If someone asked me what would I do if I had Fibromyalgia this is what I might do. First I would find out what has been written about Fibromyalgia. It turns out there is not much information available, but maybe I will find a lead to follow based on all my previous readings. On first look it seems I was right. I found there were a few things mentioned that made my ears prick up. Here is the first half of the list that caught my attention:
Neuropathy is a general term used to describe the loss of sensation at the peripherals. This may include toes and fingers. This condition is also associated with diabetes. The damage is thought to occur in diebetics because of obesity. However, I would think that even diabetics that are not over weight may just as easily develop this condition. Although the diabetics associations of both Britain and America say that there is no direct link between diabetes and sugar. I think that most of us instinctively know better. The sciencetific method is limited after all in its approach. Even the most lauded scientific method The Double Blind was designed to handle very complex and by complex I mean too many variables. The two complex conditions this approach was designed to combat was the common cold and arthritis. This was because it was deemed that so many different things can affect the outcome. So this approach was their best ever. However, it is easy to see that given our bodies are much more complex then just 3 or 4 variables, this method can fall short of what is required in complex systems that have potentially thousands of interacting components. Even cloud computing is too complex for the scientific model to be useful.
So where does this leave us? I think that neuropathy has a route in sugar. Even complex carbs like potato, rice and bread (wheat). I think this because there has been many books written on this subject already.
As young as 19 with the beginnings of heart disease?
We were sold the idea that carbs were safe and that fat was bad. This has been the mantra for more then 50 years. But it may of been wrong, according to
If heart disease and alzheimers are being linked to sugar and complex carbs why should neuropathy escape? If one was to stand a random sample of 100 people together with neuropathy I would bet that anyone would see something of a correlation. The similarity between all the sufferers would look really clear. This ofcourse is not scientific, but one should not throw out anecdotal evidence with the proverbial bath water.
So what is the antedote to neuropathy?
Next treat exercise like brushing your teeth and do it as regularly, but do so much that you want to skip doing it.Next would be to take supplements that promote good blood circulation and epithelial repair. These epithelial cells line the whole cardiovascular system and are a little elastic and mostly made from colegen which is made primarily from three things and they are
The last two can be got from food, especially if you eat eggs, cabbage, asparragus and mushrooms for proline and red meat and salmon and seeds for glycine. Ofcourse the number one absolutley essential ingredient and the hardest to get in sufficient quantities is vitamin c, and since we cannot make it ourselves in our own bodies, it has become vital to supplement. I know some people dissagree this notion of supplementation. However, what I can say about this is that more than 3g of vitamin c a day changed my life, my back health, my teeth health, my brain health, my hair health, my skin health etc and I would never again drop below this freesh hold again by choice, and getting all this vital vitamin c from my food would be very very difficult if not impossible.This site suggests that the maximum level of vitamin c in the body that can be maintained is approximately 2g. It also goes onto say that leukocytes, eyes, adrenal glands, pituitary glands, and the brain have the highest concentrations of vitamin c in the body in this order.
With this information it is becoming clear that since heart disease includes a process called hardening of the arteries, that taking anything that might give back elasticity or help them recover from what might be a problem of some mild form of malnutrition is well worth the effort. Why do we have to weight for our gums to start bleeding before we try taking some extra vitamin c?
Now we have our capilleries working better it is time to give them a kick start with benfotiamine. This is a vitamin b1 extract and has been seen to have some promise in helping neuropathy sufferers. This site suggest that benfotiamine is the fat soluble form of b1 and in Germany has been used for many years to directly stop
Here is a very interesting problem. This country is still caught up in the popular notion that the NHS is great. Which ofcourse it is. However, what has come along with this notion is that it can do more than it actually can do. Some of us are slowly becoming aware of some of its limitations. The problem lies in where the NHS cannot help any more. I would describe the NHS as an emergency service. This is where people go that have had good health so far and now something has happened. If this is an emergency, then you are in the best possible hands. But if this problem is a disease caused by a chronic ongoing decline over many years that has now resulted in the NHS finally diagnosing it as something. Then you are in serious trouble. Because the NHS does not deal with causes. It deals with solutions to an emergency state only. This is OK if you want immediate relief. But if you want the overall problem to go away than you need a different service.
