Worth It and Giraud W. 's Promise of Joint Repair

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Many thanks to all who wrote in response -- that includes you, (I was

being honest with my feelings, how could I not want the same from you?).

I'm not sure how I ended up writing that message. It started off entirely

differently. That is, the intent started off entirely differently. I sat

down at the computer to ask if anyone had ever experienced joint improvement

as a consequence of Minocin and/or diet/supplements. I am so crippled by

this disease that I need the hope of improvement because we (my husband and

I) have lost so much and, with additional dietary changes, are giving up

some of the few things we can still share. In addition, in the last three

months I have lost the use of two more fingers, when I had thought there

wouldn't be any more joint damage once on the Minocin. It was a real

shocker to see those x-rays. And to learn that my husband, who never

complains about having to take care of me while trying to run a one-man

shop, has developed health problems from the strain of being primary

care-giver was too much. (My mother was crippled with M.S. but it was my

father, who also never complained, who dropped dead from her disease.) We

had been so high after discovering the antibiotic treatment and reading

Scammel's book with all it's promise of the body's ability to repair that

the additional losses were too much to bear.

Back to the original intent. There is a book by Dr. Giraud W.

called A Doctor's Home Cure for Arthritis. In it he has x-rays of joints

that improved on his regime. His diet is pretty extreme: raw liver, raw

veggies, raw milk and fruits, no grains, cod liver oil, black strap

molasses, brewer's yeast. I can't seem to tolerate dairy but from what I've

read, some people who can not digest pasteurized dairy can tolerate raw

dairy. It would mean driving four hours into the next state to be able to

buy raw milk, but if that is the secret ingredient to rebuilding joints,

I'll pay my neighbor's high school boy to do it a couple of times a week.

And I'm sure that I'll find a way to get down raw liver if I have to...if I

know it means getting my life back. Dr. is dead. I've contacted

the Long Island Osteopathic Society, of which he was a member, to see if

anyone practicing every worked with him or used his treatment plan, but no

one responded to my inquiry. On the net I read a message by a fellow who

followed a diet by Mc?Farren? and he had some minor improvement, but

he went on the diet as soon as he was diagnosed with RA and he got the

diagnosis early in the disease. When I wrote to him, he said he didn't know

of anyone like me, who has had RA for a long time, experienced a lot of

damage, and got improvement on the diet.

So, anyone, is it possible for the body to repair joints? Dr. Brown says

the muscles will regain their elasticity through Minocin. But the joints?

Doggone