10/20/07
ASPIRIN and other NSAID PAINKILLERS - Not as safe as we think - They can have dangerous side effects - They cause the deaths of about 20,000 per year!
Prescription NSAIDs, Generic NSAIDs, and Over-The-Counter (OTC) NSAID drug painkillers, such as Aspirin, Advil, Motrin, and Ibuprofen, result in the deaths of about 20,000 people each year.
And an added 100,000 are hospitalized each year as a result of taking these NSAID (Non-steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) painkillers.
But NSAIDs are dangerous.
Why?
Because NSAIDs can cause a multitude of problems, including gastrointestinal problems, such as ulcers, stomach perforations, intestinal bleeding, and stomach bleeding. And all of these conditions can take your life!
Millions of Americans take NSAIDS. A very large percentage of these patients - around 60 per cent - will have gastrointestinal problems as a result of taking the NSAIDs.
Yet most of these patients will probably never realize that the NSAID drug is responsible for their gastrointestinal problems.
Why?
Because by conducting a study at a clinic that specializes in gastrointestinal problems, researchers from the Eastern Virginia Medical School discovered that those patients who come to the clinic and who also take an NSAID, such as aspirin, do not even tell the staff of the clinic that they take the NSAID. Why? Because the patients do not even realize that the NSAID is relevant to their gastrointestinal health or safety.
(From: Proceedings of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology, October 15, 2007)
NSAIDs, Non-steroidal Anti-Inflammatories, can cause a multitude of problems in addition to gastrointestinal problems. Future posts will be devoted the those other problems.
In order to alert you or help you determine if the drug that you are taking is an NSAID, see the post entitled ----- Are you taking an NSAID? - ASPIRIN and other NSAID PAINKILLERS - A comprehensive list of most Over-The-Counter (OTC), Generic, and Prescription NSAIDS.
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And an added 100,000 are hospitalized each year as a result of taking these NSAID (Non-steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) painkillers.
But NSAIDs are dangerous.
Why?
Because NSAIDs can cause a multitude of problems, including gastrointestinal problems, such as ulcers, stomach perforations, intestinal bleeding, and stomach bleeding. And all of these conditions can take your life!
Millions of Americans take NSAIDS. A very large percentage of these patients - around 60 per cent - will have gastrointestinal problems as a result of taking the NSAIDs.
Yet most of these patients will probably never realize that the NSAID drug is responsible for their gastrointestinal problems.
Why?
Because by conducting a study at a clinic that specializes in gastrointestinal problems, researchers from the Eastern Virginia Medical School discovered that those patients who come to the clinic and who also take an NSAID, such as aspirin, do not even tell the staff of the clinic that they take the NSAID. Why? Because the patients do not even realize that the NSAID is relevant to their gastrointestinal health or safety.
(From: Proceedings of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology, October 15, 2007)
NSAIDs, Non-steroidal Anti-Inflammatories, can cause a multitude of problems in addition to gastrointestinal problems. Future posts will be devoted the those other problems.
In order to alert you or help you determine if the drug that you are taking is an NSAID, see the post entitled ----- Are you taking an NSAID? - ASPIRIN and other NSAID PAINKILLERS - A comprehensive list of most Over-The-Counter (OTC), Generic, and Prescription NSAIDS.
Just CLICK HERE for that NSAID post which was published on 10/21/07.
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10/19/07
Sinus Infections - End them with Organic Apple Cider Vinegar
Organic apple cider vinegar is an often-overlooked natural remedy for colds, sinus congestion, sinusitis, sinus infections, and even allergies.
If you take organic apple cider vinegar at the first hint of a cold or sinus congestion or sinus infection, you might be able to stop the problem before it gets a good start.
Organic apple cider vinegar can be taken by mixing one-eighth to one-quarter cup of organic apple cider vinegar in a large (sixteen ounce) glass and then:
1 - Drinking that mixture all at the same time, or
2 - Taking small sips of that mixture through the day.
If your sinus infection already has a good start when you begin to use organic apple cider vinegar, you will most likely have to use the vinegar mixture for several days.
Why does organic apple cider vinegar help you?
1 - Organic apple cider vinegar makes your mucous thinner.
For example, if you have a cold or sinus congestion or sinus infection yor mucous tends to be thick and white or colored. But after you have taken organic apple cider vinegar, your mucous will tend to thin out and become clear.
And when your mucous is thinned, it enables your sinuses to drain and become disease free.
2 - Organic apple cider vinegar also functions as a natural anti-histamine and, thus, it acts to reduce or stop the body's production of histamine.
Organic apple cider vinegar's ability to function as a natural anti-histamine enables many people to successfully use it for combatting allergies.
Organic apple cider vinegar is far superior to regular or ordinary apple cider vinegar because organic apple cider vinegar contains only natural ingredients while ordinary apple cider vinegar often contains such additives as various chemicals which can adversely affect your body. Regular vingear may even contain artificial coloring.
In addition, organic apple cider vinegar is a treasure trove of vitamins and minerals that benefit our bodies, including vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, C, E, and beta-carotene.
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If you take organic apple cider vinegar at the first hint of a cold or sinus congestion or sinus infection, you might be able to stop the problem before it gets a good start.
Organic apple cider vinegar can be taken by mixing one-eighth to one-quarter cup of organic apple cider vinegar in a large (sixteen ounce) glass and then:
1 - Drinking that mixture all at the same time, or
2 - Taking small sips of that mixture through the day.
If your sinus infection already has a good start when you begin to use organic apple cider vinegar, you will most likely have to use the vinegar mixture for several days.
Why does organic apple cider vinegar help you?
1 - Organic apple cider vinegar makes your mucous thinner.
For example, if you have a cold or sinus congestion or sinus infection yor mucous tends to be thick and white or colored. But after you have taken organic apple cider vinegar, your mucous will tend to thin out and become clear.
And when your mucous is thinned, it enables your sinuses to drain and become disease free.
2 - Organic apple cider vinegar also functions as a natural anti-histamine and, thus, it acts to reduce or stop the body's production of histamine.
Organic apple cider vinegar's ability to function as a natural anti-histamine enables many people to successfully use it for combatting allergies.
Organic apple cider vinegar is far superior to regular or ordinary apple cider vinegar because organic apple cider vinegar contains only natural ingredients while ordinary apple cider vinegar often contains such additives as various chemicals which can adversely affect your body. Regular vingear may even contain artificial coloring.
In addition, organic apple cider vinegar is a treasure trove of vitamins and minerals that benefit our bodies, including vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, C, E, and beta-carotene.
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10/18/07
FLU SHOTS - Are they Effective? - Research reveals those hyped annual flu vaccinations ineffective and do not protect young, middle-aged, or elderly!
We are already being bombarded with messages to trek in to our doctors and get our annual flu shots.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), flu vaccinations reduce the risk of death or of serious complications among the elderly by 70 to 85 per cent.
But that statistic - which the medical establishments around the world have used to guide the care of the elderly since it was highlighted by WHO in 2002 - is based on only one study. And that study is flawed.
An international group of scientists known as the Cochrane Review Group examined a large range of flu shot studies and found that the flu vaccine is largely ineffective!
Here is a summary of what this highly reputable international Cochrane Review Group of scientists found when it examined a large range of flu shot studies:
1 - 95 per cent of elderly people who were vaccinated developed pneumonia that year, and nearly one per cent died.
2 - 39 per cent of healthcare workers who had a flu shot died from pneumonia.
3 - 67 per cent of adults under 65 who had flu shots developed influenza.
4 - And those children over six years old who received vaccinations fared just as poorly.
From: British Medical Journal, 2006; 333: 912-5 -and- The Lancet, 2007; 370: 1199-1200
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), flu vaccinations reduce the risk of death or of serious complications among the elderly by 70 to 85 per cent.
But that statistic - which the medical establishments around the world have used to guide the care of the elderly since it was highlighted by WHO in 2002 - is based on only one study. And that study is flawed.
