I’ve been suffering from swollen joints for years periodically. Now I’m constantly suffering from extremely painful and very swollen wrists. Sometimes in both or one or the other. I’ve read about Bromelin and just need to know about results. I’m female and in my 30’s. I’v been to the doctors and had blood tests, which came back normal I don’t want to take chemical enhanced drugs.

Of course doctors say it’s good for you, but I want answers from people that had it done if possible.

Why do they only include 2 viral types of the many that cause cancer and include 2 types that only cause warts. Likely they will come out with a complete vaccine that coincides with the date the current vaccine comes off patent. Thanks again Merck for leaving out the Vioxx data and lying to the public and Doctors.
as far as my credentials go I went to medical school and residency and am Board certified. With lisences to practive medicine in several states. Its important for all the chemistry posters to realize there are 4 viral types in the current vaccine 2 are for cancer and 2 are for warts. I am saying substitute cancer causing types for the wart types that are currently in the vaccine. I like the posts we have because they explain to me why americans get what they deserve from drug companies.

Why do they only include 2 viral types of the many that cause cancer and include 2 types that only cause warts. Likely they will come out with a complete vaccine that coincides with the date the current vaccine comes off patent. Thanks again Merck for leaving out the Vioxx data and lying to the public and Doctors.
Its important for all the chemistry posters to realize there are 4 viral types in the current vaccine 2 are for cancer and 2 are for warts. I am saying substitute cancer causing types for the wart types that are currently in the vaccine.
Dear wondering since you are clearly so knowledgable about this would you care to wager whether or not 7 or more valent vaccines will come out in the next 7-10 yrs?? Its fun to be a stooge for Merck but put your money where your mouth is. I know this is coming and would bet alot of money with anyone.
thanks michael for reposting your answer I reposted in the health section because I felt maybe that was a more accurate categorization for the question. As to your answer specifically: my issue is this if they put in the vaccine only certain virus types specifically the nonpathologic ones do you feel they are in some measure responsible for the cancers they could have prevented?

pharmaceutical drugs that have killed thousands of people, yet focuses almost exclusively on exposing alternative medicine and nutritional/herbal supplements? Dr Barrett(who runs Quackwatch) similarly doesn’t mention anything about all the deaths caused by NSAIDs(non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) or other over-prescribed, wrongly prescribed or overused pharmaceutical drugs that kill thousands every year. While I think he does an excellent job of exposing all the fraud and quackery in alternative medicine(just about all of it is either useless or unproven), why does he very rarely, if ever warn people about certain dangerous pharmaceutical drugs(I’m not saying all drugs are harmful) that harm or kill far more people than alternative medicine? http://www.quackwatch.com/
While I think you make good points, and I highly value the information Dr Barrett puts on his site(although just about all of it consists of, what are to me, obvious scams and obvious quackery), I still think his mission would be better served or his credibility greatly improved if he did include occasional warnings about mainstream drugs and treatments that do not work. By NOT doing this, he allows alternative practitioners and critics of science-based medicine to score easy points against him, when they can point out "I warned you about Vioxx and Dr Barrett didn’t, so who do you trust?".
Again, I am not a believer in alternative medicine, yet Barrett and Quackwatch kind of give the impression that mainstream medicine is perfect, mainstream medicine is always right, alternative medicine is always wrong. This is too simplistic, even though science-based medicine is what I use and believe in, all the while I know it isn’t perfect, it is flawed, doctors and drug manufacturers make mistakes(or hide negative results)that end up killing people every year, among other things.
One other thing that gets me is that whenever a massive fraud is uncovered when it comes to drug research, or some drug is exposed as being very dangerous, so many doctors express a lot of "shock" over this. I’m not sure if this shock is real or if they are putting on an act, because as a non-medical layperson, I’m never shocked by the fraud that occasionally happens in medicine and drug research. Certainly, science-based medicine is peer-reviewed and self-correcting(ideally anyway), unlike alternative medicine, but I think some doctors would better serve the public by looking more closely into the studies behind the drugs they use, rather than attacking certain alternative therapies that are useless but otherwise harmless. Note I am not saying they shouldn’t be putting down alt-med quackery, but they give the false impression that all the dangers are in alt-med, not in mainstream med, yet mainstream med kills by orders of many magnitude far more people than alt-med.
As a big-believer, and supporter of science-based medicine, I think Quackwatch inadvertently plays into the hands of alternative medicine pushers who can always point to Barrett and Quackwatch as always dropping the ball when it comes to dangerous mainstream drugs and treatments. I want Quackwatch to improve its credibility among those who rush to alternative medicine because it was their alt-med guru who warned them about Vioxx first. Similarly, Barrett makes no concessions to those few instances where certain things once considered alternative do have some science in support of them, like a few herbals for instance. It wouldn’t be a sign of weakness if he did this(it would, to me, be the opposite), and the fact that he doesn’t makes him seem like a unquestioning shill for the pharmaceutical companies which while they do not fund him, do fund the American Council of Science and Health, of which he is an adviser.

I understand that exogenous steroidal administration (such as hydrocortisone) can be dangerous for many reasons. Likewise, NSAIDs, like ibuprofen, naproxen, asa, etc. have their inherent dangers as well. my question is - for doctors approaching inflammation and mild pain - what criteria for the condition in question must be met in order for the physician to prescribe one of the meds over the other (that is, an NSAID over a steroid and vica verca)?

I have a pain in my shoulder, finger joints. I have visited doctors but they couldn’t give/tell the final cure for that

So I’m reading that I should not take Ibuprofen (or any NSAID) while on Prozac without asking my doctor. But I have a headache nowwwww. Do any of you pharmacists or doctors out there know if it would be OK to mix the two, or under what additional circumstances I should not mix the two? I figure under some circumstances it may be OK if it says to consult with your doctor, instead of outright saying "do not mix the two".

I am open to questions and will answer them in the additional detail section.

Thanks!

I’m 46 years old, I’m a very sport man, suddenly I had a pain in my right knee 4 months ago. After I made X-ray, doctors said that it is knee osteoarthiritis.
I’d like to come back to my sport as quick as possible.

This is a feminine issue, so all who can’t handle it, please leave the kitchen! C:
I have been taking one or various NSAID pain relievers (Naproxen, Peroxicam…) every day for the past four or so years because I had what my doctors thought was Junior Rheumatoid Arthritis. Last month a CT scan revealed that I had a bone tumor, and it was removed. Since then I have not taken any of my NSAID pain relievers but this week, when I got my period, I noticed it was heavier than it had ever been…in my life. I’m sixteen now, so that makes sense, doesn’t it?
Is it because I haven’t been taking any pain relievers (We were eliminating variables) that supposedly reduce the flow, or is it just a fluke thing?
This is freakin’ me out. I’ve used like a gazillion tampons. o.o
Yes, I stopped taking the Naproxen (I was taking it TWICE a day!) after switching from an awful in-town rheumatologist to an out-of-town fantastic rheumatologist! She put me on one 20mg dose of Peroxicam a day, so hopefully my stomache lining was given a slight chance to recover! C: