Re: IV Lidocaine Therapy, fibro centers

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thanks for that info, mary,

i did buy and try a couple of his supplements. the energizing powder

and the herbal sleep formula and the b-complex. i feel like the sleep

and b-complex are helping, but i need a different multi vit/min

instead of his powder because i have soy allergy and his powder has

alot of soy in it. his book recommends taking magnesium and calcium

before bed, and it seems to help me sleep better.

but because i will have finished reading his book before i may make

an appointment, i will firmly tell the doctor there that i have tried

many meds/supplements/herbals and i need scripts for things i have

not tried that have not helped. it takes courage to stand up to these

people, but i feel i have no options, no other docotrs have helped me

much at all. i had to quit taking flexeril at night it was making me

worse.

all i wanted to mention is that his book has alot of ideas and

combinations of not just meds, but vitamins, minerals and herbals for

people to try to see which combinations work best for them. i have no

financial interest or any other interest, i just cannot sit around

and complain about this stupid disease, i have to try to feel better

and function better because i cannot afford or want to quit work and

go in social security disability.

anyone with fibro or cfids should buy and read the book and try some

of his recommendations. it is the most comprehensive and explanatory

book i have read and it is written by a doctor who has the diseases,

himself and overcome them with his own research and treatment.

it does get tiring having to read and search myself and play doctor,

but noone else has given me much help, so i have to keep trying

something.

take care,

marg

> Well, if I can weigh in on the fibro/fatigue centers at this

point?

> I have to say that I went to the center here in early October, got

> the shopping bag of supplements, the scripts including one that

they

> had a compounding pharmacist prepare, a vitamin B shot and then 5

> minutes away to have an inordinatly large number of vials of blood

> drawn for testing. My follow-up appointment was in 3 weeks.

During

> those three weeks, I got worse, and worse! So bad that it was a

> great excuse not to go with my husband to visit his mother and step-

> father. During the second visit, another vitamin B shot AND the IV

> of what ever it was. After the amount of money the visits, the

> vitamins, the drugs, the shots, the IV'S, and not getting any

better

> even after the second visit (I know, supposedly you will feel bad

> before you feel better because you are " detoxing " , but the cost,

the

> time, etc. just was not worth it to me.)

> That was my second time of seeing someone who claimed they HAD done

> studies and had come up with a cure! That person had done a study -

--

> 400 people, which, after working in pharma companies I don't think

> is large enuff and again a shopping bag of supplements, I am not

> going to jump on any one's bandwagon because I rather equate most

of

> these " healers " with the snake oil hawsters of the 19th/early 20th

> century!!! Rather like all of the various forms of so-called heart

> meds my uncle said they discovered in my grandmother's medicine

> cabinet following her death in 1937.

> No offense to anyone here, but my theory is " fool me once, shame on

> you; fool me twice, shame on me! " So no more miracle cures for me.\

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