Joint Pain
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JOINT PAIN - GREAT TOE PAIN
Individuals with PKD have elevations of body acids, especially urinary uric acid. PLD 'rs often have elevated uric acid levels from the liver's inability to metabolize body acids. This sometimes manifests as gouty arthritis, or pain in the great toe. The pain is from uric acid crystals trapped within the joint. Sometimes I get great toe pain. I have found that by avoiding raw spinach (high in purines) and the nightshade plants (tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, peppers, tobacco and belladonna) this avoidance diminishes joint pain. If the toe does act up, I take foods which help to lower uric acid, i.e. ten cherries a day, nettles, artichokes, a shot of wheat grass juice, or I chew on a few sprigs of parsley. Nettle juice lowers uric acid, and is a great alkalizer, however it is also high in potassium. A few drops of non alcoholic nettle extract in a cup of warm water seem to help relieve great toe aches. Cherries, ten a day, helps with arthritis pain by lowering uric acid. A rheumatologist told me, he investigated all the different foods that seemed to help arthritis and one that was really helpful were cherries. Attempting to maintain a constant relative alkalinity helps to diminish body pains from cystic organ disease. This can be accomplished through diet and lifestyle and by supplementing occasionally with potent alkalizers.
JOINT PAIN - ARTHRITIS
Drinking hot lemon juice each morning, and later cabbage juice with 5 almonds helps. If this does not relieve the pain, then I start with 10 cherries (I must confess I have on occasion eaten maraschino cherries if I cannot fresh or frozen). This did relieve joint pain but by morning, I had a migraine headache from the sugars and dye in the maraschino cherries. I now found a sour cherry all fruit jam, that works without the side effect of headaches. If I am traveling, I might stop in a jamba juice bar and get a one ounce shot of wheat grass followed by a bite into an orange slice.

 


Why is Glucosamine and Chondroitin best avoided with PKD?

If this helps your pain, then continue with it; however it is made from shellfish and shark cartilage, these are high in copper and high in oxalates, all detrimental to individuals with PKD. There is a completed study called the GAIT clinical trial. This was a multi-center trial of 1500 individuals Glucosamine/chondroitin Arthritis Intervention Trial (GAIT), a 24-week. Conclusions Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate alone or in combination did not reduce pain effectively in the overall group of patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. Analyses suggest that the combination of glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate may be effective in the subgroup of patients with moderate-to-severe knee pain must be confirmed by another trial. Here is another link. The good news is that a recent clinical trial of Glucosamine supplementation showed that it does not affect blood sugar in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus The American College of Radiologists concluded that there was no pain benefit except possibly in severe cases of knee osteoarthritis. The pain was rated against a known pain scale. This differs from a small European study done by the manufacturers of Chondroitin.

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