Lupus Pain
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Lupus Pain Relief
- Reduces Lupus Pain Naturally
- Improves Immune System Function
- Reduces Lupus Inflammation Naturally
- Stops The Pain & Repairs The Damage
Benefits Of Recovery™ For Lupus Pain Relief
- Significant anti-inflammatory benefits indicate Recovery™ can reduce inflammation and improve the quality of life
- Nutricol a powerful antioxidant, which protects the liver from toxins and boosts the immune system
- Slows or halts tissue damage at the cellular level
- Powerful antioxidants which increases circulation to inflamed tissue
- Since Recovery™ works to modify your body's responses; it may take up to six weeks for you to experience this alternative natural lupus pain relief product. Most people notice benefits within a month.
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- Repairs and rejuvenates cell damage.
- Assists in maintaining the cell’s membrane receptivity to growth.
- Promotes the body’s ability to heal.
- Recovery is a functional food engineered to treat and prevent degeneration and inflammation at the "root" of the problem.
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LUPUS - Health Information
Understanding lupus medications
What are your lupus risk factors
How recovery with nutricol can help lupus
What Is Lupus
Chronic inflammatory diseases, such as Lupus, can have an adverse affect on multiple parts of the body, such as the joints, kidneys, blood, even the skin. Proteins, known as antibodies, are created by the immune system to protect against viruses, bacteria, and other threatening aggressors (antigens). The body reacts by producing antibodies that form an attack against them. In autoimmune disorders like lupus, the immune system cannot differentiate between its own tissues and cells, and foreign aggressors. This results in the body’s production of auto-antibodies, which generates immune complications. These complex immune dysfunctions build up in the tissues causing pain, inflammation and injury to tissues.
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is the most common form and consists of the following symptoms:
- Inflammation in the joints, muscles, lungs, heart, skin, kidneys, nervous system and blood vessels.
- Muscle and joint pain
Discoid Lupus:
- Only affects the skin
- Causes a rash on the neck, scalp and head
- Approximately 10 percent of discoid lupus symptoms develop into SLE
How Common Is Lupus?
Lupus affects an estimated 1 in 2,000 North American men, women and children, but most often occurs in women of childbearing age. Women are 8 to 10 times more affected by SLE than men.
The Warning Signs Of Lupus
Symptoms of lupus can differ for each individual. In some individuals, the symptoms will be mild with occasional flare-ups followed by complete remissions. Other individuals will experience persistent symptoms, as the disease continues to progress.
The most common early lupus symptoms are:
- Pain in the joints and muscles in the arms, shoulders, hands, hips, knees, feet and jaw
- Increase in the frequency and degree of headaches
- Swelling, redness or heat in the skin
- Persistent elevated blood pressure
- Fever
- Sunlight sensitivity
- Low energy or exhaustion
- Loss of appetite
- Changes in color in the fingers when exposed to cold
- Chest pain when breathing deeply or when lying down
- Rapid or unexplained weight gain or weight loss
- Small, painless sores in the soft lining of the nose or mouth (mucosal ulcers)
- A "butterfly rash" on the bridge of the nose and cheeks, which often indicates lupus
- Apparent thinning or hair loss on the scalp
- Swelling in both the legs and feet
- Discoid lupus, a milder form of lupus causes a scaly, red rash on the scalp, face, ears, chest or arms
How Does Lupus Progress?
Individuals will seldom experience exactly the same type of early lupus symptoms, therefore making it difficult to make an accurate diagnosis. No single symptom, test or sign will be definitive. Early detection of lupus will ensure successful management of this disease.
Lupus is not considered to be a fatal disease, and the prognosis is more optimistic today, than ever before. If your lupus symptoms are not organ damaging, an appropriate treatment plan prepared by your physician, can enable you to enjoy a normal, healthy life.
Some individuals with systemic lupus symptoms may suffer from severe repeated attacks, but never actually require hospitalization. Over the last decade, the progress made in diagnosis and treatment and of lupus disease, has been remarkable.
The primary goal when dealing with early lupus symptoms is to alleviate the discomfort and bring the condition under control. Early warning signs of lupus are easy to detect even when individual patterns of systemic lupus are unique.
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Understanding Lupus Medications
If lupus disease or systemic lupus has been established, your healthcare provider will initiate the best treatment plan for your symptoms, which will most likely include prescription medication.
Medications That Control Early Lupus Symptoms, Lupus Disease and Systemic Lupus
These medications include analgesics (pain relievers) and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Although these drugs will help reduce the level of discomfort, they will not restrain the process of lupus disease itself. Typically, these medications can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks before your pain is effectively under control.
