Please suggest a support forum for caregivers who help family members suffering from Rheumatoid Arthritis.?

My mom suffers from Rheumatoid arthritis. My sister and I help take care of her. We love helping her and taking care of her but at times it gets exhausting and depressing. Am looking for a support group or forum where caregivers like me can discuss our struggles. TIA!

Hi Djinn

Here are a few ideas to help the healing process.

Cause:
Arthritis is caused by acids and waste matter in the body, which eventually become solidified and lock the joint. This condition is caused and aggravated by improper diet. Some of the worst intakes are eggs, bread, milk, meat, salt, sugar, etc., because they cause arthritic calcification. The use of extremely hard water (generally of twelve or more grains in hardness) will often accentuate an arthritic condition where softer water will help relieve it. Sometimes an individual with a good inherent structure can throw off the hardest water without arthritic effect. The weaker person may drink water that is not very hard and absorb from it relatively larger quantities of the inorganic minerals.


Quick Action Plan for Rheumatoid Arthritis

1. Acupuncture treatment helps to reduce the body's aggressive defenses that inadvertently attack its own joint tissue.

2. Massage affected joints with rosemary, benzoin, chamomile, camphor, juniper, or lavender.

3. Diet plays an integral part in reducing or preventing the onset of all types of arthritic conditions. A diet rich in an abundant selection of fresh vegetables, and a wide variety of sweet and non-sweet fruits, soaked nuts and seeds, and whole grains is recommended.

4. Tomatoes, cayenne, black and long pepper should be avoided by person's with rheumatoid arthritis. Minimize protein intake, choose small quantities of fish, legumes, eggs, soaked nuts and seeds. Eliminate beef, chicken, shellfish, and pork completely. Eat no hydrogenated fats, processed sugars, dairy products, alcohol, coffee, or black tea.

5. Use the following powerful aids to speed and assist healing: Goji, Acai and Noni juice, bee pollen, royal jelly, and evening primrose oil are recommended, as is Shark cartilage, Wobenzyme, DMSO, MSM Manganese Cetyl myristoleate with lipase, and vitamin C.

6. Test for food and environmental allergies and avoid all foods and substances to which you are allergic.

7. Cleansing and Detoxification including colon and bowel cleansing therapies, fasting, kidney and gallbladder flushes, physical medicine, and homeopathic remedies.
Isometric exercises, stretching, and yoga can help ease arthritis pain.

8. Constitutional hydrotherapy (apply two to five times weekly) or heating compress (apply once daily to affected areas).

9 Drink the juice of half a lemon before every meal and before going to bed.

Best of health to your family.

Cheers

skin hydration in geriatric settings to reduce arthritic symptoms would greatly benefit of longer and more fun bath times.

My mother had RA, too. It is a horrible disease. Have you tried to get more help through a social service where she lives? It may help the two of you to not be "just caregivers" and get more people around for your mother. <Just a thought>
Here is a link to google groups on RA:
http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?lnk=...
Here is a link to a group that says it's suppport for cahttp://groups.google.com/group/alt.suppo... but I haven't used it:
Here is a link to a search of Yahoo groups for RA:
http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=rhe...
I hope you find what you need. Has your mother tried fish oil supplements? Fish oil is good for you in so many ways. It can act as an anti-inflammatory without the side effects of some drugs.