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Jason
9 years ago
I thought it might be time for some medicine, as in laughter that is. Here is something that should tickle your funny bone, it nearly had me on the floor in stitches…. REALLY well done, and damn hilarious! On one of our favorite subjects too….
Recently, the American Medical Association (AMA) began crafting its ‘ethical guidelines for physicians in the media’ to ‘defend the integrity of the profession.’ The new guidelines will target unorthodox medical information that the AMA deems dubious and unsubstantiated and create disciplinary guidelines for doctors who make public claims that do not align with the ‘best available science’.
On the surface, these ethical guidelines may sound like a responsible way of discouraging doctors from making vague or erroneous statements and claims. A closer look, however, finds that the AMA is actually attempting to censor the free speech of doctors in media who draw attention to holistic medicine rather than the traditional Western treatments and medicines typically promoted by the pharmaceutical industry and conventional medicine.
The American Medical Association is a powerful organization that uses the brunt of its influence to manipulate healthcare in America. In fact, the AMA spent nearly $20 million on lobbying in 2014 alone. Its roots go deep into American medicine, and it has a powerful influence over the way state licensing boards oversee and discipline physicians in the U.S.
The new ethical guidelines will make recommendations for how state boards might discipline doctors who are public figures or make statements in the media that do not align with the AMA’s stance on medical treatment. Those who helped craft the guidelines call doctors who support natural medicine ‘quacks’, and specifically name Dr. Oz as one of the physicians making bogus claims based on pseudoscience.
Censorship is the easiest way for big pharma and organized medicine to maintain their monopoly on Western medicine. These new ethical guidelines will restrict American access to valuable natural health information and funnel people into the offices of traditional healthcare providers who will support traditional medical science rather than holistic medicine. Organized medicine would like nothing more than to continue lining their pockets with the profits generated by Americans who are dependent on medications rather than taking charge of their own health and wellness.
What will happen to doctors who stand by their beliefs rather than cave to the AMA? Will a physician be stripped of his license for deviating from the CDC’s mandated vaccine schedule? Will doctors be fined for recommending any course of alternative medicine that is not considered acceptable to those in power?
It is important to remember that the AMA is not a licensing or regulatory body – the states are. We must remind our lawmakers that freedom of speech is a fundamental right and demand that they not accept the AMA’s ethical guidelines, which themselves are unethical for the American people.
–
Well I am just getting over a second hospitalization. I was rushed into the ER by my wife. Suffering from dehydration and severe pain in my abdomin. Thought it was Crohn’s relapse. Turns out it was a perforation in the small intestine. Was looking at the possibility
of emergency surgery. The next day I improved so the surgeon said let us treat him clinically. They are all very careful with meds with me here in Michigan. I had so many tests I can’t count.
My new GI doctor who I like very much doesn’t think I have Crohn’s. So I am going to add him to my Floxie treatment team.
Looks like I am going home today.
I hope all my fellow Floxies are doing better than I.
Michael Out.
MK
9 years ago
I took 1 dose of levaquin 3 nights ago. It caused a panic attack, severe insomnia, and very bad leg cramps. After about 24 hours the worst of the leg cramps were gone, but now I have pain on the bottom of my feet, wrists, and tingling in legs and arms. I’m grateful that I read everything on the internet and decided to stop taking it right away, but I’m still scared that these symptoms will persist after just one dose. I’m angry that I took a dose even after reading the warning on the label. But I just assumed it was much rarer than it appears to be. Praying for a quick recovery and for everyone who is suffering from much worse than I am.
J
9 years ago
Oh please – since this is a site of hope- can someone who has healed from neuropathy post??? I need some hope my legs will be free of nerve pain someday (symmetrical pain in both legs -worst in quads) . I see people mention neuropathy in their healing stories but for me it’s my only residual symptom and I want it gone 🙂 thx to anyone who can offer me this hope!!! I am trying some new treatments but i am running out of patience .
Jason
9 years ago
The Funeral Director’s of America (FDA) continue it’s tirade to keep you in the dark:
Why is this important to a Floxie? Prior to the Funeral Directors meddling, people could get a test from this website showing many things about their Genes and DNA, now it seems it is VERY limited thanks to FDA.
One of the important results is knowing whether or not you have the mutated MTHFR gene, which has many important implications if you do, such as NOT detoxing toxins properly, which would very likely mean without doing extra things to help, your Floxing is going to last much longer and potentially do even more damage than to other people.
