Guest guest Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 darla NSAIDs were never designed for chronic use you need to address the underlying causes for your illness, which probably include a combination of autotoxicity and nutrient deficiencies adopt an anti-ama diet (no flour, sugar, milk), eat lots of leafy greens, take nutrients like a high potency multi, MSM, chondroitin/glucosamine and fish oil, and see your local practitioner about specific treatments there are many excellent formulas including some of the guggulus like kaishore and yogaraja than can be very helpful even simple remedies like turmeric and dry ginger root can afford much relief when taken regularly best... todd caldecott Caldecott todd www.toddcaldecott.com On 3-Jun-05, at 2:57 AM, ayurveda wrote: > This is not good news for those of us with arthritis. I take both > drugs and wake up in the middle of the night with pain frequently and > take more ibuprofen and a warm bath or put ice packs on whatever hurts > the most to get back to sleep (ice seems to help most). It is easy to > tell a person to exercise, but if that person can barely move for the > pain, then that is very hard to do. Something that attacks the root of > the arthritis instead of the symptoms only would seem to be in order. > It often seems that these drugs all cause as many problems as they > help: my doctor just put me on prevacid to help with the reflux the > ibuprofen causes. I think with polypharmacy comes more complications, > but have noticed that many of the ayurveda drugs seem to be compounds > and the ones I have taken have not done any damage like the ibuprofen > and seem to work at least as well. I feel I am making a deal with the > devil anymore when I take anything. > Darla Wells Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 The more I read about NSAIDS, the scarier they are. I took Celebrex for 5 years with no problems, except during flares, then I got on Medicaid, got a regular nurse practitioner who got worried by the latest news about the heart and Celebrex and took me off it and put me back on the ibuprofen. Then she had to add the prevacid for the stomach stuff and I am back to square one. I have been scheduled to see a rheumatologist twice and each time something happened to the man--one of them died and one got arrested for having guns and drugs and bomb materials in his office. I am on a waiting list now to see one, but am not optimistic about my chances. I have basically decided that my health is about as safe in my hands as in waiting until my insurance will allow me to see a practitioner. The arthritis is autoimmune/rheumatoid and flour and wheat do seem to aggravate it. Something I ate the other day also made it really bad and I am trying to figure out what exactly it was, so I can avoid it. I am currently working on losing weight which seems to help everything and try to get off the NSAIDS when the arthritis is not in flare. I love greens, fish and ginger and eat them often. Right now my plan is to carefully taper off my NSAIDS and try more yoga ( I used to do a whole lot of yoga, so I know how, it just is painful and I am fat and have trouble with the positions) and lose weight, then see what happens. I would like to get off of all my meds, but can see that that will take awhile. There is no ayurveda practitioner near me that I know of; I am reading everything I can get my hands on in my spare time, but realize that it will take a very long time to gain even a small part of the expertise of the people on this list who have studied and worked in the field. Darla On 6/3/05, Todd Caldecott <todd wrote: > darla > > NSAIDs were never designed for chronic use > you need to address the underlying causes for your illness, which > probably include a combination of autotoxicity and nutrient > deficiencies > > adopt an anti-ama diet (no flour, sugar, milk), eat lots of leafy > greens, take nutrients like a high potency multi, MSM, > chondroitin/glucosamine and fish oil, and see your local practitioner > about specific treatments > > there are many excellent formulas including some of the guggulus like > kaishore and yogaraja than can be very helpful > > even simple remedies like turmeric and dry ginger root can afford much > relief when taken regularly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 5, 2005 Report Share Posted June 5, 2005 Hi Darla please check out my web site to get more info on AI disease www.toddcaldecott.com look under support and education best... todd > > The arthritis is autoimmune/rheumatoid and flour and wheat do seem to > aggravate it. Something I ate the other day also made it really bad > and I am trying to figure out what exactly it was, so I can avoid it. > I am currently working on losing weight which seems to help everything Caldecott todd www.toddcaldecott.com "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." -Richard P. Feynman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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