That’s in autoimmune diseases in general. So in RA you’ve got auto-antibodies against antigens that can be found in your joints. So basically there is an inflammatory trigger in your own body that keeps on reinforcing the production of these antibodies. In PsA autoantibodies don’t play a a big role in the formation of arthritis.

I would doubt it being osteoarthritis as that presents in older age only and is not really reversible.

Yeah there are some autoimmune conditions that remit completely (especially in youth) or come in attacks in random intervals. There is some evidence that meat can exacerbate inflammation, so maybe that helped in your case. I’m glad yours went away!

Maybe if you know you have the genetics that would predispose you for RA that would be helpful to prevent it from manifesting? I don’t know. Haven’t heard about that yet.

Unfortunately that’s very unlikely, as from the moment on there are auto-antibodies there is self-reinforcing mechanism that keeps on producing them (as you still have that auto-antigen in your joints there will be continuous inflammation).

So before anyone thinks that Rheumatoid Arthritis will be cured by antibiotics: they only found out that these bacteria may cause the formation of autoantibodies. Once you have those the removal of the bacteria won’t help with the disease.