There are many more things you can learn from this kind of test and finding out if you have the Gene, just google MTHFR & Methylation, there is lots of good info on the net regarding these 2 very important things. Methylation is a critical process in the Human body (takes place more than a billion times per second in the body) regardless of whether or not you have the MTHFR gene, and is again very important to detoxing properly (and tons of other very important things like repairing your DNA which has been damaged by Cipro, the Sun, etc, manufacturing many Neurotransmitters like epinephrine, melatonin etc, its also a required part of the process in ATP generation and health of the Mitochondria things that again have been negatively affected thanks to Cipro, and much more)
Kevin McDaniel
9 years ago
Hello Everyone,
I had a toxic reaction to Cipro about 6 weeks ago. Progress seems to be coming along well; but I have to go in for surgery and was wondering if anyone knows what types of anesthesia are usable for someone recently effected by Cipro. In addition, what types of pain relievers should I use? I am so grateful for the information provided on this site. The stories of recovery and the details you all have shared have been a tremendous blessing. Thanks in advance for any info?
God Bless.
Hey everyone,
I am back home recouping. The perforation is healing on it’s own. On meds because of risk of infection. I wanted to share something with you. Check out the ap isabel symptom checker. http://symptomchecker.isabelhealthcare.com/
I put my symptoms in and quinolone toxicity comes up and so does NSAID’s toxicity. Along with others.
Just FYI
Lisa wrote a blog about this maybe 6-12 months ago and it helped me see things differently. It still frustrates the hell out of me though. Aside from the physical pain, the fact that others just don’t get my illness is a huge burden. My wife is wonderful and supportive and my friends are too. But most people who know about my illness continue to treat me like I’m a normal and capable person. They don’t understand that just existing is painful, and being on my feet is often very painful. They wouldn’t struggle to get it if I had cancer. Even if I had a torn ACL or broken toe! But because this is an unknown illness, it’s devalued. It really pisses me off.
Dirty politicians actively working to undermine public access to supplements…..likely becuase their pockets are lined with $$$$$$$ from Pharma.
Jodi
9 years ago
I am a 49 year-old woman who was floxed in 2013. I was given 2 rounds of Cipro and 1 of Levaquin in a 6 month period, I was hit hard during the second round, and the Levaquin really did me in. After, I was riding the rolling coaster — as soon as I would start to feel better and think maybe I was out of the woods, I would crash again. Mostly a lot of pain in my achilles tendons and hamstrings. Skin itchy and suddenly weird spots everywhere — dermatologist just said it was my age, but why all of a sudden? Tinitus, extremely low energy, brain fog, dizziness, vision seemed to be getting worse, exercise intolerance (just getting my heart rate up a little would turn my face bright red and I’d feel like I was going to faint.) Chronic diarrhea — made worse by taking so many supplements — especially magnesium — to try to get better. My doctor would acknowledge it, but she had no idea what to do, My naturopathic doctor was focused on fixing the things that caused me to take the fluorquinolones to begin with. She also acknowledged that they were bad, and hoped the liver support, hormonal support, etc. that she was giving me for my chronic UTIs would help with this also,
Reading a lot of what people have written on the internet, I started taking lots of supplements — nothing particularly different about my regimen than what others have posted. The magnesium threonate is definitely easier on the stomach. I also take Great Lakes Gelatin Collagen Hydrolysate which seemed to help a lot with connective tissue.
I would have highs and lows, but as time dragged on, I was feeling less and less sure about my ability to continue to work. I was beginning to think about going on disability so I could just focus on my health.
Then two things happened. I read a post that really helped me connect the symptoms to the mitochondrial DNA damage which leads to too many free radicals and oxidative stress. Stress also makes this worse, including the stress from having all these side effects from the FQs., So I started focusing on antioxidants, sleep and keeping stress levels low — even the stress that I felt like was “no big deal”.
The next thing that happened was I discovered EFT (Tapping). I saw someone else here mentioned that and I wanted to second it. I had been looking into it actually for other people in my family for their anxiety and chronic pain issues. Then, I woke up one morning with a horrible migraine and was desperate for fast relief because I had a lot going on that day. I decided to try tapping (a bit skeptical, I must say) and after about 15 minutes, my migraine was GONE! I was completely amazed and honestly didn’t think it would work. I told my son about it, and he told me he was having pain in his leg from where he had knee surgery. I did it with him (this is the same morning) and he got some degree of relief, but two days later it was completely gone! I remember hearing that often, the real results occur two days later.
