Comments on: Neck brace – AHA! There are lots of front fastening ones out there http://pollyannapenguin.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/neck-brace-aha-there-are-lots-of-front-fastening-ones-out-there/ This is a blog about me, my recently diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis and my struggles to stay positive about it! Thu, 23 May 2013 11:06:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: pollyannapenguin http://pollyannapenguin.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/neck-brace-aha-there-are-lots-of-front-fastening-ones-out-there/#comment-97 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:42:18 +0000 http://pollyannapenguin.wordpress.com/?p=89#comment-97 Fantastic – thanks so much for all this info! I shall have a proper read of it all just as soon as work calms down a bit and I get some time to spare! Excellent news about managing to reduce the prednisone so much … everything crossed that things keep going well. Yeah, it seems very odd that the gut problems are based on NSAIDS, and we take NSAIDs to get rid of the RA … so we were, on the whole, not taking them prior … sooooo … it’s not a question of RA being caused by gut problems, as you pointed out. It’s all very odd, but very interesting! I shall look forward to more of your posts on it.

]]> By: pollyannapenguin http://pollyannapenguin.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/neck-brace-aha-there-are-lots-of-front-fastening-ones-out-there/#comment-96 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:39:38 +0000 http://pollyannapenguin.wordpress.com/?p=89#comment-96 Phew – glad it wasn’t me, anyway. I can understand the frustrations of people who NEED disability benefit and can’t get it, but people just milking the system are must maddening!!! Grrr. So I know where you’re coming from. ;o)

]]> By: thetruthaboutjra http://pollyannapenguin.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/neck-brace-aha-there-are-lots-of-front-fastening-ones-out-there/#comment-95 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:20:25 +0000 http://pollyannapenguin.wordpress.com/?p=89#comment-95 PP-
I replied to your comment but I don’t know if wordpress notifies you so i copied my response here!
Yeah, the diet thing is a big unknown. I’m experimenting my way through it…that’s the only way to do it since there has been so little research. I’m seeing enough improvements to keep me encouraged though…I’m down to 8mgs or prednisone! (I was on 20mgs just last month)
JF did reference the part about intestinal permeability and I actually went online to look for the original studies and found a few links for you. If these don’t work, google this: “williams bjarnason intestinal permeability rheumatoid arthritis.” The first three articles and the first link are about the studies on it. Basically it is based on the indirect and direct damage from NSAIDs…the acids in NSAIDs do insult to the intestinal barrier while the COX-1 inhibitors reduce the production of prostaglandins which have many functions including decreasing gastric acid output and increasing gastric mucous output. This still doesn’t answer the question of what causes the arthritis in the first place? There are many other things that cause insult to the gut like an imbalance of microorganisms in the gut caused by years of eating poorly, genetics, parasites, alcohol, stress, medication). Read more at http://altmedicine.about.com/od/healthconditionsdisease/a/TestLeakyGut.htm I am going to keep posting tidbits of info that I find out, but I’ll be better about referencing from now on!
Thanks for your question, it helped me figure out some more stuff!

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1727292

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=williams+bjarnason+intestinal+permeability+rheumatoid+arthritis&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS313&um=1&ie=UTF-8&oi=scholart

]]> By: amandajohn http://pollyannapenguin.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/neck-brace-aha-there-are-lots-of-front-fastening-ones-out-there/#comment-94 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:30:22 +0000 http://pollyannapenguin.wordpress.com/?p=89#comment-94 Hi there! No, definitely not you. I think I found 2 blogs exploring the intricacies of how to milk getting disability and I was so disgusted with it. I guess I did word it a little harsh!

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