Arthritis and Diabetes

I enjoyed your article very much - it was like reading some about myself.  The difference is I am a woman who weighed 370 instead of 312, and since I have been on Byetta the past year, I have lost 45 pounds and yesterday was my first day at the Y starting a supervised exercise program!  All the other things you tried, (including the Omega supplement) I have tried.  I even tried getting shots in my kneecaps from an orthopedic surgeon that was supposed to help, but only made them worse. 

I am feeling optimistic about my new program and feeling better with the weight loss, even though I have a long way to go.

Do you have any other remedies for pain you could suggest?  I take Tylenol very sparingly because of the liver thing.

Good luck with your mountain climbing and thanks for the nice article.

I wonder what the difference is between Saponis which are in Yucca (which I use for Arthritis) and unsaponifiables which you mention above. The root word seems the same.

I know that the pain has just gone away with one or two pills a day.  It comes back when I run out.  I know thay race horses are fed a scoop of Yucca a day to extend their racing life.  Since I value myself as much as a race horse I have been taking Yucca for many years. The result is that I have no swelling in my joints and compared to my brother and sister I am vary active.  I also walk a few miles daily before I go to work. 

Carole

After reading a previous article David wrote about krill oil, I started taking 1,000mg daily for about three months.  I use the NSI brand from Vita-Cost (very reasonably priced):  http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-KriaXanthin-Antarctic-Krill-Oil-with-Natural-Astaxanthin-1000-mg-300-Softgels   Two years ago I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis of my right knee.  The orthopedic doctor told me I was less than ten years away from total knee replacement (I was 53 at the time) as the cartiledge was almost non-existent and my severe debilitating pain was from the bones rubbing together.  He prescribed Mobic but it did not help.  I used to lie in bed and cry at night because the pain was so bad that I could not get adequate sleep.  And I hurt all day long.  I was beginning to think I would not make the ten years!   About six weeks after starting the krill oil I noticed my knee was not keeping me awake and my pain had reduced about 50%.  Then sometime during this past month I suddenly realized that my pain was nothing more than a slight twinge!  I would have to describe the transformation as miraculous.    On a side note, my total cholesterol has gone from 274 to 117.  I don't know if it is the krill oil, my Armour-Thyroid I started about the same time for hypothyroidism, or a combination of the two; but I am so glad that I no longer have to take a statin.   I am so grateful for David for publishing that article and pray others have the same success that I have.

I thought I had arthritis as well, my feet have been killing me, but then it turned out that I have an extremely high content of uric acid crystals in my urine, this is the same thing that can lead to gout, plus it leads to arthritis type of symptoms. The diet that I need to be on to reduce the uric acid is a very low protein diet, and is throwing off my diabetes diet somewhat. I have been looking thru your site and others as well to find out more about the connection between type II diabetes and this condition, but have not seen enough to clarify it for me yet, though it is clearly connected. Any suggestions?