Maxprop wrote:
"katy" wrote in message
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Ellen MacArthur wrote:
"katy" wrote | The commercial I take issue with
is the one for rheumatoid | arthritis.saying or implying that if you take
that meducation, you can | sail your boat. I've only known 3 people with
that disease and even in | controlled stages they suffered from
spontaneous bone fracture...



My grandma had rheumatoid arthritis. She had swollen and painful
joints.
She never had broken bones from it. I think your thinking of
osteoarthritis.


Cheers,
Ellen
No...I'm not. Osteoarthritis is just plain old arthritis...many older
people claimed they had what they called rheumatiz...but it was just
adbanced arthritis. Both rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporisos cause
spontanous fracture with bery little to trigger it. Do a Google...

I believe the osteoporosis is the key to such fractures, Katy.

Max

http://ard.bmjjournals.com/cgi/conte...act/63/12/1690

The rheumatoid arthritis causes the osteoporosis as well as all the
coerical steroids used in treatment...