New help for arthritus? Search the web for dnajp1. Comments please.
That is an interesting prospect. Unfortunately, it is still under development. It's not even in the FDA approval cycle yet.
Do the search on dnajp1. It is now named AT-001.
The drug company developing it is: http://www.androclus.com./devpro.html
There's been earlier discussion about in this forum (found it when searching). Go to: http://www.arthritisinsight.com/archives/test2065.htm.
I'll ask my RA when I see him next. He is at Scripps in La Jolla and maybe he knows what is going on in his backyard. Sounds like it may be very interesting!thats one thing that sucks the fda ..
it takes so much money and so long to do anything new I know you need safety but time is not on our side here.
13 years or something for a new drug...
makes you wonder if we will ever see the benefit of stem cell or genetic research in our lifetime.
If not I really hope some future generation can look back at these things and say how sad they could not fix that.
I had heard some new drug was in the works that can turn off pain... but that sounds kinda risky because how would you know if you were getting worse... on the other hand if someone could giv e me a drug that turned off all my pain receptors I think i would use it.
humara is trying hard to become a UC drug too...
actually many of these drugs are UC drugs also.
it's just to bad they cant find that drug that would work longer than a few months for most of you.
A UC drug? Am I that outa the loop? What is that? LoLuc ulcerative colitisOh good lord. My head was elsewhere. I do know what that is. Hahaha Thank you mark for bringing me out of my fog!
This sounds very promising. Stupid FDA. We are the only country that does this with new meds. All those people who want their damn kickbacks instead of actually passing the drugs and helping people.
I live in WI which is the pioneering center of stem cell research. I am hoping that one of these days...we will get the benefits of stem cell.
Not to stir the pot...BUT.....the format that this post was made in, could easily be mistaken for Spam. Funny how that works, isn't it?Miss Katie,
There is no mistaking this for spam. This is a real medicine that should be going before the mean old nasty FDA. Now is such a great time for medical miracles. With the beginning of the understanding of dna and genetic make-up there is a very good chance that in the not too far future we will be cured of our disease.
Please keep in mind that it is not so much the big bad drug companies that find cures for diseases. It is the colleges and universities that find the cures and discover the meds.
Our government gives billions to the university and colleges to find new cures and meds. They are real people that really want us to be better. They aren't looking to pick your pockets.
Miss Katie you sound kinda very negative. Believe it. People around the world are working very hard to make us better. It's coming soon. The cures that are on the verge is mind boggling. They are on the very close verge of a cure for diabetes. Imagine that. The cure for our disease is coming soon. Hang in there. Make the best of it. The government, the FDA and the drug companies are not conspiring to make our life miserable.
It wasn't too long ago Miss Katie, that people with RA were crippled and dis-figured. The drugs now aren't perfect and yep they have bad side effects but before i started taking the drugs that I hate taking, life wasn't ever fun. Good, bad or ugly the drugs give me function. They are better than what used to be. We all need to be apreciative of the new drugs. We have function.
Conjunction junction, what's your function?
Actually, if you re-read my post, I said I was very happy about this drug. It sounds great, minus the side effects. However - almost all drugs have side effects now, so that's to be expected.
Hillhoney,
I find nothing nasty or insulting concerning my attitude toward Miss Katie. On the other hand, I find your attitude to be a little discoloured. Maybe your husband or significant other let you talk down to them like that. And I'm sure you talk down to your kids like that but listen here, I'm not your husband or significant other. You aren't my mommy and don't talk down on me. And you are right, I don't come here to be as you say "personally insulted". So cut it out.
Well I guess we can open that topic for discussion - perhaps I am wrong. So how about it folks, do you feel that levlarry's postings directed toward Katie have been insulting and nasty?Whatever has happened to this once superior forum? It used to be so very helpgul and supportive but now seems to have degenerated into...well, a place of hate and abuse.
Perhaps a previously unrecorded side effect of RA now being witnessed is hysteria. That's how some of the recent posts have sounded. Totally out of control. Shame on some of you.
If you suffer from RA and/or related problems you'll do better if you turn your energies to helping yourself and others overcome.
Okay George Custanza,
Here's your apology. I apologize. Okay? Do I have to go to the naughty corner too?
You know what? This is the wrong forum for me.I came here for information. I came here for new hope. I came here for a rhuematoid arthritis forum.
Instead I get a forum that hates my government. A forum that hates the bush. A forum with people talking against the war that my country is involved in. The FDA is bad. The drug companies are bad. If somebody says good things about the above fore-mentioned, they are chastised by "the group".
To those that talk against the war that we are involved in. We are at war. You are the enemy with-in. You are the division. United we stand and devided we can fall. Which of you has top security information about the war, the goverment, world government that you can say right or wrong?
When I became sick the government agencies were extremely helpful, courteous and polite and did their job and are of great help to me. Of course waiting for five months for a decision is a long time but what's the choice, just giving it to everyone that applies. Of course all of us are legit but not everyone, no what I mean?
