The New Arthritis Breakthrough: The Only Medical Therapy Clinically Proven to Produce Long-term Improvement and Remission of RA, Lupus, Juvenile RS, ... & Other Inflammatory Forms of Arthritis

I was recently diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis. I was in severe pain - my 70-year-old mother was more able-bodied than me and ,at times, my children had to help me to stand up and even walk. Within a period of a few months, I had gone from actively helping to build our house with my husband - mixing mortar, brick laying, lugging heavy timber etc. to being barely able to lift the kettle. My GP injected cortisone into my knees which helped me to walk better and prescribed an NSAID which also helped. And the tiredness... you'll know what I mean. I was worried about the recent publicity linking certain NSAIDs to heart problems but I couldn't do without it at that stage. I stuck to one a day although my GP recommended two. I also took strong pain killers every six hours. The specialist I was eventually referred to said: "Until recently all we did with these patients (people like you) was record their steady decline." He prescribed a different NSAID which gave me an allergic reaction and at that point I decided to do my own research. I came across this book and read the reviews.This all started with a bad flu, after which both knees had filled up with fluid. Slowly the rest of my body became affected. This book explains how arthritis is a disease of the connective tissue, rather than just the joints, and how mycoplasmas (microorganisms that lack a cell wall)invade. Strep can sometimes be a complicating factor, especially for people who have a history of ear and throat infections. In that case, Dr Brown's protocol is to add penicillin (Minocycline has some action agaist strep but is not optimal; Penicillin has no action against mycoplasmas as they lack a cell wall.)It is important to get the book; it's clear and well-written and contains lots of interesting information about Dr Brown's early work in isolating these mycoplasmas. Check out the data from the minocycline in RA trials yourself.I read on the Internet a reply from a rheumatologist to an angry RA sufferer who asked him why he didn't readily inform patients of this therapy. He knew about the clinical trials and said that minocycline 'might work' for people with mild to moderate disease. Oh really? Is that before conventional treatment makes it a whole lot worse (Dr Brown observed dryly that arthritis often started out as 'a lesser affliction').TNF blockers are a lucrative business and that business depends on disease maintenance. Whatever happened to practising medicine and trying to cure people? Dr Brown's work and Henry Scammell's have changed my life. I took this book to my GP and asked him to prescribe minocycline. He did so willingly. After a few days of the therapy, I was in terrible pain - I got a lot worse, just as the book says, but I could feel the fight going on. From then on, I got a little better each day. After only one month of therapy, I can walk well and I no longer take NSAIDs or pain killers. I have improved so much that I envisage one day not too far away, I will no longer even need the antibiotics. An incurable disease? I think not!Update, July 2010: It's important to remember that, as with conventional therapy for arthritis, this is a long-term therapy; however,unlike a lot of drugs used to treat RA, this therapy a very safe one. I came off the minocycline but after I got another sore throat and some of the symptoms came back. I started the Minocycline again recently and also added Zithromax for the strep. This time the Herxheimer effect (The disease gets worse before it gets better)was delayed, prolonged and more intense; I had pain in joints that were previously unaffected and a series of fevers for days. It was so bad I thought I might have to go to hospital and my family were saying "How come the minocycline isn't working?"But it did. After a week of the therapy, I could walk normally and now only have slight pain in my left hand. April 2011, I have only slight tightness in my calves at times and tingling in the balls of my feet. No pain any more.17/3/16 I've been off the Minocycline for over a year now. It was a step I decided to take because after much research, I've come to believe that gut flora regulate the immune system. I've been following a Paleo type diet for a couple of years now but including a lot of probiotic foods. I did experience a few set backs and at times was on the point of going back on the the antibiotic but I held out and kept going. About 95% better now but still bugged by occasional outbreaks of impetigo and the occasional sore throat. If you think diet couldn't have an effect on inflammation, try googling chef Seamus Mullens. His sounds like a far worse case than mine and the diet he describes sounds similar to the one I follow. I worried about self-medicating with Minocycline so I got a check up with a top specialist. X-rays and blood work were perfect. They knew about Minocycline and didn't have a problem with it. I think doctors view it as effective for mild cases but if you read up on the clinical trial only mild cases were enrolled. I wouldn't say my case was severe but it certainly wasn't mild. Minocycline reduced the severity of my disease and got it to the state where the diet could take over. You have nothing to lose from trying a diet provided you research proper nutrition (Nourishing Traditions is a good start, also GAPS, The Specific Carbohydrate Diet, Life without Bread). You don't have to give up on conventional treatment and many doctors these days are broad-minded and open to dietary therapy.My fear of biologics have eased since Infliximab saved my daughter's life but I do see them as a temporary measure, not least of all because you can build up antibodies. It's important to prevent permanent damage to joints, so regular check ups are important. Consider all options.Good luck and good health..