Alternative medicine.The NHS is not enough on its own. A whole industry of alternative medicine is growing out of this fundamental knowledge that the NHS emergency service is insufficient for some people, because they do not fit inside the catchment area of the NHS. So some problems are not seen as a NHS problem until it gets really bad. A good example of this is MS (multiple scerosis), because MRI do not detect it until some 80% of the mylene sheeth has been destroyed. Infact some people keep going back and forth to the NHS without resolution, until they are sick enough to fit inside the recognised detectable treatment modal. This is a shame because, if patients had known of this, and had seen the whole new alternative health care industry growing in the suburbs, than they might of been able to get an earlyer intervention and thus avoid getting sick enough to be treated by a NHS professional. Another example includes Alzheimers.
My recommendation is take your chronic condition, not its symptoms, but the condition itself into your own hands, and seek help or read alot. This mostly depends on finances ofcourse, since the NHS is free and any alternative apart from reading and learning yourself is costly. It is not likely that you will make great progress by yourself fast! However, occasionally visiting an alternative expert that porports to have some knowledge in your area of concern may give you pointers in directions that may speed up the process of self healing. I have no such suggestions because, I have only begun this research on mid February 2022 on the subject of Fibromyalgia.
Some GPs have retrained as functional medicine doctors for so they can offer help in the alternative fields, and maybe catch some of these patients that are waiting to get sick enough. In the hope that they might be better placed to help people get to the root of their particular predicament that ails them. Some of us like myself have discovered somethings after reading and practising on themselves and so the analogy that everything looks like a nail to a carpenter does fit here. However, that is not to say that mine or anyone else discoveries might not help. You are on a journey. The Chinese say that health is the easyest of things to fix. I think that is because, we are really motivated once we get going.
Some of you will relate to this. However, some of you are in a lot of pain a lot of the time. Ofcourse the emergency service the NHS will do what it can for the symptom of pain, but this is still not getting to the route of the problem. When we are in pain who cares what is causing the pain if can just make it go away. Well although anyone would definitely seek that pain relief in the short term, it is in the long run perhaps worth investigating what might be causing the pain. This is a really wierd thing to do in modern western culture. I do not know why.
Here are a few interesting discoveries that I have made in regard to pain. 1st that my mother was in a lot of pain in her legs and she was 74 years old, and had become registered blind in the recent four years. I had recently discovered some things and I had an apithany after reading 3 books about mega supplementation called orthomolecullar medicine and a book on senility and one on ADHD, which culminated in me running some experiments on myself, which worked. I decided to use the same philosophical approach with my mum and her pain in her legs. I asked her if she was willing to try some inexpensive supplements and see what happens? She said OK. The first thing we tried was what I tried, and that was taking as close to 3g of vitamin c or more as she could manage every day. She agreed and tried it immediately. Within two days her pain in her legs had gone! On a visit to her bank, the manager looking at my mums state of health, said I have seen this before, I recommend you get power of attorney soon as it can be really difficult later if she passes. I told my mum this and said shall we try and tackle your senility? She said yes. So we began by her taking 500mg of b1 and b3 a day. I also advised to try and eat one egg a day. She agreed, and within 8 months that conversation with her bank manager seemed strangely distant and unessasary. Next she mentioned a pain in her hand around her thumb area on both hands. Well quite by accident we both had started taking omega 3 fish oil at that time, and within two days her pain in her hands had vanished. She decided immediately to stop taking it and see what happened, well the pain came back. So that is another thing she is completely sold on as a good investment. My dad had been complaining about the pain in his shoulders for years. So I called him and got him to start taking a b complex and vitamin c every day. He said he felt a little better after a week. So I mentioned that magnesium has had some positive feedback in regards pain, and that maybe he should try it. He agreed and within two days I got a very excited phone call saying it had taken the pain away. He still suffers a bit when he forgets to take his magnesium. I myself had so much back pain for so many years that I never imagined that supplementation would ever change anything, however, after spending a year taking vitamin c whilst studying in college I went back to work as a carpenter and joiner and have never had a bad back since. It turns out that collagen is a significant ingredient in back structure and its support. Also my general decline reversed and I am now very happy to work as a carpenter and joiner, and have used my education to help spreed the word about alternatives to chronic diseases other than waiting for the NHS to accept me as a patient.