I continued to tap throughout the week, at least once in the morning and before bed, Honestly, I try to remember to do it whenever I go to the bathroom — weird, I know, but hey, I’m just sitting there, alone…so why not make use of it? By the end of the week (and before, really –maybe even that day), I swear virtually every symptom I had was gone. The tendons, the extreme fatigue, the brain fog, dizziness, even my eyesight seemed better, more clear. I felt like myself again – and it is sticking.
This was about a month ago, I keep tapping –on anything and everything I can possibly think of — and it helps a lot. I am becoming ever more aware of the relationship between our energetic body and stress and our physical and mental health. Something about tapping that uses basic techniques from psychology along with the energy meridian points from eastern medicine that is a winning combination –like a kill switch for stress. If you want AMAZING results, try tapping, You don’t have to believe in it for it to work (you just have to do it), and it takes about 15 minutes to learn how to do it. You can go see someone to help you do it, too. It is easy, you feel great pretty immediately, and you can use it for EVERYTHING — panic attacks, anxiety, work stress, weight loss, pain relief, relationships, grief, you name it,
It sounds crazy, but it actually makes perfect sense. Our physical bodies, emotions, thoughts, and the energy system that connects everything are ONE thing devised of multiple, interconnected systems.. If you ignore the emotional and energetic parts of us, it triggers all kinds of feedback loops in our physical body. When you treat everything — this is the way of the ancient medicine practices–you can clear the past life events that still have an emotional hold on you and the stresses that keep you stuck and that your body is constantly reacting to, Our emotions and stress play a huge role in our body’s pain response.
I’m not saying chuck everything else (however I have stopped taking my supplements this week and I still feel good). I’m just saying that this can neutralize a big cause of the stress that leads to the oxidative stress and all the symptoms we experience and especially the pain. Best of luck to everyone.
Peter
9 years ago
I think I’m running out of hope these days. 25+ months now and each day ia worse than the last. Has anyone had extreme trouble breathing? I can breathe in for 4 seconds through the nose, but only 2 seconds out through the nose. It’s labored and I find myself completely focused on my breathing at night. It’s not natural.
I’m also seen a dramatic increase in white hair all over my body, something I have never seen before.
I’m not sure what to do anymore. It’s gone so far downhill since I first took the medicine. I’ve never had these issues.
None of my other symptoms have improved yet either. It’s been a miserable few months lately and I dread life more and more. I joke about dying before I’m 30 a lot and I really believe it most days. I turned 29 in Feb.
Check out this commentary from John Oliver: Medical Doctors & Big Pharma buying them.
SM
9 years ago
I had about 4 days last week of very calm nerve pain. I’d say it was a 1-2 on a scale of 1-10. Came out of no where. It was wonderful! I still had that plantar fasciitis-like pain on the bottom of my feet when standing, but the obvious nerve stuff- the aching, the burning, the odd sensations- were all so mild. After 4 days, it’s all back to its normal place of cold aches and weird sensations and just indescribable pain that’s always there. It was wonderful to have those 4 days, but I’m now left wondering “What the hell just happened?!” It’s hard to know what might have precipitated a change when we have so much going on. My only thought, if there is an outside cause, is that I did a 50 gram vitamin C IV just 2 days prior. That’s weird too though because I dont think I felt better rifht away. So if it was the C, it took 36-48 hours to make a difference. I didn’t get an IV this week as my ND was out of town. I go back on Tuesday. Hoping. Even if it wasn’t the C, having those few days of feeling better gives me hope. I know of lots of recoveries that start out as a few hours of feeling better, then a few days, and so on.
Mike
9 years ago
Hysterical Rene. Nice post. I especially like the Dr. skit at the end…
Don’t give up Peter. I’ve been where you are at. I’ve been battling this for years now. Some of it has gotten better… some things haven’t. Have hope. I have to make myself believe that some day it will get better in this lifetime. (I know someday it will all be better because of the promise in Revelation 21:14, the former things will pass away)
One of the things that has gotten better for me was my heart issues. I was having crazy palpitations and feeling like my heart was jumping around and fibrillating, at least that is what it felt like, acccompanied by a feeling that I could just drop to my death at any minute. I even went to the ER by ambulance one day after exercising a bit as I was feeling like I was going to die. Even when I was in the ER I felt like it could be the end for me. They found nothing wrong with me, only low potassium that the Dr. felt could have attributed to my issues.
