Hugs and sympathy -- I've been taking the glucosamine supplements religiously for the past couple of years, since I started showing symptoms in my knees. (With osteoarthritis on one side of the family and severe rheumatoid on the other, I always figured the odds were against me.) It seems to be helping: I've gone from frequent bad days to rare ones. Note that Costco's house brand of glucosamine-condroitin (Kirkland Signature) is accounted to be the best deal: a good price, and more consistent levels of the effective ingredients than most brands.
And I've heard a fair amount of evidence that the diet thing does matter a lot in some cases. I gather that some food allergies mainly wind up causing inflammation that can lead to painful arthritis, and that removing the cause of the inflammation helps a lot. I haven't dug into this deeply, since my own case is relatively mild, but it does seem to have made a huge difference for Catrin...
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Date: 2007-11-28 08:51 pm (UTC)And I've heard a fair amount of evidence that the diet thing does matter a lot in some cases. I gather that some food allergies mainly wind up causing inflammation that can lead to painful arthritis, and that removing the cause of the inflammation helps a lot. I haven't dug into this deeply, since my own case is relatively mild, but it does seem to have made a huge difference for Catrin...