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Posted 4/24/2014 4:34 AM (GMT 0)
Compare the advancements that have been made in medical science and in the treatment of IBD from 1980-1990, 1990-2000, and 2000-2010.

Where do you think 2010-2020 will lead us?! How will the 2020-2030 period look?! Will there be an optimum treatment or a cure between 2014 and 2030?!

As interests peak and research develops, what could be in store for us in the near future?!

My hopes are high, are yours? Do you not dream of the day when we can all become colitis free? Here is to wishing.
Posted 4/24/2014 4:38 AM (GMT 0)
yes, the cure is coming.
Posted 4/24/2014 7:49 AM (GMT 0)

Somedude said...
yes, the cure is coming.


I love you somedude
Posted 4/24/2014 7:58 AM (GMT 0)
Medical companies are trying to produce expensive symptomatic drugs (which pass the short term trials) which will never heal the disease. This developement will gradually continue in the future. Until the different causes, which can be individual from person to person will be recognised, there will be no significant progress.
Posted 4/24/2014 11:13 AM (GMT 0)
I really like that band too.... Robert Smith was totally hot in his younger days, not so much now. I hear they're coming out with a new album. wink
Posted 4/24/2014 11:47 AM (GMT 0)
I agree - he is totally HOT !


famousjuggalos.tumblr.com/post/474949235/robert-j-smith
Posted 4/24/2014 12:06 PM (GMT 0)
Ha, Eva Lou, I thought the same thing!
Posted 4/24/2014 12:36 PM (GMT 0)
no no, soy- you need to look at pics from the 80's- a goth girls dream! Not that I was ever goth, but still.... Well, tomorrow is Friday everyone- are we all in love????
Posted 4/24/2014 12:46 PM (GMT 0)
yup, we were all hot once - a LONG time ago for some of us ;-)

here's to the and a cure !
Posted 4/24/2014 1:08 PM (GMT 0)
The Internet does not correspond with my hopes for humanity.
Posted 4/24/2014 2:03 PM (GMT 0)
Sorry, Izzy. We go through about two of these threads a month, and some of us who have been the lucky recipients of all UC has to offer are jaded. I know I stopped thinking about cures in my fourth year of unremitting flare, and decided I'd be thrilled just to have a solid remission.

I am.
Posted 4/24/2014 2:13 PM (GMT 0)
I see cure only if health insurance companies funding research rather than pharmacutical companies. Insurance companies will save lot of money with cure and pharma companies make lot of money with no cure and we keep taking medicine.
Posted 4/24/2014 3:43 PM (GMT 0)
Well I'd be 63 in 2030 and sure it would be great if there was a cure for IBD by then....but that's a long time to hold your breath in the hopes of it. I ran out of patience a long time ago hoping and expecting a cure for IBD.
Posted 4/24/2014 3:51 PM (GMT 0)
I think most folks here would be happy with a long term treatment that gives a reasonable facsimile of a normal life -
Posted 4/24/2014 4:24 PM (GMT 0)
"I see cure only if health insurance companies funding research rather than pharmacutical companies. Insurance companies will save lot of money with cure and pharma companies make lot of money with no cure and we keep taking medicine."

Unfortunately insurance companies make more money with people sick and spending like crazy just like hospitals, doctors, drug companies. Long term anyway. They do like to control costs until the next premium increase though.
Posted 4/24/2014 5:36 PM (GMT 0)

Izzy13 said...
The Internet does not correspond with my hopes for humanity.

We're a pretty degenerate bunch, to be sure.

But really, there was a massive barney over this subject only a couple of weeks ago. The thread got locked and everything: I'm surprised you didn't see it.

Personally, I'm with you, sister/bro. I want to see a cure. I'm tired of meds which don't work and/or the side-effects are almost as bad as the original disease. And I ain't even gonna mention the S word. If it's not a cure, it can go home.

#myopiniononly
Posted 4/24/2014 5:54 PM (GMT 0)
You know I never really thought about a cure. Most of my focus had been trying to live the best I can in the here and now. I find that by doing that things are less stressful and more in my control. Thus is not to say that if offered to be in a study or donate my body to IBD science I wouldn't because I'm also about helping those in the future but right now I'm all about right now. So if the cure benefits me right now great! But I have bigger fish to fry...mmm fried fish :P
Posted 4/24/2014 5:54 PM (GMT 0)

chroninator said...
Medical companies are trying to produce expensive symptomatic drugs (which pass the short term trials) which will never heal the disease. This developement will gradually continue in the future. Until the different causes, which can be individual from person to person will be recognised, there will be no significant progress.

You speak some true but sad words, my friend.

From 10 years of personal experience with all the pharmaceutical therapies, this appears to be the case for the most part... and no thanks to clown organizations like the CCFA that are supposed to be championing for us. Honestly, the business oriented invidual in me would do the same thing if I were the CEO of a multibillion dollar company like abbvie or janssen biotech.

Would anyone running a pharmaceutical company not want a lifelong therapy like biologics to keep the dollars rolling? Sure one call coin it as preying on the sick, but the corporate world takes no prisoners. It's a take or it leave it kind of scheme because we're led to believe there are no other options.

A targeted, one time therapy based on individual flora absences like a specialized fecal transplant or poop pill would make me one poor CEO, but I'd be a half a decent human being though and have plenty of good karma to last me to my next life.

Post Edited (Guardian9) : 4/24/2014 11:57:16 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 4/24/2014 6:06 PM (GMT 0)
I remember the brilliant etrade commercial that said "someone is going to win the lottery-- just not you." (Which statistically, is true-- lotteries are referred to by some economists as an "idiot tax"). Having tried pretty much every available drug and alternative therapy without much to show for it when i had my ever on-fire colon for years, I eventually accepted that "someone ia going to find their wonder cure" (coconut macaroons or spinach and sf or whatever cure d'jeure) , just not me, lol. It's interesting though how some throw in the towel after 90 days and some like me go ten years or more... The madness of this DD is that it is all a crxp shoot, pun intended.
Posted 4/24/2014 8:29 PM (GMT 0)
People, I want to ask for a specific potential treatment option with respect to this thread. What are your opinions about Mesenchymal stem cell therapy as a future treatment? My GI who is an academician and experienced with IBD thinks that this treatment can be a more effective and safe treatment. So that it may be considered as a kind of a cure(?).

Post Edited (xy123) : 4/24/2014 2:38:30 PM (GMT-6)

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