This time last year I would just pray to God that I would make it to my wedding day which was last Sept 20th. That’s how bad it was for me.
This feeling in my chest went on for quite sometime…. months and months. Then eventually….. it just went away. I’m hoping and praying that my other symptoms do the same. I’ve had people tell me that their FQ induced brainfog just went away one day out of nowhere … after being tormented by it for quite sometime.
Be strong man. Don’t give up. Find other things to occupy your brainpower with than your condition. My belief is that time is the best healer for what we are going through. Try not to think about this stuff too much… distract yourself… otherwise you could just keep spiraling down into depression which I know from experience is a snowball effect type thing…
Jason
9 years ago
This is a pretty good short little article that I think every Floxie could benefit from as there is a lot of good overall advice in there (found it trying to figure out why garlic makes me tired):
Note that a couple of the Supplements mentioned (geared towards Metals) are too aggressive approach for someone who is moderately or severely Floxed in my opinion, and should not be undertaken, but most of the advice and many things listed are good even for those people (like diet tips etc).
With something like detoxing you usually want to start slow as you don’t want to risk doing (more) damage, and you also need to protect yourself with good quality Anti-oxidants throughout the process (it mentions a couple). You also have to listen to your body and the herxheimer effects, really detoxing is a very serious business (especially for someone who has been poisoned, like a Floxie) and not something most people should tackle on their own unless they put many many hours into reading expert advice. I do consider it pivotal however to the health of every person, and to healing from many malices including being Floxed.
For the length which is very short like one 8 x 11 page, it really is packed with excellent excellent ideas, a very good article though I think it forgot to mention at least one very important thing, exercise. So a good short read and some very helpful advice in there that I hope many here are trying to follow to help heal, which in my opinion it will. I’ve used most of these principles myself several times over the years including recently for my own Floxing, and my quick recovery is a testament on just how effective they are.
Jason
9 years ago
Linda you’ll like this article I think, what an eye opener:
I thought it might be time for some medicine, as in laughter that is. Here is something that should tickle your funny bone, it nearly had me on the floor in stitches…. REALLY well done, and damn hilarious! On one of our favorite subjects too….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vq8jJjX5lI
Copy pasted from an article I read:
Recently, the American Medical Association (AMA) began crafting its ‘ethical guidelines for physicians in the media’ to ‘defend the integrity of the profession.’ The new guidelines will target unorthodox medical information that the AMA deems dubious and unsubstantiated and create disciplinary guidelines for doctors who make public claims that do not align with the ‘best available science’.
On the surface, these ethical guidelines may sound like a responsible way of discouraging doctors from making vague or erroneous statements and claims. A closer look, however, finds that the AMA is actually attempting to censor the free speech of doctors in media who draw attention to holistic medicine rather than the traditional Western treatments and medicines typically promoted by the pharmaceutical industry and conventional medicine.
The American Medical Association is a powerful organization that uses the brunt of its influence to manipulate healthcare in America. In fact, the AMA spent nearly $20 million on lobbying in 2014 alone. Its roots go deep into American medicine, and it has a powerful influence over the way state licensing boards oversee and discipline physicians in the U.S.
The new ethical guidelines will make recommendations for how state boards might discipline doctors who are public figures or make statements in the media that do not align with the AMA’s stance on medical treatment. Those who helped craft the guidelines call doctors who support natural medicine ‘quacks’, and specifically name Dr. Oz as one of the physicians making bogus claims based on pseudoscience.
Censorship is the easiest way for big pharma and organized medicine to maintain their monopoly on Western medicine. These new ethical guidelines will restrict American access to valuable natural health information and funnel people into the offices of traditional healthcare providers who will support traditional medical science rather than holistic medicine. Organized medicine would like nothing more than to continue lining their pockets with the profits generated by Americans who are dependent on medications rather than taking charge of their own health and wellness.
What will happen to doctors who stand by their beliefs rather than cave to the AMA? Will a physician be stripped of his license for deviating from the CDC’s mandated vaccine schedule? Will doctors be fined for recommending any course of alternative medicine that is not considered acceptable to those in power?
It is important to remember that the AMA is not a licensing or regulatory body – the states are. We must remind our lawmakers that freedom of speech is a fundamental right and demand that they not accept the AMA’s ethical guidelines, which themselves are unethical for the American people.
