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Does Relapsing Polychondritis have a cure?

Here you can see if Relapsing Polychondritis has a cure or not yet. If there is no cure yet, is Relapsing Polychondritis chronic? Will a cure soon be discovered?

Relapsing Polychondritis cure
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There is no cure for Relapsing Polychondritis. No active work/research is being done to find a cure. We have to hope that a cure for another Autoimmune Disease will work for us.

Posted Aug 9, 2017 by Louise C 1450
No, not that I am aware of.

Posted Aug 14, 2017 by Susan 2000
No cure that I know of. Only temporary fixes. I don't think we are going to find a cure anytime soon. There is not enough money for research due to the fact that so few people have this disease.

Posted Sep 1, 2017 by Diane 2050
no.. however, by the nature of Relapsing Polychondritis..the symptoms can come and go..

Posted Mar 20, 2018 by Lisa Matthews (Lissy) 4800
Unfortunately not yet

Posted Jun 12, 2019 by Laoura 2050
No its incurable at this time

Posted Jun 12, 2019 by Tmrcarlson 3550
There is no cure for relapsing polychondritis.

Posted Jun 12, 2019 by Kaz 3000
There is no cure, but with the right treatment to stop flares, the disease can be slowed down

Posted Dec 30, 2019 by Leanne 2500
As yet no, no cure has been found

Posted Dec 30, 2019 by Carrie 3050
No, I don't think so. Progress has been made in the treatment of the symptoms.

Posted Mar 20, 2022 by shlawver 2500
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Doctors say that , not

Posted Oct 2, 2017 by Ana Luiza Bottura 2000
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I don't know, is a disease autoinmunologica

Posted Oct 2, 2017 by Kevin Ochoa 2000

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The first time I noticed symptoms, I thought I was having an allergic reaction to something at work. My ears became so red and inflamed and hurt so bad. I let it go on for almost 3 days before finally going to a hospital where I was diagnosed with re...
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It began with dry nose, nose bleeding and what my GP thought was a sinus infection. Antibiotics and prednisone perscribed, helped for a while, then reoccurred. Ear then swelled over twice the size - red, shiny and moist, GP again said outer ear infec...
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i had progressively worsening breathing issues for many years before my diagnosis of rp.  I went through many specialists and tests and no one could identify why I was having breathing issues.  I had no outward signs of rp until one day my ears swe...
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I was officially diagnosed with RP 2 yrs ago. No one else in my family has it. It started approximately 5 years ago with ear flares, jumping from one to the other. My PCP happened to go to a conference where RP was discussed, and soon contacted me to...
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I have had strange symptoms before this came to light, but during my last trimester of my pregnancy with my youngest son, I had a severe respiratory infection that never seemed to get better. I have had exercise induced asthma since I was young and t...

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I don't think RP is as rare as we are led to believe. It seems many symptoms are unrelated. You go to an ortho doc for knee/joint pain. You go to an ENT for ears and throat. You go to an ophthalmologist for eyes. You go to a dermatologist for skin. T...

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