Don't mis-understand, I have complaints about the goverment. There are too many laws. I believe in justice and fairness for all. We should all be treated as if we were all senators. If police don't get tickets, we shouldn't get tickets. That's for another forum.
This is at least the wrong message board. I want to know about drugs on the horizon. I want to know how others felt prior to and at the onset of RA. I want to know if people took a certain pain pill prior to RA. I don't care about husbands and wifes and kitties named fluffy. I want a cure for my disease. I want to know why I have it. I want help for my disease and I want to help.
Concerning the spam: Hey, if i do a search for rhuematoid arthritis alternative I will find thousands of miracle cures. All I have to do is send .95 plus shipping and handling. As hard as it is to accept, we all know that there is no miracle cure. None the less, i sure did spend money on some of the products. Many people spend their food mony just hoping that this one will actually work. If there were a cure, we with RA would certainly know about it. When I do a search for spam, I deserve it. When I go to a free websight I know that they will have paid advertisement. But spam is spam. This one in particular is trying to sell a product that was probably developed because the members here give "good and free advise". They tell all that come knocking with joint paint to heat a sack of dried rice. These spammers just took our good members good advise and turned it into a product for sale. Think about. FREE or .95 PLUS SHIPPING AND HANDLING.
To the one that tried to put shame on others, I'm sure you didn't mean it. For all of us if we look close enough we all have reason.
After I became sick I would think why did I get this? What did I do to deserve it? After giving it some good thought, I realized, "Oh yeah, I deserve it, and I am very lucky that it isn't worse." If I were giving out the pain after considering my own life, I would have given me more.
So, there is your apology, George and then some. Good, bad or uglywise there it is.
Hey George, it's free.
hey larry,
It's to bad people who don't agree with you get you so upset. BUt as far as I am concerned I am glad people disagree with the govt, with MR bush and whatever else they care to disagree about. This is a free country what you consider a war many consider a mistake and that united we stand divided we fall .. To bad I am glad that people disagree Its called freedom look it up sometime .
as for this war so what we have to follow the leader because we are at war... I dont think so and am more than glad the majority of the nation does not either. Your in the minority with your blind faith but thats your right But don't come on here and start calling us the enemy within because we dont agree with you.
we have to agree becaue we are at war... LOL call people who disagree with you the enemy all you wish this is a free country not Iraq get over it. what iraq is now is little more than a puppet of Tehran and that happened under MR bushs watch so as far as I am concerned America is far far better off that people disagree with mR BUSh than agree with him.
America is divided yup and we are a better place because we have the right to feel think write and vote as we please we don't have to blindly follow anyone war or no war. We have the right to think as we please and if it does not agree with your thoughts thats to bad but we don't have to agree with you and you don't have to agree with us but don't come here and call us the enemy within LOL.
I hope the next 2 years are the most interesting in mr bush's politicial life LOL I am glad The american people went to the polls and voted for a change in direction see Americans can still think Independently we dont follow a leader war or no war and thats why we are still the best country out there.
we can think as we please we don't have to worry about the local death squad coming to the neighborhood and american goverment works best divided with checks and balances not with one party in power as far as I am concerned the more divided the better. That way noone majority can push an agenda on the people.I hope congress stays divided for the next 30 years I hardly want to see one party in control ever again.If mr bush can't learn to work with his new deal for the next 2 years I'll hardly lose any sleep over it. And nope I hardly support the dem 's either but I am sure glad the congress has division again our goverment was designed to be a system of checks and balances not a rubber stamp for one mans agenda.
But to call people that disagree with you the enemy thats all on you LOL. This is a free country get used to it.
I would believe you that the FDA is not so bad LOL but after working in the field going to school in a medical profession and seeing far to many people die waiting for the FDA I guess my view may be different than yours.
case in point I had eye surgery in Toronto CA why because my American doctor said hey mark let me be honest the American doc's are 12 years behind the Canadians in this surgery... SO they insisted I leave the good Ole USA when I had my PRK surgery. SO are American docs good at lasek and such now yes but they were not back in 96 and My docs blasted the FDA heavily back then saying they were slow, a burden and a political nightmare.
SO I had great surgery in Toronto a surgery a American doc could only dream of doing back then.
The Canadians had better lasers more experience and had done thousands of procedures where the American docs were brand new just learning and had very old and slow lasers. SO safety is good yes but The FDA does hinder progress and anyone who has worked in medicine knows they do.
Singapore is doing a ton of stem cell research research bush can't touch or stop and many of the worlds best researchers and scientests are moving to Singapore and India
Hey guys, can't we all just get along? Agree to disagee maybe?Seriously, though, levlarry, if you are interested in a site with good, scientific info about RA treatment and a great deal of success, check out www.roadback.org. You may also find a bit of big-pharm bashing, but most there feel that the blame lies with the docs who do not give their patients the option of a safe, clinically proven treatment.Hey levlarry-untie your panties from that knot. It might do wonders for your arthritic pain. (Sorry-I couldn't help it.)