An international group of scientists known as the Cochrane Review Group examined a large range of flu shot studies and found that the flu vaccine is largely ineffective!
Here is a summary of what this highly reputable international Cochrane Review Group of scientists found when it examined a large range of flu shot studies:
1 - 95 per cent of elderly people who were vaccinated developed pneumonia that year, and nearly one per cent died.
2 - 39 per cent of healthcare workers who had a flu shot died from pneumonia.
3 - 67 per cent of adults under 65 who had flu shots developed influenza.
4 - And those children over six years old who received vaccinations fared just as poorly.
From: British Medical Journal, 2006; 333: 912-5 -and- The Lancet, 2007; 370: 1199-1200
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10/17/07
The re-discovered health benefits of HONEY - It sterilizes wounds-incisions, speeds healing, and reduces inflammation, swelling, and infection
Doctors and their patients should consider the supermarket as well as the drugstore when it comes to wound healing according to a research review that recently appeared in the International Journal of Clinical Practice.
The tremendous health benefits of HONEY are being re-discovered!
When honey is applied to wounds or surgical incisions, it sterilizes the wounds/incisions and reduces inflammation, reduces swelling, reduces infection, and speeds healing. Honey even reduces the need for amputation among those who have diabetes.
And honey seems to be especially effective when wounds or incisions become infected or fail to close or heal.
Research also shows that honey is especially effective for healing the wounds that are left by laparoscopic or keyhole surgery.
Studies have suggested that honey should be applied at regular intervals, from hourly to twice daily and that wounds can become sterile in three to 10 days.
Of course, patients should always check with their doctor before applying any substance to a wound, such as a sugical incision.
Honey is one of the oldest foods in existence and was an ancient remedy for wound healing. It was found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun -and- it was still edible because honey never spoils.
An analysis of the wound/incision healing properties of honey in the early 20th century, however, the 1940 discovery of antibiotics ended the use of honey for such purposes.
But now honey is enjoying a resurgence because of the ever-increasing resistance to antibiotics and because of the ever-growing interest in natural remedies.
Honey has many characteristics that make it very effective in preventing the growth of infection-causing bacteria because it (1) contains gluconic acid, which creates an acidic environment, and (2) hydrogen peroxide, and because it (3) has a low moisture content and (4) a high sugar content. - From: International Journal of Clinical Practice. 61.10, pp 1705-1707. (October 2007)
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10/16/07
DIVERTICULITIS - How to diagnose or recognize if you have it -and- Do NOT ignore diverticulitis - Because it can end your life!
Do not ignore diverticulitis! Even in its mildest form, diverticulitis is a severe intestinal infection that should never be taken lightly. If it is not properly taken care of, diverticulitis - a diverticular infection - can end your life.
How can diverticulitis take your life?
If ignored or even if not properly taken care of, diverticulitis can cause an intestinal blockage which will require you to have almost immediate surgery in order to survive. And surviving intestinal surgery is not as easy as many believe. Diverticulitis can also create an abscess in the abdomen which filled with fecal matter. The abscess can burst and drain into the abdominal cavity leading to peritonitis - which is often fatal.
Will you always know if you have diverticulitis? No, you will not! A large percentage of people who have a diverticulitis attack are not even aware of it. Why? Because many people who have diverticulitis have no symptoms at all - even when they hare having a severe diverticulitis attack.
For example, when I had my first major attack of diverticulitis, I had no symptoms at all until I fainted - which is almost an unheard of reaction to diverticulitis.
As a result of my fainting, I was taken to the hospital, and in trying to determine why I fainted, the emergency room doctors discovered that I had a diverticular ABSCESS in my abdomen. My fecal-filled abscess was the size of a GRAPEFRUIT! If the abscess had gone undetected and untreated for a few more days - or even hours - it could have burst at home, and I may not have survived.
You may not have any symptoms at all when you have a diverticulitis attack.
And If you do have any symptoms, your symptoms may be one or more of the following:
1 - Pain in the lower left side of your abdomen. The pain may be very, very mild - almost unnoticeable. Or the pain may be more severe ranging from very mild to very severe. The pain may come on very, very gradually or it may develop suddenly. Sometimes the pain starts out mild and becomes worse over several days or weeks. And sometimes the severity of the pain varies or fluctuates.
2 - Tenderness in the abdomen
3 - Tenderness in the abdomen when straining
4 - Tenderness in the abdomen when bending over
5 - Tenderness in the abdomen when wearing a belt
6 - Bloating of the abdomen
7 - Constipation or diarrhea
8 - Diameter of stools is small or becomes smaller and smaller -and- the stools can become so thin that there is a resemblnace to pencil thin strings
9 - Fever
10 - Bleeding from the rectum
11 - Nausea
12 - Vomiting
13 - Frequent urination
14 - Difficulty or pain while urinating
15 - And remember, you may not have any truly noticeable symptoms when you are having an attack of diverticulitis. You may just have a vague feeling of "I don't feel right". There may be just a vague feeling of "tiredness" or a feeling of "too warm" or a feeling of "too cold". There may be sweating - as if you have a very low-grade fever. And to make it even more difficult for you and your doctor to pin down what is going on, those feelings can come and go - even in a severe attack of diverticulitis.
Ignoring diverticulitis can be deadly!
If you feel that you may be having an attack of diverticulitis, do NOT ignore it by just hoping that it goes away. PROMPTLY get to your health professional and find out if you do have it. And if you do have it, immediately start to treat it properly.
1 - See this prior post which discusses how repeated diverticulitis attacks can go undetected for many years -and- how you pay a price for those undetected attacks.
As those attacks are going undetected, they can be causing huge health problems in other parts of your body at the present time.
In addition, those repeated undetected diverticulitis attacks can also set you up for future problems. Why? Because the repeated attacks are most likely damaging your colon which increases the likelihood that you will need intestinal surgery at some point in the future.
2 - Future posts will deal with the difference between DIVERTICULOSIS and DIVERTICULITIS, how doctors diagnose diverticulitis, how diverticulitis is - and should be - treated, etc.
3 - All posts that deal with DIVERTICULOSIS or DIVERTICULITIS can be found by clicking either the LABEL DIVERTICULITIS or DIVERTICULOSIS or INFECTION or INTESTINAL INFECTION (immediately below this post).
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How can diverticulitis take your life?
If ignored or even if not properly taken care of, diverticulitis can cause an intestinal blockage which will require you to have almost immediate surgery in order to survive. And surviving intestinal surgery is not as easy as many believe. Diverticulitis can also create an abscess in the abdomen which filled with fecal matter. The abscess can burst and drain into the abdominal cavity leading to peritonitis - which is often fatal.
Will you always know if you have diverticulitis? No, you will not! A large percentage of people who have a diverticulitis attack are not even aware of it. Why? Because many people who have diverticulitis have no symptoms at all - even when they hare having a severe diverticulitis attack.
For example, when I had my first major attack of diverticulitis, I had no symptoms at all until I fainted - which is almost an unheard of reaction to diverticulitis.
As a result of my fainting, I was taken to the hospital, and in trying to determine why I fainted, the emergency room doctors discovered that I had a diverticular ABSCESS in my abdomen. My fecal-filled abscess was the size of a GRAPEFRUIT! If the abscess had gone undetected and untreated for a few more days - or even hours - it could have burst at home, and I may not have survived.
You may not have any symptoms at all when you have a diverticulitis attack.
And If you do have any symptoms, your symptoms may be one or more of the following:
1 - Pain in the lower left side of your abdomen. The pain may be very, very mild - almost unnoticeable. Or the pain may be more severe ranging from very mild to very severe. The pain may come on very, very gradually or it may develop suddenly. Sometimes the pain starts out mild and becomes worse over several days or weeks. And sometimes the severity of the pain varies or fluctuates.
