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Rheumatoid Arthritis very stiff and painful in the mornings anything i can do to ease & loosen up?

i have rheumatoid arthritis in all my joints it's very bad i'm taking methoxtrexate and quinine but they haven't worked on me since i can't have steroids any more i'm constantly in pain and in the mornings i'm incredibly stiff and in pain it takes me around 20 minutes to get down the stairs the same to get up stairs and the same to try and dress my self and i can hardly walk or do anything it's not until about midday i start easing up is there anything that would help me stop being stiff for so long

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  • 8 years ago
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    Have you looked into your diet and make any changes? Not known to many, it has long been reported in books, experiences, personal stories and medical research that an autoimmune condition such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, no matter how debilitating, severe and beyond control it is, very often, the solution to this problem can be very simple. It needs not be more complicated than radically changing our DIET and managing our food allergies and intolerances so that our immune system can be calmed; with this, the inflammation and pain we experience will take care of themselves as well. They will have to leave our body eventually. We are what we eat.

    From my personal experience, this has been the case. And I'm just one of so many RA sufferers out there who experienced profound improvements with radical change in diet, especially with an elimination and rotation diet. One of the ways to find out if diet actually and really plays a role in your RA inflammation is as simple as performing a water or juice fast for 4.5 to 5 days. It roughly takes about this long for the allergens to leave our body system. Should you experience great reliefs, no or little pain following the fast (abstinence of solid foods), then this is suggestive that you may be allergic or intolerant to the foods that you are eating on a daily basis. If you remove these allergens from your diet, you will be surprised how much better you'll feel at the end of the trial and error period. There is no one-size-fits-all diet for RA. Each individual is allergic to different things, so you'll have to do the exploration job yourself. Good luck!

  • 8 years ago

    Sorry to say but someone with clearly such severe disease and already on such potent 3rd line therapy, can only take medication advice from her rheumatologist.

    Source(s): GP for more years than I care to remember
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