fibromyallgia - mary

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, here’s an article I have on fibro –

Carol

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The Fibromyalgia Fiasco Out of the Garbage Can

by: Sherry A. , M.D.

Northeast Center

for Environmental Medicine

Syracuse, New

York

Well, there is a new “catch-all,” or “cop-out” of just

plain garbage term in medicine. As you know these terms are

merely an excuse for not looking for environmental triggers or

biochemical defects as causes. So instead, symptoms are collected and given a

mysterious new name or label and then drugs are prescribed to mask the symptoms.

Chronic fatigue syndrome, PMS and many other disorders fit this description.

They have no known cause, no known treatment, and no diagnostic tests to prove

them.

The new kid on the block is fibromyalgia. What it

means is that we don’t know why you ache and hurt all over, and we

don’t look for environmental triggers, and we don’t look for

biochemical defects. Therefore, it is diagnosed by a history of bizarre aches

and pains that can move over the body or stay in certain places and no amount

of medication seems to help them. Usually there are trigger points that are

very sensitive and out of proportion to anything that has happened to the body,

and these can be found by palpating in different areas. The treatment is

usually a parade of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs from Motrin to Deldene to Anaprox, Tolectin, Nalfon, Aleve, Naprosyn, Relafen, Voltaren, you

name it. These of course, don’t do anything to help isolate the cause nor

to get rid of the disease. They merely mask the pain and don’t do a very

good job at that. But the real irony of the whole situation and the reason that

it is such a fiasco, is that non-steroidal

anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can also cause fibromyalgia. So the very drug that is used as the

main-stay of treatment actually causes the disease to get worse.

How do NSAIDs cause fibromyalgia

and make it get worse once it has started? These drugs cause widening between

cells in the intestinal or gut lining. This is called intestinal hyperpermeability or the leaky gut syndrome. These large

spaces allow toxins, bacterial products, and foods that the body normally does

not see, pass into the bloodstream. When it sees these new or foreign

particles, it mounts an attack and starts making antibodies to them. Hence,

food allergies, for example can surface.

The problem is that when the body makes antibodies against bacterial and food

products, these happen to have antigenic sites that are similar to many of the

body’s proteins. So when you eat a certain food, the antigens that are

made against large particles of this food going across the leaky gut, then find

similar-looking antigenic sites in the body, such as on muscles and bones, and

they start attacking those areas, causing an inflammatory reaction and the

resultant pain and body aches so classic of fibromyalgia.

But since wheat, for example, never caused you to ache before and you’ve

eaten it every day of your live, it is the last thing you are suspicious of.

Furthermore, the bacterial toxins that leak through can damage the liver and

reduce its ability to handle other chemicals in the environment. So now you

have chemical sensitivities all of a sudden as well, like finding it difficult

to concentrate around certain perfumes or stores.

People vary tremendously in the causes of their fibromyalgia.

If I look at the last 12 cases of “untreatable,”

“incurable” fibromyalgia that became

well, we find a common thread among all of them. Most of the people have hidden

dust, mold, and pollen allergies and often they have headaches, sinusitis,

asthma, or postnasal drip as a milder symptom for which they normally would not

have consulted a physician. All of the people without fail,

have had vitamin or mineral deficiencies when we test them. This makes sense

because whenever you have a sick body with any type of symptom there has to be

biochemical deficiencies that accompany this, otherwise, you would not have

succumbed to symptoms. And they have hidden food and chemical sensitivities.

Also, most of the people have leaky gut syndrome or intestinal hyperpermeability which can be proven with urine tests.

Sometimes the cause of the leaky gut is overgrowth of a yeast

called Candida albicans from years of sweets or

antibiotics. Other times, it can be caused by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory

drugs used to treat other conditions, or prednisone, other medications, or

undiagnosed food allergies can be the cause.

The diagnostic test relies on determining the kinetics of how two dissimilar

ingested sugars pass through the intestine. They are measured in the urine. The

treatment varies with the individual’s history, symptoms, and severity of

disease. There are numerous ways to heel the gut, from very sophisticated

medication down to many over-the-counter remedies. And even very humble beginnings

like chewing food more thoroughly can be an effective measure. And more

difficult cases need specific detoxification programs of enzymes, probiotics, enemas, and juicing.

The important point is that we now have the tools with which to diagnose and

treat the causes of fibromyalgia. For no longer do

you have to be a diagnostic dilemma, forever living on drugs. It is no longer a

mysterious Motrin deficiency. Fibromyalgia can come

out of the garbage can and into the era of molecular and environmental medicine.

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