2 - Tenderness in the abdomen
3 - Tenderness in the abdomen when straining
4 - Tenderness in the abdomen when bending over
5 - Tenderness in the abdomen when wearing a belt
6 - Bloating of the abdomen
7 - Constipation or diarrhea
8 - Diameter of stools is small or becomes smaller and smaller -and- the stools can become so thin that there is a resemblnace to pencil thin strings
9 - Fever
10 - Bleeding from the rectum
11 - Nausea
12 - Vomiting
13 - Frequent urination
14 - Difficulty or pain while urinating
15 - And remember, you may not have any truly noticeable symptoms when you are having an attack of diverticulitis. You may just have a vague feeling of "I don't feel right". There may be just a vague feeling of "tiredness" or a feeling of "too warm" or a feeling of "too cold". There may be sweating - as if you have a very low-grade fever. And to make it even more difficult for you and your doctor to pin down what is going on, those feelings can come and go - even in a severe attack of diverticulitis.
Ignoring diverticulitis can be deadly!
If you feel that you may be having an attack of diverticulitis, do NOT ignore it by just hoping that it goes away. PROMPTLY get to your health professional and find out if you do have it. And if you do have it, immediately start to treat it properly.
1 - See this prior post which discusses how repeated diverticulitis attacks can go undetected for many years -and- how you pay a price for those undetected attacks.
As those attacks are going undetected, they can be causing huge health problems in other parts of your body at the present time.
In addition, those repeated undetected diverticulitis attacks can also set you up for future problems. Why? Because the repeated attacks are most likely damaging your colon which increases the likelihood that you will need intestinal surgery at some point in the future.
2 - Future posts will deal with the difference between DIVERTICULOSIS and DIVERTICULITIS, how doctors diagnose diverticulitis, how diverticulitis is - and should be - treated, etc.
3 - All posts that deal with DIVERTICULOSIS or DIVERTICULITIS can be found by clicking either the LABEL DIVERTICULITIS or DIVERTICULOSIS or INFECTION or INTESTINAL INFECTION (immediately below this post).
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10/15/07
CHOLESTEROL LOWERING STATINS - Doctors are prescribing STATINS for too many patients - Taking a STATIN seldom helps a patient
STATINS, the cholesterol-lowering prescription drugs, have become our leading "just take them in case you need them" drugs.
Doctors are prescribing statins for anyone who may be developing heart disease. According to the medical profession, that is almost every person over 50.
Some evidence indicates that those with a diagnosed heart condition benefit from a statin. But only eight percent of the patients who take statins actually have a diagnosed heart condition.
The other 92 percent who take statins are merely considered to be at risk for developing a heart condition - a completely subjective judgment that is not supported by evidence.
According to a Harvard study, statins provide very little benefit:
1- Statins do NOT reduce the number of heart-related deaths among those who take statins.
2 - Statins do NOT even reduce heart-related deaths among those statin-taking patients who have a diagnosed heart condition!
3 - For men, 67 men would need to take statins for five years in order to prevent ONE heart attack.
4 - Statins have no benefit whatsoever among the nearly 11,000 women who took it.
As a result, the study confirmed the mounting evidence that suggests that doctors are prescribing STATINS for too many patients. After all, since STATINS do not help most patients who are receiving them, why continue to prescribe statins for so many patients.
At most, statins should be prescribed only for those patients who already have a diagnosed heart condition. - From: The Lancet, 2007; 369: 268-9
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Doctors are prescribing statins for anyone who may be developing heart disease. According to the medical profession, that is almost every person over 50.
Some evidence indicates that those with a diagnosed heart condition benefit from a statin. But only eight percent of the patients who take statins actually have a diagnosed heart condition.
The other 92 percent who take statins are merely considered to be at risk for developing a heart condition - a completely subjective judgment that is not supported by evidence.
According to a Harvard study, statins provide very little benefit:
1- Statins do NOT reduce the number of heart-related deaths among those who take statins.
2 - Statins do NOT even reduce heart-related deaths among those statin-taking patients who have a diagnosed heart condition!
3 - For men, 67 men would need to take statins for five years in order to prevent ONE heart attack.
4 - Statins have no benefit whatsoever among the nearly 11,000 women who took it.
As a result, the study confirmed the mounting evidence that suggests that doctors are prescribing STATINS for too many patients. After all, since STATINS do not help most patients who are receiving them, why continue to prescribe statins for so many patients.
At most, statins should be prescribed only for those patients who already have a diagnosed heart condition. - From: The Lancet, 2007; 369: 268-9
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10/14/07
INACCURATE patient electronic medical records: Erroneous records created when doctors record INTERPRETATIONS-ASSUMPTIONS-OBSERVATIONS but NOT FACTS
A reader of this blog sent this message after she had read the 10/3/2007 post about Electronic Medical Records - The Modern Medical Disaster
Alex,
The way in which medical professionals make a record of what a patient tells them leads to enormous errors.
I was talking to a friend about the situation and we had a half an hour conversation trying to figure out when doctors stopped believing their patients. At some point, it became more than a mere language barrier - with patients not knowing the right medical terminology for symptoms. Instead, patients became stupid in the eyes of doctors - and doctors STOPPED BELIEVING their patients and, hence, STOPPED PAYING much ATTENTION to what their patients say. I think this came about with the era of specialization. Prior to that, doctors did not know that much more than patients.
The other problem we talked about (she works in a cancer treatment center so she can attest to this) is that nurses and doctors have a habit of not writing down exactly what the patient says. Instead, they INTERPRET what the patient says and then write down their INTERPRETATION - which usually means they pass along slightly incorrect information, or in some instances, completely wrong information.
Nurses and doctors are also programmed to always hear certain CUE WORDS and associate those CUE WORDS with sickness. If those CUE WORDS like "pain" are missing, they are at an absolute loss.
Third, when nurses and doctors are with a patient they often MAKE flawed ASSUMPTIONS based upon their OBSERVATIONS. And they do not even bother to ask questions of their patients to find out if their OBSERVATIONS support their ASSUMPTIONS.
To give you a glaring first hand example, I was at my doctor's office and when I was very cautious/slow at getting up on to the examination table. I later found out that my doctor had written down that I was cautious/slow because I was in pain. That is just plain false. I have no pain. Instead, I have always gotten up on to an examination table slowly ever since the time I fell down as I was getting on to an examination table when I was a child.
So why didn't my doctor bother to ask me why I was cautious/slow? Because my doctor had just ASSUMED that I was in pain because he OBSERVED me being so cautious/slow. He ASSUMED that his OBSERVATION was correct when it was completely false.
How about asking me - the patient? My doctor could have asked just one simple question to find out the real reason why I was being so cautious/slow?
Instead, my doctor created a false/erroneous electronic medical record - a record that will be almost impossible to correct because by the time I found out about it, too many other doctors had read it, believed it, and relied upon it.
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Alex,
The way in which medical professionals make a record of what a patient tells them leads to enormous errors.
I was talking to a friend about the situation and we had a half an hour conversation trying to figure out when doctors stopped believing their patients. At some point, it became more than a mere language barrier - with patients not knowing the right medical terminology for symptoms. Instead, patients became stupid in the eyes of doctors - and doctors STOPPED BELIEVING their patients and, hence, STOPPED PAYING much ATTENTION to what their patients say. I think this came about with the era of specialization. Prior to that, doctors did not know that much more than patients.
The other problem we talked about (she works in a cancer treatment center so she can attest to this) is that nurses and doctors have a habit of not writing down exactly what the patient says. Instead, they INTERPRET what the patient says and then write down their INTERPRETATION - which usually means they pass along slightly incorrect information, or in some instances, completely wrong information.
Nurses and doctors are also programmed to always hear certain CUE WORDS and associate those CUE WORDS with sickness. If those CUE WORDS like "pain" are missing, they are at an absolute loss.
Third, when nurses and doctors are with a patient they often MAKE flawed ASSUMPTIONS based upon their OBSERVATIONS. And they do not even bother to ask questions of their patients to find out if their OBSERVATIONS support their ASSUMPTIONS.
