bitten or stung?
Apr 29th 2012 | 7:32 pm
#16
Joined: Jun 2011
Posts: 12,053
From: In the middle of 10million Olive Trees
Re: bitten or stung?
I'm not 100% sure through personal experience as I am still medicating in the UK but I have heard through my Spanish and ex pat friends that the treatment of RA here in Spain is better controlled and monitored. When I asked my specialist about moving to Spain he poo pooed the idea, but I personally think he just didn't want to lose a patient.
I also find that when I am here I forget to take my methotrexate as I did this week, and I don't get a flare up as I would in UK. I'm sure it's the good weather and less stressful lifestyle, plus the good food. I only eat natural foods here and definatley no meat.
I also find that when I am here I forget to take my methotrexate as I did this week, and I don't get a flare up as I would in UK. I'm sure it's the good weather and less stressful lifestyle, plus the good food. I only eat natural foods here and definatley no meat.
Before I came over here permanantly in Dec I was experiencing a number of mobility problems with my legs and other joints were giving me problems, so stopped taking it for a week and the problems went away. I havent taken it since.
I do appreciate that Allopurinol is there to sit in the system waiting to fight a flareup when it occurs (a bit like antifreeze in the radiator)
but after 6+months there have been no mobility problems, no flareups, perhaps I am lucky.
But surely our doctors on the good old NHS should be reviewing the prescriptions we have been on for decades - my new Spanish doctor is already grumbling about the prescription dosage for chronic hypertension I have transferred.
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