DOM'S NEWSLETTER
May 1, 2010
 
 www.fms-help.com
 
A Christian-based newsletter for people with Fibromyalgia (FMS), Chronic Fatigue & Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS), or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) and their families.
 
31 topics below.  Don't miss the PINK ones.  Readers' comments in BLACK.  My comments in TEAL.
 

  1.  READERS WRITE
 
"May I just say what a relief it is to find so much advice on one website www.fms-help.com for help with fibromyalgia."
 
"I am 22 years old and after suffering from FMS for about 10 years the doctors finally diagnosed me. I am yet to find a prescription that helps with my condition, as my body adversely reacts to all medications. I stumbled upon your 100 tips for coping www.fms-help.com/tips.htm."

"I have been reading your newsletter www.fms-help.com/newsletters.htm for months now.  I received my 'medical diagnosis' yesterday.  I have been complaining and crying and miserable for the last year. Tons of tests and no “clear” problem found, except multiple symptoms and pleadings from me to “help me get back to feeling like the old me."  And here we are. Fibromyalgia. I had long suspected and have been researching it for some time now, but your site www.fms-help.com is the first that I have found that really makes me feel connected and that there is a person that really understands and gets it.  Who goes through it & genuinely cares about sharing, helping and tips, and basically just being supportive and sharing your knowledge and experience."

"I have had FMS for over 10 years.  I too have been a guinea pig for doctors with meds nothing seems to work."


2.  "THE FIBROMYALGIA MONSTER"
 Poem by reader, Carolyn White carolwhitern@gmail.com--
 
"The Fibromyalgia Monster"
 

Trying to do my best as a mother and a wife

But this Fibromyalgia Monster has taken over my life

 

This thorn in my flesh, Lord, How can I explain?

I get up every morning though my body is in pain

 

It’s like a Horrible Flu that just won’t go away

You pray for it to leave you but it’s with you everyday

 

The energy’s been sucked out, weakness never goes

Nerves feel inflamed from my head down to my toes

 

Arms burn like fire and what a sinus headache

I feel like I’m 100 but you say I look athletic

 

Now sensitive to medicines, chemicals and mold

Legs numb and tingling and Why do I feel cold?

 

Get worse from the heat till about September

My brain is in a Fog, and there’s words I can’t remember

 

Spasms in my back, my breathing isn’t right

My bed feels like nails as I lye awake at night

 

My muscles scream in agony. Oh my gosh don’t touch!

I take my herbs and medicines but they don’t help too much

 

My immune systems weakened, it seems on overdrive

My vision won’t stay focused and I often stay inside

 

Lights are too bright, noises are too loud

Unfortunately I’ll get sick again standing in this crowd

 

Some doctors say “It’s all in your head” or “Oh, You’re just depressed”

“You're fine, just take these crazy pills and get a little rest”

 

Yes I get down sometimes, upset and so would you

If a truck had just ran over you you’d feel the same way too

 

The attack of my brain is from infection I’ll bet

This is a neuro immune disease but some don’t know it yet

 

Trying to do my best as a mother and a wife

But this Fibromyalgia Monster has taken over my life.

                                                             by Carolyn White carolwhitern@gmail.com

FROM DOM:  Awesome, Carolyn!  Thanks for expressing the fibro problem so very well.  There are more fibro poems by newsletter readers at www.fms-help.com/poems.htm.


 3.  SQUEEZE MACHINE
 
From a reader--
 
 
FROM DOM:  Might also be good for anxiety and highly sensitive people (HSPs), as mentioned in past newsletters www.fms-help.com/newsletters.htm.
 
 4.  IMMUNE SYSTEM
 
 http://probiotics.mercola.com/probiotics.html - "80% of your immune system is in your gut (GI tract)."
 
FROM DOM:  That little factoid was a surprise to me a few years ago.  The immune system is a big player in FMS/CFIDS.  I used an immune balancing powder for 8-1/2 years that worked in the "gut."  For more info, write dombush@bellsouth.net.  The powder helps balance immune function and modulate autoimmune reactions. 
  