To give you a glaring first hand example, I was at my doctor's office and when I was very cautious/slow at getting up on to the examination table. I later found out that my doctor had written down that I was cautious/slow because I was in pain. That is just plain false. I have no pain. Instead, I have always gotten up on to an examination table slowly ever since the time I fell down as I was getting on to an examination table when I was a child.
So why didn't my doctor bother to ask me why I was cautious/slow? Because my doctor had just ASSUMED that I was in pain because he OBSERVED me being so cautious/slow. He ASSUMED that his OBSERVATION was correct when it was completely false.
How about asking me - the patient? My doctor could have asked just one simple question to find out the real reason why I was being so cautious/slow?
Instead, my doctor created a false/erroneous electronic medical record - a record that will be almost impossible to correct because by the time I found out about it, too many other doctors had read it, believed it, and relied upon it.
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10/12/07
Do you have low back pain - Taking Vitamin D may reduce or eliminate your back pain
Does this describe you and your back pain:
1 - The pain in my back is getting too severe to simply "just live with it".
2 - I am tired of going to my go to my regular doctor for my back pain because his only solution is "just another prescription". And the prescription drugs that he prescribes are either ineffective or have severe side effects.
There may be one or more many alternative treatments that may work for any particular person's back pain. You will never know if a treatment might work for you until you give it a try.
If you have back pain, be willing to try a variety of safe. low cost, natural treatments in order to see if any of them might alleviate your pain.
One possibility is a vitamin D deficiency.
The Mayo Clinic conducted a study of people who had chronic, non-specific low back pain. The participants in the study had an age range of from 10 years to 65 years old.
In that study, it was discovered that 93 percent of the participants had a vitamin D deficiency and their back pain improved to varying degrees with the use of vitamin D.
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10/11/07
HYPERTENSION - To find out if you really have HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, measure it at night
When you to the doctor's office and have your blood pressure checked - they discover that it is dangerously high. Does that mean that you are an immediate candidate for a high blood pressure / antihypertensive drug or, worse, a heart attack?
First, it is well known that most people's blood pressure rises when they are in the doctor's office.
Second, if your doctor is truly interested in proper health care, he should order an electronic monitor to measure your blood pressure around-the-clock for a 24 hour period. It is especially important to monitor your blood pressure during the night when blood pressure tends to drop dramatically.
The 24-hour blood pressure check is now considered to be best practice, even though far too few doctors follow it.
As researchers have reported in a new study, the blood pressure that is found in the doctor's office is only part of the picture. In fact, your blood pressure in your doctor's may be the least reliable measurement of your true blood pressure - whereas the amount that your blood pressure decreases during the night is usually the most significant.
In conducting their study, researchers carried out 24-hour monitoring on over 7,000 people. They learned that night-time blood pressure levels were a far more accurate predictor of a heart attack. - From: The Lancet, 2007; 370: 1219-29 - As reported on WDDTY
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First, it is well known that most people's blood pressure rises when they are in the doctor's office.
Second, if your doctor is truly interested in proper health care, he should order an electronic monitor to measure your blood pressure around-the-clock for a 24 hour period. It is especially important to monitor your blood pressure during the night when blood pressure tends to drop dramatically.
The 24-hour blood pressure check is now considered to be best practice, even though far too few doctors follow it.
As researchers have reported in a new study, the blood pressure that is found in the doctor's office is only part of the picture. In fact, your blood pressure in your doctor's may be the least reliable measurement of your true blood pressure - whereas the amount that your blood pressure decreases during the night is usually the most significant.
In conducting their study, researchers carried out 24-hour monitoring on over 7,000 people. They learned that night-time blood pressure levels were a far more accurate predictor of a heart attack. - From: The Lancet, 2007; 370: 1219-29 - As reported on WDDTY
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10/10/07
End your MIGRAINES with FEVERFEW - A natural herbal remedy for Ending - Treating - Preventing MIGRAINES
Alex, I read about this feverfew migraine remedy in a European book. As soon as I read about it, I tried the feverfew. It has worked for my migraines for more than 18 months! So, I'm sending this find on to you.
Feverfew is a natural herbal remedy that is used around the world to stop migraines.
It is not known why feverfew alleviates migraines, but several studies have demonstrated that it is an excellent treatment for migraines.
Yes, feverfew can be taken to end an acute migraine that you already have.
But, most people find that feverfew treats migraines more effectively if it is taken every day as a migraine preventative. If you decide to try feverfew as a migraine preventative, be sure to take it for at least 90 days because feverfew may not become effective for your migraines until you have used it for three months or more.
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Feverfew is a natural herbal remedy that is used around the world to stop migraines.
It is not known why feverfew alleviates migraines, but several studies have demonstrated that it is an excellent treatment for migraines.
Yes, feverfew can be taken to end an acute migraine that you already have.
But, most people find that feverfew treats migraines more effectively if it is taken every day as a migraine preventative. If you decide to try feverfew as a migraine preventative, be sure to take it for at least 90 days because feverfew may not become effective for your migraines until you have used it for three months or more.
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10/9/07
How to prevent and treat Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
There is apparently no definite cure for urinary tract infections or UTI.
Of course, most patients try antibiotics. But as many who have experienced urinary tract infections have found, antibiotics frequently do not address the underlying inflammatory problem. As a result, the infections keep coming back, which leads to repetitive use of antibiotics. But repeated use of antibiotics can make a patient's infections even worse and more frequent over the long term because repeated use of antibiotics alters the normal flora of the body.
More and more patients are turning to treatments for UTI that are suggested by alternative medicine or complementary medicine, If they do not the first time they have a UTI, then they do after antibiotics fail to stop repeated UTI infections.
There appear to be excellent methods of natural treatment - which can turn out to be a cure. Precisely which treatment would work for any particular person seems to depend upon the underlying cause (which is often not known).
So a good approach may be to try the simplest and least expensive treatment first. If that first treatment does not help, then move on to another form of treatment.
Whichever method you choose, however, you must give that method time to work before throwing up your hands and saying: "Well this does not work".
The methods of natural treatment for UTI that seem to be the most effective and most often recommended are:
1 - Cranberry juice (unsweetened) - which consists of only pure cranberry juice mixed with water and which is often found only at health food stores or health food grocery stores.
2 - Cranberry tablets/capsules/pills.
3 - D-Mannose - the substance in cranberry juice that "treats" urinary tract infections.
4 - Olive Leaf Extract.
5 - Grapefruit Seed Extract.
6 - Oil of Oregano.
7 - Alka-Seltzer - (NOT Alka-Seltzer PLUS).
Also, some in the natural health field have found that if a patient has started to have urinary tract infections then the patient can take high or mega doses of vitamin C every day to help prevent future infections. The vitamin C keeps urine somewhat acidic so that the bacteria can not thrive and cause another UTI.
Anyone considering using any of these forms of natural treatment is urged to do further research and consult with their health practitioner.
When doing further research, a patient would find it very helpful and educational to go to a search engine, such as Google. For example, do separate searches for each of the methods of treatment discussed in the paragraphs above by entering the following in the Google search box.
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"urinary tract infection" AND "cranberry juice"
"urinary tract infection" AND "cranberry tablets"
"urinary tract infection" AND "cranberry capsules"
"urinary tract infection" AND "d-mannose"
"urinary tract infection" AND "olive leaf extract"
"urinary tract infection" AND "grapefruit seed extract"
"urinary tract infection" AND "oil of oregano"
"urinary tract infection" AND "alka-seltzer"
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Of course, most patients try antibiotics. But as many who have experienced urinary tract infections have found, antibiotics frequently do not address the underlying inflammatory problem. As a result, the infections keep coming back, which leads to repetitive use of antibiotics. But repeated use of antibiotics can make a patient's infections even worse and more frequent over the long term because repeated use of antibiotics alters the normal flora of the body.
