How safe are Arthritis Drugs?

By: Jansa Olga

With arthritis, therapeutic treatment has an air of desperation. Doctors not only don't recognize how to sort out the problematic but often make a hash of things, throwing a load of potentially lethal drugs at the condition and then prescribing different drugs to deal with the side effects caused by the "treatment". Conventional medicine tends to take the observation that there is no acknowledged cure for arthritis, and so all that it can do with undoubtedly is to ease your pain.
The most common frontline drug for both "rheumatoid and osteoarthritis" used to be aspired at high doses. This has nowadays been virtually replaced by the no steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, as market knows them. In the United States there are at lest fourteen such medications on the markets, a number of years ago one of them (ibuprofen) got taken off the list of prescribed medications and was made accessible over the counter. Progressively more doctors now turn to NSAIDs as a first port of call; in 1984, nearly on in seven Americans was treated with one of these drugs, a number that is at the moment grossly out of date, as they are prescribed for everything from headaches to period pains.
This drugs largely work by inhibiting the synthesis of prostaglandins, and consequently suppressing inflammation. The trouble is that the drugs don't just inhibit the prostaglandin that concerns your joint pain; they roadblock all formation, mostly at such high doses. Since this substance plays a major role in normal "gastrointestinal" function, NSAIDs, not surprisingly, get in the way with it. This can result in gastric erosion, peptic-ulcer formation and perforation, major upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage, and inflammation and changes in the permeability of the intestine and lower bowel.
Once you start taking NSAIDs, you boost by seven times your chances of being hospitalized due to gastrointestinal unpleasant effects. The aged, or those with a history of peptic ulcers, are at particular danger. Since NSAIDs reduces pain, mostly at high doses, they also often cover up any sign that something is wrong. NSAIDs can also trigger unclear or diminished vision, Parkinson's disease and hair and fingernail loss; they can also damage the liver and kidneys.
Besides using NSAIDs for inflammation and pain, physicians try to heal arthritis with slow-acting antirheumatic drugs (SAARDs). In each situation, treating is a decidedly hit and-miss affair. Specialists do not figure out how SAARDs work-if and when they do-but admit they can be very toxic and even life threatening. Lack of studies into their long-term effects means the patient has to play a game of Russian roulette to learn whether he will develop symptoms from the "cure" that are worse than the condition he is being treated for.

Nevertheless, if you are a believer in "alternative medicine", you should bear in mind magnetic therapy. Thousands of people worldwide are confirming the anti inflammatory and pain reducing effect of this therapy. You can treat yourself in the comfort of your home, in an airplane or at work with the pocket sized BIO MEDICI device.

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About the author: Olga Jansa PhD. has devoted 25 years of her life studying alternative medicine in particular magnetic pain therapy. You can read more about it at www.magnetictherapycure.com

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