FortKnox's Journal: Bellus, this is for you

On the bright side, you'll never have to worry about male erectile problems...

Viagra is a possible treatment for Crohn's.

Viagra huh

[bellus quies]

Now that would be funny. I think my boyfriend would get a kick out of telling people that his girlfriend takes Viagra.

I wonder if a side effect would be that I'd be going around all day with a fem-boner.

Weird

[Allen Zadr]

I'll have to send this on to my wife.

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[Ethelred Unraed]

Aw, quicherbitchin'. Free Viagra for us, man! w00t!

Cheers,

Ethelred "Leaning Tower of Pisa" Unraed

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[jawtheshark]

Ah.... Now I understand the world domination plans. It's just compensating...

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[Ethelred Unraed]

Compensating? COMPENSATING?

Enhancing, my dear shark.

Cheers,

Ethelred

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[jawtheshark]

You silly humans.... We sharks have two of them and they get harder with age... (See: clasper [wikipedia.org])

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[FortKnox]

its like diabetes... auto immune disorders. Dunno why they happen... dunno how to fix'm. Once someone finds a cure for one, odds are, they'll be able to fix'm all.

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[Ethelred Unraed]

No, they know it's an autoimmune disorder and have known it for some time. [ccfa.org] (That's why it responds to immunosuppressives, for example, and why immune stimulators also make it worse.)

What they don't know is what triggers it. Apparently there are some genetics involved, but it's not a straight "you have the gene, you will get it" type of deal. Until they know what triggers it, they most likely won't find a cure -- not unless some researcher gets incredibly lucky. Right now one 'good guess' is that autoimmun

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[Ethelred Unraed]

As it happens, I've read any number of journal articles and books about Crohn's and try to keep up with it as best as I can.

"Autoimmune" simply means that the immune system attacks otherwise healthy tissue, causing various symptoms around the body depending on what tissue it is that is being attacked. Thus in a diabetic's case, the immune system runs amok and gradually disables the pancreas.

In Crohn's case, the disease is more wide-ranging -- not only does it affect the bowel, but potentially all mucous

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[kesuki]

of course if any 'said' diseases are the result of TSE's [wikipedia.org] cures may not be so easily produced.

I guess we'll never know unless someone goes around eating dead suffers of diabetes or crohn's ;)

figuring out what ailments are cause by self replicating protiens, and figuring out a treatment for them would be a major medical breakthrough, though.