28 yrs old with PA and looking advice from you

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hai,

iam sikku..iam doing masters in california...

Iam 28 yrs old and PA is making worse..

The proble is the progress it is making.. 2yrs and 3

months of PA, it is progressing..

all joints even jaws are affected.. i can still do

physical work. I can't afford costly medicines as my

insurance covers 50%, which means i have to pay 750$

from my pocket..

I will be getting a better job and will be taking the

best medicines..

Meanwhile i would like to use supplements..

Can you please let me know the supplements available

for PA...

I really want to lead a normal life with marriage,

kids.etc.. I dont know how PA is going to affect

that??

I sincerely need your advice....

With Love

sikku

--- hannah_disney <hannah_disney@...> wrote:

> Hi Joy,

>

> I am also 26 but I have had PA for 15 years, since I

> was 11. I

> haven't been on anything but tylenol and motrin for

> the past five

> years because I have been pregnant and nursing with

> two girls which

> are now 2 and a half and 9 months, pretty much back

> to back. I have

> had really bad progression between pregnancies where

> pretty much all

> of my joints are covered, and my fingers are

> starting to deform. My

> pain has been so bad, motrin does nothing but offer

> little comfort.

>

> Last month I read a great article in Reader's Digest

> about Vitamin D

> supplements helping people with chronic pain, mainly

> because we

> don't get as much sunlight as our ancestors did,

> yada yada. So I did

> more research and decided to try it, along with Flax

> seed oil caps,

> which has claims to be good for psoriasis.

>

> I started taking the supplements 8 days ago and

> found that they are

> helping substantially with the pain, along with my

> motrin, which I

> am taking less of. I have a better range of motion,

> although the

> swelling has not gone down, and the muscle pains are

> almost

> completely gone. It was a completely unexpected

> wonderful surprise.

> I went from pain level 12 (on a scale of 1-10) to a

> 3-6, depending

> on the time of day. I am taking 400iu Vitamin D3

> twice per day and

> 1000mg of organic Flax seed oil 4 times per day, and

> they are so

> cheap at your local drugstore. I can't tell you

> which is helping

> more, but I am certainly not going to stop taking

> one to figure it

> out, I just go with what works!

>

> I would love to hear from you if you take them and

> they help, I

> would be curious to know if other people are having

> the same type of

> results. I thought if I felt anything it would be

> over a longer

> period of time from the articles I have read, but I

> found relief as

> soon as the next day. I keep thinking I am going to

> wake up from

> this dream, but everyday it is the same relief....

>

> Hannah