Non-APer fizz experiment | Arthritis Information

 

Hi all,

Sorry this took so long.  Life got in the way.  Okay, so I read the instructions from Gimpy and soaked my hand in a tub of hot water with epsom salts.  Made sure there was a lot of salt in the water.  Soaked for about 20 minutes.  Sprayed Hydrogen Peroxide on my hand that I had soaked.  Nothing happened.  Sprayed a little more HP on my soaked hand.  Still nothing.  The only thing I did experience was a warm feeling in my hand but I had no spots appear, burning, nothing.  Sorry this is so anticlimatic considering the wait.  The hand I chose was the one where my wrist bone has been jutting out for about 2 weeks now.  I figured if I was going to get a reaction that would be the hand it would happen with.

So, my non-APer fizz test results are no fizz, no spots.  Just a bit of a warm, tingling feeling but nothing else.

 

MmmHmmm *nodding future Nobel Prize for fizziology winning head----NOBEL PRIZE? Pffft---that olod thing!* ....so so far we can conjecture the ABX has something to do with the fizz portion of these baths.

Thanks for helping us out with that experiement. I hope your hand at least enjoyed it's "spa" day!
You're very welcome.  I hope it did help considering nothing happened. But as you said, it has to be the ABX that causes the fizzing.  Maybe AP brings something out of the body that reacts to the epsom/hydrogen bath whereas mine was just a "spa day" as you said.  Let me know if I can be of any further assistance to your future Nobel Prize willing self.  When I see my new RD hopefully this month I'm going to ask him about AP therapy.  I'm curious and considering I haven't been on anything stronger than OTC Naproxen for over a year and have managed fine, I figured why not try AP and see what it can do.  If he starts me on AP, I'll try this fizz test again and see what happens after AP.Well, the idea IS that the Minocin draws the mycoplasm out of it's hiding places so that your immune system can attack them. When I have a ES/HP bath on non-ABX days I have less of a fizz experience than when I do it a few hours after ABX. I know it's not really very scientific, but something is going on with cause and effect!

I think your plan to try AP is a good idea, considering you can still take the naproxen. Just be sure to also take probiotics! Let us know how it goes and don't be shy to ask questions!
I won't be shy at all about the questions.  I've been curious about AP since reading so much about it on the board and also email conversations with Pip.  When she explained the concept behind it, I was floored because I can personally link infection to my RA and my flares.  I was in a 20 + yr remission and then moved to Florida, got my first bad cold/infection in 20 yrs and went out of remission.  All this within weeks of each other.  So, now I'm hoping I can get my new RD to see things my way.  I understand that it can be a bit hard to convince them to do AP therapy instead of traditional RA meds.  I'll keep you all informed.
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