More and more patients are turning to treatments for UTI that are suggested by alternative medicine or complementary medicine, If they do not the first time they have a UTI, then they do after antibiotics fail to stop repeated UTI infections.
There appear to be excellent methods of natural treatment - which can turn out to be a cure. Precisely which treatment would work for any particular person seems to depend upon the underlying cause (which is often not known).
So a good approach may be to try the simplest and least expensive treatment first. If that first treatment does not help, then move on to another form of treatment.
Whichever method you choose, however, you must give that method time to work before throwing up your hands and saying: "Well this does not work".
The methods of natural treatment for UTI that seem to be the most effective and most often recommended are:
1 - Cranberry juice (unsweetened) - which consists of only pure cranberry juice mixed with water and which is often found only at health food stores or health food grocery stores.
2 - Cranberry tablets/capsules/pills.
3 - D-Mannose - the substance in cranberry juice that "treats" urinary tract infections.
4 - Olive Leaf Extract.
5 - Grapefruit Seed Extract.
6 - Oil of Oregano.
7 - Alka-Seltzer - (NOT Alka-Seltzer PLUS).
Also, some in the natural health field have found that if a patient has started to have urinary tract infections then the patient can take high or mega doses of vitamin C every day to help prevent future infections. The vitamin C keeps urine somewhat acidic so that the bacteria can not thrive and cause another UTI.
Anyone considering using any of these forms of natural treatment is urged to do further research and consult with their health practitioner.
When doing further research, a patient would find it very helpful and educational to go to a search engine, such as Google. For example, do separate searches for each of the methods of treatment discussed in the paragraphs above by entering the following in the Google search box.
(Please be certain to use the "quotation" marks as shown below when doing the separate Google searches.)
"urinary tract infection" AND "cranberry juice"
"urinary tract infection" AND "cranberry tablets"
"urinary tract infection" AND "cranberry capsules"
"urinary tract infection" AND "d-mannose"
"urinary tract infection" AND "olive leaf extract"
"urinary tract infection" AND "grapefruit seed extract"
"urinary tract infection" AND "oil of oregano"
"urinary tract infection" AND "alka-seltzer"
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10/8/07
Prostate Cancer - Widely recognized treatment may actually spread the cancer
Treating prostate cancer with androgen deprivation is a very widely used and widely recognized treatment for prostate cancer.
In androgen deprivation therapy, the body's testosterone levels are reduced in order to slow the rate of growth of the prostate cancer.
Androgen deprivation therapy is typically given only when prostate cancer has become aggressive and is likely to spread.
However, treating prostate cancer by using androgen deprivation may cause cancer to develop in other parts of the body. Why? Because when treated with androgen deprivation therapy, the prostate cancer cells produce a protein that enables the development of cancer throughout the body. - From: Cancer Research, 2007; 67: 9199-9206
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In androgen deprivation therapy, the body's testosterone levels are reduced in order to slow the rate of growth of the prostate cancer.
Androgen deprivation therapy is typically given only when prostate cancer has become aggressive and is likely to spread.
However, treating prostate cancer by using androgen deprivation may cause cancer to develop in other parts of the body. Why? Because when treated with androgen deprivation therapy, the prostate cancer cells produce a protein that enables the development of cancer throughout the body. - From: Cancer Research, 2007; 67: 9199-9206
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10/7/07
Sinus - Ear - Upper respiratory infection - Bronchitis - Strep throat - They may originate as diverticulitis or other intestinal infections
I heard that your daughter is having repeated sinus / ear / upper respiratory infections / bronchitis, and strep throats. That reminds me of what happened to me in the 1970's.
From 1975 thru 1979, I had endless sinus /ear /upper respiratory infections, and strep throats.
Doctors would just throw antibiotics at me. They were merely treating the resulting infections and not the underlying cause. They never made any serious effort to find the underlying cause of these repetitive infections.
The antibiotics would seemingly clear up the infections for a few weeks. Then they would come back.
In 1979, I fainted while having one of these respiratory infections, and I was taken to the hospital.
A doctor that I had never met before dug and dug to find the underlying cause. He would not give up until he found the cause of my repeated infections plus, now, the fainting.
After endless tests, he found that I had very mild diverticulitis. And when you have very mild diverticulitis (which is an infection), that infection can travel to or reduce the resistance of other parts of your body and cause infections in other places in your body.
That hospital doctor started me on Metamucil and told me to start increasing my fiber intake. (Any fiber supplement, such as those similar to Metamucil, would be fine.)
By simply using Metamucil and increasing my daily fiber intake, that put an end to my sinus / ear / upper respiratory infections and strep throats.
Needless to say, that doctor, who loved to think and research and dig for the right answer, became my regular doctor until he retired.
Note: Also, there are other intestinal infections that can mimic diverticular infections. So even if your daughter does not have a recurring diverticular infection, another type of intestinal infection can cause or lead to the same sinus / ear / upper respiratory infections, and strep throat as does diverticulitis.
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From 1975 thru 1979, I had endless sinus /ear /upper respiratory infections, and strep throats.
Doctors would just throw antibiotics at me. They were merely treating the resulting infections and not the underlying cause. They never made any serious effort to find the underlying cause of these repetitive infections.
The antibiotics would seemingly clear up the infections for a few weeks. Then they would come back.
In 1979, I fainted while having one of these respiratory infections, and I was taken to the hospital.
A doctor that I had never met before dug and dug to find the underlying cause. He would not give up until he found the cause of my repeated infections plus, now, the fainting.
After endless tests, he found that I had very mild diverticulitis. And when you have very mild diverticulitis (which is an infection), that infection can travel to or reduce the resistance of other parts of your body and cause infections in other places in your body.
That hospital doctor started me on Metamucil and told me to start increasing my fiber intake. (Any fiber supplement, such as those similar to Metamucil, would be fine.)
By simply using Metamucil and increasing my daily fiber intake, that put an end to my sinus / ear / upper respiratory infections and strep throats.
Needless to say, that doctor, who loved to think and research and dig for the right answer, became my regular doctor until he retired.
Note: Also, there are other intestinal infections that can mimic diverticular infections. So even if your daughter does not have a recurring diverticular infection, another type of intestinal infection can cause or lead to the same sinus / ear / upper respiratory infections, and strep throat as does diverticulitis.
Labels: BRONCHITIS, DIVERTICULITIS, DIVERTICULOSIS, EAR INFECTION, FIBER, INFECTION, INTESTINAL INFECTION, RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS, SINUS INFECTION, SINUSITIS, STREP
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10/6/07
FDA approved prescription drugs - Are they safe - Nobody checks the Drug Trials so nobody knows
What really occurs in the medical drug trials which are used to test drugs to see if they are safe enough to be approved by the FDA? Are the drug trial results really as they seem? Is the drug that is being tested as effective - and safe - as the manufacturer claims?
The truth is that we have no way of knowing - because nobody is testing the testers.
Such testing or verification of the drug trial results should be the function of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), our prescription drugs monitoring agency. But the FDA inspected just 1 per cent of medical trials that were carried out between the years 2000 and 2005.
There is no registry or meaningful record of medical drug trials. And the FDA is so under-staffed and under-funded that it cannot do more checking.
Arthur Caplan, chairman of the department of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, stated: In many ways, rats and mice get greater protection as research subjects than do humans. - From: New York Times, October 1, 2007
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10/5/07
Patient care - Beware of what disease you get - Your doctor may not like you
If you want your doctor to think highly of you, have a heart attack, or if not that, leukemia will just about do.
And if you have fibromyalgia or a nervous problem, you run the risk of social ostracism and being shunned by your doctor.
Doctors have a chart of prestigious diseases with heart attack right there at the top, revealed by a new survey.
Doctors in Norway were asked to rank a range of 38 diseases based on the prestige they felt the illnesses were viewed by the medical profession.
Heart attack came first on the prestige list, followed by leukemia, spleen rupture, brain tumor, and testicular cancer.
