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From ABC 27 News [burg, PA]:

Fibromyalgia

Location: Health Digest

Producer: McCarthy

Posted: December 18, 2001 11:33 AM EST

URL: http://www.whtm.com/showstory.hrb?f=n & s=25370 & f1=hea

A walk is how Darlene starts each day. It's something she couldn't do

nine years ago. Darlene suffers from fibromyalgia - a disorder that

causes severe pain all over her body. " Basically, five days out of the

week I didn't get out of bed. Oh, a couple of hours during the day, but

that's about it. "

After years of therapy and thirteen different medications, Darlene tried

a new treatment-- a changed diet. She eliminates two things--aspartame

and monosodium glutamate or MSG. Her pain is gone. Doctor Siegfried

Schmidt had four other patients like Darlene try this diet. The patients

suffered from allergies and fibromyalgia.

He says the results surprised him.

Siegfried Schmidt, M.D./Family Practitioner, " These people are back to

normal life, which is, when you come from chronic pain, to be normal,

this is a miracle. " Doctor Schmidt thinks the chemicals in the food

could affect the brain and cause the pain.

Siegfried Schmidt, M.D., " To me, in a disease where we have no

treatment, we don't know what it is, but we can eliminate it in some

people with just a dietary regimen. To me, that's, I mean, what are we

waiting for? "

It's difficult for Darlene to think about the years she lost. At least

now she can finally enjoy life again. Dietitians say it's important to

read labels very carefully and they recommend eating a lot of fresh

fruits and vegetables.

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Ann Pharmacother 2001 Jun;35(6):702-6

Relief of fibromyalgia symptoms following

discontinuation of dietary excitotoxins.

terpening@... cterpeni@...

JD, Terpening CM, Schmidt SO, Gums JG.

Malcolm Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, USA.

gums@... siggy@...

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Ann Pharmacother 2001 Jun;35(6):702-6

Relief of fibromyalgia symptoms following

discontinuation of dietary excitotoxins.

JD, Terpening CM, Schmidt SO, Gums JG.

Malcolm Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, USA.

BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia is a common

rheumatologic disorder that is often difficult to treat

effectively. CASE SUMMARY: Four patients

diagnosed with fibromyalgia syndrome for two to

17 years are described. All had undergone

multiple treatment modalities with limited success. All

had complete, or nearly complete, resolution

of their symptoms within months after eliminating

monosodium glutamate (MSG) or MSG plus aspartame from their diet.

All patients were women with multiple comorbidities

prior to elimination of MSG. All have had recurrence of symptoms

whenever MSG is ingested. DISCUSSION:

Excitotoxins are molecules, such as MSG and

aspartate, that act as excitatory neurotransmitters,

and can lead to neurotoxicity when used in

excess. We propose that these four patients may

represent a subset of fibromyalgia syndrome

that is induced or exacerbated by excitotoxins or,

alternatively, may comprise an excitotoxin

syndrome that is similar to fibromyalgia.

We suggest that identification of similar patients and

research with larger numbers of patients must be

performed before definitive conclusions can be

made. CONCLUSIONS: The elimination of

MSG and other excitotoxins from the diets of

patients with fibromyalgia offers a benign treatment

option that has the potential for dramatic

results in a subset of patients. PMID: 11408989

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Ann Pharmacother 1998 Feb;32(2):196-200

Possible lansoprazole-induced eosinophilic syndrome.

JD, Chang KL, Gums JG.

Department of Pharmacy Practice

University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.

OBJECTIVE: To report a case of myalgia with

eosinophilia related to lansoprazole

administration. CASE SUMMARY: A 50-year-old white

woman developed severe myalgia 1 week after

starting lansoprazole. During the

treatment course, the patient was also found to have

eosinophilia. The myalgia and eosinophilia

resolved 40 days after lansoprazole was stopped and

18 days after prednisone therapy was begun. The

patient was not rechallenged with lansoprazole.

DISCUSSION: To our knowledge, this is the first

reported case of lansoprazole-induced

eosinophilic syndrome. Clinically, it is

difficult to distinguish between eosinophilia-myalgia

syndrome and eosinophilic fasciitis, which are

probably part of a continuum of eosinophilic

disorders. This patient presented with symptoms

of both syndromes. Although other causes

cannot be completely ruled out, the time course

strongly suggests that lansoprazole was the

causative agent. CONCLUSIONS: It is important to

consider medications when diagnosing

patients with hypereosinophilia and/or myalgia.

PMID: 9496405

Expert Opin Pharmacother 1999 Nov;1(1):71-80

Management of essential hypertension.

Terpening C, Gums JG, Grauer K. terpening@...

University of Florida, Departments of Pharmacy

Practice and Family Medicine

625 SW 4th Ave., Gainesville, FL 32601, USA.

terpening@...

Hypertension, in spite of a very high prevalence,

remains undertreated. This is not due to a lack of

effective therapeutic modalities.

Non-pharmacological treatments can be effective in many

patients. If those treatments fail to reduce

blood pressure sufficiently, the physician can choose

between numerous classes of antihypertensive

agents. However, interpatient variability in

response to these agents is high, and use of

multiple agents is frequently necessary. Thus, no

single class has proven to be superior for the

majority of patients. This article will review the

different non-pharmacological and pharmacological

methods available to treat hypertension, as

well as the guidelines that are available to aid

in proper selection of a treatment regimen.

Publication Types: Review Review, tutorial

PMID: 11249566

Terpening CM.

The FDA: protector or puppet?

Pharmacotherapy. 2000 Jul;20(7):860-1. No abstract available.

PMID: 10907979

Gums JG.

Empathy to apathy: a consequence of higher education?

Pharmacotherapy. 1994 Mar-Apr;14(2):250-1.

No abstract available. PMID: 8197049

Miles Terpening

Information current as of: 09/09/1999

post doc aso pharmacy practice,uf

Campus mg-58 445

po box 100486 gainesville fl 32610-0486

Home u of f box 100846 gvn fl fl 32611

Email cterpeni@...

G Gums

Information current as of: 09/28/1999

professor pharmacy practice,uf

Campus j486 jhmhc

po box 100486 gainesville fl 32610-0486

Home 3626 nw 23rd pl gainesville fl 32605-2666

Email gums@...

Siegfried O Schmidt

Information current as of: 01/27/2000

clin ast prof community hlth & fam med,uf

Campus w oak clnic

po box 103588 gainesville fl 32610-3588

Home 8120 sw 36th ave gainesville fl 32608-3629

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" Aspartame (NutraSweet) Addiction "

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1038-page medical text " Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic "

published May 30 2001 $ 85.00 postpaid data from 1200 cases

available at http://www.amazon.com

over 600 references from standard medical research

http://www.aspartameispoison.com/contents.html 34 chapters

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Headache 2001 Oct;41(9):899-901

Migraine MLT-Down: An Unusual Presentation of Migraine

in Patients With Aspartame-Triggered Headaches.

[Merck 10-mg Maxalt-MLT, for migraine, has 4 mg aspartame,

while 12 oz diet soda has 200 mg.]

Newman LC, Lipton RB. RLipton@...

Headache Institute, St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York

NY Department of Neurology

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Innovative Medical Research

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