What can a person do to control rheumatoid arthritis without drugs?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Arthritis pain MANAGEMENT. You never talk about control, just about management. The goal is to get the patient to the point that they can function reasonably well on a routine basis. It is never about being pain free. There are multiple types of meds that are used for any type of inflammatory arthritis, and RA is an inflammatory type of arthritis. In most types of inflammatory arthritis (lupus is also inflammatory, but has different risks) the inflammatory process IS the disease process. Slowing down the disease process is the only way to slow down the disease itself and therefore the only way to slow down and even help to prevent joint damage. Without such meds, any type of inflammatory arthritis will have you partially disabled within 4 years and too disabled to work within another 2 years. But which meds, or to clarify this, which combination of meds is the best for you is something that needs to be decided by your rheumatologist, after all of the appropriate historiis have be taken, the exams done and the tests run. All of this is trial and error. And all if it has one purpose -to keep you functioning. THere is no scientifically proven link between diet and any of the more than 100 different types of arthritis except gout and pseudogout. THe exercises that you do are the ones that are chosen specifically for you, by the appropriate members of your health care team, who are working in conjunctin with you and your doctors. I have multiple types of arthritis, including at least one inflammatory form. As I result, I am a chronic pain patient. And none of this, absolutely none of this, is a easy as you want it to be. None of this is as easy as any of us wants it to be.