NSAIDs
These drugs are of beneficial in reducing swelling and pain in joints, thus reducing stiffness. A small dose controls pain, but larger doses are necessary to minimize inflammation. NSAIDs are frequently the first choice for lower back pain relief.
The problem with NSAIDs is their side effects.
- Taking additional NSAIDs enhances the probability of heartburn
- May cause severe harmful side effects such as bleeding and ulcers
- Kidney disease, is a reported side effect
- Potentially restrains the blood's capability to clot and may work against other blood-thinning medications such as Coumadin
Most NSAIDs require a prescription, including naproxen (nabumetone (Relafen®), Naprosyn®), Indomethacin (Indocid®), Piroxicam (Feldene®), Diclofenac (Voltaren®), and Sulindac (Clinoril®). Other NSAIDs are available over-the-counter and consist of ASA (Anacin®, Aspirin® and others), and Ibuprofen (Advil®, Motrin IB®, and others).
COX-2 Inhibitors, a sub-class of NSAID, has recently been introduced to the North American marketplace. The most commonly prescribed Cox-2 inhibitors are celecoxib (Celebrex®), rofecoxib (Vioxx®), valdecoxib (Bextra®) and meloxicam (Mobicox®). Unlike standard NSAIDs, Cox-2 inhibitors do not affect the body’s blood-clotting ability. Although, there is current research, which implicates Cox-2 inhibitors as having the same level of harmful side effects as most standard NSAIDs - including elevated risks of kidney failure - and may increase the risk of heart attack and other cardiovascular problems.
*Important News Release September 2004 Vioxx®, the cox-2 inhibitor made by Merck, has been pulled from the market because of severe lethal side effects due to heart attack and stroke.
Acetaminophen
Acetaminophen (Tylenol®, Panadol®, Exdol®, and others)
- Often prescribed to relieve mild to moderate arthritis pain and lupus symptoms
- It is not an anti-inflammatory drug
- Can bring relief for arthritis pain, but does not help the underlying cause of the condition
- Overdosing can cause liver damage
- Long-term use can result in kidney disease
- May usually be safely combined with an anti-inflammatory medication to relieve pain (Please consult your doctor or other health care provider regarding medications that are appropriate for you.)
If you are taking acetaminophen on a regular basis to control pain, you should make sure that other over-the-counter medications such as cold and flu remedies do not contain enough acetaminophen to constitute an overdose.
Corticosteroids
Cortisone may be injected directly into the joint to relieve severe inflammation and swelling. Cortisone mimics the anti-inflammatory effects of cortisol - a hormone produced naturally in the body. A cortisone injection can provide almost immediate relief for an inflamed and painful joint. Corticosteroids should only be used on a rare occasion as they can deplete minerals from the bones and weaken cartilage. Chronic use of corticosteroids may increase the risk of infection and suppress the immune system. The most common form of corticosteroid is called prednisone. Oral prednisone is usually considered when the symptoms of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) are not being controlled by other treatments, and there is concern about an imminent flare-up, or when the disease is severe and perhaps life threatening. The use of prednisone needs to be carefully monitored because of its many side effects, and this drug must never be stopped abruptly.
Side effects from long-term use of corticosteroids may include:
- Elevated blood pressure
- Cataracts
- Loss of muscle
- Disrupted sleep patterns
- Increased risk of infections
- Increased tendency to bruise
- Suppressed immune functions
- Weight gain
- Osteoporosis- thinning of the bones (osteopenia)
Anti-Malarials
Although anti-malarial drugs may take several months to become effective, they are successful in the management of the joint pain, fatigue, and skin rashes, which are common symptoms of lupus disease. Anti-malarial medications usually include Chloroquine (Aralen®) and hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil®).
Stomach upset is the most common side effect of anti-malarial medications. Although rare, a more severe side effect of anti-malarials can include loss of vision, which can occur when high dosages of anti-malarials are used over an extended period of time. Before this medication is prescribed, your physician will probably want you to go for an eye exam, and continue with routine eye exams while taking this drug.
Cytotoxic Drugs
In order to reduce the inflammation, cytotoxic drugs will suppress the immune system; therefore they are given the term “immunosuppressive drugs”. If you are experiencing adverse effects from prednisone or you are not responding to prednisone, you may be prescribed cytoxic drugs. The most commonly prescribed cytotoxic drugs include Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan®), cyclophosphamide (Procytox®), and azathioprine (Imuran®).
Serious side effects of cytoxic drugs include:
- Risk of chronic infections
- Reduction in blood cell counts
- Possible development of various cancers
Your doctor will perform routine blood tests and closely monitor you if you have been prescribed cytotoxic drugs.
