NSAIDS & Weight Gain

I'm rather disappointed in my doctor. I guess if you go in the first time knowing what you need they think you're going to figure out everything else. She almost let me walk out with nothing but advice to be more disciplined concerning my weight gain. It took the threat of a 500 calorie diet to convince her to prescribe Phentermine. I do notice that I can eat quite a bit less. As for the energy boost, not happening. I don't think that it will be able to override the current effects of arthritis.

It is very clear at this point that the process is going to have ups and downs, good days and not so good days. When a disease has lived in your body since childhood it doesn't seem unreasonable that the end result is a ways off. There really are no other alternatives to consider, so sticking with antibiotics makes more sense than going back to drugs that just cover up the progression of disease.

My husband travels for work and is gone about half of the time. With that my son Corey and I do a lot of projects together. Sometimes I end up doing things I really shouldn't and end up paying in pain. We scraped the garage to prepare for painting and now I am paying for it. Stiffness that wakes me up at night as well as
fatigue. I can hear the crunching in my muscles and tendons. Collagen is destroyed by arthritis. Generally we think of arthritis affecting joints but it does in fact damage connective tissue and muscle. The upside is that when the disease is gone the collagen regrows and function returns with muscle strength.

My letter to the publisher of "The Road Back" was returned to me undeliverable. I am hoping that the publishing house is still open and I will be able to find them. My goal of having a PDF of this book available on the blog is not going to be as easy as first thought.

My husbands cousin has a daughter who is 12 yrs. old and has been suffering from Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis most of her life. A copy of Dr. Brown's book to her parents and am hoping that she will be able to get on this program. I will post an update on the decision that is made for her.