Wow!

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Hi everyone,

I'm new to the group. I developed very sore joints in my hands,

wrists and toes around mid-December. I very quickly found that I was

becoming disabled by it! I was taking two Vioxx's a day to just be

able to use my hands at all. After seeing a rhuematologist in

January, I was tentatively diagnosed as having Lupus. (My CRP is

normal, RA factor normal, Anti-RO antibody very high, ANA 1:200) She

put me on Plaquenil 200 mg bid. I continued to worsen despite taking

all that Vioxx and the Plaquenil.

I decided to take matters into my own hands and started researching

the internet and came across this AP protocol. To make a long story

short, I found an AP practitioner and started taking doxycyline 100

mg bid as of 1 week ago. My pain levels have dropped dramatically to

just overnight stiffness and some nagging daily pain and I only have

to take one Vioxx every 2-3 days. I really can't believe how quickly

this is working!!! :-)

My doctor's regimen also includes Nystatin powder which I just

started today. I am also going to be adding Flagyl in about another

week and will also do a parasite cleanse. (Talk about cleaning all

the beasties out of me!) He also wants me on a 'low fermentation

diet' (no sugar, refined carbs, etc).

I just wanted to thank everyone in this group for steering me in the

right direction and helping me to nip this disease in the bud before

I really became disabled by it or needed to go on all those horrible

medications.

It's hard to believe that more doctors aren't trying the AP protocol

for their patients.. it really works!

Forever grateful,

Toby

P.S. I have a cat that also developed severe arthritis in his hips

and colitis and was on death's door at the same time that I became

sick. I put him on the AP protocol as well (using Clavamox) and he

has totally recovered! (I was able to wean him off steroids as well.)