  5.  QUANTUM ENERGY WELLNESS (SCIO)
 
From a reader--
 
"http://www.quantumenergywellness.com/index-7.htm - I go through phases. Stress really makes me feel overwhelmed. I try to take on too much thinking I am Superwoman, but realizing too late that I need to simplify in order to get by. A friend of my mine tried SCIO [ SCIO stands for Scientific Consciousness Interface Operation system. Scio is derived from the Latin = I know] on his autistic boy and has noticed his son seems less stressed and behaviors have decreased, probably due in part to less anxiety. I decided to have a reading and it came back I have Lymes Disease. I did not share any medical history other than fatigue and brain fog which have plagued me since 2006 when doc detected mono. The wellness doctor who performed the SCIO believes it was in fact lymes that caused my immune system to crash and activated the epstein barr. She wants to heal the lymes. I am not sure what to do as I always felt I had lymes, but no doctor would believe me. I want to give SCIO a try, but it is costly - $300. Per session. I wanted to gather some feedback. I also have poorly functioning adrenals which can be healed by SCIO I am told. After the first session I did feel really relaxed - but goodness, I know how powerful the mind is - don't want to spend $1500. To find out I tricked myself into thinking I was less stressed or was just having an insanely good three days."
 
FROM DOM:  Not sure what to think of this.  Anyone tried it and want to report?  Heard from one reader who tried something like this and is doing well.  Write dombush@bellsouth.net.
 
 
6.  LIGHT & ELECROMAGNETIC RADIATION
 
From a reader--
 
"Re: the comment [ www.fms-help.com/042210.htm ] about infrared being light rather than an electromagnetic field, light IS an electromagnetic field, so yes, infrared is a form of electromagnetic radiation. 
 
Here's a confirming link from NASA:
 
Measuring the electromagnetic spectrum
You actually know more about it than you may think! The electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is just a name that scientists give a bunch of types of radiation when they want to talk about them as a group. Radiation is energy that travels and spreads out as it goes-- visible light that comes from a lamp in your house and radio waves that come from a radio station are two types of electromagnetic radiation. Other examples of EM radiation are microwaves, infrared and ultraviolet light, X-rays and gamma-rays. Hotter, more energetic objects and events create higher energy radiation than cool objects. Only extremely hot objects or particles moving at very high velocities can create high-energy radiation like X-rays and gamma-rays.  We may think that radio waves are completely different physical objects or events than gamma-rays. They are produced in very different ways, and we detect them in different ways. But are they really different things? The answer is 'no'. Radio waves, visible light, X-rays, and all the other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum are fundamentally the same thing. They are all electromagnetic radiation."
  
 7.  READERS' PRAYER CORNER
 
Linda - "Please pray for my daughter-in-law (42).  She has fibro and autoimmune disease.  She is in the hospital again with fluid around her heart.  Tomorrow the top doctor will go through her back and drain the fluid and run tests to find the cause.  Antibiotics are not taking care of it."
 
Paul - Going to China for treatments on May 2 to fix damaged heart.
 
Gea"Please pray for my cousin, Veda's, grandbaby twins.  They were born 3 months early and are in serious condition, only weighing 2lbs. each.  Please pray they survive and with no brain damage."
 
Dominie - "One of my piano students, a 9 year old boy, was hit by a car.  Amazingly, no broken bones, but legs are injured, lots of wounds, swelling and a concussion.  He played in our piano recital Friday from his wheelchair!  What a brave and determined young boy."
  
  8.  GATING THE BRAIN
 
From a reader--
 
"This doc wrote a summary of a book written in 1993 by another  doctor in CA - Dr.Jay Goldstein called
BETRAYAL BY THE BRAIN.   
 
He says there is overwhelming evidence that CFS/MS symptoms are "Neurosomatic"  NOT Psychosomatic.   The basic problem starts with the prefrontal cortex of the brain, the sensory information it receives from the environment, both the external and the internal environment is abnormal.
 
Gating as it is called is abnormal and makes walking a city block feel like you've walked 10 miles, make you feel pain inappropiatley, you may become worse when concentrating on the road at night, or experience a panic attack when you go to the mall, ect....
 
