Hi Lin,
A common symptom of RA is dry eyes, connected with liver dysfunction and the emotion of anger. I treated mine together through the renxue zhineng qigong. There are 45.000 types of qigong so I only know the type I use and teach. Just putting drops in regu;arly doesn't cure, it may help people to cope with it, but mine is actually gone and I have cured my liver in the process. You can see on the website I suggested, if there is someone in your area.
As far as the MMS is concerned I am sure it also has helped with the turning back of the illness. I already knew from my research that some people have benefitted from longterm use of antibiotics to help with the infection but I didn't choose to go that way. Candida imbalance is also a defenite factor in RA and antibiotics are one of the factors in creating this candida imbalance. So when I found out about MMS in 2008 I knew that that was exactly what I needed. I started on tthe old protocols and oohhh I have been so sick, but as Jim says, "it hasn't killed anyone".
Basically I now stick to protocol 1000 as much as I can. I suggest you do the same, just quietly getting rid of what your body has build up for so many years. RA, like many or even most illnesses are related to our emtions, stress, Again as Jim puts it "stress cereates pathogens". Sometimes I go on maintenance for a while and then have another burst of 1000.
I am experimenting with the DMSO but so far have not noticed a difference.
Never use fruitjuice! and lots of cholesterol. I use lard, cream, butter. No raw veges but all well cooked so easy to digest. I know it all goes against the grain of what commerce makes us believe at the moment.
I also refrain from washing my body daily, I try to stick with once a week. Our skin is our biggest organ, it makes minerals in big quantities that then get reabsorbed. Of course also our vit. D is a skin product. It takes 20 hours to be absorbed into the body. I expect the other substances to do the same
We often laugh about the good old days when we would wash once a week in tthe zinc tub. I now no longer laugh at that. My mother has set the example for me, never having washed more than once a week. She has lived until the good age of 93 without ever having been ill. Now we scrub and wash and get sicker and sicker.
Anyway, I must sttop now as I can go on and on about all the things my illness have taught me.
Wishing you good qi for recovery to wellness
marianne