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Lorraine
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 04:58 PMThat is great!
Ellen
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 12:30 PMHi Laurie, it's wonderful when something as simple as avoiding red meat (unless your husband loves it!) can be so helpful (not to mention inexpensive, with no 'side-effects')
I avoid red meat too, and find it lessens pain. My husband does cook, and eat red meat, and also loves to barbecue, any meat there is (from the store anyway - he's not a hunter!). We'll just share the stuff we both like, and he eats more meat, and I eat more fish... he even cooks fish for me, he's great about that!
Thanks for sharing - I hope your Ra is not as bad, but I have heard that sero-negative does not necessarily mean it cannot be as bad. But I do think sometimes the treatment is different. For some people (maybe like you) the diet does have a tremendous effect. I wish you well!
I'm sorry, I meant Lorraine - the name vanished
Ellen
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 12:31 PMas soon as I hit the "comment" button!
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Lene Andersen
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 07:14 PMIt's hard to say how often flares occur. As you said, some people have constant symptoms, others go into remission and flare intermittently. As far as I know, you can't predict it. My own experience with RA is one of long periods of remission and then walloped with a flare. The unpredictability of it all is one of the most frustrating things about RA. Many people need the extra boost of more than one drug, so you're doing the right thing and hopefully, the combo of meds will get you into a quiet period.
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Hi. I'm fairly new with r.a. - my dr. said mine is sero-negative rheumatoid arthritis - I guess that's a good thing - my symptoms won't be as bad as some people's. Anyway, I am staying away from red meat and in the last 3 weeks my inflammation has gone down quite a bit. Maybe you can try it. Good luck!