Thought on Lidocaine / input requested

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I belong to multiple groups (CFS, 10th Paradigm, Sick Building Syndrome, Yasko)

and I can't recall if I already posted this but I wanted to gather some input.

To be brief, I have a irrational hypersensitivity to an unknown

particle/chemical/biotoxin. I am only triggered by this one " thing " and I, like

many others have gone through a lot trying to achieve full avoidance but had

already " cross-contaminated " everything. This is only triggered when I breath

through my nose.

I have ruled out a lot of treatments. Most recently, I felt that if I could

" reboot " my brain, I could eliminate this irrational response. Gupta and Hooper

do this through their Amygdala Retraining programs. I'm hesitant to spend money

on those. However, Dr. Eugene Lipov recently came out with a study on using

Stellate Ganglion Blocks to elminate post traumatic stress disorder. If you

read about that condition, you will find it to be very closely related to all of

the other fibro/cfs/mcs/etc. (unexplained illnesses if you will). So, instead

of reading books and watching dvd's I went for the more invasive route - a jab

to the neck, twice.

Here is the link for more information:

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/721079

Now, this was not a success for me. But here is my question... Dr. Lipov feels

that lidocaine/marcaine when injected can " prune " the nerves of the brain back

to their pre-injury/pre-trauma state. He feels that after trauma, nerve growth

factor is secreted causing the sprouting of new nerve pathways. Taking this a

little further, what if I used a lidocaine nasal spray to try and reboot the

olfactory nerve or surrounding nerve cells? I know that this is used for people

with cluster headaches, but I'm just curious if anyone has any thoughts on this

or have tried something like this before? Would lidocaine even offer temporary

relief of symptoms? I also had a sphenopalatine ganglion block in the past and

that did not provide relief either. But I do remember that the lidocaine he put

up their first did provide short-term benefit.

I know I'm reaching on this... but really just curious for input.

Thanks,

Tom