But fibromyalgia, anxiety neurosis, hepatic cirrhosis, depressive neurosis, schizophrenia, and anorexia were at the bottom of the prestige rankings.
There is a serious element to the poll. It suggests that nervous and mental problems are not taken seriously by the medical establishment - something that a sufferer may already have noticed.
Besides that, nervous and mental problems are harder to detect and diagnose.
It looks like you have to have something they can put a finger on! An ego problem - by chance?
From: Social Science & Medicine, doi: 10.1016/j.socimed. 2007.07.003 - As reported on WDDTY
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And if you have fibromyalgia or a nervous problem, you run the risk of social ostracism and being shunned by your doctor.
Doctors have a chart of prestigious diseases with heart attack right there at the top, revealed by a new survey.
Doctors in Norway were asked to rank a range of 38 diseases based on the prestige they felt the illnesses were viewed by the medical profession.
Heart attack came first on the prestige list, followed by leukemia, spleen rupture, brain tumor, and testicular cancer.
But fibromyalgia, anxiety neurosis, hepatic cirrhosis, depressive neurosis, schizophrenia, and anorexia were at the bottom of the prestige rankings.
There is a serious element to the poll. It suggests that nervous and mental problems are not taken seriously by the medical establishment - something that a sufferer may already have noticed.
Besides that, nervous and mental problems are harder to detect and diagnose.
It looks like you have to have something they can put a finger on! An ego problem - by chance?
From: Social Science & Medicine, doi: 10.1016/j.socimed. 2007.07.003 - As reported on WDDTY
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10/3/07
Electronic Medical Records - The Modern Medical Disaster - Your doctor may have your medical records wrong -and- why
Welcome to the world of electronic medical records - the modern medical disaster:
My doctor said he had not known that I was pain-free until today, 10/3/2007! However, for the first time in over 40 years - on March 2, 2007 - I became pain-free and I have remained pain-free ever since!
So why didn't my doctor know better until now? Because he has spent more time reading other doctors' erroneous electronic reports rather than asking me questions and listening to me. And he probably believes that the reports of other "professional" doctors are more accurate than the mere words of a "simpleton" patient.
The details are below:
When I was with my regular MD today, I made some comments about how with the advent of electronic medical records, doctors do not spend much time talking to me or asking questions of me, the patient.
But instead, when I meet with doctors, they spend most of their time reading other doctors' electronic medical reports. The problem with that is that if any doctor - in the string of doctors - puts factual errors in his report, then every subsequent doctor believes that those erroneous facts are true.
(When I was hospitalized in March, 2007, I was under the care of hospital staff doctors rather than under the care of my own regular physician. Being cared for by hospital staff doctors seems to be the new trend that is spreading across the nation in order to promote "cost savings". How this new trend might be leading to a deterioration in "patient care" is apparently not a big concern.)
Then I asked what low back pain are the hospital staff doctors talking about in: (a) the March hospital report and (b) the two emergency room reports. I have not had low back pain in my entire lifetime. What I had was right-side paraspinal muscle pain, which went all the way from my right buttock to the right side of my neck.
And then I asked how can a patient possibly get treated for the correct problem if the "string of doctors" who the patient sees are relying on each others erroneous electronic reports and, thus, do not even know what the patient's correct problem is.
I went on to say that there are many errors in my March hospital report. I then asked him if he was aware of the fact that my 40+ years of pain had ended just prior to being hospitalized in March, 2007, and that I have been pain-free since March.
My doctor said he had not known anything about the fact that I have been pain-free since March 2, 2007, until today, 10/3/2007!
And that was my doctors' statement despite the fact that I have seen him several times since getting out of the hospital in March.
So why didn't my doctor know that I was pain-free until today? Because he has spent too much time reading and relying on other doctors' erroneous electronic reports and too little time asking me questions and listening to me - the patient!
So, welcome to the modern medical disaster: "electronic medical records"!
If you believe that your doctor has accurate records about you, just request a copy of your medical records.
1 - You may be surprised to see all of the factual errors in your medical records.
2 - You may also be surprised to see how doctors are creating major portions of their electronic medical reports by merely plagiarizing (copying and pasting) from the electronic medical reports of other doctors.
And this electronic medical record-keeping is what the American medical establishment calls PROGRESS!
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My doctor said he had not known that I was pain-free until today, 10/3/2007! However, for the first time in over 40 years - on March 2, 2007 - I became pain-free and I have remained pain-free ever since!
So why didn't my doctor know better until now? Because he has spent more time reading other doctors' erroneous electronic reports rather than asking me questions and listening to me. And he probably believes that the reports of other "professional" doctors are more accurate than the mere words of a "simpleton" patient.
The details are below:
When I was with my regular MD today, I made some comments about how with the advent of electronic medical records, doctors do not spend much time talking to me or asking questions of me, the patient.
But instead, when I meet with doctors, they spend most of their time reading other doctors' electronic medical reports. The problem with that is that if any doctor - in the string of doctors - puts factual errors in his report, then every subsequent doctor believes that those erroneous facts are true.
(When I was hospitalized in March, 2007, I was under the care of hospital staff doctors rather than under the care of my own regular physician. Being cared for by hospital staff doctors seems to be the new trend that is spreading across the nation in order to promote "cost savings". How this new trend might be leading to a deterioration in "patient care" is apparently not a big concern.)
Then I asked what low back pain are the hospital staff doctors talking about in: (a) the March hospital report and (b) the two emergency room reports. I have not had low back pain in my entire lifetime. What I had was right-side paraspinal muscle pain, which went all the way from my right buttock to the right side of my neck.
And then I asked how can a patient possibly get treated for the correct problem if the "string of doctors" who the patient sees are relying on each others erroneous electronic reports and, thus, do not even know what the patient's correct problem is.
I went on to say that there are many errors in my March hospital report. I then asked him if he was aware of the fact that my 40+ years of pain had ended just prior to being hospitalized in March, 2007, and that I have been pain-free since March.
My doctor said he had not known anything about the fact that I have been pain-free since March 2, 2007, until today, 10/3/2007!
And that was my doctors' statement despite the fact that I have seen him several times since getting out of the hospital in March.
So why didn't my doctor know that I was pain-free until today? Because he has spent too much time reading and relying on other doctors' erroneous electronic reports and too little time asking me questions and listening to me - the patient!
So, welcome to the modern medical disaster: "electronic medical records"!
If you believe that your doctor has accurate records about you, just request a copy of your medical records.
1 - You may be surprised to see all of the factual errors in your medical records.
2 - You may also be surprised to see how doctors are creating major portions of their electronic medical reports by merely plagiarizing (copying and pasting) from the electronic medical reports of other doctors.
And this electronic medical record-keeping is what the American medical establishment calls PROGRESS!
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10/2/07
Bottled Water may no longer be so healthy - Now it can be Fluoridated
The "healthy" bottled water that you drink may no longer be so "healthy".
Now, it might contain fluoride because the FDA permits "natural" bottled water to be fluoridated.
This U.S. Food and Drug Administration fluoridated bottled water decision was made against the advice of the American Dental Association (ADA).
The ADA opposes the use of fluoridated water by children under one year of age.
Why? Because fluoridated water can cause the development of fluorosis - the discoloration and pitting of tooth enamel - in a child's teeth.
In addition, fluoridated water has been linked to various health problems for people of all ages.
These health problems include allergies, arthritis, bone damage, cancer, kidney problems, and endocrine and thyroid gland problems.
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10/1/07
Back Pain - Acupuncture is the best treatment to alleviate your back pain
Acupuncture is the best way to alleviate your chronic back pain.
Acupuncture is far better than any conventional treatment.
Twice as many back pain sufferers benefited from acupuncture as those who obtained conventional treatment which consisted of physical therapy, exercise, and painkillers.
In addition, acupuncture patients enjoyed months without pain after the acupuncture treatments were completed.
