Reactive arthritis

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Welcome Debera.  We all share your feelings.  Hopefully, we get comfort from

each other.

Jane

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From: Debera Earle <deberaearle@...>

Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:18:56 AM

Subject: Reactive Arthritis

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Deb:

Your symptoms sound VERY familiar.  

Do you know what kind of food poisoning you had?    Helicobacter Pylori ???

Thanks,

Joe

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From: Debera Earle <deberaearle@...>

Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 6:18:56 AM

Subject: Reactive Arthritis

Hello,

My name is Debera and I was diagnosed with Reactive Arthritis about 5 years

ago (my rheumatologist tells me that a episode  of food poisoning I encountered

several years ago is the culprit).   It all started with a trip to the doctor's

office with a severe case of planters fasciitis and from there it took several

years and several bouts of  costochondritis, tender and swollen achilles

tendon,  knuckles and ankles to finally be diagnosed with spondyloarthropathy . 

I am afraid I have been in flare for pretty much of that time with small amounts

of time in-between where I can actually walk, and move about somewhat

comfortably.   At present,  I am taking weekly doses of 12.5 mg of Methotrexate

which seems to be keeping most of my symptoms at bay.  I've join this site so

that I could communicate and share with others.  I sometimes feel very alone and

frightened because I can't control or understand what's happening to my body.   

Debera 

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Marge from rheucaticsupport.net, one of the moderators, posted the following.

I thought some of you might find this interesting.

Carol_DM

MYCOPLASMA AND CHLAMYDIA CAUSE ARTHRITIS

Gabe Mirkin, M.D.

Reactive arthritis means that a person has an infection that is followed by

multiple joint pains.I have said repeatedly that reactive arthritis can be cured

with long-term antibiotics, and in spite of the overwhelming evidence that

reactive arthritis can be cured with antibiotics, many physicians today do not

prescribe antibiotics. This allows the disease to destroy the joints of their

patients permanently and once cartilage is destroyed, it cannot be repaired.

Clinical And Experimental Rheumatology had an excellent article from Germany

showing that mycoplasma and chlamydia are common causes of arthritis. People who

get arthritis after they pick up a venereal disease with burning on urination

usually are infected with chlamydia and usually have a specific factor in their

bloodstreams called HLA-B27, which is part of the body's immune response to try

to kill chlamydia. This study shows that HLA-B27, which is easily detected by a

blood test, somehow tries to kill chlamydia, and that the people who get

arthritis from chlamydia have this protein in their cells (1). Most people who

do not get arthritis with their chlamydia infection do not have this protein in

their bloodstreams.

A second study in Clinical Infectious Diseases shows that a person developed

severe rheumatoid arthritis after an acute sudden mycoplasma infection (2). So,

if you suffer from arthritis, ask your doctor to order blood tests for

arthritis. If arthritis blood tests are positive, you have swelling in the

middle of your fingers or knuckles, you have burning on urination, diarrhea, a

chronic cough, a chronic burning in your stomach, or you are under 50 years of

age, you probably have a reactive arthritis and can be cured with antibiotics.

If you are not treated correctly, expect permanent joint damage. See reports

#J106 and #J159.

1) The modulation of chlamydial replication by HLA-B27 depends on the

cytoplasmic domain of HLA-B27. JG Kuipers, A Bialowons, P Dollmann, MC Jendro, L

Koehler, M Ikeda, DTY Yu, H Zeidler. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology,

2001, Vol 19, Iss 1, pp 47-52Address Kuipers JG, Hannover Med Sch, Div

Rheumatol, Dept Internal Med, D-30623 Hannover, GERMANY.

2) Adult Still's disease associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. C

, V Artola. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2001, Vol 32, Iss 6, pp

E105-E106.Address C, Hosp Virgen del Camino, Dept Internal Med, Irunlarrea

4, Pamplona 31008, SPAIN