Comments on: What doesn’t work

By: DUNCAN CROSS

DUNCAN CROSS — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:26:04 +0000

[...] a dissenting view of the sort of thing I was talking about here, consider this: Consider the following statement: “It must be made clear to anyone suffering [...]

By: dx

dx — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:38:40 +0000

Maybe – I would be interested to know if there’s a peer-reviewed study that informs your understanding. And even if it does work better, that has to be weighed against the potential side effects and the fact that infliximab is about a thousand times more expensive than flagyl. As far as I know, there isn’t good data that compares major treatments to one another – but the pharmaceutical companies are fighting to make sure we don’t have that information.

By: The Bag of Health and Politics

The Bag of Health and Politics — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:15:44 +0000

I understand where you’re coming from, but infliximab and other biologic medicines work better when they are the first drug used. The system we have is really bad because it causes people to waste a bunch of time and money on ineffective treatments. For instance, I responded well to Flagyl, but once that was stopped, I didn’t respond to anything. Prednisone, followed by Colozal, followed by probiotics, followed by 6-MP, followed by Remicade all failed. If we had tried Remicade first, it may have worked better.