The superiority of acupuncture was demonstrated in a test conducted on a group of 1,162 patients who suffered from chronic low back pain for an average of eight years.
The group received one of these three therapies:
1 - Acupuncture, which involved 10 sessions, twice a week,
2 - Sham acupuncture, in which the needles were not properly inserted, and
3 - Conventional therapy, which included drugs, physical therapy, and exercise.
After six months, 48 per cent of those in the acupuncture group reported a dramatic reduction in back pain compared with just 20 per cent who were receiving conventional treatments. Interestingly, 44 per cent of those given "sham" acupuncture also reported an improvement.
So, the researchers conclusions are: acupuncture is superior to conventional forms of treatment for blocking the pain that is generated and transmitted in low back pain. And acupuncture is superior even if the acupuncture needles are not inserted in the proper places. - From: Archives of Internal Medicine, 2007; 167: 1892-8 - As discussed at Medical News Today.
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Acupuncture is far better than any conventional treatment.
Twice as many back pain sufferers benefited from acupuncture as those who obtained conventional treatment which consisted of physical therapy, exercise, and painkillers.
In addition, acupuncture patients enjoyed months without pain after the acupuncture treatments were completed.
The superiority of acupuncture was demonstrated in a test conducted on a group of 1,162 patients who suffered from chronic low back pain for an average of eight years.
The group received one of these three therapies:
1 - Acupuncture, which involved 10 sessions, twice a week,
2 - Sham acupuncture, in which the needles were not properly inserted, and
3 - Conventional therapy, which included drugs, physical therapy, and exercise.
After six months, 48 per cent of those in the acupuncture group reported a dramatic reduction in back pain compared with just 20 per cent who were receiving conventional treatments. Interestingly, 44 per cent of those given "sham" acupuncture also reported an improvement.
So, the researchers conclusions are: acupuncture is superior to conventional forms of treatment for blocking the pain that is generated and transmitted in low back pain. And acupuncture is superior even if the acupuncture needles are not inserted in the proper places. - From: Archives of Internal Medicine, 2007; 167: 1892-8 - As discussed at Medical News Today.
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9/30/07
Shingles and Post-Herpetic Neuralgia (PHN) - Natural and traditional treatments
When you have chicken pox, the chicken pox virus remains dormant in your body after you recover. And the virus can return as shingles many years after you had your chicken pox.
Typically, traditional, mainstream MDs treat shingles with anti-viral medication and steroids. The recovery time for shingles is usually three to five weeks.
However, for some people, often the elderly, pain remains for months or years after a patient has recovered from shingles. This pain is called post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN) and it is caused by a nerve irritation which continues after recovery from shingles.
Traditional or mainstream medicine treats PHN with steroids, antidepressants, and, when necessary, nerve blocks.
But there are two safe, all-natural treatments that may work for you.
First, there is vitamin E. Typically, in order to treat a person with PHN, the vitamin E is taken orally and applied topically to the painful areas of the skin.
The typical oral dose of vitamin E for PHN is 1,200-1,600 IU/day. The vitamin E treatment may have to be continued for several months or longer in order to begin to see improvement.
Second, an FDA-approved natural treatment for PHN is an over-the-counter cream that contains capsaicin, the substance that makes hot peppers "hot".
Capsaicin cream works by inhibiting the chemicals in nerve cells that transmit pain.
Be careful to read the instructions on the container when using capsaicin cream because it can irritate the skin if overused or if used for too long of a period of time.
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Typically, traditional, mainstream MDs treat shingles with anti-viral medication and steroids. The recovery time for shingles is usually three to five weeks.
However, for some people, often the elderly, pain remains for months or years after a patient has recovered from shingles. This pain is called post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN) and it is caused by a nerve irritation which continues after recovery from shingles.
Traditional or mainstream medicine treats PHN with steroids, antidepressants, and, when necessary, nerve blocks.
But there are two safe, all-natural treatments that may work for you.
First, there is vitamin E. Typically, in order to treat a person with PHN, the vitamin E is taken orally and applied topically to the painful areas of the skin.
The typical oral dose of vitamin E for PHN is 1,200-1,600 IU/day. The vitamin E treatment may have to be continued for several months or longer in order to begin to see improvement.
Second, an FDA-approved natural treatment for PHN is an over-the-counter cream that contains capsaicin, the substance that makes hot peppers "hot".
Capsaicin cream works by inhibiting the chemicals in nerve cells that transmit pain.
Be careful to read the instructions on the container when using capsaicin cream because it can irritate the skin if overused or if used for too long of a period of time.
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9/29/07
Why some people never feel cold while others never get warm
Scientists have found a reason why some people never seem to get warm while others never seem to feel the cold:
Some nerve cell receptors deep in the body are stimulated by signals other than temperature. These receptors are so powerful and so deep in the body that they literally chill to the backbone.
These cells never come in contact with environmental signals like those near the skin but are studded with receptors that appear to get sensory input from hormones, proteins and other biochemical compounds within the body.
That could explain why it is that you and I can sit in the same space and you will feel comfortable and I may feel cold, yet the environmental stimuli are the same.
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Some nerve cell receptors deep in the body are stimulated by signals other than temperature. These receptors are so powerful and so deep in the body that they literally chill to the backbone.
These cells never come in contact with environmental signals like those near the skin but are studded with receptors that appear to get sensory input from hormones, proteins and other biochemical compounds within the body.
That could explain why it is that you and I can sit in the same space and you will feel comfortable and I may feel cold, yet the environmental stimuli are the same.
From: Journal of Neuroscience - Discussed on Medical News Today - To read more, click here.
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9/28/07
Diabetes - Treat with green tea instead of Avandia
If you suffer from moderate diabetes, drink plenty of green tea every day.
Green tea is just as effective - and far safer - than the world�s leading anti-diabetes drug Avandia, which increases the risk of heart attack by 43 per cent.
Green tea was first recognized as a successful treatment for diabetes 70 years ago. Green tea contains an antioxidant called epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), which is as effective as Avandia in those with moderate diabetes.
Recent studies among humans have found that the more green tea you drink, the better. The most powerful benefits have been among people who drink up to six cups of green tea every day. - From: European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Amsterdam, 19 September 2007 - as discussed on WDDTY.
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Green tea is just as effective - and far safer - than the world�s leading anti-diabetes drug Avandia, which increases the risk of heart attack by 43 per cent.
Green tea was first recognized as a successful treatment for diabetes 70 years ago. Green tea contains an antioxidant called epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), which is as effective as Avandia in those with moderate diabetes.
Recent studies among humans have found that the more green tea you drink, the better. The most powerful benefits have been among people who drink up to six cups of green tea every day. - From: European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Amsterdam, 19 September 2007 - as discussed on WDDTY.
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9/27/07
Do you often feel cold / chilly - Try Cayenne Pepper - The healthy spice - The spice that keeps you warm and offers innumerable other health benefits
A reader sent this eye-opening message about the health benefits of cayenne pepper.
You mentioned that you are a person like me who often feels overly-chilled (or cold-blooded). Later I told you about the miraculous cayenne pepper.
I have been feeling chilled/cool/cold for years, but last winter was really bad, so after a doctor rather sarcastically (at least I felt it was sarcastic) said I could move south, I searched for something to warm me up.
About the only solution that I found was cayenne pepper. After finding that it was supposed to be helpful for making a person feel warmer, I did more internet research and was amazed at the many health benefits of cayenne pepper.
As stated in the first link below:
1 - Cayenne pepper is usually labeled 40,000, 60,000, 90,000 or more heat units. Generally, the higher the number of heat units, the more beneficial. The lower-heat cayenne peppers are a lot less efficient, and they are the ones which are most highly contaminated. These are the ones you see labeled for 30,000 heat units. These are the ones to stay away from.
2 - People who are not used to cayenne just need to work their way up. One problem people have is that they burn their mouths with cayenne, right off the bat. For those who have never used cayenne pepper before, a good initial dosage is 1/16th of a teaspoonful in some juice. Work your way up in dosage slowly. Put a small amount in some juice, stir and drink.
