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Environmental_Cake97 t1_iu8g034 wrote

Reply to comment by Bolynn in Newly discovered species of bacteria in the microbiome may be a culprit behind rheumatoid arthritis by geoxol

I’ve had autoimmune conditions all my life and they do just go away sometimes, then you get a different one. I even had some kind of arthritis for 15 years in my toes, ankles, knees and wrists from around age 10, but I don’t think that was autoimmune in my case. I took glucosamine and chondroitin 1500mg and 500mg for 3 weeks around age 25 and the arthritis just went away. It used to come back, but a couple of days of the supplements and it would go away again. It’s been almost 30 years now since it’s been back. This is also around the time I turned vegetarian. Pretty sure the supplements fixed the arthritis, but it is possible that meat eating exacerbated it.

It was arthritis so bad the doctor was talking about joint replacement and I sounded like someone playing the castanets when I walked.

I’ve never heard of anyone else having such a great response, and I was never tested for what kind of arthritis it was, but I presume osteoarthritis.

I also have a high genetic risk for osteoarthritis according to Impute Me.

Just throwing that out there in case it helps anyone.

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Bolynn t1_iu8hm0a wrote

I would doubt it being osteoarthritis as that presents in older age only and is not really reversible.

Yeah there are some autoimmune conditions that remit completely (especially in youth) or come in attacks in random intervals. There is some evidence that meat can exacerbate inflammation, so maybe that helped in your case. I’m glad yours went away!

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