Re: Judy: Atrial-Fibrillation, vitamin D

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the link. Now that you mention it, I don’t think the doctor checked

my Vit. D last month when I had everything else checked. It was okay the time

before though, so I’m not going to worry too much about it. And yes, I do know

about EFT and have done it at times. I don’t know if it helps but I agree it

doesn’t hurt.

I would like to add something about your dog getting injured. I had my own dog

grooming business for over 18 years and then spent another 15 years as a

Veterinarian's Assistant. What happened to you with your dog was perfectly

normal. Our pets are the same as adopted children. They are our children. We

feel the same as we would if we had given birth to them. When something happens

to them, we feel it as we would feel something that happened to one of our

children. You too, were in a state of stress and shock. What you felt was your

body’s reaction to what happened and then it helping you to begin to cope with

the situation.

Judy H

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From: Joanne Ford

Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 10:21 PM

To: fibromyalgiacured

Subject: Re: Judy: Atrial-Fibrillation, vitamin D

Judy

A new study is claiming Vitamin D can also be healpful for Atrial-Fibrillation.

I get my vitamin D from cod liver oil and a halibut oil. In the winter a SAD

lamp can also help the body with Vitamin D absorbtion

http://www.livestrong.com/article/489912-vitamin-d-atrial-fibrillation-problems/

I know friends that are using EFT (Tapping) for this condition. I have not seen

them for a while so do not know how they are getting on, but i really cannot see

Tapping doing any harm

I di sometimes worry about my heart, especially when I get stressed or cannot

walk far. I have not really had it tested, and perhaps should, but saying that,

when I am feeling OK I never worry about it. just got a bit anxious, last week

when my dog got bit, I had such a weird sensation, it numbed out but later

really ached. I am fine now. I might mention this when I see the doctor, but you

know what the anxiety they give me down there sometimes really puts me off.

Overall I do think it is just anxiety with me, but then when I feel off balanced

with it I get wondering. We will have to see

I so do hope you get well with this Judy. I will pray for you, I do know how

hard you have been working with your health

Love joanne

From: Judy Harford <mailto:jlharford%40msn.com>

To: mailto:fibromyalgiacured%40yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, 27 August 2012, 22:51

Subject: Re: Judy: cytokines can be increased by poor sleep

and lack of magnesium

I have been taking added Magnesium for quite a while, but when I started having

Atrial-Fibrillation, I saw that one of the things that may be causing it is a

lack of Magnesium. Now I take the Nature’s Calm Magnesium as well as the added

pill. I can’t really tell yet if it has helped the A-Fib, but it has helped me

to be more regular. Thanks for this article.

Judy H

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Started taking Low Dose Naltrexone on January 20, 2009 for

Fibromyalgia, Restless Legs Syndrome, Hashimotos Thyroid and PCOS

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/LDNforFibro/

From: Joanne Ford

Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 2:13 PM

To: mailto:fibromyalgiacured%40yahoogroups.com

Subject: Judy: cytokines can be increased by poor sleep and

lack of magnesium

Judy

i had an article that was saying much the same as what this article you have

posted is saying but I cannot find it. If I do I will share it with the group

In the meantime I have remembered this article that talks about cytokines

increasing due to lack of sleep, which can be caused by low magnesium

http://stuff.mit.edu/people/london/magnesium.html

I have been taking the magnesium for a long time now and had not really

recognised its significance, but when my dad started to use it regularly I

seriously noticed an improvement with his illness.

I used to crave chocolate like mad, especially when i was stressed, and so for

me I think that a lack of magnesium was relavent. Also the high carb intake was

feeding the anxiety and depression. I so think insulin resistance and

hypoglycemia were also playing a role, but as the article above shows, low

magnesium can influence this too

Hope this helps. I do tend to look at the illness from the low dopamine angle

but there are a lot of things influencing this. I said to my dad only the other

day, we can change one or two things with one of two supplements, but the get

well the body needs all the nutrients it needs, just be low in one nutrient and

a thousand things can go wrong

Thanks for sharing this Judy, it has helped me relook at a few things

Love Joanne

From: Judy Harford <mailto:jlharford%40msn.com>

To: Fibromyalgia Support Group

<mailto:Fibromyalgia_Support_Group%40yahoogroups.com>;

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Sent: Monday, 27 August 2012, 15:36

Subject: Some food for thought today

I don’t belong to this website, but someone sent me the link to this article.

I thought that others with Fibromyalgia might find it interesting too.

http://www.fmnetnews.com/free-articles/article-samples/why-head-to-toe-pain

Judy H

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Started taking Low Dose Naltrexone on January 20, 2009 for

Fibromyalgia, Restless Legs Syndrome, Hashimotos Thyroid and PCOS

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/LDNforFibro/

[Guest guest]

Okay, I’m not a medical person in any way although at one time I did consider

becoming a doctor. I do think we are much alike in that we are both very

sensitive to the signals we get from other people. In my life it made me work

very well with animals. I could empathize with them and they could feel my

empathy. In my opinion, I would guess that something happened to you when you

were very young that caused you to feel bad about being sick. Who knows what it

was, but you were probably feeling bad anyway and someone did or said something

that hurt you deeply at the time. This had possibly even happened more than

once. Because you were a very sensitive person, this affected you more than it

would most people. Gradually, this became more ingrained in you as time went on.

