Arthritis sufferers are bombarded daily with new, better, and more exciting treatments. Try Enbrel! Try Humira! Miracle drugs! Get your NSAIDs! Get your DMARDS! Pump more chemicals into your system. Side effects? What side effects? You have a choice; accept the side effects or get sicker and sicker.
To allay our fears, pharmaceutical companies publish the results of their clinical tests. This double-blind study showed that this deadly chemical reduced your swelling more than another equally deadly chemical.
Do you think you are playing with babies? Yes. That is exactly what they think. Arthritis is such a horrible and debilitating disease that we will try anything to reduce the symptoms. And that’s exactly what these horrible drugs do. They reduce symptoms, temporarily. As symptoms return, your rheumatologist increases the medication or experiments with other lethal concoctions to reduce swelling or pain. They tell us there is NO cure for arthritis. We are told that no one knows the cause. Actually! More than thirty years ago we sent men to play golf on the moon. But can’t we pinpoint a single cause of this crippling disease?
It is time to check the reality. Pharmaceutical companies will continue to produce really expensive, seemingly useful chemicals. Our doctors will continue to serve you the concoctions that the pharmaceutical companies give you. Unless we refuse to accept this charade. We don’t need a revolution. We don’t even need to confront our doctors or the drug companies. We just need to pool our resources and run our own silent experiments.
We need to experiment with our habits. Just take one aspect of our life and tweak it for a month. For example, are you a heavy coffee drinker? I’m pretty well connected to the roof at noon. Eliminate coffee from your diet for a month. Document any changes to your system resulting from this. You may, of course, suffer from withdrawal symptoms, but you may also experience a very welcome reduction in arthritic pain and swelling.
That is just a suggestion. We have many more. Feedback from our brave experimenters will eventually allow us to make real recommendations. The revolution has begun!