Gating information is transmitted to your thalamus by a neurotransmitter called glutamate.  Glutamate levels are abnormal in the CFS/MS brain.  Norepinephrine, a neurotransmitter that increases signal to noise ratio is low in the CFS/MS brain.  Whereas substance P, a neurotransmitter which lowers signal to noise ratio increased in the CFS/FM Brain.  Injection of substance P into the cerebrospinal fluid of healthy volunteers gives them diffuse body pain similar to that seen in FMS.
 
So the thalamus receives all this misinformation and has to modulate signals and transmit the message to various other brain centers.  The thalamus is crucial to normal brain functioning.  It modulates signals that control such things as pain information, appetite, mood, sleep autonomic nervous system, libido, and the neuroimmunendocrine system. All these are abnormal in CFS/FMS.
 
This whole article is great.  If you go to the last page it shows the 3 treatments done for a woman sick for 8 years I think and she feels normal now and went back to work.  She is without symptoms and has energy for the 2 years now since she has been on the protocol the doctor that wrote this book put her on.
 
Dr.  Jay Goldstein's latest book written in 2004 is called  "Gating The Brain".  He has learned much, much more since this book was written and the protocol have advanced to the point that patients can be 80% better in a matter of hours.
Dr. Goldstein is retired now.  He retired in 2001.    He made CFS/FM and simular illnesses his life's work in the 1980's.
 
I bought Dr. Goldstein's two latest books mentioned here from Amazon.com.  The last book Tuning The Brain is a thick book with over 500 pages.  I took both these books to the doctor in Sebastian and I ordered another set for myself so that we can talk about what is in these books.  I really feel this could be my answer.  I am very encouraged and this doctor I am going to loves this kind of a challenge.  He also thinks outside the box and that is hard to find as those kinds of doctors are few and far between.  I feel I can work with him.  Click below for the 4 page article.
 
http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-articles/a-book-summary-by-dr-j-a-skerkey- %11-betrayal-by-the-brain/
 
 FROM DOM:  See past newsletters www.fms-help.com/newsletters.htm for more about Dr. Jay Goldstein, Betrayal by the Brain, etc.  Fascinating information!
 
 
 9.  INTRIGUING FIBROMYALGIA PROTOCOL
 
From link in Topic #8 above, here's an intriguing protocol used by Dr. J. A. Sherkey (Ontario, Canada) to help a patient's fibro pain, fog and fatigue--
 
"Some of my patients have responded with an 80% plus improvement in symptoms to a single agent and have returned to work after absences of eight or more years. Most who respond, however, require two or three medications to achieve this level of improvement. For example, one of my patients, a 48 year old engineer who had been unable to work for eight years because of severe fatigue, severe fibromyalgia pain and severe cognitive dysfunction responded immediately 30 minutes after I gave her a 30mg capsule of nimodipine with about a 50% amelioration of her cognitive dysfunction. She had not been able to read so much as a magazine article for the past 8 years because by the time she got to the fifth line, she would lose the context. When I called her in from the waiting room 40 minutes after she had taken the medication, she had a big smile on her face and said she had been reading Newsweek in the waiting room and could tell me the content of the article. The nimodipine had done nothing, however, for her other symptoms. I sent her home on 30mg three times a day. Two weeks later I increased the dose to 60mg three times a day. She estimated that this improved her cognitive functioning to about 80% of normal. On a subsequent visit I gave her a tiny sliver of a nitroglycerine tablet under her tongue. This totally relieved her fibromyalgia pain in about three minutes. I gave her several single dose samples to try at home on different days. Several agents did nothing for her. Then she called me to say that mestinon 30mg totally relieved her fatigue for about 8 hours. She is now taking nimodipine 60mg tid, mestinon 60mg tid (the dose later had to be increased to maintain freedom from fatigue), and nitroglycerine, approximately 1/4 of a 0.3mg tablet sublingually as required. She has returned to work and has remained virtually symptom free on this regimen for almost two years."
 
FROM DOM:  It sure helps when you can find something to relieve symptoms and a doctor who will work with you!  I am doing better now than I have in at least 5 years!  My protocol is at www.fms-help.com/what.htm.
  
