Reactive Arthritis v. Reiter's Syndrome

What you call you disease affects the quality of your medical care, as with reactive arthritis. For more information visit: http://www.conqueringarthritis.com


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• reiter's
• syndrome
• rheumatoid
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[MrBadalkumar]

hello , i am a medical student and feel sorry that you were not treated appropriately by 2 doctors and want to thank you for your experience . take care .

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

@MrBadalkumar Thank you for your kind comments. I wish you all the best in your career as a medical doctor.

[nico1blue]

There is movement that the term Reiter's syndrome should be phased out, partly due to a move in the field of medicine to give descriptive names, rather than personal names, to conditions, and partly due to Dr. Reiter's experiments in Nazi concentration camps.

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

@TheUnion5 Actually, I am completely cured. I can run, walk, swim, jump, bike, hike, take martial arts classes, etc.

[Nascent99]

@molongtrev

What areas of the body did you have issues with in regards to the arthritis? Are you still in much pain and do you have permanent joint damage?

[TheUnion5]

@RheumatoidArthritisx

i hear that, but in reality you're not really completely cured, are you? can you run? if not you should probably seek a specialist. apparantly the medication we're talking about used in this study is only accessible through a specialist, since one of them are used in treatment of leukemia, from what i understand.

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

@RheumatoidArthritisx The study also mentions that 30-50% of people with reactive arthritis go on to develop a chronic form of the disease that can go on indefinately. That is what happened to me. I no longer had any infection, so I had to look to other ways to break the cycle of inflammation/autoimmune reaction. The other ways to break the cycle that I found are described in detail in my book, Conquering Arthritis.

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

@TheUnion5 From what I can tell from what I read when I googled "dr. carter + reactive arthritis" Dr. Carter's study is an important one. It makes good sense to me that if someone has a chronic infection triggering reactive arthritis, that they will need to get rid of that infection to heal. My guess is that the 22% of volunteers who healed after taking 2 months of antibiotics must have had a chronic infection that then cleared up.

[TheUnion5]

fascinating. could you google "dr. carter + reactive arthritis" and get back to me with a comment? a recent double-blinded study showed that a combinations of antibiotics over 2 months cured over 22% of volunteers involved.

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

RE: tramadol The downside of trmado, like any opiate pain reliever, l is that It can be addictive and you can experience withdrawals from it. The downside of any pain reliever is that there are always some types of pain that they can't seem to touch. Pain relief can be good, but the other downside is that they don't treat the underlying problem, so they are a stop-gate measure, not an ultimate solution.