Hi.

I have RA for almost 2 years. I use tylenol or an anti-inflammatory  on occasion. 

I am not taking any other meds for my RA. I have it in most of my joints. I do eat a very limited diet. Vegies and fish. And try to drink a lot of water. I do eat fruit. 

I recently met someone who cured  her RA using lecithin and i take 1-2 teaspoons of granulated organic soy lecithin in my salad each day.

I cannot eat wheat, potato, most nuts, bananas, tomato, tofu, soy sauce, rice. And chocolate is also on my "hit list". They all cause flares. You eat the food and it's fine. You eat it a second time and the antibodies the body made the first time you ate it cause a flare. That food now goes on the hit list. It comes under the subject of leaky gut and explains why foods are troublesome.

Have your mom do an elimination diet or as I did just go to a very simple organic raw foods diet with fish.

Look at

Hunter-Gatherers diet.          www.frot.co.nz/dietnet/reviews/mcferran08_hg.htm

The water cure.                   http://www.naturalnews.com/Report_water_cure_0.html

EFT free manual to download and subscribe to newsletter

                                       http://www.emofree.com/

There are lots of supplements for RA but I actually got the most benefit from eating simple organic foods. I found that most supplements worked for a day or two and then didn't. I surmised that my immune system was out of control. So things calmed down when I cut out offending foods.

Magnesium Aspertate with or without potasium aspertate capsules helped with pain in my muscles. 1-2 capsules. gave relief within minutes

I used EFT to heal myself of the fatigue associated with the RA.

Make fresh veg juices 

add Whole Leaf Aloe Vera juice, Green barley powder, Arthrid to the juice.

and NO microwaved food! not even water!

I still have pain in my joints but it is far better than it was a year ago. I believe I can get it to go completely into remission.

Start reading and get back to me with your questions.

I have more suggestions if you need them. 

Sharon

sharonbgood@mac.com

How much water does she drink... or drank before the symptoms started to show? Read: 'Your Body's Many Cries for Water'

Im trying to cope with the same thing, my mum suffers from RA to and is almost imobile and like your mum it is getting worse and she has only had it for a small amount of years but the inflamitory is almost everywhere now. None of her treatments are working and have severe side effects, she caught flu one christmas and nearlly died. She has tried many natural remedies to try and reduce her pain for example exercising, taking long baths, cod liver oils, regular vitimans, lots of sleep. Maybe this is helping her to become more mobile but how would we know unless she stopped doing all that? Maybe your mum could try some of these things that is of course if she dosn't do already but I would say swimming helps her the most. And one excellent cure that dosn't last very long is going on holiday as humidity really helps loosen up the joints. I really do hope she gets better soon and make sure you look after yourself aswell as it really does affect you to but I know how hard it is when you feel so helpless for them and just want them to be normal and have a good quality life because it seems impossible and they have no aspirations bar getting better.

I hope your Mom is doing better after 4 years of your message. I am 48 years old mom with the same problem and at the same level. I understand perfectly what she is going through. My quality of life is less than nothing. My skin, hands and feet look terrible. As I am writing my pains don't let me stand up and barely write. I have gone through everything from a Shaman in Venezuela to the supposedely the best Doctors with biological infusions, and feel that I am falling like a plane. I came accross with this blog in my endless pursue of a little help. A little will mean a lot to me. I have been in a raw diet and veg juices for a long time, and it seems at times they work but something triggers the illness to an impossible to bear level. I recently started a diet with a product called "isagenix" that did magic to a person I know (this product is sold in multilevel). Well I believe that the chocolate in it is killing me. By the way my problems are not only pain and swollen bones (even in my head) that at their peak convert me in the monster of the black lagoon, but also they come along with a rash called "cold urticharia". The only fortune is that I have not suffered a heart attack or strokes, but recently I started to feel numbness in my arm and face. MRI has been done and nothing.

My husband believes that i need to go somewhere to spend 3 weeks dedicated to my RA, but we have not found any place here, Mexico or anywhere. Somebody said find yourself a contious doctor. Where, please!!!

My name is Nora and time is at essence here. Much thanks in advance to all the kind persons that respond this call.