  10.  CHANTIX UPDATE
 
From a reader--
 
"I wanted to once again stress the importance of the newest drug on the market which, while NOT specifically for Fibro, is the ONLY thing that has gotten me up and out of bed and stayed this way for over a year now!  Further, my doc is trying this med on other patients with the SAME great results!  THIS new med is very different than others in the past.  All other antidepressants are meant to do only one thing:  create MORE Serotonin.  Fibromyalgia effectively blocks the Serotonin from entering the body's system!  So, even if more is produced, it cannot get through.  However, this new medication is different in that it doesn't make more Serotonin but actually makes a path for it to go through!  With this new med, my pain is less, my memory has become about 75% better by now, my concentration and focus have returned to a more tolerable state.  It is not a cure but THIS med is the closest thing to allowing REAL results for those who suffer from fibro.  My physician is now in the clinical trial stages with his patients who do have fibro before publishing his findings!  And, by the way, I am NOT the only one that this new drug is working for...CHANTIX.  It's to help those who want to stop smoking, BUT, I've found "other" uses for it!"
  
 11.  "CRAMMING" - SCAMMERS CHARGE YOUR PHONE BILL
 
http://moneysavingmethods.blogspot.com/2010/04/scammers-charge-phone-bills-it- happened.html
 
 
 12.  APA ASSAY - TEST FOR FIBROMYALGIA
 
From a reader--
 
http://www.autoimmune.com/FibromTest.html
 
http://www.autoimmune.com/FAQ_eng.html
 
 
 13.  JOHNS HOPKINS FIBROMYALGIA BOOK
 
From a reader--
 
Understanding & Managing Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Presenting the latest thinking on the causes and treatments of fibromyalgia
 
http://www.johnshopkinshealthalerts.com/special_reports/arthritis_reports//Fibromyalgia Syndrome_landing.html? ET=johnshopkins_blog:e37499:396249a:&st=email&st=email&s=EAH_100426_00 1 
 
 
 14.  CLEAN UP EMAILS
 
FROM DOM:  I use the Email Stripper program all the time to get rid of >>>> (forward marks) and other formatting clutter when you forward emails (and also when I write this newsletter) - it's free and easy!
 
http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm
   
 15.  FIBROMYALGIA AWARENESS DAY - MAY 12, 2010
 
FROM DOM:  We all long for understanding of this chronic invisible illness. Most of us do not LOOK sick.  Here are 2 links on my site from past years:
 
Million Letter Campaign for FMS/CFIDS Awareness:  www.fms-help.com/letter.htm
Dom's Letter to Congress:  www.fms- help.com/congress.htm
 
Here's a link to the National Fibromyalgia Association Facebook Site--
http://www.facebook.com/fmaware
 

  16.  FREE "FIBROMYALGIA AWARE" MAGAZINE
 
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/fma/fibromyalgiaaware_2009winter_v2/#/0 
 
 17.  BEXTRA
 
 http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/02/pfizer.bextra/index.html? hpt=T2 - Feds found Pfizer too big to nail.
 

  18.  EARTHING - UPDATE
 
From a reader--
 
"An update on earthing bed sheet! I am totally off Ambien and sleeping naturally for the first time in 5 months! I feel great, clear head,no brain fog,  no severe depression, have energy to boot. I also have one beer before bedtime around 7:00.
 
My  am cortisol was sky high in all of my adrenal stress tests.  I used to be hyper alert at bedtime and unable to sleep
The earthing pad is supposed to normalize cortisol rhythms in research studies.   I am thrilled beyond belief that i can sleep again. Chuck Obers book "Earthing" is now available at Amazon.
 
I don't know if there is any association between the beer and my being able to sleep with the earthing pad but why mess with success. I only recently started drinking beer again after about a year of abstinence. I think i remember reading alcohol has something to do with the GABA receptors in the brain? (Maybe one of the readers of your newsletter would know.)  I also recently started drinking a half a cup of coffee the am.
 
I have been going to sleep 11:00pm-ish.  I also earth after i use the computer. I go to the bedroom and lay down with my bare feet  or legs on the pad for 15-30 minutes  If the weather is cooperative i earth by placing my bare feet on the ground outside. I usually bring a lawn chair to sit on and i bring a book to read. Sometimes it is just nice to watch wildlife."
 
