Vikhlyantseva Natalia Quotes & Sayings

This is usually accomplished by taking X-rays of the affected joints and analyzing blood for an ANA and rheumatoid factor (RF). Unfortunately, Lyme disease can cause false positive ANAs and rheumatoid factors due to a patient's overstimulated immune system. This can lead to a mistaken diagnosis of lupus or rheumatoid arthritis. This is why drawing a CCP (cyclic citrullinated peptide) is so important. It is a specific marker for rheumatoid arthritis and will help determine whether the patient has true rheumatoid arthritis or not. Patients with a positive ANA or RF often are prescribed immunosuppressive drugs, such as steroids or immunomodulatory drugs, like Enbrel or Arava. These treatments can have dire consequences for the Lyme disease patient who is co-infected, since they are already immune-suppressed, and steroids can cause their underlying infections and subsequent manifestations — Richard I. Horowitz

War has become our national industry, like automotives and steel and the railroads once were. — Patricia Cornwell

Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful. — John Henrik Clarke

Any time you do a project you never really know how people are going to take it especially on TV. I think they used to be more forgiving with shows. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle.

The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet. — Francois Fenelon