I am 36 and think I am developing RA. It comes and goes every few months and I notice flare ups if I eat a lot of processed foods or junk foods in a day. The internet isn’t the best place to search for treatments so I was wondering if any of y’all had suggestions of holistic or underground approaches to help with this. I have been doing keto/ one day fasts the past month and didn’t have any issues until I had a cheat day this weekend which is what cause my suspected flare up.
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Friend had it and the doc put him on Hydroxychloroquine daily for 6 months. That was 15 years ago and he hasn't been bothered by it since. My wife played college basketball and had several fingers broken. Arthritis set up in her knuckles and the pain was so bad we had to put warm wet rags on her hand nightly. I called a doc friend and told him. He put her on hydroxychloroquine daily for a month. The swelling in her knuckles went away within a week and she hasn't had another problem. That was about 8 years ago.
Any chance you recall the dosage of hcq used in either case?
I'm thinking with my wife it was 200mg x 2 daily for the first week, then 200mg x 1 for the rest of the script (3 weeks). I'm not positive as it's been a long time but I'm pretty sure that was the dosage rate.
Ok, thanks. I also found some sites mentioning 200-400mg a day, though depends on body weight.