–
Well I am just getting over a second hospitalization. I was rushed into the ER by my wife. Suffering from dehydration and severe pain in my abdomin. Thought it was Crohn’s relapse. Turns out it was a perforation in the small intestine. Was looking at the possibility
of emergency surgery. The next day I improved so the surgeon said let us treat him clinically. They are all very careful with meds with me here in Michigan. I had so many tests I can’t count.
My new GI doctor who I like very much doesn’t think I have Crohn’s. So I am going to add him to my Floxie treatment team.
Looks like I am going home today.
I hope all my fellow Floxies are doing better than I.
Michael Out.
I took 1 dose of levaquin 3 nights ago. It caused a panic attack, severe insomnia, and very bad leg cramps. After about 24 hours the worst of the leg cramps were gone, but now I have pain on the bottom of my feet, wrists, and tingling in legs and arms. I’m grateful that I read everything on the internet and decided to stop taking it right away, but I’m still scared that these symptoms will persist after just one dose. I’m angry that I took a dose even after reading the warning on the label. But I just assumed it was much rarer than it appears to be. Praying for a quick recovery and for everyone who is suffering from much worse than I am.
Oh please – since this is a site of hope- can someone who has healed from neuropathy post??? I need some hope my legs will be free of nerve pain someday (symmetrical pain in both legs -worst in quads) . I see people mention neuropathy in their healing stories but for me it’s my only residual symptom and I want it gone 🙂 thx to anyone who can offer me this hope!!! I am trying some new treatments but i am running out of patience .
The Funeral Director’s of America (FDA) continue it’s tirade to keep you in the dark:
https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202908030-FDA-Update-December-5th
Why is this important to a Floxie? Prior to the Funeral Directors meddling, people could get a test from this website showing many things about their Genes and DNA, now it seems it is VERY limited thanks to FDA.
One of the important results is knowing whether or not you have the mutated MTHFR gene, which has many important implications if you do, such as NOT detoxing toxins properly, which would very likely mean without doing extra things to help, your Floxing is going to last much longer and potentially do even more damage than to other people.
There are many more things you can learn from this kind of test and finding out if you have the Gene, just google MTHFR & Methylation, there is lots of good info on the net regarding these 2 very important things. Methylation is a critical process in the Human body (takes place more than a billion times per second in the body) regardless of whether or not you have the MTHFR gene, and is again very important to detoxing properly (and tons of other very important things like repairing your DNA which has been damaged by Cipro, the Sun, etc, manufacturing many Neurotransmitters like epinephrine, melatonin etc, its also a required part of the process in ATP generation and health of the Mitochondria things that again have been negatively affected thanks to Cipro, and much more)
Hello Everyone,
I had a toxic reaction to Cipro about 6 weeks ago. Progress seems to be coming along well; but I have to go in for surgery and was wondering if anyone knows what types of anesthesia are usable for someone recently effected by Cipro. In addition, what types of pain relievers should I use? I am so grateful for the information provided on this site. The stories of recovery and the details you all have shared have been a tremendous blessing. Thanks in advance for any info?
God Bless.
Kevin
Hey everyone,
I am back home recouping. The perforation is healing on it’s own. On meds because of risk of infection. I wanted to share something with you. Check out the ap isabel symptom checker. http://symptomchecker.isabelhealthcare.com/
I put my symptoms in and quinolone toxicity comes up and so does NSAID’s toxicity. Along with others.
Just FYI
Hey have any of you seen this yet?
https://www.facebook.com/BoughtMovie
Lisa wrote a blog about this maybe 6-12 months ago and it helped me see things differently. It still frustrates the hell out of me though. Aside from the physical pain, the fact that others just don’t get my illness is a huge burden. My wife is wonderful and supportive and my friends are too. But most people who know about my illness continue to treat me like I’m a normal and capable person. They don’t understand that just existing is painful, and being on my feet is often very painful. They wouldn’t struggle to get it if I had cancer. Even if I had a torn ACL or broken toe! But because this is an unknown illness, it’s devalued. It really pisses me off.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/03/is-folic-acid-poison-to-pregnant-women.html
man made folic acid not so good
http://www.anh-usa.org/senator-mccaskill-once-again-targets-anti-aging-supplements/
Dirty politicians actively working to undermine public access to supplements…..likely becuase their pockets are lined with $$$$$$$ from Pharma.
