rheumatoid conditions

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Does anyone have any information about Lupus or other rheumatoid conditions

that may have effected WLS patients?

Shoshannah

[Guest guest]

Sho,

from what I have been learning lately, approximately 30% of the

gastric bypass patients develop " metabolic bone disorders " and of

course, I am in that 30%. I printed off an article about that same

topic yesterday at work, and it was 53 pages long. I can post the link

as soon as I find it again.

Me

[Guest guest]

I know you asked specifically about Rheumatoid and that is

joints/cartilage and not " bone " , but they are all bone related so here

are the links I was referring to.

http://merck.praxis.md/index.asp?page=bpm_viewall&article_id=CPM02RH400&show_ban\

ner=no

http://www.bariatricoperation.com/articles/Bone_Loss_OSG_p685_s.pdf

http://www.bariatricoperation.com/articles/Bone_Loss_OSG_Masonj3oju.pdf

and for the chemistry majors....

http://www.growley.com/mywls/research2/ott.html

[Guest guest]

" Sheila Renae " wrote: Rheumatoid is joints/cartilage and not " bone " ,

but they are all related

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I have severe long bone shaft pain, mostly both humerus's (upper arms)

and bilateral hip bone pain. I told my mother 18 months ago that if I

didn't know better, I would think I had " bone cancer " .

Just now, a year and a half later, I am finding out about, " Metabolic

Bone Disease "

I hope I can start feeling better now that my pain has a name!!!!!

My specific rhematoid labs were all normal, but I told them it was my

shafts, not my joints, so I was pretty sure it wasn't RA or rheumatoid

related.