FROM DOM:  The earthing bed sheet sounds great!  Anyone else have one?  Reported on this in past newsletters www.fms-help.com/newsletters.htm.  About putting your feet directly on the ground, unless it's at the beach, I wouldn't try it in Florida.  We have so many horrible stinging ants, spiders, thorns, thistles, snakes, and poisonous insects in the yard.  I am afraid to put my bare feet on the ground.  (I even ended up in the E.R. one time for a severe reaction to fire ant bites.)
 

 19.  MONO, EBV, PARVO, CYTOMEGALO, INSOMNIA, FIBRO, CFIDS
 
From a reader--
 
"I got mono at the age of 38 and have never been normal since. My epstein barr virus levels, as well as my cytomegalo and parvo virus are all of the chart. Anything physical completely drains me and makes me feel sick. I have chronic insomnia, which I describe as someone has sucked sleep right out of my body, (I take ambien CR) if I don't get enough sleep I get vertigo symptoms and just feel extremely exhausted. The list could go on and on, but that's the worst of it. I am now 45, 2 years on ambien is wearing it's effects off and I now have super dry eyes, and joint pain. I need to stop this progression and was wondering if you could recommend anything..I've never had a supportive Dr., but the one I have now is just "indifferent" and may be open to me suggesting to try other things."
 
FROM DOM:  I can sure relate to all of this misery.  A list of things I'm using to feel better, sleep better, etc. is at www.fms-help.com/what.htm.
 
 

 
 20.  TOO SUGGESTIVE SLOGAN
 
From a reader--
 
http://www.feelyourboobies.com/contact.htm
"Wow - is this tacky! All we need are young girls in “feel your boobies” shirts or wearing the stickers. What kind of message does that send to guys?? I e-mailed them and told them to get something more respectful. Hope others do too."
 
 
  21.  "SICKLY GIRL"
 
From a reader--
 
"I am writing because I too have experienced frequent colds since I was a small child. This soon earned me the title of 'sickly girl'.  I have been to doctors, naturopaths and have had numerous tests and blood work performed.  Someone told me I might be out of alignment and that a chiropractor may help?  I have a baby now and it is very hard to care for him when I am ill all the time!!! My doctor says that she can't find anything wrong and that I may just have  a poor immune system. I have also had stomach pains for a long time which has bee diagnosed ad reflux and IBS."
 
FROM DOM:  I could sure relate to this reader.  I was a sickly child who grew up to be a sickly adult - see my CFIDS story at www.fms-help.com/fatigue.htm.  When I was in my 30's, an allergist concluded that I had "something like AIDS, except not acquired."  He said I was "born with it."  After much suffering, losses in my life, etc. I finally did some serious research on the net and turned myself into a human guinea pig, trying to find a "cure" for my poorly functioning immune system.  Docs can't do much to help a bad immune system, except throw anti-virals and antibiotics at it to avoid the horrible consequences.  A list of things I'm using now is at www.fms-help.com/what.htm.  For 8-1/2 years I used an immune BALANCER.  Then about 6 months ago, I thought I'd try an immune BOOSTER to see what happened (this was in light of the - then new - XMRV retrovirus findings in FMS/CFS patients - but the jury is still out on those findings.)  In past newsletters, I've discussed the question of whether we need immune BOOSTING or immune BALANCING.  I think the general conclusion was that at certain times in our CFIDS experience, we need one or the other.  As usual, there is no one single "magic bullet" that fixes ALL of us equally.  However, I lean toward this reader trying the immune balancing powder, mainly because it works in the "gut" where 80% of the immune system is located, and she mentions having IBS.  Write dombush@bellsouth.net if you want info on either the immune BOOSTER or the immune BALANCER.  Also, I want to mention that I've been to over a dozen chiropractors since age 30 (when I was diagnosed with FMS).  A few have been WONDERFUL - but only for my back and neck problems, not FMS/CFIDS in general.  But many were not helpful or even harmful to my health.  I have had a WONDERFUL chiropractor (Dr. Bryan Bell) for the past 17 years in St. Augustine, FL.  I drive an hour to see him and it is well worth the trip.  
 

 22.  ALKALINE WATER
 
http://www.magicwaterinfo.com/alkalizing.html - Kangen water alkalizes the body.
 
