Re: Anyone have any sugestions on root canals?

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this is one of the sites that speaks of their danger

http://www.ericdavisdental.com/root_canals.htm

there are more

Re: rheumatic Yucky Plaquenil RX'd by Antibiotic Doc - Sorry

kinda long

All the traditional doctors RX this for Sjogrens or else say it only helps

for joint pain and offer nothing for the rest of the worse symptoms. I also

have peripheral neuropathy and unexplained constant dizziness which is the

worst. One ear doc said it was permanent inner ear damage caused by a virsus

(wish he had said bacteria at least so I feel like I stand a shot) but this

wasnt confirmed by others so I kept hoping antibiotics could help me.

So when I went to see yet another antibiotic doctor, I was so disappointed

that he would RX me this drug. He claimed it killed so many viruses and was

better than taking Valtrex becasue it was more of a general drug and could

kill more things, which he said was necessary since we can't pinpoint what

virus(es) was causing me this horrible situation for so long.

So I asked if the patients who it had helped could get off it, he said no.

So I dont get how then it could get rid of viruses if you have to stay on it

for life. I told him I went to see him because he had offered a cure. The

way antibiotics are suppose to be as close to a cure as possible. He said I

could continue on Doxy but for some reason he didnt really push it. I asked

if I should take it twice a day as now I only take once at 100mg and he said

no need. I asked if I should add other antibiotcs into the mix and he said

no, yet others have with success. Not SS patients but others with diseases

in the same family.

He seemed to think my problem was both viral and bacterial yet seemed to

think the viral was worse. I have been taking Doxy since last summer and I

recall one SS patient saying that she lost a lot of time taking Mino only

when she should have been doing a combined antibiotic protocol. She had

improved, but was nowhere near normal. She was hoping she would get closer

to normal someday. So far I dont think she has but I havent talked to her.

But she was one of several who told me our problems are bacterial not viral.

Yet this is not what even this alternative doc is telling me, a doc that

prescribes antibiotics for rheumatic diseases all the time.

Anyway, for a *cure* he said I had to do something called " methylation " had

me buy 3 supplements and I got an RX for some cream I have to get at a

compounding pharmacy. But the supplements were somewhat common. They were

just slightly different forms of the common supplement. He also said I can

stay on some of the supplements I was currently taking but thye havent

helped me yet and I am not so anxious to keep taking more and more. Already

my liver enzymes have increased. I am too scared to get them checked again

since the last time becasue too much increase and I have to get off

everything before I got any relief.

So adding more supplements as well as the Plaq with all its side effects

including nausea and hair loss among many, I cant help but worry about my

liver and just feelign worse. I did begin the Plaq and my exisiting nausea

(not related to the Sjogrens, 2 different set of problems) is worse despite

taking half a pill,. but the whole point was to do something that can cure

not do what the local rheumatologist down the street can offer. That is why

I flew to another state to see him. I also have been doing the infrared

sauna he recommended (he had said 2 Lupus patients recovered completely from

infrared alone) over the phone months ago, I did it daily for 2 months for

1-3 hours. That is how desperate I am. So far it hasn't helped me. I doubt

the Plaq will work even for temp relief but I am hesitantly trying it, I

worry though, that if anything works even a little it will be the Plaq and

yet I will be giving credit to the supplements because I want it to be them

as they are

less likely to cause problems and I certainly dont need to go to the eye

doctor regularly to make sure the Plaq didnt cause problems in my eyes if I

was only on supplements and antibiotics.

I've done tons of cleanses, stayed off wheat, ate fresh foods and

vegetables, stayed away from sweets, taken many supplements and antibitics,

and no improvment at all. All I have managed to do is give myself a toxic

liver and not one doc will address that.

I feel like I have less hope than before.

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