She put me on 100mg of Minocin twice daily. I took my first dose just a few mins ago with the rest of my night time meds. And I will take the next dose around noon time tomorrow. Joonie, that's great! But don't lie down right after you take it....you have to wait at least 1/2 hour. Good luck with your AP!
Oh I took my new pain med about an hour ago, there is no laying down for about oh... 4 hours
I am sitting up now at hubby's computer came out to get something to drink and get on the internet. Well, if you have any questions just ask. It seems confusing at first
but once you get the basics down it's a pretty simple protocol.
It's really important to take probiotics, though, or eat probiotic
foods (live culture yoghurt, kefir, unpasteurized sauerkraut, or miso).
That might be tricky on a tight budget. Homemade sauerkraut is cheap
but it's a lot of work cutting and pounding the cabbage. Miso is the
most economical. Just make sure you use the unpastuerised live culture
miso. Or if you drink milk every day already making kefir would be cost
free after you got the basic stuff. You can make Kefir with rice milk
or water but you still have to grow them in milk sometimes to feed them.
Ok... that was all greek to me
Oh and Pip! was this the antiboitic you were referring to me to take because of my Tiena Vierscolor?
Haha, the antibiotics kill off good microbes in your gut as well as the bad micros, and you need to replenish them. Probiotics are beneficial microbes that live in your gut andhelp you digest food and keep you healthy. (It's the anti and the pro of the biotic world). To replenish the killed good bacteria it's necessary to ingest them. You can buy probiotic supplements at most supplement outlets, or you can eat foods that have probiotics in them. Lately I have been interested in getting more of my supplements from food so I have been reading a lot about probiotic foods. I am your source of probiotic food information if there's anything you want to know about. I can really go on and on and on about it. Joonie, I think I'm confused. Are you taking minocycline to try long term AP or just a short course for some problem?Yeah Joonie!
You really need to take a lot of probiotics. If you don't like to eat a lot of the stuff mentioned (oddly, I've been craving sauerkraut lately and I don't even like the stuff) you should get some pills to make sure you are getting enough. If you take enough, it will probably start cutting your pain level A LOT. Think of it as just another med.
Hugs,
Pip
Posting this thread made me want to go and read more about prebiotics and I found this list:Food Sources of Probiotics
(source: www.cancer.med.umich.edu/news/pro09spr02.htm)
Food Sources of Prebiotics
(source: www.cancer.med.umich.edu/news/pro09spr02.htm)
JOONIE - WHAT WAS THE QUESTION? LOL
I am so glad for you, and I hope you have some results.
GoGo, you are a wealth of information. Thank you.
So Joonie, you need to do a couple of things here, the first one is the probotics, and the second one (which I neglected to do and now have elevated liver damage blood results) is the lemon/olive oil drink. I didn't bother because I thought I knew better because I do prototics, and liver flushes with colonics, have taken vitamins most of my adult life, blah blah.
Yogurt it is for you then - try to find plain, not flavored, just one less bad chemical in you. There are lots of good probiotic pills OTC at your health food store. Your new best friend should be your health food store :) And by the way, cottage cheese with olive oil everyday is very good for everyone.
The lemon thing is a cup of water, one cut up lemon with everything (seeds and all), one tablespoon of cold-pressed oil oil, and blend, strain, and drink. I do it straight like a real woman and don't use any of this stevia (which I use already too) like some whimps
This is essential because if the theory holds up, the germs or "mycoplasma" causing the RA die off, are carried to the liver to be processed, and you cause an overload. Scottie, I need a little bit more power here.
And one half hour after taking the minocin, try the hot compresses soaked in epsom salts, and then try to spray on some hydrogen peroxide.
Now, after that, I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!! You sound like you know this is going to work. I can tell from your post, and after to working with patients for 15 years, I truly believe the patient knows instinctively what is right.
Keep us informed and remember, this can be up to three years, but who cares about that part? Love you g/f Cathy Edit PS: The Magic Bullet blender/juicer is the best, and buy the warranty too.
Thanks for the info JSMN & Gimpy.
Ok, I would like to state that I believe the anit-biotic is working already. Because as of last night while me & Gimpy were going back and forth my right knee was soo swelled, hurting and hurt to even just touch it. And this morning it is hlaf the swelling, only hard swell which means the swelling has gone down and that will go away soon. And I can bend and straighten my knee a whole lot more than I have in a couple of days. I have no pain going from my knee up to my hip, like I was and the muscle twitching is almost nil.
Now... before I took the antibiotic last night I felt I was heading down the saem path as I was when I had to go to the ER. I was like that for almost a month, and took 2 shots in the butt to get it to ease up and go away for a month.
It is pretty nice that the antibiotic is working for me already. She said it would help with my swelling, but I had no idea that it would do this well. Sure I was a skeptic, but now I am reformed. [QUOTE=justsaynoemore]
PS: The Magic Bullet blender/juicer is the best, and buy the warranty too.
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OOwwwww.... that is what hubby has been wanting! I think I will tell MIL that is what hubby wants for Christmas
I know I always sound like the voice of doom - but JSNM and GoGo are right. You've been sick a long time and you have a ton of microbes to process out of your body. As more and more of them are killed off, they have to get out someway, and that's the liver. When your liver 'backs up' from too much to process, you'll 'flare' again - only APer's think of it as a Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (a temporary worsening of symptoms). You have to make it as easy as possible on your liver so the med can do it's magic.
And it will do it's magic. You have to work thru it!
Hugs,
Congrats!
Pip
Joonie Joonie Joonie!!!! I didn't even know this was in the works!!!Oh well... ya win some and ya lose some
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