Dr. Thomas McPherson Brown, the clinical trials--It's all here. The Road Back, the first book by Henry Scammell and Dr. Brown is here too. This is the update.When I asked my doctors about antibiotic therapy, they refused. I thought surely they'd prescribe it if it worked--wouldn't they? Well, if you like a good cover-up story, this is for you. Dr. Brown explains the history, how the auto-immune theory took hold. The patients see another side. Arthritis is big business. Treating us forever is highly profitable. Curing us--is not.Page 33: "...Until physicians are confronted by educated consumers, there is very little incentive for them to change. ...Just because MIRA therapy repeatedly has proven effective doesn't mean physicians will automatically give it to everyone it can help. In some cases that will depend on how effectively patients are able to use the power of this new knowledge. That is the reason for this book."I was almost completely crippled by lupus and RA. I took ALL of the usual drugs. I had the best nutrition, supplements, mind-body exercises. Nothing helped. My disease continued to get worse. Thank Heaven a friend told me about this book. I immediately switched to her rheumatologist (my 5th) to get this therapy. It was the best thing that I have ever done for myself!!!On antibiotics my pain is gone, I move normally, my deformities are lessening, my mind is clear, the depression is gone, I am stronger, I can sleep, and my blood work continues to improve. I can take care of my family, cook, clean, work. I am in remission.Many patients share their personal stories in the book. Several of them started the Road Back Foundation (named after the first book); [...] Mr. Scammell was active with the foundation, and they have more information on his life, Dr. Brown, antibiotic therapy, and this book.I wish I had known and acted sooner. So please READ THIS BOOK!! You'll be glad you did.

This will change your life.

This is THE arthritis answer that I've been looking for! After DECADES of bouncing around from doctor to unhelpful doctor, this book and the information it contains gave me the answers I needed and helped put me on the path that I needed to be on to start re-gaining my life, instead of dreading/facing impending doom. THANK YOU DR. BROWN!!!!!!

When I had a blood test done that came back with a very high indicator for rheumatoid arthritis I was knocked for six. If I didnt already enough problems in life, the thought of being in constant pain with a crippling disease and possibility out of work for the rest of my life was devastating. The more I read about it, the worse I felt. There was apparently no known cure, no one new why it occurred, and the medications that were administered were toxic as hell. Worse still, each medication lasted a few years in effect, and the side effects sometimes were as bad as the arthritis.Then I stumbled across the non-profit roadback foundation website which talked of an Antibiotic therapy (AP), and it recommended I read this book. Hundreds of RA sufferers were on the forum at different stages of successfully treating their conditions. I read the book, and it was utterly mind changing.It explains the work of Dr Thomas Mcpherson Brown, who was an eminent rheumatologist, who had treated successfully over 10,000 patients since the 1950s using low dosage tetracycline antibiotics. He had a theory about the cause of rheumatic conditions, which was a bacterial infection. The mainstream medical community dismissed such a theory from the beginning choosing to treat symptoms with quick fixes, which almost never worked long term, but which were incredibly lucrative to the $10billion industry treating chronic conditions. However, by the 1990s, more and more trials showed the effectiveness of tetracycline treatment of rheumatoid conditions. Today, the medical community is still choosing to treat people with unsafe, expensive and toxic medications, when the first port of call is a cheap, safe and effective treatment with antibiotics, which has led to remission in a very large number of patients.Not only that, but patients with scleroderma, are by enlarge told it is an incurable terminal condition, with expected death in 5-10 years. AP has successfully treated many patients with scleroderma into remission, and they were alive to tell the world of their remission well over 15 years later.Read this book, research an AP literate doctor and treat the rheumatic condition successfully.

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Awesome book - a must read for anyone interested in the subject.