FROM DOM:  There really is something to becoming more healthily alkaline!  I have been feeling great almost every day since I began using alkalizing/oxygenating drops in my drinking water in August 2009 - see http://neveranoutbreak.com/oxygen.php? partner=FM5H1PDB.  I don't know how much the Kangen machine costs, but I am very happy with my oxygen drops.  If you decided to try them, start with just 1-2 drops in at least 8 oz. of water 3 times a day.  Only increase by a drop every several days.  Each person is different as to how much alkalizing they need.   Don't increase drops too fast, or it will cause a detox reaction.  For myself, I now use 10 drops in 16 oz. of water 3 times a day.  I feel like a normal person most days.  It's been nothing short of a miracle for me.  A reader called my attention to the oxygen drops last year, or I would never have heard of them.
 

 
 23.  "DEVIL IN THE MILK"
 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1603581022/optimalwellnessc - book by Keith Woodford. 
 
Here's an interesting review at http://www.amazon.com/Devil-Milk-Illness-Health-Politics/product- reviews/1603581022/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt? ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1--
 
"The link between a protein in the milk we drink and a range of serious illnesses from autism to schizophrenia make an important case against milk for any health library. Evidence published in more than 100 scientific papers comes together under one cover in a title considering links between milk consumption and the incidence of Type 1 diabetes and other ailments. A compelling, frightening survey."
 
FROM DOM:  I discovered decades ago that avoiding milk helped my allergies dramatically.
 

  
 24.  COPY MACHINES - A SECURITY RISK!
 
From a reader--
 
"Very interesting.  It starts out with a brief commercial and then goes into the copier story.  Rather alarming to say the least. 
This is a must watch and is very enlightening. It will prompt you to rethink about using copiers.  Did you know that copiers have hard drives that record the original?"
 
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/19/eveningnews/main6412439.shtml? tag=currentVideoInfo;videoMetaInfo
 
 
25.  FIBRO-PEDIC MEMORY FOAM MATTRESS
 
Question from a reader--
 
"I am going to purchase a new mattress and was wondering if you could ask your readers if anyone has tried the Fibro-Pedic Foam Mattress by Selectabed. If was created by of a chiropractor whose wife has fibromyalgia.  See picture at http://www.selectabed.com/Fibro-Pedic-Diagram.htm."
 
A Doctor's Perspective

"Watching my wife, who suffers from Fibromyalgia, wake up with pain everyday was enough to convince me that a specialized mattress was needed to take the pressure the many tender points that this debilitating condition creates.  The Fibro-pedic offers complete support of the spine, but feels instantly comfortable.  It does this by properly contouring the body to eliminate pressure spots on individual areas of the body that press harder against the mattress.  It was assumed in the past that a hard mattress is needed to support the spine properly.  This may have been true with the old spring mattresses that would give a trampoline/hammock effect and cave in when it became to soft, but this is not the case with a proper density memory and latex foam mattress.  The Fibro-Pedic was created after extensive testing and research on my part with the help of Relief-Mart and Selectabed.com, as well as several sleep centers.  The results have been amazing.  My wife slept better on this mattress from the first night and woke up with feeling more refreshed, energetic and pain free!   My Fibromyalgia patients who used this mattress all note immediate improvement in their sleeping patterns and feel that this mattress has made a significant difference in each of their own conditions.  If you have any questions, feel free to email me personally. - Dr. Rick Swartzburg, D.C."

FROM DOM:  Anyone have this mattress?  Do you like it?  Write dombush@bellsouth.net


26.  THE BODY BLOWS A FUSE

From article sent in by reader--

http://www.naturalsolutionsmag.com/articles-display/11388/Confronting-Fibromyalgia? utm_source=ns&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news042810

Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, medical director of Maryland’s Annapolis Center for Effective Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Fibromyalgia Therapies, likens FMS to the body’s “blowing a fuse” when its energy account becomes overdrawn. This short circuit results in hypothalamus suppression, Teitelbaum maintains. “The hypothalamus controls sleep, hormonal function, temperature, and autonomic functions such as blood pressure and blood flow,” he says. “The hypothalamus uses more energy for its size than any other organ, so when there is an energy shortfall, it goes offline first.” “FMS has no single cause,” Teitelbaum says. He surmises that the hypothalamus decreases its protective function in the face of what it perceives as overwhelming stress, which can stem from infection, injury, or a stressful, emotional incident. “FMS patients seem to have genetic differences in the way their hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal regulation handle stress,” he says. “As a result, the muscles end up short of energy and in pain.”


