A case of ultimately painful fibromyalgia changed me from thinking physicians could cure anything. True, my Grandma used what she called "Black Salve" to put on every wound, abrasion and bruise from my early memories of living in her house with mom, my brother, and grandpa, but she also saw to it we saw a physician when it came to inoculations or reducing an emergency health threat; eye doctors; and dentists. Fibromyalgia can strike anyone, although it picks on women and tends to follow a 6-week case of low-grade flu-like symptoms. After that, there is no reprieve from excruciating pain that roams and changes locations in the body like hormones change a teenager's moods. It also lowers one's resistance to diseases by making a very negative change in the victim's immune response that is usually seen only in elderly people over the age of 95.
First, it took my first trip to the doctor's office with a list of 25 health issues. He told me to be quiet and listen after I had read off the first 7 issues. He looked straight at me and said, "You have given me every reason to think that you have a condition we know as "fibromyalgia," and I left his office confused with a prescription for a product called "Neurontin" which blocks pain at the spinal level. I faithfully took it for the first two weeks, when my husband called my attention to a number of consecutive errors I had made on customer invoices that included not only overcharges, but also undercharges, not to mention the tallies had every imaginable error on them that I had caught, refigured twice, often coming up with a third answer. I had been an award-winning statistical typist in my boss's office who was pleased he never had to correct any of my pages after the first week of training. Stat typists have to learn numbers better than or as well as alphabets, and the best we had back this was manual and primitive electric typewriters in which you had to do all the math separately from the keyboard. lol He was a CPA, and his past secretaries seemed to think he was overbearing. I didn't, and liked the raises I got for accuracy. Back to the problem of my little but constant mathematical errors, I decided to look up the side effects of my medicine. I didn't find much, but I grew suspicious it could be causing my confusing little math errors, so I quit it in spite of the pain, and my little math errors went away after 3 days, but I started missing days at work due to screaming out loud pain that Fibromyalgia was in my case, no breaks. Just to insure that I didn't cheat my customers or my business any more, I put up with a lot of pain, a lot of absenteeism from the business I loved (I now owned my own quilt store), and customers responded pretty well, except it was hard to keep employees who resented the customers knowing more than they did about picking out fabrics for their families' enjoyment when they made a quit. Eventually, though, I spent more and more days in bed trying to stay asleep, since that was really the only relief I ever got for 5 years. One bleary-eyed morning at 3 am, I flipped channels, and landed on a channel in which one of my favorite singing stars when I was a kid was talking about a product that improved his golf game. I was getting ready to change channels when I heard the words, "....and my wife has fibromyalgia, and this product that improved my golf game made her pain go away..." I ordered some, and my work attendance was better, I stopped having constant pain, and I felt like my life had improved on account of herbs. The pain was gone, but the autoimmune issues stayed. I continued to have one cold after another long after cold season had passed. The summers were nice, however, for the first time in six or seven years. And fatigue took its toll on some days. Fibromyalgia is a complex disorder, and it welcomes in many ugly sister relatives into its' host's body. But the pain was less frequently for the first time, and that made me very cheerful.
So I dedicate this site to celebrate home remedies doctors do not know about, because the medicine industry has become more about making hard working and smart people wealthy millionaires in less time than it took me to find a partial remedy for my little garden-run case of fibromyalgia.
I toast the idea of herbs and remedies that doctors' supervisors in medical schools do not want them to know about since you can't profit from remedies people can find in nature or grow in their yards for cures to health problems have been around since Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden. Please share your herbal knowledge, or can share from your grandmother's wisdom cures that worked.
Never confuse a good diet with a good doctor. Doctors study pathology, which is the science of what went wrong to cause illness in humans when they thought everything they were doing would make them live forever. I'm not a physician. I'm a person who had to fight for her life in a disease that ends if you find the cause only, and doesn't end at all if you have a doctor who sees you only as a cash cow or as a person who has a long list of ailments upon arrival to his or her office because the disease fibromyalgia is so complex, I resorted to calling it the stupid disease. It seems to have a mind of its own, and it relies on friends to aggravate its sufferer even more. My new doctor when we moved to Texas found my issue, and my fibromyalgia of almost 20 years was gone a year after tow of my parathyroids were surgically removed and stopped the antagonism that excessive calcium causes pain in the body's muscle fibers.
