I went in October of 2007. At the time I was in rough shape. It was very hard to bathe, dress and feed myself. A few weeks earlier my wife was doing all this for me. I was showing some improvement, but still in pretty rough shape when I went to Montana. About a week before I left, I had just begun antibiotic therapy with minocycline. There was improvement before I went, while I was there, and after. Before I left Montana I rented a car as I was able to drive for the first time in 8 weeks. I was opening jars before I left. Very big improvement. The improvement continued for some weeks after I left Montana, and within a month or two, I was at the point where I have been since...mostly normal....I have a baseline of pain in my hands and feet.....I can no longer do pushups, can't run nearly as much as I used to.....but overall, doing fine.
One problem is I can't know if the antibiotic therapy was responsable, the radon, or the flare was simply playing itself out or any combination of the above.
I am beginning to get symptoms in my ribs.......up to now I have been primarily hands and feet with very mild spine involvement.
I plan to go this year, which will be a better test since other factors have been in a steady state for a long time.
I will let everyone know how it goes, whenever I get up there....Brian