27.  CELL PHONES, TEXTING & DRIVING

From a friend--

http://www.zacharlawblog.com/2009/11/motorcycle-vs-car- cellphone.html - sometimes it takes a picture to get a message across. Teens especially need to see this.  They think they are invincible.


28.  IRON DEFICIENCY & RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME (RLS)

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/restless_legs/detail_restless_legs.htm


29.  CANCER LIVES IN ACIDIC CONDITIONS

http://www.nndb.com/people/682/000127301 - Dr. Otto Warburg showed that cancer thrives in anaerobic (without oxygen) or acidic conditions.  If you raise the body's alkalinity level, it increases oxygen at the cellular level to eliminate cancer.


30.  BLOOD MONEY

From a reader--

Click on the link below to view a trailer of a documentary that reveals the truth of the abortion industry and how abortion affects women.  Individuals and family members are often hurt emotionally following an abortion. If you, or someone you know, needs help, please contact Abortion Recovery InterNational (1-866-4-My-Recovery).  Thank you, David Kyle

http://www.bloodmoneyfilm.com/trailer.php

FROM DOM:  4.5 million Americans have been aborted since 1973.  I hope someone will make this movie, because it would enlighten girls who are making decisions that will affect the rest of their lives and even eternity.


31.  DOM'S UPDATE

I've been feeling good, even great almost every day now!, as long as I take my meds and supplements.  It took decades of being a "human guinea pig" to find out what my biochemistry needed in order to function.  I am SO thankful for my greatly improved health since August 2009.   I suffered for many years with horrendous debilitating fatigue www.fms-help.com/fatigue.htm, brain fog, widespread body pain www.fms-help.com/fibro.htm, frequent viral illnesses, infections, unrelenting insomnia www.fms-help.com/insomnia.htm, etc., related to FMS/CFIDS.  

I finally learned that becoming more healthily alkaline is the key (at least for me) to better health.   I began investigating pH and acid/alkaline balance way back in the 1980's, but that was before the internet.  I was unable to achieve improved alkalinity by diet alone - I can't function as a vegetarian.  I seem to need some animal protein daily.  Acidity causes disease, suffering, pain and even death.  I am so thankful to the reader who called my attention to the oxygen drops last year.  I have been using them in my drinking water 3 times a day since August 2009.  (If you try this, start with just 1-2 drops in at least 8 oz. of water 3 times a day.  Only add a drop every several days if you feel you need it.) 

I also believe the DNA protecting product is helping my health in general, and I take acyclovir frequently to avoid cold sores.  There are many other things I do in order to remain functional (read: working!)  My protocol is at www.fms-help.com/what.htm.  Write dombush@bellsouth.net if you have questions about the list.  I also have 100 TIps for Coping with Fibromyalgia and Insomnia at www.fms-help.com/tips.htm.

Our Spring Recital for the School of Music was Friday night.  What a great night it was!  My students range in age from 5 to retired www.fms-help.com/students.htm.  I am so proud of my wonderful students.  I have been teaching piano and guitar for 17 years now.  It's wonderful to feel well and enjoy my work, instead of suffering and struggling through each day.  I don't know how long this good health will last (I'm 58), but having been ill most of my life, this is as good as it gets for me.  My mother (88) was here for the recital, and I overheard her telling my husband about what a sickly and crying baby I was, so I can relate to #21 above.  The only thing I can't do is travel more than about 30 minutes in a car without collapsing fatigue and brain dysfunction.  This strange symptom began after I worked in toxic mold for a year (2004-2005) www.fms-help.com/mold.htm.

Until the fibro mystery is solved,

Dominie

II Corinthians 1: 4 - "Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."  Visit Dominie's FMS/CFIDS Homepage at www.fms-help.com for Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers and their families.

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