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<blockquote data-quote="34 South" data-source="post: 2203215" data-attributes="member: 518952"><p>Dear Margaret</p><p></p><p>Thanks for your reply. I guess that your having PMR for 13 years confirms that it can be a chronic disease, even with treatment.</p><p></p><p>I haven't taken medication for what ails me other than low dose Duloxetine (SNRi) which I was really prescribed for my diabetic neuropathy pain. That helped for the neuropathy, but not really for the PMR symptoms (if it is even PMR), suggesting that the two are unrelated in their aetiology. However, the drug had a huge impact on my daily routine and I struggled for over an hour to get up in the mornings. I eventually weaned myself off it and now do not struggle waking, but my neuropathy pain has returned.</p><p></p><p>I always ignored the claims that CBD oils were the miracle cure for pain (I believe strongly in evidence based medicine) but, in a moment of fallibility, purchased a whole extract tincture to try. It failed to have any effect whatsoever!</p><p></p><p>You mentioned rheumatoid arthritis. Years ago, when seeing a rheumatologist for the discomfort I was experiencing, he suggested, pointing to a barely visible feature on an X ray of my hips, that I had, or would get, inflammatory osteoarthritis. "Oh, you mean rheumatoid arthritis", I said, since my mom suffered with that. "No", he contorted. In the year following, taking expensive supplements and even an anti-malarial as an anti-inflammatory, nothing changed and, when he suggested I take paracetamol, I stopped seeing him.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, in my opinion, autoimmune conditions and variants thereof, are beyond the scope of specialists who are not actively involved in research in their fields.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the reference. I will certainly look it up.</p><p></p><p>Paul</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="34 South, post: 2203215, member: 518952"] Dear Margaret Thanks for your reply. I guess that your having PMR for 13 years confirms that it can be a chronic disease, even with treatment. I haven't taken medication for what ails me other than low dose Duloxetine (SNRi) which I was really prescribed for my diabetic neuropathy pain. That helped for the neuropathy, but not really for the PMR symptoms (if it is even PMR), suggesting that the two are unrelated in their aetiology. However, the drug had a huge impact on my daily routine and I struggled for over an hour to get up in the mornings. I eventually weaned myself off it and now do not struggle waking, but my neuropathy pain has returned. I always ignored the claims that CBD oils were the miracle cure for pain (I believe strongly in evidence based medicine) but, in a moment of fallibility, purchased a whole extract tincture to try. It failed to have any effect whatsoever! You mentioned rheumatoid arthritis. Years ago, when seeing a rheumatologist for the discomfort I was experiencing, he suggested, pointing to a barely visible feature on an X ray of my hips, that I had, or would get, inflammatory osteoarthritis. "Oh, you mean rheumatoid arthritis", I said, since my mom suffered with that. "No", he contorted. In the year following, taking expensive supplements and even an anti-malarial as an anti-inflammatory, nothing changed and, when he suggested I take paracetamol, I stopped seeing him. Unfortunately, in my opinion, autoimmune conditions and variants thereof, are beyond the scope of specialists who are not actively involved in research in their fields. Thanks for the reference. I will certainly look it up. Paul [/QUOTE]
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