PMR - Is anyone using Homeopathy treatment rather than steroids?
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Hi, I was diagnosed with PMR 2 1/2 years ago. I wanted to avoid the permanent side effects of steroids, and chose homeopathy. I would say I'm 85% improved and would like to hear of any others who have avoided steroid treatment.
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denise____84544 Healingjan
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Healingjan denise____84544
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I hope the homeopathy does work for you! I have learned that there are different types of homeopathy, those who prescribe for the condition, and then those who are 'classically trained' who diagnose your type and prescribe based on extensive information about you. In the latter, the remedy for one person with AS may be completely different than the remedy for another person with the same condition. My homeopathic physician (who is also an MD) is classically trained. Another homeopathic physician I had seen for a while was not, and my symptoms did not improve with her treatment. My symptoms have lessened by about 85% and some days, like today, I barely feel them. My remedy aims at strengthening my own immune system so it can heal my muscular pain and inflammation.
I have also employed many other kinds of non-drug treatments, including myofascial trigger point release therapy and relaxation techniques. Everything helps.
Very best to you!
denise____84544 Healingjan
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ricky37347 Healingjan
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denise76179 ricky37347
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ricky37347 denise76179
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Healingjan ricky37347
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So glad you didn't have to do long-term steroids. Fom what I read, they shut down your adrenal glands within 2 weeks of beginning treatment and it's hard to get them started again. They are a major player in the immune system.
One of the providers I've been helped by is a D.O., or osteopathic physician. She uses hands-on osteopathy (also called 'ten finger' osteopathy) and for my arms and hands, she had me do something called a 'contrast bath' which is to put your hands into alternating icy water and then very warm water. There are websites which explain how to do it and YouTube has several versions. My massage therapist has also been great for releasing pain in my shoulders, arms and hands, as well as my myofascial therapist.
Be well!
ptolemy Healingjan
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Light ptolemy
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Always remember alternatives works for some people some of the time. Never dismiss them completely.
If some people feel strongly about it and have the patience to wait, great to try alternatives first!
The homepath would obviously have experimented with his own treatment first.
Healingjan ptolemy
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Please read my reply to Denise 84544 above. There are many kinds of practice of homeopathy. My doc would be appalled; she believes that allopathic (regular - not homeopathy) medicine is not well equipped to heal chronic or long term diseases and has seen these respond well to homeopathy.
I'm not a risk taker and chose to do homeopathy, which has NO bad side effects, rather than take the 50-50 chance of getting a chronic, permanent side effect such as diabetes or cataracts with steroids. These statistics were quoted in a French research paper here:
Drugs & Aging 1998 Aug; 13 (2): 109-118
1170-229X/98/0008-0109/
denise____84544 Healingjan
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Healingjan denise____84544
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Light Healingjan
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MTX is designed to 'wreck' your immune system if you've got RA because RA is the result of an overactive immune system that is attacking your own body and thus needs to be brought under control.
Of course it's not supposed to actually wreck it.
What we RA sufferers on MTX and/or steroids have to do is steer very clear of sick or contaminated people, because we do have a compromised immune system.
I'd be very interested to know what dosage your sister-in-law was taking and for how long... possibly something you don't know, but if you can find out, I'd be very grateful...
As to why docs don't try alternatives first...
The trouble is they're completely different departments of the healing industry. So, very different trainings.
And since alternatives usually take much longer to bring on a response and have a poor track record of success for most illnesses, it's understandable that any overworked and underfunded NHS medic – or any doctor, for that matter – would do what works more reliably and more quickly.
The other side of that story, of course, is that after 6 or 8 years of rigorous and expensive training, they are usually reluctant to admit that there's anything their expertise along with drugs from the pharmaceutical industry can't tackle... Or that there might be something you can grow in your garden that would work as well.
Having said that... my own homeopath, a very gifted healer by several accounts, was not able to save his own mother with RA, who died under his watch.
I still don't know the official cause of death...but he did admit to me in all honesty that he had been unable to heal her and would quite likely be unable to heal me.
Please do share your sis-in-law's dosage if you could...