Guest guest Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 On page 124 in The New Arthritis Breakthrough, Dr. Brown wrote back in 1989, " I have found that as a rule, when an osteoarthritis patient complains bitterly about the disease, it is because there is a component of rheumatoid arthritis mixed in with it. Until fairly recently it was very difficult to demonstrate the presence of rheumatoid arthritis in that kind of combination, because the osteo obscured the picture. However, the bone and joint scan has greatly illuminated the picture in recent times by revealing inflammatory reactions associated with the calcium pressure points. " This population of perhaps 10 million arthritics who have both forms represents a major added challenge, because a safe method of treatment is needed to allow the physicians to probe therapeutically. It makes no sense to probe a possible combination of osteo and rheumatoid with gold or penicillamine or Plaquenil because the drugs are so dangerous to begin with. Until the bone scanner came along, many physicians chose to deal with the problem by concluding it wasn't there; they said there was no such combination, and that the patient had either osteo or rheumatoid but never both. We have found through our own use of the bone scanner and tests for the mycoplasma antibody that approximately half the cases of osteoarthritis involve some degree of the rheumatoid form. " The AP should be used first to bring the RA to remission, and then prolotherapy can be used to repair the joints. Ethel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 Ethel, I agree that you are probably right that I have some RA mixed in though it doesn't show up in blood tests. When I went to s Hopkins rheumatology and suggested that, they laughed at me! But then I do have the mycoplasma antibody. Does that mean in itself that I have some RA? On Jan 20, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Ethel Snooks wrote: > On page 124 in The New Arthritis Breakthrough, Dr. Brown wrote back > in 1989, > " I have found that as a rule, when an osteoarthritis patient complains > bitterly about the disease, it is because there is a component of > rheumatoid > arthritis mixed in with it. Until fairly recently it was very > difficult to > demonstrate the presence of rheumatoid arthritis in that kind of > combination, because the osteo obscured the picture. However, the > bone and > joint scan has greatly illuminated the picture in recent times by > revealing > inflammatory reactions associated with the calcium pressure points. > > " This population of perhaps 10 million arthritics who have both forms > represents a major added challenge, because a safe method of > treatment is > needed to allow the physicians to probe therapeutically. It makes > no sense > to probe a possible combination of osteo and rheumatoid with gold or > penicillamine or Plaquenil because the drugs are so dangerous to > begin with. > Until the bone scanner came along, many physicians chose to deal > with the > problem by concluding it wasn't there; they said there was no such > combination, and that the patient had either osteo or rheumatoid > but never > both. We have found through our own use of the bone scanner and > tests for > the mycoplasma antibody that approximately half the cases of > osteoarthritis > involve some degree of the rheumatoid form. " > > The AP should be used first to bring the RA to remission, and then > prolotherapy can be used to repair the joints. > > Ethel > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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