Question about Minocin | Arthritis Information
As strange as it may seem, my wife has now come down with probable RA. She has the clinical manifestations of painful hands and feet and her RF was positive. Her RD has put her on Minocin for early stage RA and she has had some difficulty with nausea and general stomach discomfort. Are there any OTC magic potions to help with these issues? Thanks.
It doesn't seem strange to me. ;-) But truly sorry that it happened.
Is she using the Whole Lemon drink to help with herxing? Here's a thread where GoGo and Happ do some interesting research on why it helps the stomach too.
http://www.arthritisinsight.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11 919&KW=whole+lemon+olive+oil
Also, is she on probiotics? It's vitally important for APer's to be on probiotics. Not only does it really help us by replacing the good gut flora we're constantly killing off with antibiotics - but non-APer's have posted here about a major drop in pain levels. A lot of the mausea and stomach upset is gone with probiotics.
Also - those are really common Jarische-Herxheimer reactions when just starting AP. It ususally goes away in 2 - 3 months.
Hugs,
Pip
She could try having some food with the Minocin to combat nausea. You're
supposed to take it on an empty stomach because the Minocin is less
absorbed, but if you have food with it it only decreases the efficiency by
15%. Just make sure to not eat foods with calcium 3 hours before and after
taking it.
I hope that works out for her. I have heard of many instances where very
early RA treated with fairly aggressive AP went into long term or even
permanent remission.Thanks for your replies. I think we will try both the WL/OO and the no-calcium before and after.
Don't forget the probiotics! The only time I thought AP was failing was when I skipped them!
Hugs,
Pip the worried
About minocin. Had but a small amount of trouble with gut problems and my doctor told me that if ate yogurt it would quite likely alleviate my discomfort.
He told me:
1.To eat the yogurt two hours after taking the minocin since the minocin destroyed large amounts of gut flora;
2. To be sure and eat adequate amounts of food containing "prebiotics", which basically are the undigestable parts of fruits and vegetables BUT they are the food source of probiotics; and
3. When purchasing yogurt be sure you purchase yogurt with "live yeast."
You can also purchase supplements but again check those labels. Most of the probiotic supplements sold contain a ratio of bacteria and yeast and he feels the probiotic supplements consisting of only yeast are more effective.
Ah...I have a yeast problem - so, I need to avoid that. Did he tell you what high-falutin' words meant yeast so I can avoid them?
Hugs,
Pip
Am not sure what you're getting at with the term "high falutin' words" so I chose to ignore that portion of your response.
Probiotics are developed from cultures of products containing lactic acid (dairy). Also, there are probiotics consisting of bacteria but I haven't any idea how effective they are or what they are.
Yogurt really isn't a favorite food of mine but I prefer DanActive and "pinch my nose and gulp it down as quick as I can."
WatchingWolf, I've been using Kefir which I make into a smoothie with some
berries (prebiotic!) If you don't like dairy, unpasteurised Miso, sauerkraut,
and pickled vegetables are all good food sources of probiotics. They have to
be unapsteurised or all the bacterias have been killed. Lately I have seen
quite a bit of unpasteurised sauerkraut products at the health food store. I
had some really good sauerkraut with juniper berries in it.
Gimpy-a-gogo39462.4920717593Sorry - my bad.
OK, you know how manufactures have about a trillion words that may mean the same thing. Some lables say "high fructose corn syrup" and others say something like "monoglutenizedthingmcoisis" and you don't know it means "HFCS". I was wondering if there are some additives in my probiotics that I should be avoiding. Santa did NOT bring me the perfect pickler so I'm hoping the Birthday Fairy gets it for my birthday.
Pip, once I read on the Road Back Bulletin Board to avoid probiotics with Streptococcus thermophilus, but when I tried to research it more I couldn't
find any supporting---well, anything. I even asked on the RB board but no
one had an answer. So it's possible that one person was just freaked out by
the "Streptococcus" part of the name.
There is some speculation that soil derived probiotics can overrun your
system the same way candida can, but as far as I know it's all theoretical. I
did stop using Florastor regularly because of that theory. Florastor,
Florasmart, and Reuteri are all yeast based probiotics (I think). I still use
Reuteri pearls almost daily.
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