Thanks for your comments. My query about the cure/cause was a mild attempt at humor - although there is little humor in trying to live with a condition like arthritis.
Knowing that glucosamine and condroitin are safe helps - I am ready to untake Part II of your prescription, i.e., to DO something, but am having a problem finding out what to read and then what to DO. Am ordering your book because an Table of Contents is easier than trying to move around the "Net."
SIDE EFFECTS - Could you please advise what some of them are? Medication used: Losec, allopurinol & preplusid. Many thanks.
In Reply to: GLUCOSAMINE posted by POIRIER on August 03, 1998 at 16:20:05:
I have been on Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulphates with Manganese for over a year. The "side-effects" I have noticed mostly are as follows...
I am no longer on crutches.
I am rideing a bycycle.
I NO longer take any medication such as Nsaids or Gold-shots.
I have fired my Rhuematologist.
I have a positive outlook for the future.
All my highly deteriorated joints are slowly re-building.
I am walking normally, and will not need knee replacement.
YES...There are many side-effects to Glucosamine!
In Reply to: GLUCOSAMINE posted by POIRIER on August 03, 1998 at 16:20:05:
Dear Poirier (and Mike).
Thanks, Mike, for your testimonial. I know of no conventional prescription drug for arthritis that is not many times more dangerous than glucosamine or chondroitin.
To Poirier: the side effects & how to learn about interactions of drugs with glucosamine have been discussed many times on this bb. Go to the archives & read everything you can find on the subject. I think you will find what you need there.
Walt
Dr.Walt...Tho I am regaining my health slowly and surely thru nutrition and the Miracle of Glucosamine and Chondroitin, I have No progress so far in the reduction of the huge bumps I have on the outside of each elbow. They are each about the size of a golf ball hemisphere. Were they caused by the years of nsaids and gold shots the MMD's (Medical-Money Doctors) pumped into me? My Rhuematoid count was in excess of 650. These bumps were here long before I started on the Glucosimine et-al. I hear that Hydrangia Root and other Herbs synergystically blended may help the system to dissolve these bumps.If so, what might the down-side (possible side-effects)be from such therapy?
In Reply to: Calcium "Bumps" and Herbs. A question! posted by Mike Voss on August 12, 1998 at 20:15:21:
Hi, Mike!
These are going to take years to resolve. Once you are sure that your inflammatory process is gone, you can start counting the years.
I hope you have made contact with Robert McFerran on this website AND that you are doing your skilled relaxation at least twice a day for 20 minutes.
Let us know how you do.
Walt