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What Are Your Lupus Risk Factors?
Lupus is considered to be one of the autoimmune diseases; where the individual’s own immune system inadvertently attacks his or her own healthy tissues. The exact cause of lupus disease currently remains unknown.
Current research suggests that there are many factors, which may ultimately contribute to the development of lupus. These factors can include:
Hormonal Factors. There are numerous scientists who believe there are specific hormonal factors, which may be implicated in the course and development of lupus, particularly affecting women. If an individual is genetically susceptible, these hormonal changes or deficiencies may trigger lupus.
Genetic Factors. There may be a genetic predisposition in the development of lupus. There are many individuals who do not carry these specific genes, but still develop lupus, while others who do have a genetic predisposition never develop this disease.
Being of Female Gender. Women are more often affected by lupus, predominantly so in childbearing years.
Chemical factors. Preliminary evidence has proven that over consumption of foods or drinks containing Aspartame, which is an artificial sweetener (NutraSweet) may be responsible for lupus or lupus-like symptoms in vulnerable individuals.
Environmental Factors. Research indicates that something occurs in genetically predisposition individuals that make them susceptible to lupus disease. This includes infectious substances such as bacterium or viruses. This does not insinuate that this disease is contagious. Lupus itself cannot be transmitted from individual to individual.
Digestive Difficulties. Many researchers suggest that inflammation and tissue damage result from ongoing or abnormal exposure to foreign substances that enter the bloodstream. Repetitive exposure to these substances may aggravate immune cells and initiate an overload of enzymes and other biochemicals into the body. Typically, these biochemicals help maintain a healthy balance between the breakdown and reconstruction of the body’s tissue, but if an excess of these biochemicals are released, the balance is disrupted and there is a breakdown in the tissues.
Lupus Wellness Tips
The following tips will help you to manage lupus:
Modify your diet. Include raw seeds such as flax and pumpkin seeds and fatty fish such as sardines and salmon into your diet. These foods are excellent sources of omega 3 fatty acids, which are health promoting. These foods will also help reduce inflammation. Consume more healthy fruits and vegetables, and include legumes such as peas and beans. Try to eliminate foods rich in hydrogenated oils, and reduce your intake of fatty meats like beef and pork. Consume only low-fat dairy products.
Exercise regularly. If you suffer from lupus, it is essential to include a regular exercise program into your life. Exercise is vital in maintaining joint mobility and strong muscles. Regular exercise also helps develop healthy sleep patterns and produces a positive mental attitude.
Control stress levels. Individuals who suffer from lupus face both physical as well as emotional challenges. It is important that individuals with lupus keep their stress levels to a minimum since stress also has an affect on the severity of pain. By developing coping and relaxation techniques, you can feel that you have some control over your condition. Incorporate relaxing techniques such as listening to relaxation Cd’s, deep breathing exercises, or yoga classes. These activities can help reduce stress. There are also support groups you can participate in.
Protect your joints. Pay close attention to and stop all activities that cause you pain. Use caution when lifting heavy objects and make sure to take frequent breaks when doing repetitive tasks. Use carts as an alternative to carrying heavy objects or shoulder bags. There are many helpful devices available, such as wide-handled mugs and jar openers designed for individuals with joint problems.
Recognize initial flare-up symptoms. Try to avoid flare-ups. It is important to recognize the initial warning signs of lupus. This will allow your doctor to effectively treat the early symptoms of this disease, thus preventing a full-blown condition. Since lupus symptoms vary for each individual, you may have to experience a few flare-ups before you can identify your own individual symptoms.
If you are a female diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), talk to your health care provider about effective birth control methods. Pregnancy and birth control can change the hormones levels in your body, thus complicating your condition.
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How Recovery™ With Nutricol™ Can Help Lupus
Nutricol™
Nutricol™, available in Recovery™ , is a food-based non-drug formula designed to enhance the quality of life.
May be safely combined with other arthritis medications or taken on its own.
- Improves circulation to tissues
- Speeds repair to tissue
- Slows or halts tissue damage
- No unpleasant side effects
Safety Of Recovery™
Recovery™ provides significant benefits with minimal risk. All Recovery™ ingredients are non-toxic and natural occurring.
Nutricol® components have been clinically proven to possess anticarinogenic properties in the lungs, liver, pancreas, prostate, bladder, breast, skin and the majority of the gastrointestinal system.
Effect On Liver Function
Due to anti-oxidative and anti-catabolic actions, Recovery™ may assist in effective metabolism and elimination of drugs and toxins in the body by sustaining 4 phase II liver pathways (conjugation, taurine conjugation, glutathione, sulfation and methylation).
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