Along the way then someone made you feel ashamed about this. This too has

increased as you’ve gotten older.

The main thing now is that you recognize it. Knowledge is power. Once you know

something about yourself that you don’t like, you can change it. Of course you

can’t change your core, your sensitivity, but then you wouldn’t want to as

that is what makes you, YOU. What you need to do is, the next time you are in a

situation like this and realize it. Stop and smile. You don’t need to deny.

You don’t need to hide. You don’t need to feel ashamed. Instead of thinking

about you, make it about the other person. Say something like, “Thank you for

asking. And how are you doing?†Then really listen. And I’ll bet you do that

already more than you think you do.

I actually learned this from observing my mother. She was another person who was

very sensitive and very sickly. Unfortunately she never learned how to handle

it. She was a very sad person. I think I only have one or two photos of her

smiling. I’m not sure when it was, but I suddenly realized that she was so

concerned with her own problems that she didn’t have a connection with the

wonderful world around her. I then realized that I was becoming the same way and

I didn’t want to be that way. I wanted to be happy. I wanted to be outgoing. I

wanted to be an optimistic person, not an unhappy, withdrawn, pessimistic

person.

I started observing other people to see what they were doing. I realized that

most of the people that I admired were people who were more concerned with other

people than they were themselves. They didn’t just sit and wait for people to

notice them, but they went out and approached people and asked them how they

were doing. It is still hard for me to do this as it is still a work in progress

for me, but I’m finding that it is easier and easier the more I do it.

So the next time you start to get that feeling, why don’t you try this.

Consciously try to take the situation away from yourself and your problems and

concentrate on the people around you. Not that you aren’t just as important as

they are, but that you don’t need to be overly concerned about yourself and

what other people are thinking of you. You are just the loving, concerned friend

that everyone seeks out.

Good luck with this.

Judy H

To Health Through Knowledge

Started taking Low Dose Naltrexone on January 20, 2009 for

Fibromyalgia, Restless Legs Syndrome, Hashimotos Thyroid and PCOS

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/LDNforFibro/

From: Joanne Ford

Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 7:28 AM

To: fibromyalgiacured

Subject: Re: Judy: Atrial-Fibrillation, vitamin D

Judy

Thank you so much for recognising this in me. I have so much trouble identifying

what is physical and what is emotional sometimes, and both are related and

effect each other, we here definately know that. I do not know exactly what goes

on with me when I have these episodes but they are very dramatic. Throughout

most days I work hard to avoid the dramatic, since I know how easily I could be

disabkled from it, as in the past, but this avoidance, I think might also weaken

our ability to cope when stress does come

My family, my extended family and even my children are much more cool about

their negative emotions, than I am with mine. They rant and rave quit often and

could not care less who see's them or what folk think of them. My children are

not exactly aggressive nor cruel with it, not like other folk I know, thay are

more swearing and breaking things and then laughing it off. I do not approve of

this either, I really give them jip about it, but it does seem to me that folk

that do immediately expess their destress much more quickly recover and recover

more healthily. With me a small stress can go swirling around me for days and

days. I do know the diet helps, but I think some for of exercise would help me

too at these times, trouble is stress makes me so very tired and I do not get

motivated this way

Also, something else I have noticed is that when thee episodes occur, on top of

the anguish, the terror or the sadness or what ever it is I am feeling, enormous

shame always accompanies it. Like at the time when this was going on, I went to

church and started to feel faint. Folk saw me holding my head and stomach and

were asking me if I was OK. As they asked, I got in a terrible panic thinkig

they will think I am weak and useless, and I started to try to deny what was

happening. the more they asked me if I was fine the more I tried to hide it and

the more I got in a state. This too, is a thing with me, I do feel enormous

shame around illness, my own illness that is, not other peoples, for other

people I always feel deep compasion, sometimes too much compasion but with me it

is shame

Even today when I was at church a lady that does not know me well asked how I

was this week. she had seen me last time, when I was feeling faint and was

asking because of that. Again an enormous feeling of deep shame overcame me, and

I wanted to just run away from this woman. I bearly new her but just did not

want her to think that I am a sickly person. I think this goes back to all the

many doctors visits in the past when I told them I was ill and they said there

was nothing wrong with me, and my family said that too. they said I was

attention seeking, and this was both when I was a child and as an adult. It was

clearly fibro, or the build up to fibro in the past that was making me ill, but

I did not know that and when everybody in the past was telling me there was

nothing wrong with me, I did in the end doubt it. I was so hard on myself

because of this, telling myself to get my act together, and really talking to

myself in the wrong way. I do

believe this harshness led to more damage