It's misleading to say "8. Remission is highly achievable with a combination of tumor necrosis factor inhibitors and methotrexate". While this combination achieves remission for some people, for others it does not, and there are no cookie cutter routes to remission. There are numerous ways a patient can achieve remission, sometimes with much less serious drugs than TNF inhibitors. (For example, I was able to achieve remission from RA with a combination of low dose antibiotics and a gluten free diet.)
While MTX and TNF inhibitors are useful when other treatments have failed, think it does a diservice to people with RA and their caregivers to imply that the use of these heavy duty drugs are the only way to acheive remission when in truth there are other, less harmful options available to them.
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It's misleading to say "8. Remission is highly achievable with a combination of tumor necrosis factor inhibitors and methotrexate". While this combination achieves remission for some people, for others it does not, and there are no cookie cutter routes to remission. There are numerous ways a patient can achieve remission, sometimes with much less serious drugs than TNF inhibitors. (For example, I was able to achieve remission from RA with a combination of low dose antibiotics and a gluten free diet.)
While MTX and TNF inhibitors are useful when other treatments have failed, think it does a diservice to people with RA and their caregivers to imply that the use of these heavy duty drugs are the only way to acheive remission when in truth there are other, less harmful options available to them.
April 13, 2010 - 11:11amThis Comment
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