[ruok_throwaway]

One thing I learned repeatedly while dealing with a chronic health condition is to never assume that you're "about to beat it". I've had that feeling about 1000 times now, and telling that to my family and friends just made me sound like an idiot, since I would invariably regress again.

Now I'm at a point I would only be fine with saying this if I didn't have any issues after a prolonged interval.

[acchow]

The researcher here does not have arthritis. He is developing a drug to cure arthritis for everyone.

[driverdan]

> He is developing a drug to cure arthritis for everyone.

That's not it at all. Read the article.

[socksy]

This article is about a biotech company that is aiming to reduce pain from arthritis using an injectable chemical (as an alternative to taking ibuprofen every day), whereas I think from your comment it sounds like a personal journey hoping to recover from a chronic health condition (I doubt this is happening any time soon for arthritis, unfortunately).

[Joel_Mckay]

Some do see remission with the modern expensive Biologics, but those only treat the underlying inflammatory condition. The damage to a body remains from the inflammatory cycles, short-term steroid treatments, and pain medications.

It is one of my biggest pet peeves seeing folks with "good intentions" spout off about nonsense "cures" for a suite of currently chronic conditions. There are specific gene therapies being researched that _may_ remove the need for heavy medications at _some_point_ in the next decade, but the damage done by the disease will still require joint replacement surgeries etc.

Most competent people I've met have zero sense of humor when it comes to this area of research, and would have also fired anyone that mistakes pain medication for a "cure" (unless I misunderstood the press release gibberish.)

Have a great day, and please consider starting a fact-checking wiki like snopes to document the ignorant new age nonsense people perpetuate. =3