I am a 49 year-old woman who was floxed in 2013. I was given 2 rounds of Cipro and 1 of Levaquin in a 6 month period, I was hit hard during the second round, and the Levaquin really did me in. After, I was riding the rolling coaster — as soon as I would start to feel better and think maybe I was out of the woods, I would crash again. Mostly a lot of pain in my achilles tendons and hamstrings. Skin itchy and suddenly weird spots everywhere — dermatologist just said it was my age, but why all of a sudden? Tinitus, extremely low energy, brain fog, dizziness, vision seemed to be getting worse, exercise intolerance (just getting my heart rate up a little would turn my face bright red and I’d feel like I was going to faint.) Chronic diarrhea — made worse by taking so many supplements — especially magnesium — to try to get better. My doctor would acknowledge it, but she had no idea what to do, My naturopathic doctor was focused on fixing the things that caused me to take the fluorquinolones to begin with. She also acknowledged that they were bad, and hoped the liver support, hormonal support, etc. that she was giving me for my chronic UTIs would help with this also,
Reading a lot of what people have written on the internet, I started taking lots of supplements — nothing particularly different about my regimen than what others have posted. The magnesium threonate is definitely easier on the stomach. I also take Great Lakes Gelatin Collagen Hydrolysate which seemed to help a lot with connective tissue.
I would have highs and lows, but as time dragged on, I was feeling less and less sure about my ability to continue to work. I was beginning to think about going on disability so I could just focus on my health.
Then two things happened. I read a post that really helped me connect the symptoms to the mitochondrial DNA damage which leads to too many free radicals and oxidative stress. Stress also makes this worse, including the stress from having all these side effects from the FQs., So I started focusing on antioxidants, sleep and keeping stress levels low — even the stress that I felt like was “no big deal”.
The next thing that happened was I discovered EFT (Tapping). I saw someone else here mentioned that and I wanted to second it. I had been looking into it actually for other people in my family for their anxiety and chronic pain issues. Then, I woke up one morning with a horrible migraine and was desperate for fast relief because I had a lot going on that day. I decided to try tapping (a bit skeptical, I must say) and after about 15 minutes, my migraine was GONE! I was completely amazed and honestly didn’t think it would work. I told my son about it, and he told me he was having pain in his leg from where he had knee surgery. I did it with him (this is the same morning) and he got some degree of relief, but two days later it was completely gone! I remember hearing that often, the real results occur two days later.
I continued to tap throughout the week, at least once in the morning and before bed, Honestly, I try to remember to do it whenever I go to the bathroom — weird, I know, but hey, I’m just sitting there, alone…so why not make use of it? By the end of the week (and before, really –maybe even that day), I swear virtually every symptom I had was gone. The tendons, the extreme fatigue, the brain fog, dizziness, even my eyesight seemed better, more clear. I felt like myself again – and it is sticking.
This was about a month ago, I keep tapping –on anything and everything I can possibly think of — and it helps a lot. I am becoming ever more aware of the relationship between our energetic body and stress and our physical and mental health. Something about tapping that uses basic techniques from psychology along with the energy meridian points from eastern medicine that is a winning combination –like a kill switch for stress. If you want AMAZING results, try tapping, You don’t have to believe in it for it to work (you just have to do it), and it takes about 15 minutes to learn how to do it. You can go see someone to help you do it, too. It is easy, you feel great pretty immediately, and you can use it for EVERYTHING — panic attacks, anxiety, work stress, weight loss, pain relief, relationships, grief, you name it,
It sounds crazy, but it actually makes perfect sense. Our physical bodies, emotions, thoughts, and the energy system that connects everything are ONE thing devised of multiple, interconnected systems.. If you ignore the emotional and energetic parts of us, it triggers all kinds of feedback loops in our physical body. When you treat everything — this is the way of the ancient medicine practices–you can clear the past life events that still have an emotional hold on you and the stresses that keep you stuck and that your body is constantly reacting to, Our emotions and stress play a huge role in our body’s pain response.
I’m not saying chuck everything else (however I have stopped taking my supplements this week and I still feel good). I’m just saying that this can neutralize a big cause of the stress that leads to the oxidative stress and all the symptoms we experience and especially the pain. Best of luck to everyone.
I think I’m running out of hope these days. 25+ months now and each day ia worse than the last. Has anyone had extreme trouble breathing? I can breathe in for 4 seconds through the nose, but only 2 seconds out through the nose. It’s labored and I find myself completely focused on my breathing at night. It’s not natural.
I’m also seen a dramatic increase in white hair all over my body, something I have never seen before.
