That's what my clinical scientist husband and I keep saying as we read "this reduced death rate by x%" - add them all together and we must already be able to live forever. But the reality is, if you live to 80 or 90 the chances of developing cancer go up every year and it becomes almost inevitable. And when all is said and done, you have to die of something. So why don't they just concentrate in making that process reasonably comfortable?
Medial Science has cured so many things that there is not a lot
left to die from No more polio, smallpox, etc. they can take care
of most infections (most I say, too much anti-biotic use is changing
that) so we have to die with something. I agree we need some sort
of Right to Die law. If I want to end my life rather than suffering
I should have that right. My daughter lives in WA and you can
get end of life help. Not Kevorkian type. They give you the
drugs and you take them yourself.
Very Swiss. Would be my choice I think.
Makes sense to me. When quality of life is gone, and you still have the ability to choose, why not? I was really sore today, and hung around the house this a.m. . When my husband got back from his last day of bowling for the season we toook a drive down the coast, ate seafood, went to the health food for my vitamins. They were on sale!!! yeah!!! Came home. No pain. Sometimes we need to get away from ourselves.
I'm 79, sisters are 81, 83 and 85. We are the aging sisters. Someone has to go first. My oldest sister has mobility issues, the next one had a stroke, and the one next to me cares for her aging husband with issues. So tthese are the golden years, and we have to live them the best that we can. I'm sorry for the loss of your sister and her husband. That's an awful disease.
Wow! You all must come from extremely healthy genes. For all
of you to have lived so long. I, too am 79 but no one lives
a long time in my family. I've always said life expectancy is
a crap shoot but your family may disprove that.
PMR is not pleasant to deal with but it's not terminal. It will just
annoy the life out of me......
Faye and Elizabeth, I'm so excited to meet y'all on Internet of course, you are an inspiration, and I really, really love that, I'll say older generations, are on the Internet!!! And chatting away with others, helping and sharing, and living life! Sometimes hard to see how wonderful life is.
I've become more if an introvert, so I just love that I get to "speak" with so many great people here on our forum.
I actually get disappointed that a few of my friends hate computers, email, text, ... Technology in general. I was a software engineer, so naturally I love technology, guess I speak computer better than from my real voice, ha.
I have a few talents, but I'm really computer illiterate. I saw this funny thing the other day online, and it said: To my children. Don'r make fun of me because I need help with my computer. I taught you how to use a spoon. My dau wrote back and said that the spoon wasn't the problem it was the knife that threw her. Sassy kids!
Hi, Do you know if you can take MSM with Prednisone? is there a drug interaction do you know. I was on it before PMR and Preds and found it good for inflamation etc. But now on the Preds 17 mg a day : Thank you
Sorry, I really don't know - I can't find any interactions but that doesn't always mean anything. Ask your pharmacist - the pharmacist, not the counter staff.
Actually DMSO and MSM are very similiar, but they are not the exact
same. I have recently started taking both, DMSO externally and MSM orally. I have pmr and gca, presently on 7.5 mg pred from a high of 80 mg 2 years ago. I can feel it helping me.
MSM is a strong anti-inflammatory, just one of its benefits.
There doesn’t seem to be much in this thread about MSM per se, so I wanted to re-introduce it with this good overview from NIH of the product’s safety and efficacy. Admittedly, most research on it has focused on osteoarthritis, but one would think it’s strong anti-inflammatory properties should open up possibilities for other types of inflammation, like rheumatoid.