have ? A few ppl have cured themselves of RA and

> other Autoimmune disease with natural methods, but they are in the

> extreme minority. It's only hitting home now how ruthless this

> disease is. Besides, i've always taken Celebrex which is an awful

> drug - now i have an ulcer which i can't get rid of. God knows

what

> other damage it caused in my body. I suppose with taking Celebrex,

i

> was able to delude myself further that i was ok and didn't need

> DMARDs. That's why i would like to mention to ppl like Brad, that

> while you can control the pain with NSAIDS incl ibuprofen, the

> underlying damage of RA is still going on. It's still eating away

at

> your joints. Now i need knee replacements and probably many other

> joints too. I hope it's not too late for me to take methotrexate.

> Thanks for listening. All the best,

> Leonie

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