A Vaccine for Rheumatoid Arthritis
By Brenda Goodman
8/13/08 In a potentially important step toward rheumatoid arthritis prevention, British researchers announced that they will soon begin human testing of an experimental....
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This is such crap! The worst part is there will be people that fall for this.
People remember Vioxx, it was so safe, the miracle pill that got rid of pain and was safer than ibprofen, but wait, not for long, it turned out that in fact it wasn't safe at all and had to be pulled from the market.
RA can be treated with diet and life style changes. You want a healthy immune system, not one that is compromised because of all the chemicals they put in these vaccines.
Vaccines have not been proven to be safe or effective.
I am trying to decide whether to get the shingles vaccine, which is a live, attenuated vaccine. Two doctors have said to get the vaccine, two others have said not to get it. I am confused.
We all know that methotrexate suppresses the immune system, but we also know that shingles is a dreadful disease, so painful that some victims have considered suicide. The shingles vaccine is not recommended for people with a compromised immune system.
So my question is: Does methotrexate suppress the immune system so much that it would be dangerous to get the shingles vaccine?
Thanks for any help.
In may 2011 will be a Conference or a Congress about RA in England .There they will speak also about this vaccin.Maybe is someone who can find out something about it.
What's not mentioned here is how the vaccine is made and what result they are expecting. The "vaccine" is made from the patient's white cells, tagging cells with steroids, Vit D, and unnamed "chemicals." Anyone reading this should be concerned that "chemicals" are not being identified--to ANYONE. Additionally, the response that is hoped for/expected is a SUPPRESSION OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. Color me unimpressed. So, basically, the vaccine is only expected at best to suppress the immune system.
Immunosuppression is NOT A CURE. This isn't cancer and you can't compare the two. Current DMARD treatment gets the same result in most cases, and many patients on long-term treatment begin to lose efficacy from DMARD treatment. Not to mention the side effects, including increased infections, some of which may be life-threatening. Older patients on DMARD therapies may have increased risk of death from these infections, and anyone on immunosupressive treatments are at increased risk of malignancies after the five year mark.
As a health care provider AND a patient with juvenile onset RA/OA for more than 40 years now, there is no cure and this is false hope for patients. I went through my own experimental treatments (without my or my family's permission, I might add), and although the treatment induced a 15 year remission and greatly reduced damage, it was not a cure. I'm now in deep trouble physically, and I've exhausted my conventional treatment options because of side effects.
There is no grand conspiracy against finding a cure; the problem lies in that no one still knows WHY it occurs and what the actual mechanisms are behind the inflammatory process in patients. Knowing this is crucial to a real cure that doesn't just knock out the immune system, which you NEED to LIVE. In fact, the idea that the immune system in RA is simply overactive is an incredibly outdated paradigm; the reality is so much more complicated than this.
The best treatments we have, you all know about. Additional help includes ultrasound therapy, splinting, hydrotherapy, PT/OT, weight control, diet control (pts may respond immunologically to gluten, corn, saturated fats, almost anything...many providers won't encourage the elimination diet, but you can experiment on your own), and rest alternated with realistic exercise (ROM exercises are a MUST).
I've been through so many decades now of false hope, and when the same unproven ideas are repeated over and over again, it's hard not to speak out, particularly being in health care. RA isn't hopeless, but there is no miracle cure around the corner. Living with RA is hard enough; don't put your hopes in a cure, nor accept the snake-oil statements that people "get rid" of their RA with a certain diet, weight loss, etc.
Where do I send financial support for new RA vaccine study?
Thank you kindly.
Oxalic Acid in spinach?
I've read about peppers and recently had my first bout of hand AR at 53 by having eaten a large amount of peppers. Also read against potatoes.
What other vegetables and fruits are triggers??
foods to avoid when you have RA?
Oxalic Acid in spinach (who knew?????)
Spinach is supposed to be good for us.
Thank you
Thank you.
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