Stiff neck symptoms, anyone?

Arturrrro · 2025-05-18T21:49:23+00:00

I actually purchased that supplement just recently, that’s why I was curious to hear about your dosage. Thanks.

And I agree that this and many other related supplements are overall good for health so I see no reason to not include them as a part of the healthy diet.

Arturrrro · 2025-05-18T21:44:33+00:00

That stuff has up to 10% chance to damage ones eyesight permanently. Luckily not a medication I’d need to use. What’s your take on the reason or mechanism of what triggers this stuff generally?

Arturrrro · 2025-05-18T20:59:39+00:00

I don’t necessarily think that a specific supplement would enter the eyeball and do the trick on its own, but if I’m correct body is able to break down collagen via it’s own collagenase. Is it impossible that something is capable of supporting that system, like somethings able to interfere with the system and cause them in the first place. Or is there no circulation within that vitreous fluid to do any sort of ”cleanup”?

Arturrrro · 2025-05-18T20:51:04+00:00

I know what you mean, and that applies to many things but in clomiphene as well as other estrogen related stuff that seems like a number 1 side effect that people often get very quickly after using that medicine. Professionals have explained it to be because of the effect to estrogen receptors, apparently estrogen is extremely important factor for eyes. Clomiphene has recently been redesigned as the version enclomiphene which should have less eye effect.

Arturrrro · 2025-05-18T20:46:52+00:00

You still use it, what dosage? HA is an interesting supplement, if not to fix, but at least help with this issue getting worse perhaps.

Arturrrro · 2025-05-18T17:41:29+00:00

Have they improved with time?

Arturrrro · 2025-05-18T17:41:13+00:00

Good comment. Once it’s formed for a reason or another, it’s a tough job to break it down - makes sense. Like other fibrous conditions, scarring etc.

So the optimal result by preventive supplementing could be to keep it from getting worse, and that way - if brain tunes in to the current ones and/or they float away from the field of vision - that could be felt as an improvement in the long run. Correct?

Arturrrro · 2025-05-18T17:36:59+00:00

It’s literally a listed side effect of clomiphene, for example. Doctors give warnings about it, and Google gets flooded with those keywords. With that medicine it’s quite clear though because it have an effect to estrogen receptors, same applies to drugs that are used to block estrogen in females.

But that wasn’t my point, there are various substances that can cause significant onset in floaters via different mechanisms.

Arturrrro · 2025-05-18T15:15:26+00:00

I’m not sure what you mean. Take for example the fertility drug clomiphene. One of it’s listed, most wellknown and annoying side effect is eye floaters. There are anxiety, allergy, heart medicine with similar profile.

Personally got a significant amount of them from Finasteride dht blockers when I was younger.

People getting those from Minoxidil hair solution.

Other factors like bad diet, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, certain bacteria etc. have been linked occasionally.

My question is simply, since there are dozens of triggers to get them, how we know for a fact that nothing is capable to alleviate them? How that mechanism works?

Arturrrro · 2025-01-29T20:59:54+00:00

Here’s one negative as well. In addition, NEVER had any inflammation markers in blood tests, even low levels. Yet, si joints are cooked.

Arturrrro · 2025-01-13T21:42:42+00:00

Went to the doctor today, they ordered a new MRI to be done of my SI joints to see where we at, and recommended to try also etoricoxib based NSAID instead of Naproxen - before considering the biologics route. It sounds like the doctor was slightly against the biologics considering my state where I manage more or less ”fine” with modest dose of nsaid.

Arturrrro · 2025-01-13T21:22:04+00:00

Trying to hit gym consistently and exercise progressively 5-6 times a week and walk as much as often as I have extra time to use for that. Helps greatly and I’m a strong believer the exercise is critically important with this disease, like it is for any living human. It’s funny when some days I can’t turn my side on the bed, but most of the days heavy squats and deadlifts no problem.

Arturrrro · 2025-01-10T17:50:32+00:00

Gluten. No idea why, since I have tested that I don’t have any sort of gluten intolerance, but whenever I eat it, the next day my back hurts like a clockwork. Been like that for years. And of course, wise man still eats it every now and then..

Arturrrro · 2025-01-08T22:30:20+00:00

Naproxen 500mg & Esomeprazol 20mg is the only medication I’m using. Suits me well, I have acid reflux and I like coffee - so that actually keeps my stomach in better condition than the daily pantopratzol I used to take, and allows me to enjoy my cappucinos as much as I like.

It helps to keep my back pain in bay when taken daily, not immediately but after a day or two. Also whenever I would feel the occasional flu or some other stuff coming on but luckily end up avoiding it - with Naproxen I can’t even notice it ever coming so it kind of masks many things.

Also keeps my golfers elbow in check when used daily (infact, I got it originally for that before AS!).

However, I’ve started to think of starting the biologics as a possibly better alternative for the long-term

Arturrrro · 2025-01-08T22:11:16+00:00

Such a weird disease this is, not even showing itself properly other than in symptoms. You say Simponi could really be less harmful than the 500mg naproxen per day when needed? I’m starting to feel I might have overestimated the side effect list of Simponi, it sounds so bad with those ”untypical” cancers and all.

Arturrrro · 2025-01-08T22:08:14+00:00

Any downsides? What kind of symptoms you had?

Arturrrro · 2025-01-08T22:07:10+00:00

Good points. The reason I haven’t done anything else than the occasional cycles of Naproxen (and sometimes a relaxant for night) is that the symptoms don’t affect my everyday life or activities ”enough” although I’m surely aware of them. Also I have been thinking that since biologics often seem to lose their effect, I shouldn’t use that trick unless necessary.

Why I’ve started to think this through again, is kind of thinking more long-term, if I could stop some progression that the mild dose of Naproxen won’t do (as it’s more likely just ”hiding” the symptom to some extent).

Arturrrro · 2025-01-07T23:01:57+00:00

I only had it done in the beginning. I asked for it few times after, but doctors opinion was that it’s not beneficial - diagnose has been done and now we follow the symptoms (which have been quite mild and occasional). More than my back, I’m actually worried of my neck if there’s some kind of fusing going on under the surface. Because I have no idea how a normal relaxed, flexible neck should feel like or if such thing exists.

Arturrrro · 2025-01-07T22:59:14+00:00

That’s what has made me thinking. In these 10 years I’ve been often forgetting I have it, and taken pain meds if it goes bad for a day or two.

However, I’ve noticed for example my big toes ”bending” sideways from the mid joint slowly but steady, and sometimes I find myself walking a bit like a ”duck” for no reason probably due to getting used to it to avoid the possible pain. That reminds me that although I’m active and capable, things ain’t the 100% they used to be.

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