Alternet news reports:
"Big pharma is pushing, Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) as an Autoimmune disease, the diagnosis of AS is a judgment call with no clearcut test. That's why Pharma offers a helpful quiz to convince people and hopefully, their doctors that their back pain isn't from overexertion or a bad bed but AS.

If it is AS, back pain sufferers may just need Humira, a genetically modified, injected drug that costs $15,000 to $20,000 a year per patient. Drugs like Humira are "monoclonal antibodies" that suppress the body's immune system by blocking tumour necrosis factor (TNF).

For example, if you have back pain do you really want to take a drug whose label warns that "Patients treated with Humira are at increased risk for developing serious infections that may lead to hospitalisation or death?" These include "Invasive fungal infections, including histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis," and "Bacterial, viral and other infections due to opportunistic pathogens, including Legionella and Listeria?"

In 2008, 45 people died from opportunistic fungal diseases associated with such TNF blockers. The same year, the FDA investigated Humira for 30 reports of childhood cancers and its links to lymphoma, leukaemia and melanoma in children. In 2011, the FDA also warned that Humira can cause, "a rare cancer of white blood cells," in young people. Five patients died during Humira trials in Italy that year.
[Coincidentally:
When Abbott announced its full-year results last week, its anti-TNF inhibitor product Humira delivered a stronger-than-expected 23.1 per cent year-on-year increase in Q4 sales (recorded at $2.7 billion). Annual sales for 2012 stood at $9.3 billion, cementing the status of Humira as one of the biggest selling products of all time.]"

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Anyone ensnared into 'AS' please be aware of this hopeless treatment.

Followers of this website and patients clearly know the link between Cranio Dental and Skeletal asymmetry as the REAL cause of almost all neck and back pain. If untreated these spinal asymmetries continue to propagate the problem along the length of the spine leading to ankylosis which often starts in the neck region.

We often see patients whose necks become rigid and the head does not turn from side to side without pain and discomfort. Using a strong muscle massage on the muscle attachments to the basi-occiput together with wearing an appropriate dental appliance immediately starts resolving the problem before it becomes incapacitating and ending in the ankylosis of the neck joints.

These PHYSICAL problems cannot be treated with immune system ablating drugs.

Also read what others on such medication have experienced
Reviewed January 2021
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