I'm now fighting arthritic and joint pain issues and needed a place to record beneficial herbs to the condition that, being food, do not cause as many allergic reactions as medicines and inoculations have caused due to a pretty lousy inflammatory response in my immune system that was likely set off kilter by one of fibromyalgia's little partners who wasn't affected by calcium overdoses the 2 bad parathyroids were issuing.
First, it took my first trip to the doctor's office with a list of 25 health issues. He told me to be quiet and listen after I had read off the first 7 issues. He looked straight at me and said, "You have given me every reason to think that you have a condition we know as "fibromyalgia," and I left his office confused with a prescription for a product called "Neurontin" which blocks pain at the spinal level. I faithfully took it for the first two weeks, when my husband called my attention to a number of consecutive errors I had made on customer invoices that included not only overcharges, but also undercharges, not to mention the tallies had every imaginable error on them that I had caught, refigured twice, often coming up with a third answer. I had been an award-winning statistical typist in my boss's office who was pleased he never had to correct any of my pages after the first week of training. Stat typists have to learn numbers better than or as well as alphabets, and the best we had back this was manual and primitive electric typewriters in which you had to do all the math separately from the keyboard. lol He was a CPA, and his past secretaries seemed to think he was overbearing. I didn't, and liked the raises I got for accuracy. Back to the problem of my little but constant mathematical errors, I decided to look up the side effects of my medicine. I didn't find much, but I grew suspicious it could be causing my confusing little math errors, so I quit it in spite of the pain, and my little math errors went away after 3 days, but I started missing days at work due to screaming out loud pain that Fibromyalgia was in my case, no breaks. Just to insure that I didn't cheat my customers or my business any more, I put up with a lot of pain, a lot of absenteeism from the business I loved (I now owned my own quilt store), and customers responded pretty well, except it was hard to keep employees who resented the customers knowing more than they did about picking out fabrics for their families' enjoyment when they made a quit. Eventually, though, I spent more and more days in bed trying to stay asleep, since that was really the only relief I ever got for 5 years. One bleary-eyed morning at 3 am, I flipped channels, and landed on a channel in which one of my favorite singing stars when I was a kid was talking about a product that improved his golf game. I was getting ready to change channels when I heard the words, "....and my wife has fibromyalgia, and this product that improved my golf game made her pain go away..." I ordered some, and my work attendance was better, I stopped having constant pain, and I felt like my life had improved on account of herbs. The pain was gone, but the autoimmune issues stayed. I continued to have one cold after another long after cold season had passed. The summers were nice, however, for the first time in six or seven years. And fatigue took its toll on some days. Fibromyalgia is a complex disorder, and it welcomes in many ugly sister relatives into its' host's body. But the pain was less frequently for the first time, and that made me very cheerful.
So I dedicate this site to celebrate home remedies doctors do not know about, because the medicine industry has become more about making hard working and smart people wealthy millionaires in less time than it took me to find a partial remedy for my little garden-run case of fibromyalgia.
I toast the idea of herbs and remedies that doctors' supervisors in medical schools do not want them to know about since you can't profit from remedies people can find in nature or grow in their yards for cures to health problems have been around since Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden. Please share your herbal knowledge, or can share from your grandmother's wisdom cures that worked.
Never confuse a good diet with a good doctor. Doctors study pathology, which is the science of what went wrong to cause illness in humans when they thought everything they were doing would make them live forever. I'm not a physician. I'm a person who had to fight for her life in a disease that ends if you find the cause only, and doesn't end at all if you have a doctor who sees you only as a cash cow or as a person who has a long list of ailments upon arrival to his or her office because the disease fibromyalgia is so complex, I resorted to calling it the stupid disease. It seems to have a mind of its own, and it relies on friends to aggravate its sufferer even more. My new doctor when we moved to Texas found my issue, and my fibromyalgia of almost 20 years was gone a year after tow of my parathyroids were surgically removed and stopped the antagonism that excessive calcium causes pain in the body's muscle fibers.
I'm now fighting arthritic and joint pain issues and needed a place to record beneficial herbs to the condition that, being food, do not cause as many allergic reactions as medicines and inoculations have caused due to a pretty lousy inflammatory response in my immune system that was likely set off kilter by one of fibromyalgia's little partners who wasn't affected by calcium overdoses the 2 bad parathyroids were issuing.
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