Your MSM Information Request

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Dear Gail, this is a copy of an exerpt from the little phamphlet which I

purchased from the Health Food Store regarding the MSM. I don't use the SPES

so cannot help you there. Best of health. p.s. This is quite long so you

might want to print it out.

Gail wrote:

> What are SPES and MSM please?

> I am new to this list and am finding it fascinating reading all the

> messages. No one else I know has come down with RA like I have: people

> comment that they have arthritis and it is no big deal, and at times I

> wonder if it's my head that's screwed up. But people on this list

> describe my symptons exactly, which is very reassuring. So thank you

> everyone.

>

> I have had RA diagnosed since January 2000, though there was something

> wrong for several months before that. I have been on the AP (I've worked

> that one out) since the end of February. 200mg Minocycline 3x a week and

> 200 mg Cerebrex each day. I am also on a very strict diet. Over the last

> few days I have experienced what may be a " herx " - an extremely painful

> flareup of all my joints, pain where I imagine my kidneys are, chronic

> fatigue - all lasting all day and most of the night. This happened 2

> days after a few days of social activity where I gave away my diet and

> just ate and drank what people gave me. Are herxes related to diet in

> any one else's experience? I am not going to monkey about with the diet

> again, just in case.

>

> A further question: I was expecting that I could be completely cured

> seeing my RA was caught fairly early. Do people actually get cured? Or

> do we just get a lot better and have to stay on these drugs for the rest

> of our lives?

>

> Thanks

> Gail

>

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