Antibiótic destroying cartillage? Or something else...

Seems to me the ABX you are using are not known to damage tendons.

I dont know about ehler danlos. My body popped and cracked all over for years. Now after abx and a lot of manual muscle/tendon work my body is much quieter. I had tendons that were technically by conventional medicine, almost "dead". Now they work at least 80-90% correctly after forced circulation. This method was not as successful before abx.

On another note, you can always go herbal.

Are you very tense, anxiety and high adrenals? that will tighten up the body, putting tension on joints and cartilage areas.

Post Edited (astroman) : 1/19/2018 9:38:33 AM (GMT-7)

Technically, you are correct. Your reasoning about the antibiotics isn't but your body is breaking down the cartilage. Why it is doing it is the million dollar question.

The popping and cracking sounds are from the increase and displacement of nitric oxide gas (NO). Among many functions, NO is one of the body's free radical reducers used by our immune response. NO is produced by WBC's and they could be the main reason for the excess production. NO is a free radical that has been shown to kill pathogens like bacteria and protozoans. NO can also promote inflammation and the cytokine cascade.

Just speaking off the top of my head, I would say you could have one of two issues. You could have a pathogen that is in the extracellular matrix surrounding your cartilage and when your immune system attacks it, it causes some cartilage damage when removing the pathogen. Another possibility is that the NO is binding a metal or halide that is attached to the cartilage. NO easily binds metals and halides and both of these are removed from the blood and "stored" as far away from our organs as we can get them. That is usually the bones but I wouldn't see it as being too far fetched for them to be stored in cartilage. A nitrosyl metal would be formed and that would be problematic. That would most likely cause the inflammation and the cytokine cascade and cellular damage would most likely ensue.

If you really wanted to get far fetched, you might say that the NO is being produced by the direct oxidation of ammonia which isn't supposed to happen under physiological temperatures. That would be a big stretch but more weird things have happened.