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Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, inflammatory, multisystem, autoimmune disorder. It is a disabling and painful condition which can lead to substantial loss of mobility due to pain and joint destruction. The disease is also systemic in that it often also affects many extra-articular tissues throughout the body including the skin, blood vessels, heart, lungs, and...

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Chelation Therapy For Arthritis

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i found out something today that i am a bit skeptical about.. i heard from a friend that she knew someone that had chelation therapy for their arthritis, and it helped them to the point of almost curing them.. she said that chelation therapy also helped one of her family members with their cancer... ok.. i know a little on chelation. my fiancee has zinc poisoning to the point that he cant use odor eaters or certain dandreff shampoos because the active ingredient is a form of zinc, so yea, i've done a little research. but i decided to humor her anyway. when i got home i googled it, and to my suprise there were ALOT of articles on chelation helping arthritis AND cancer.. now, all that would be fabulous IF it actually worked. have any of you heard anything on this?
lycesq
lycesq
Nope and I am a total sceptic on alternative therapies. that doesn't mean I won't look at it, but it will be with a jaundiced eye. The reality is that we have disease that chews up joints and most of the alternative therapies do not address this or deal with it. I wish it were different (would love the magic bullet) but after 7 years, I know what I have and know what I have to do.

Many hugs,

Lynne
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Chelation therapy - that removes toxic elements from blood stream (like the zinc you mentioned), right? I wonder what they'd be removing if it was used for arthritis (or for cancer, for that matter?) It's enough to make me curious too. I'll have to do some resarch as well...let me know what you learn? Thanks. Lisa
Bistro
Bistro
Ditto to all three of you. Always worth the research. Sadly, if it seems to good to be true ... it might be.
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well i have had ra for about 20 yrs now. i know there isnt a magical cure for it,i stopped looking for that a loooong time ago.. i am just always on the look out for something that might lessen the pain . the only other alternative thing that i found that actually helps is fish oil supplements. i was able to move soo much better, and it lessened the pain a little, but it also tore my stomach all to pieces so i had to stop. i always run things like that by my dr. first, and he said that was the only alternative at that time he could think of that would be safe for me. oh well *L* one of the articles i read was talking about 'Copper chelation with tetrathiomolybdate suppresses adjuvant-induced arthritis and inflammation-associated cachexia '. if that helps to understand it any. *L*
Bistro
Bistro
It IS interesting and worthy of looking into. I cannot imagine having this for 20 years. I also take fish oil. It is a perscription called "Lovaza". I take 4 of those a day (1 G each). They do not have that affect on my stomach, sorry to hear it did that to you. It might be worth trying again if you were taking otc, maybe the script wouldn't bother your stomach - ? I agree, it helps me too.
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