Cerasomal-cis-9-cetylmyristoleate (CMO)

[89TNA]

Hi has anyone heard of this as a natural cure for arthritis? See website cmohq.com

Sounds too good to be true

Be glad of any info/comments/experience.....

[89TNA]

I ask because a distant friend of mines friend was told she would be in a wheelchair in 6 months and she claims she tried 2 bottles of it in desperation and her arthritis is cured... i dont want her to think/know that i doubt her so thought i'd try here for the wealth of knowledge

[Beaches2 in reply to 89TNA]

Hi

Someone on here reported about using celadrin cream ( which I think is the same stuff)to ease symptoms.......you will find the post using the search box. Seems it was good for relieving symptoms which is very useful, but really doubt it can do anything to actually slow down the disease process which is hopefully what dmards and biologics do.

Sadly there is currently no cure for RA.......only wish there was. Perhaps your friend got lucky and the disease went in to spontaneous remission which I'm told can happen.

[medway-lady]

You know the old saying "if it sounds to good to be true, etc" seriously just think if these type of cures existed do you think that the NHS would spend millions on medications and its always made clear its not a cure. It just if your lucky can be put into remission. I'd not waste my money on it. And please do remember RA is more than pain and swelling and is an auto immune condition so can anything switch off the bodies own response to itself without heavy duty immunosuppresent meds such as I take?

In short is it worth the risk ?

[Jacki08 in reply to medway-lady]

You took the words out of my mouth. ☺x

[allanah]

There is no cure for arthritis .

Wish there was but there are lots of drugs etc to help. You can look at the Nras website for more information. There has been so much research done that maybe well one day , but this " cure" you mention is not worth the risk or the money .

[acunatang]

There are many more ways to treat your RA apart from what is reported on NRSA website! NHS never report alternatives that might help because if the pharmaceutical industry can not patent it then in their eyes it doesn't exist! Be careful Not to dismiss something that might work well for you! Don't just take what they say, don't be a passive victim, study, research and question your illness, only then will we get the real answers!!

[medway-lady in reply to acunatang]

Are you really saying that we are being mislead ? if so who by ? as this is an astonishing statement. I really think your in your own world. I'm most definitely not a passive victim but an articulate, well educated person with an set of auto immune diseases. Do you really expect people to ignore the advice of highly educated doctors and believe the sellers of some disreputable "cures" with diet or snake juice in a bottle ?

The internet appears to be full of "cures" or treatments for this, or that, at a price usually though, and that price could cost you your life if you ignore the hidden effects of RA. In time all humanity might get more answers as to the causes and better treatments of all diseases but I'm certain its not do do with patents. Nor are we victims of the NHS, I'm b----y grateful for my medication at great cost to the NHS as I'm sure a lot of others are.

[89TNA in reply to medway-lady]

Hi medway lady, Im sure she wasnt targeting anyone in her reply but as we would all know a drug that works for you may not work for me and vice versa. Likewise something natural may work for one that maybe not being so viciously attacked by the disease that brings us all here.

Im dubious about it too but then again i think just maybe it may bring some relief along with the drugs aswell because right now i'm taking 3 prescription drugs and still experiencing flares and pain etc.

im grateful for everyones advice and replies.. thank you all

[acunatang in reply to medway-lady]

Firstly, I didn't say we were being misled I am simply pointing out that the NHS don't have all the answers. If you accept your disease and it's limitations as told to you by the highly educated doctors you mention then you are a passive victim! I did not aim my answer at anyone in particular and I did not insult anyone! The highly educated doctors are human and sometimes get it wrong! The only way to understand your own illness is to research research research other treatments, other people's stories and yes in some cases so called "internet cures"! Not everything on the internet is rubbish and by educating yourself on your disease and how it manifests in you then you may find better answers to what the doctors are restricted to offer you!

[Witness1]

I find it both unsettling and tempting when I hear about 'cures' for RA. I once worked for an eminent Homoeopath and he sorted out my gut and a very nasty dental infection but he waved the white flag over my RA - he accepted it was way beyond Homoeopathy. I rejected conventional medicine for 10 years. I managed and it was great to feel drug free (not saying I felt 100% well though) but it cost me my hands and possibly caused damage to my heart. There were no biologics in those days. Now my RA is brilliantly controlled by Enbrel but I live with the destruction from those 10 years and the 20 years of DMARDs before that which didn't work for me. My contribution to this debate is Don't reject anything that works for you and discuss any new alternative medicine with your Rheumatologist. They might laugh but I just ask mine for his understanding of why it might or might not work. And try Google Scholar for papers on any relevant research. I am far from passive and I am rightly suspicious of anything that claims to be a cure.