You could try stem cells therapy and see if that works. Talk to your doctor about that.
Of course fish oil does not “cure arthritis.”
But there is no evidence that it can benefit arthritis sufferers.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/993.html
You know what definitely does NOT cure arthritis in any sense, nor does it claim too, is Tylenol. Fish oil has a host of other potential benefits, according to many credible sources, so why the heck not give it a try? It’s not expensive and while I guess one could always choke on a pill, there is low risk of harm. All the doctor cared about was masking symptoms, so prescribed a painkiller. Not even a suggestion of strengthening exercises.
OK, mild to moderate OA in the knee. Original dx, recommendation was tylenol - a mild analgesic rather than a NSAID to reduce swelling. Pretty basic first dx. NSAID recommendation would probably be for aleve if you can’t do tylenol. Next jump would typically no be surgery, it would actually be for 18 or 36 sessions of physiotherapy [strengthen the muscles supporting the knee, it can actually help a lot. 36 sessions improved my range of motion by 4%.] If that doesn’t work then they can try shooting synthetic fluid in to add to fluid cushioning the joint. That doesn’t work, they can try shooting cortisone in. [OWIE.] Then if that doesn’t work, they can have at the knee with a chondroplasty [buffing the rough edges] or microfracture to make the knee joint regenerate surface to see if it improves. After that it gets into grafting, replacing and other ugly surgical stuff.
Better? Get a second opinion from another ortho if you didn’t like what your doc told you [was he an ortho or just a primary care doc? Your options are very different depending on which of the two you saw.]
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How do you know that? All we have to go on is the word of someone who thinks fish oil is a vitamin, thinks Tylenol is a “fraudulent” medicine (whatever that means), and who clearly has an axe to grind. Personally, given how stridently he’s promoted fish oil as an arthritis cure without any real proof, I wouldn’t trust him to count the moon, let alone remember everything his doctor may have said to him.
Rather than address all the many levels of stupid being thrown around here, I’ll simply offer my counter-proof.
A couple of years back, I was experiencing some very unpleasant symptoms you all don’t want to hear about. I went to my doctor, and he ordered some blood tests. The blood tests showed that I was diabetic, which explained some, but not all of my symptoms. I went in for a CAT scan (invented by other medical researchers), which showed that my pancreas had essentially shriveled up and died for no good reason. Armed with that hard data, my doctor was able to put me on a regimen of medication that allows me to live a pretty normal life. Without that treatment, I’d probably be dead by now, and my children would be without a father.
I don’t think my doctor is overpaid.
So they gave you a solution and you rejected it out of hand because it was scary. I’m starting to see the problem. You want a miracle pill or a magic wand, not a doctor.
Moving eye muscles, IIRC, is what is done when glasses fail to correct a crossed eye in a child. I think it’s a pretty standard kind of eye surgery.
Also, moving muscles in limbs can improve the quality of life immensely for people with cerebral palsy-- although, it’s not as common as it used to be, because usually Botox injections to modify muscles are often tried first.
I’m not taking his word, I am taking him AT his word. The premise that the doctor told him to take Tylenol for his knee pain and sent him on his way is hardly preposterous or unusual. My point is that saving useful, low-risk, non-invasive advice for a second appointment is ridiculous, not a defensible course of action.
Or maybe he rejected it because someone who can’t find the problem should not be proposing to move eye muscles around? I certainly would not have surgery done by someone who does not even believe they have identified what is wrong!
My post #82 should read “there is evidence,” not “there is no evidence,” sorry.
I suspect they did find the problem, but because it was not something that could be solved by waving a magic wand, the OP states the doctor was clueless. For starters, no insurance company will pay for surgery to move eye muscles without a diagnosis, and as noted previously, there are indeed eye problems that are solved with surgery. (Also, I worked in ophthalmology for over a decade, but IANAD/N.)
While I understand where you are coming from, from our perspective as healthcare practitioners, the premise that a patient is presenting only part of the information necessary is also neither preposterous or unusual. I run into this particular issue at least once a week in my on weeks. In some cases, it’s benign and they honestly just forgot or didn’t think it would be relevant. In other cases, however, it’s not so benign, like with a patient who presented to the ER for lower back pain who received a prescription for Percocet from the (that night, at least) rushed ER prescriber, with the patient having failed to tell the prescriber in question that they quite literally 2 days before had finished a Suboxone taper therapy for substance abuse treatment. Let’s just say on discovering this fact, the prescriber was quite appreciative of my phone call, while the patient was…decidedly not. And for those already reaching for a “but” response there, the lesson here is NOT that those who have a history of substance abuse can’t have adequate pain relief via opioids if it is the only viable option, but instead that you really, really, REALLY should not fail to disclose this fact to your prescriber and/or pharmacist. We very much appreciate honesty from our patients. We very much detest dishonesty from our patients, particularly when drugs of abuse are involved.
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Perhaps you should have just tried some fish oil. But only one particular brand–GNC brand is the only one that does anything.
I do see that happening, but not in our lifetimes. Again, western/modern medicine is only about 160 years old, the life of 2 regular humans back to back. Our species is 200,000 years old already. The human body is finite in its complexity and finite in the number of things that can go wrong. Our ability to learn and manipulate our environment does not seem finite anytime soon. It doesn’t matter if it takes 100 or 10,000 years sooner or later pretty much every medical problem will be solvable. If 160 years led us to this point, and if technology compounds and gets better so that each year the tools/info is better than the one before it it is only a matter of time. Too bad none of us will see it though.
Thats neither here nor there as far as the OP, but in my experience I have met some doctors who really think they have it all figured out already. And when they come up against something they can’t fix or don’t understand they blame their patients by saying everything is psychosomatic. There are lots of diseases and disorders we haven’t even discovered and named yet, let alone found effective treatments for and diagnostic tests for. A lot of things can only be managed, and that is only if you get a proper diagnosis which is many times the hardest thing about medicine, finding out what is actually wrong and why it is going wrong.
Good point. I might put the start of modern medicine back a little further, but we got from bleeding and purging, and thinking medicine worked better if you took it under moonlight, to disease specific antibiotics, vaccines, laproscopic surgery, organ transplants, and hormone substitutes to help people with diabetes, hypothyroidism and pituitary dwarfism.
I’ve never met a real doctor like that. That sounds more like TV doctors, whose hubris is their tragic flaw, and the point of the story, or else it’s a show like House or Bones, where the diagnosis is a mystery, and something very rare, so they make a lot of wrong guesses.
According to a book I read by Paul Offit, doctors are actually more likely to overlook psychogenesis as a cause, because they can’t offer a fix for that, and they want to offer a fix-- and are often reluctant to suggest a referral to a psychiatrist, because patients don’t like to hear that.
Doctors don’t seem to know the cause or how to resolve the problem which is why it’s easy as pointless. Atleast act like you know something when someone is paying ,oney to see you
I can’t tell the clients at my job “I don’t know”
It was already stated that Fish Oil to eliminate joint pain
Then explain why I since I started taking the Fish Oil I have not experienced anymore knee or hip pain???
I don’t even have to use ice when I wake up in the morning because of Fish Oil
Because it was a temporary inflammation that resolved on its own? And Tylenol would at least have you feeling better during that time?