I’m not sure what to do anymore. It’s gone so far downhill since I first took the medicine. I’ve never had these issues.
None of my other symptoms have improved yet either. It’s been a miserable few months lately and I dread life more and more. I joke about dying before I’m 30 a lot and I really believe it most days. I turned 29 in Feb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQZ2UeOTO3I
Check out this commentary from John Oliver: Medical Doctors & Big Pharma buying them.
I had about 4 days last week of very calm nerve pain. I’d say it was a 1-2 on a scale of 1-10. Came out of no where. It was wonderful! I still had that plantar fasciitis-like pain on the bottom of my feet when standing, but the obvious nerve stuff- the aching, the burning, the odd sensations- were all so mild. After 4 days, it’s all back to its normal place of cold aches and weird sensations and just indescribable pain that’s always there. It was wonderful to have those 4 days, but I’m now left wondering “What the hell just happened?!” It’s hard to know what might have precipitated a change when we have so much going on. My only thought, if there is an outside cause, is that I did a 50 gram vitamin C IV just 2 days prior. That’s weird too though because I dont think I felt better rifht away. So if it was the C, it took 36-48 hours to make a difference. I didn’t get an IV this week as my ND was out of town. I go back on Tuesday. Hoping. Even if it wasn’t the C, having those few days of feeling better gives me hope. I know of lots of recoveries that start out as a few hours of feeling better, then a few days, and so on.
Hysterical Rene. Nice post. I especially like the Dr. skit at the end…
Don’t give up Peter. I’ve been where you are at. I’ve been battling this for years now. Some of it has gotten better… some things haven’t. Have hope. I have to make myself believe that some day it will get better in this lifetime. (I know someday it will all be better because of the promise in Revelation 21:14, the former things will pass away)
One of the things that has gotten better for me was my heart issues. I was having crazy palpitations and feeling like my heart was jumping around and fibrillating, at least that is what it felt like, acccompanied by a feeling that I could just drop to my death at any minute. I even went to the ER by ambulance one day after exercising a bit as I was feeling like I was going to die. Even when I was in the ER I felt like it could be the end for me. They found nothing wrong with me, only low potassium that the Dr. felt could have attributed to my issues.
This time last year I would just pray to God that I would make it to my wedding day which was last Sept 20th. That’s how bad it was for me.
This feeling in my chest went on for quite sometime…. months and months. Then eventually….. it just went away. I’m hoping and praying that my other symptoms do the same. I’ve had people tell me that their FQ induced brainfog just went away one day out of nowhere … after being tormented by it for quite sometime.
Be strong man. Don’t give up. Find other things to occupy your brainpower with than your condition. My belief is that time is the best healer for what we are going through. Try not to think about this stuff too much… distract yourself… otherwise you could just keep spiraling down into depression which I know from experience is a snowball effect type thing…
This is a pretty good short little article that I think every Floxie could benefit from as there is a lot of good overall advice in there (found it trying to figure out why garlic makes me tired):
http://www.trueactivist.com/4-steps-to-detox-from-fluoride-and-heavy-metals/
Note that a couple of the Supplements mentioned (geared towards Metals) are too aggressive approach for someone who is moderately or severely Floxed in my opinion, and should not be undertaken, but most of the advice and many things listed are good even for those people (like diet tips etc).
With something like detoxing you usually want to start slow as you don’t want to risk doing (more) damage, and you also need to protect yourself with good quality Anti-oxidants throughout the process (it mentions a couple). You also have to listen to your body and the herxheimer effects, really detoxing is a very serious business (especially for someone who has been poisoned, like a Floxie) and not something most people should tackle on their own unless they put many many hours into reading expert advice. I do consider it pivotal however to the health of every person, and to healing from many malices including being Floxed.
For the length which is very short like one 8 x 11 page, it really is packed with excellent excellent ideas, a very good article though I think it forgot to mention at least one very important thing, exercise. So a good short read and some very helpful advice in there that I hope many here are trying to follow to help heal, which in my opinion it will. I’ve used most of these principles myself several times over the years including recently for my own Floxing, and my quick recovery is a testament on just how effective they are.
Linda you’ll like this article I think, what an eye opener:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/07/20/food-additives-safety.aspx
No wonder the food Industry got so messed up, this clearly and specifically shows why.
Is there another Letter in your future here somewhere…. 😉
Has anyone ever experienced Visual Snow/ Static?