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linncn
Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:51 AM


 

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Hi. I am new to this board but was dx'd with RA almost one year ago. I currently take 50 mg Enbrel and 25 mg MTX. I was doing very well with this treatment for several months, but have recently been flaring every few weeks. My RD has put a possible switch to Humira or just adding Arava on the table, but I don't really want to do either of these. Am considering AP and am wondering if anyone has had success with this treatment.
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Johnromey
Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 2:13 AM


 

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Well I just switch from Enbrel to Humira. I was on the Enbrel for about a year and I started to get a lot of flare ups my self, and my psorisis started to come back in my fingers and toes again, and the flare ups were get very anoying to where I could not sleep very well...I talked to my RD and she had suggested it after I had asked a few question about it, to tell you the truth I looked it up before I went and had it changed, at first I thought that I was going straight to Remicade with the IV for three hrs treatment, but fist going to start using Humira fist and hopefully that will work, but right now I am having a lot of pain with my feet (plantar Facitis) I have Pscoritic Arthritis, you know with this PA, you are not just have in one area, it is in the feet(ankles,plantar,toes)Knees which has not happened yet, hands, wrists which I have there too, and also the eyes (Iritis inflamation of the Iris which is part of the conditions that go with PA) When I go to the doctors I always joke about how I am gifted with all of this. One more problem I have is that I am overweight too, I should be at about 165, and I weigh 318, you know you really have to watch what you eat with your arthritis and with your meds too, it takes a lot of researching to always find out about it....
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Justsaynoemore
Posted Sunday, January 20, 2008 3:47 PM


 

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JR - I started AP about four months ago, and have completely dropped the standard MTX and Plaquenil. AP is recognized by the American College of Rheumatologists, with parity to MTX, etc. 25% of Rheumatologists are now prescribing AP (usually minocin). Take care
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Maurace
Posted Sunday, January 20, 2008 5:04 PM


 

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I'am from mexico, my name is Maura, I have 60 years old. My phone number is 59-72-48-34. 5 years ago since I was diagnosticated with this. the doctors has been prescribing me with various drugs, but right now the illness has advanced and it seems to me that nothing could stop or at least give me some rest. everynight is the same thing pain, and more pain. i want to discover new treatments to ammeliorate my life
can anbody help me out?
I don't know what to do about this illness.
where can search new treatments and drugs to improve my life. where i can find a specialist in this subject (RA)
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Justsaynoemore
Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:37 PM


 

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I wanted to report that yesterday was my regular two-month check with my one doctor who handles all my care now, and my labs came back perfect, absolutely perfect. This is only since adding minocin and tapering off the MTX and Plaquenil. I feel great, my inflammation anemia is normalizing, and she pulled the double-strand DNA for lupus and it was negative. For years I kept telling the myriad of doctors and specialists I was pawned off to that I thought I had an infection. I had scarlet fever (strep) at age 3, and it was dormant, hiding, until a bad neck injury 7 years ago. Then all heck broke out and I have a working diagnosis of MCTD of RA, lupus, scleroderma, and polymyositis. I did the MTX/Plaquenil/folic acid regime for 18 months and finally got the feeling that my bones were being eaten up from the inside to stop, but that was it. No relief from the pain, feeling sick, malaise, fatigue, coldness, nothing. In just a few weeks on the Antibiotic Protocol there was a huge turnaround in my wellbeing, and now I have the blood work to prove it. Minocin is a DMARDS with parity to the other DMARDS and I wish everyone the best
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elizabeth heintz
Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 4:21 PM


 

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hi i also have ra in the severe stage is minocin part of the penicillian group i would like more info on this please if any one has it
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Grandpavan
Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:03 PM


 

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Welcome to the board.  Almost all the action is in the Rheumatoid Arthritis forum and you can get more answers there.  Minocycline is a Tetracycline derivative and I think it is quite distinct from Penicilin.  A pharmacist should be your easiest source of authoritative information.  I'm not on antibiotic therapy but from what I've read it will be my next effort if my current treatment of Methotrexate and Remicade starts to fail me.  God bless.

Age 82, diagnosed RA 12/2001, married since 1952, 4 sons no daughters, 4 grandsons 1 granddaughter.  Doing well on Methotrexate and Remicade.
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Trish Oh
Posted Saturday, August 29, 2009 4:21 PM


 

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I have read this discussion with interest and give you all my 2-cents worth. I have RA, was diagnosed about 14 months ago. I discovered AP treatment early on and decided to give it a try. I got most of the information about it from the Roadback Foundation - http://roadback.org/ - an absolute wealth of information there about this treatment!

This treatment has really worked for me. I wanted to try this treatment because, being newly diagnosed, I wanted to try the least invasive medication first. Minocycline is known to be a mild antibiotic with few side-effects. I have not noticed any.

So, for anyone wanting to find out as much as possible about the antibiotic treatment I would recommend you visit the Roadback Foundation site. They also have a very encouraging bulletin board there.

Best wishes to you all
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