Help!! beware of devious autocrat!

I agree Az. I myself received a mesage in my email today from a troll, I think?? about it being her duty to alert others to a new drink for Arthritis. Know what I told her?

if I was looking for a product to buy, I was more then capable of finding it myself and did not need a constant reminder of products, there are enough out there as it is.

This forum is not for others to try and push off their views about products and selling them, it is about self help plain and simple.

When all the trolls realize that things will change.

When I first read this I thought to myself.....does this person have RA, OA, fibro? Does this person understand the difficulty of life and the change that took place? Does this person understand the impact it has had on our relationships, family and friends not to mention our finances? Do they have any idea that in fact as stated before, if we wanted to find a product out of the the realm that our RD's prescribe to us that we would take the time and endurance through all our pain and fatigue and diseased bodies to find it? Does this person actually think we want to learn about a new product or read argumentative statements about something we do not want to read nor are remotely interested in?

So then I thought, what does this person actually have to gain? They have already lost all credibility with the person and or person's he/she is bothering on the website, so why bother to keep posting? A true business person would get the hint, rather, the true and genuine person would have the respect of others on this board who come here for a boost in moral, to forget the pain, to ease the lingering thoughts that our lives will only get worse, maybe better bit by bit but overall if nothing else full of pain each and every waking and sleeping minute of our lives. So why are these people making all these statements that none of us are interested in and just go away as in stop posting?

So I figure these "trolls" or inconsiderate people do not know or realize American culture or English culture for that matter. We have posters from Canada and well as Australia and other places beyond our borders here in the United States; they do not push products, they come here to share a devestating and terminal illness.YEs and I repeat a terminal illness because there is no cure. Everybody knows that if there was a real cure it would be on CNN and all the talk shows.

So I will cut through the Miss Nicey Nicey "Bull". WE are a sickly bunch whether we want to be or not. We get rather cranky because our bodies are falling apart from the inside and quite frankly there are no cures,there are medicines to pause the disease for those individuals who are lucky enough #1 to be able to afford  the medications, and #2 lucky enough that the drugs actually work.

So troll or salesperson that you are, do not waste your time trying to speel products, theories or books with us because we are not interested.Do you know why so many people from here have formed their own message boards?! do you? It is to get away from people who try to sell things to us that we make ever so clear that we do not want. Yep that is right, we do not want your product, or your conversation or your theories on RA because we do not find them worthy or valid of our best interest.

And this is the first post out of 33 in which RA is mentioned. And so the story and the tone change. I give up on this. It is a pointless arguement. I only hope that people who do not agree with 'western medicine' will realize that we all are bright individuals who will seek out holistic care. Meaning we will look for physical therapy and exercise, food and nutrition, herbal and vitamin supplements, and drugs that when used in combination will offer us the best chance of beating this disease and others like it. Maybe some of the self proclaimed 'bringers of light' into our 'darkness' will see that we are well aware of these options and we either choose not to use them, or are already using them in conjunction with other methods.  To Mr Kokako-if you have suffered with Gout and have found that by eating certain foods and takeing of herbs you have been medication free and disease free-then you are fortunate and it is a wonderful thing that you must no longer endure the pain that Gout brings. However, as I initially set out to make clear, many-not all but many sufferers of Gout injest foods that are high in purines which increases uric acid in the body and causes the attack of Gout. This is a simplified explanation, but that is the jist of it. So it would stand to reason (and has been proven) that elimination of the high purine foods will relieve the suffering. RA and OA are not caused by uric acid levels being to high. I am sure that there are some people who have gone into long term remissions from their arthritis simply by following a healty diet and taking herbal supplements. My own mother was dx'd at the age of 9 with JRA and is now 62. She has never taken steroids or DMARDS. Only ASA and eating healthy. She has flare ups and days when she is just really tired. She is starting to show slight changes in the shape of her fingers and she has osteoporosus. But she still works full time, running her own business; she was out in the yard on Saturday helping my Dad trim branches and mowing and pulling weeds. But her sister has RA and has not had luck managing it with OTC meds and diet alone. So you see, even among families, what works for one does not help another. It has already been said and I will say it again: we always welcome new people and new ideas, but not one idea-pushed repeatedly-no matter what the topic. Having our words brought down into a new post and broken down for analysis and criticism. It is rude and suspicious. It reeks of a salespitch--however poor an attempt it may be. And in this case, if a self employed herbalist is not here to push a 'rare' herb or flower, wonderful. But dont make yourself appear as a Troll by continually spouting off about all of us being in the dark. You like your way and we dont tell you after every one of your posts that you really should go get some medicine and see a doctor. Likewise, we demand the same respect. We didnt ask, but if anyone is looking for a dietary and herbal cure for Gout we will send them your way. I dont have Gout, I am not interested in the herbs, foods, or research that you have read about. I personally dont care to hear anything about any of those things. I guess that will be my loss, but I am willing to take that chance. I am telling you this so that you will not be mistaken if you read one of my posts at a later time. This way you will not waste your time responding, because I am not interested.

By the way did you check out my 'word of the day' thread? I thought it was good for a laugh. And yes, I make jokes--It is my sense of humor that keeps me sane. I not only deal with my own illness, but my husband has some health issues as well, my son has asthma and has been severely ill, my 80 yr old grand parents live a block away and I am always helping them, and then I go to work and have to deal with everything from 2week old babies with meningitis to people with gun shot wounds and rape victims, to heart attacks and codes. If I didnt find a way to laugh about the BS that life dishes out I would be in a mental institution. I have been criticised for my joking nature and I just wanted it to be said that most of us here do have a silly side and we enjoy the fun and light heartedness that this type of nonsense brings to our stressful lives.