What treatment works to reduce joint swelling?

Hi - I've been taking oral clindamycin abx for five years and have had no problem with it whatsoever. It's successfully stopped joint swelling and fibro pain. Unfortunately, now my knees and ankles are swelling again.

I'm allergic to doxycycline, all penicillins, can't handle anything with sulfa, haven't handled most other abx very well.

I have a feeling I'm going to have to treat with nonabx, so what herbs and supplements work to reduce joint swelling? And even fibro pain, although that sx hasn't yet started up in me, just the knees and ankle swelling.

Post Edited (IFoundOutWhatIHave!) : 8/20/2011 2:31:58 AM (GMT-6)

Hi - I saw my LLMD this week - he is very wholistic - he doesn't think there are any other abx I can take, so I'll be going the herbal route - we talked about cat's claw, also I'm reading about teasal - don't know if any of you have had success with those taking down Lyme symptoms, specifically joint swelling? We also discussed lots of anti-inflam supplements. I have to try one thing at a time to see if I pass it. Ah - the joys of protocol change...

Re allergies - I tried detoxing for 6 months on an FIR biomat and in the 6th month, I started to be able to handle chemicals and touch materials again, so FIR sweating really can work to sweat out the toxin load. Waiting to do some more soon.