ChronicWombat t1_iu6xwcg wrote on October 29, 2022 at 12:44 AM

Sounds like my wife was right. She was severely arthritic, and also needed antibiotics from time to time. She was adamant that easing of her arthritis was a welcome side effect of the antibiotics.

wheresmypurplekitten t1_iu85avh wrote on October 29, 2022 at 8:32 AM

That’s wild, super observant to notice it.

Environmental_Cake97 t1_iu8f6q9 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 10:56 AM

Do you recall which antibiotic it was?

ChronicWombat t1_iu8mzge wrote on October 29, 2022 at 12:27 PM

Not with any reliability. A stroke and two heart attacks have left a few gaps. Sorry.

Environmental_Cake97 t1_iubsrd0 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 3:03 AM

That’s ok. I’ll file it away in the back of my head then look out for similar data. If you can remember what it was prescribed for that would help.

You have a clotting issue? Hubby had a stroke, then he got an embolism on an international flight. The dufus had chosen THAT DAY to skip his Asprin because he was ‘busy’. He wasn’t too busy to get yelled at by his wife though.

I pulled a MitoQ out of my pocket while still in the airport and made him take it.

ChronicWombat t1_iubszwm wrote on October 30, 2022 at 3:05 AM

UTI. And I'm in Australia so the brand name is probably different from US brands and generic. Cheers.

Environmental_Cake97 t1_iubt9os wrote on October 30, 2022 at 3:07 AM

Ah. Thank you. That helps.

UpstairsImagination2 t1_iu8hap9 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 11:23 AM

That may be the case, but it doesn't follow that a course of antibiotics, implying reduction in certain species of gut bacteria, would immediately (if at all) reduce levels of the antibodies that cause rheumatoid or other autoimmune diseases.

UpstairsImagination2 t1_iu8heau wrote on October 29, 2022 at 11:24 AM

Not that her symptoms didn't improve from the antibiotics, I'm just suggesting that this mechanism isn't plausibly why they improved