Hi everyone. I was diagnosed in 1964 with RA, going on disability in 1992. Last year I started taking natural vitamins and supplements, and my SED rate went from 79 down to 11 as of this month. This is just as amazing to me as to anyone else. My friend calls me "the pudding," as in "the proof is in the pudding." You might want to read my history at anaturallyhealthyyou.com. Yes, I decided to get involved with the company that makes them because I know they work.
Will you send me a 3 month supply for free? If it does half what it did for youI understand not being able to afford it. (My husband is disabled, as well. He lost his sternum, parts of his ribs and collarbone due to an infection from his open-heart surgery in 1997.) I wish you well.
Hi Matthew,
You're right, it is a multi-level marketing company. All I can tell you is that the basic Life Pak has really and truly helped me immensely.
I was diagnosed with JRA at the age of 7. Then I was put into a community hospital for about two weeks, until there was an available bed at LaRabida Sanatarium in Chicago. (At that time it was a hospital for the treatment of children with rheumatic diseases.) They had me on sulfa pills, prednisone, and 38 baby aspirin a day. I continued with therapy there for years after being sent home. Over the years I have taken Clinoril, Ridaura, methatrexate, plaquenil, pain meds, and a host of other meds, of which I'm unable to remember all the names. I was in a research study at Rush Hospital in 2001 for an infusion med by Bristol Myers-Squibb. My bone erosions are in my wrists, hands, knees, and feet. I have had arthroscopies done on my knee, and the removal of a ganglion cyst on my wrist caused by RA. I was told in 1999 that I needed a knee replacement, then my Cobra insurance was exhausted, so the surgery was shelved. The disability insurance I now have charges me 0 per day for the first 9 days in the hospital, with me having to pay the entire amount after 00 has been paid out by the ins. company, then they will again pay a certain amount after I have paid up to 00.
I have wrist splints, a cane, braces, and a walker. I have not had to use anything other than the cane for the past year. The only pain I've been having the past few months is in my right hip. (Last December I had a hairline fracture in my left hip, and one in a rib two years ago.) In February, after having returned to college, I was accosted by a physically able student coming through the handicapped doors. I explained that she had to use the other doors, but she decided to grab my cane, spin me around, and knock me into the bar separating the handicapped doors from the rest. I had to withdraw from the latter half of the semester, as I was injured, unable to drive, and having PT for the next few months. None of this injury was caused by RA, of which I haven't had a flare-up for nearly a year.
I understand your skepticism, as I have lived for years with people telling me out of love, or concern, or just because they think they know better than I, just what I should take that would help my RA. I never gave these vitamins a second thought after starting them. I'm so used to taking pills, with nothing making a notable difference, and these were just more of what I had to take. It wasn't until last December that one of my physicians remarked about my SED rate, and the only thing different in the time period were the supplements.
I went off the supplements for over two months to see if it made a difference, which it did. Only after that did I really believe that they helped.
As for chasing down the pills with one of those juices - no, I don't. The company does offer a juice, but all I can afford is the basic vitamin supplement.
I hope this helped to answer some of your questions.
this may be rude but I don't give a damm what the store is. Its a poster who has never posted before and is talking a but more subtly than usual, about the product she is selling curing her.
Amylynn be careful...this is nothing more than a nicer sales attempt by a multi level marketer
Well said Buckeye.Wow, you guys can really be harsh.
I guess I need to prove it to you , so I must get and show you my lab test results from Cook County Hospital and the Advocate Hospitals/Physicians Lab. I shall contact them Monday to see how to go about getting them. The only things that will be blacked out will be the name of my street and personal I.D. numbers. Must I have it notorized?
This is also a multi-level marketing company, so what. There is nothing wrong with that type of marketing so long as the company makes a good reliable product. If you do not want to be part of the marketing, don't, but use the product because it works! If they pay distributors rather than advertising company's and marketing people to get the information out on theit product, that doesn't change te product.
The main thing is to research the product and the qualifications of the company that makes it. The distribution method just doesn't matter.
IS IT REAL OR IS IT A SCAM WITH ALL THE MONEY AND RESEARCH INTO RA OVER THE YEARS NOW THERE IS A LITTLE UNKNOWN COMPANY WITH THE CURE FOR RA BEING PITCHED BY JANICE MCCANN. I AM NOT YET READY TO SPEND FIFTY DOLLARS A MONTH EACH TIME SOMEONE SAYS THIS WORKS ALSO THIS WORKS SOMEONE ELSE SAYS THIS WORKS BEFORE YOU KNOW IT YOU WILL NOT HAVE MONEY TO BUY THE MEDS YOUR DOCTOR WANTS YOU TO TAKE. IF YOU HAVE MONEY TO BURN WHATS THE HARM BUT KNOW YOUR RA LEVEL BEFORE TRYING THE SUPPLEMENTS LET THE DOCTOR KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TAKING THEN CHECK THE RA LEVEL AS TIME PASSES TO SEE IF IT DOES HELP. JUST DONT EXPECT A CURE JUST LESS IN YOUR WALLET.
MonaVie is a treatment for RA?? My Dr doesn't know that.
I've heard it's just overpriced fruit juice concentrate.
I need more convincing, sorry.
Should we blast the people who come on here saying that Enbrel has put them in remission, or "cured" them? Or Remicade? Or Humira?
I'm just sayin. Ya know. Think before you speak.
And so you know, I do think this is probably a sham, but at least I'm willing and able to look at it calmly. :)
its not the product, its not that she claims it works...its the fact she is a SALESPERSON of said product.
If a sales rep for enbrel or humira comes on the board trying to sell their products they would get the exact same reaction from me.
Point taken buckeye. I honestly missed that. I had to go back and read. ;-)It's true, be aware of this type of sales. I have been using the internet since 1998 and have seen hundreds of people claiming to be a user of a drug or vitamin that worked wonders and cured them etc. when it didn't, they only wanted to make a dollar or two.
Not saying this person is like that, but most are.