Late night site viewing, and ran across your old post saying you were starting AP in 2/07. How have you been doing???? I just picked up my first script of minocycline today, so I am most interested in your journey since 2/07. Hopefully you visit this site once in while. With no prescription coverage, this 'generic' has an artificially (controlled) cost way beyond any other antibiotic this old. Called around, Walmart was the least expensive @ $66.78 for a one month supply. Gotta love the Big Pharma boys! Ruthless, and that's even too kind of a description of the stranglehold they have on Americans!!
Anyone else having/had success with AP? My treatment has been on hold for six mos. trying to find a rheumatologist that would talk to me about AP, let alone get it going. Only downside is my rheumy says it's imperative to arrest the aggressive track my RA is on in the meantime, which means getting on some heavy hitters. He's 'talking to his pharmaceutical agent' to try to get me free biologics. Can you believe that! I shudder at the thought of biologics and their potential side effects, but hopefully this will work out in conjunction with the minocycline. Can't keep potentially rotting my stomach out with ever-increasing amounts of OTC pain killers just to minimally live, so what does one do?
Too bad it is way to profitable to NOT have a cure for RA and other autoimmune diseases..........
DC Whitfield
Hey Tava - can't help much with OA - have you tried aqua aerobics? They really helped me.
Hey Lauren - I've got some regular epsom salts I was going to try. I'll tell my hubby to get some of the peppermint ones from Kroger when he's back east!
Pip
Supps are Milk Thistle, Black Cohosh, Bromelain, Potassium, Magnesium, Calcium, NAC, B12, Hawthorne, CoQ10, MSM, Tumeric, and weaning Melatonin! PROBIOTICS, PROBIOTICS, PROBIOTICS!!!
Occassionally Nystatin, Diflucan, GSE, Oil of Oregano still sitting on the counter!
Feel free to PM me about the Antibiotic Protocol~
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. Hippocrates
Jacki