Note: I believe that grocery stores sell the 30,000 heat unit variety. An online source of excellent cayenne pepper is http://www.kalyx.com/.
So far, I have bought their 40,000 heat unit cayenne pepper and their 90,000 heat unit cayenne pepper. But I have not yet tasted the 90,000 heat unit cayenne pepper that I received from them. I am still too timid to go up to their 90,000.
I have never liked spicy foods, but, much to my surprise, now I have found that I love cayenne pepper - on almost everything that I eat!
I hope that you will find that all of the following links are as fascinating as do I. To me, the range of health benefits provided by cayenne pepper is astonishing!
http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/cayenne.htm
http://www.diagnose-me.com/treat/T174133.html
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=140
http://www.cleanse.net/newsite/articles/cayenne_and_health.html
http://www.alternative-healthzine.com/html/0110_2.html
http://www.fiery-foods.com/dave/healing1.html
http://www.falconblanco.com/health/supplements/cayenne.htm
http://www.femhealth.com/Capsicum.html
http://www.create.org/elchai/hlibcay.htm
http://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_cayenne.htm
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art43844.asp
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You mentioned that you are a person like me who often feels overly-chilled (or cold-blooded). Later I told you about the miraculous cayenne pepper.
I have been feeling chilled/cool/cold for years, but last winter was really bad, so after a doctor rather sarcastically (at least I felt it was sarcastic) said I could move south, I searched for something to warm me up.
About the only solution that I found was cayenne pepper. After finding that it was supposed to be helpful for making a person feel warmer, I did more internet research and was amazed at the many health benefits of cayenne pepper.
As stated in the first link below:
1 - Cayenne pepper is usually labeled 40,000, 60,000, 90,000 or more heat units. Generally, the higher the number of heat units, the more beneficial. The lower-heat cayenne peppers are a lot less efficient, and they are the ones which are most highly contaminated. These are the ones you see labeled for 30,000 heat units. These are the ones to stay away from.
2 - People who are not used to cayenne just need to work their way up. One problem people have is that they burn their mouths with cayenne, right off the bat. For those who have never used cayenne pepper before, a good initial dosage is 1/16th of a teaspoonful in some juice. Work your way up in dosage slowly. Put a small amount in some juice, stir and drink.
Note: I believe that grocery stores sell the 30,000 heat unit variety. An online source of excellent cayenne pepper is http://www.kalyx.com/.
So far, I have bought their 40,000 heat unit cayenne pepper and their 90,000 heat unit cayenne pepper. But I have not yet tasted the 90,000 heat unit cayenne pepper that I received from them. I am still too timid to go up to their 90,000.
I have never liked spicy foods, but, much to my surprise, now I have found that I love cayenne pepper - on almost everything that I eat!
I hope that you will find that all of the following links are as fascinating as do I. To me, the range of health benefits provided by cayenne pepper is astonishing!
http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/cayenne.htm
http://www.diagnose-me.com/treat/T174133.html
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=140
http://www.cleanse.net/newsite/articles/cayenne_and_health.html
http://www.alternative-healthzine.com/html/0110_2.html
http://www.fiery-foods.com/dave/healing1.html
http://www.falconblanco.com/health/supplements/cayenne.htm
http://www.femhealth.com/Capsicum.html
http://www.create.org/elchai/hlibcay.htm
http://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_cayenne.htm
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art43844.asp
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9/26/07
The real causes of Back Pain - Perhaps not what you and most health professionals think
Back strains or injuries are initially caused by an external stress or load that is greater than the spine's structural capacity. Most injuries occur during a sudden unprotected or awkward movement.
Back pain initially can be caused by (1) injury to, or incorrect functioning of any of the components of the spine - bone, joints, ligaments, and muscle - or (2) any change in alignment of the whole vertebral column.
On the other hand, back pain after injuries have settled is more likely to be a result of the dysfunction (poor performance) of one or more of these three sub-systems or components.
1- PASSIVE - The bones, joints and ligaments:
This passive sub-system provides stability via the bones, joints and ligaments. The design of the passive system of the spine allows approximately 4 to 6 pounds of pressure to be managed. (When you consider that the average person's head weighs 8 to 10 pounds, it shows how important the second and third subsystems are in just holding yourself upright.)
2. ACTIVE - Movement of the body and the postural muscles:
This active sub-system refers to the support and stability given by postural muscles in the area, specifically designed for this task.
3 - NEURAL CONTROL - The nerve paths to the muscles:
The brain controls the muscles of the active sub-system through the neural control sub-system in response to feedback from structures surrounding the spine. This enables the provision of stability when it is needed.
The above three sub-systems work together to provide optimum stability of the spine when it is needed. Any upset to any one of the three sub-systems will lead to decreased stability, resulting in increased stress being placed on the spine.
But what we have discovered is that the third sub-system - Neural Control - is the missing link from almost all treatments currently available. Most treatments concentrate on re-aligning the vertebra, strengthening muscles, restoring function to ligaments, etc.
Very few make any attempt to ensure the nerve paths to injured muscles are functioning. And even if they were aware of this critical factor, most practitioners have absolutely no idea how to get these nerve paths functioning again.
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Back pain initially can be caused by (1) injury to, or incorrect functioning of any of the components of the spine - bone, joints, ligaments, and muscle - or (2) any change in alignment of the whole vertebral column.
On the other hand, back pain after injuries have settled is more likely to be a result of the dysfunction (poor performance) of one or more of these three sub-systems or components.
1- PASSIVE - The bones, joints and ligaments:
This passive sub-system provides stability via the bones, joints and ligaments. The design of the passive system of the spine allows approximately 4 to 6 pounds of pressure to be managed. (When you consider that the average person's head weighs 8 to 10 pounds, it shows how important the second and third subsystems are in just holding yourself upright.)
2. ACTIVE - Movement of the body and the postural muscles:
This active sub-system refers to the support and stability given by postural muscles in the area, specifically designed for this task.
3 - NEURAL CONTROL - The nerve paths to the muscles:
The brain controls the muscles of the active sub-system through the neural control sub-system in response to feedback from structures surrounding the spine. This enables the provision of stability when it is needed.
The above three sub-systems work together to provide optimum stability of the spine when it is needed. Any upset to any one of the three sub-systems will lead to decreased stability, resulting in increased stress being placed on the spine.
But what we have discovered is that the third sub-system - Neural Control - is the missing link from almost all treatments currently available. Most treatments concentrate on re-aligning the vertebra, strengthening muscles, restoring function to ligaments, etc.
Very few make any attempt to ensure the nerve paths to injured muscles are functioning. And even if they were aware of this critical factor, most practitioners have absolutely no idea how to get these nerve paths functioning again.
There is much more in this informative article by Rick Rakauskas. To read more, click - Here -or- Here
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9/25/07
Sinusitis ~ Respiratory Infections - By simply HUMMING you can prevent-treat-recover from sinus ~ respiratory infections
Yes, you can prevent sinus and respiratory infections just by humming! Well, that statement sounds really weird! Let's fnd out more about this.
Daily humming accomplishes two things for our sinuses: (1) increases air exchanged between the sinuses and the nasal passages and (2) increases blood flow in the sinuses.
During humming, the air exchanged between the nasal passages and the sinuses is 98 percent - almost a complete exchange. But during normal exhalation, without humming, the air exchange rate is only 4 percent.
In addition, sinuses are one of the body's major producers of nitric oxide. And nitric oxide helps dilate capillaries and increase blood flow in the body. Strikingly, when nitric oxide levels are measured during humming, the nitric oxide levels are 15 times higher than during normal breathing.
Poor air exchange between the sinuses and the nasal passages plus poor blood circulation in the sinus cavities create a good environment for bacteria to grow and develop into infections.
So daily humming could definitely help you prevent sinusitis and upper respiratory infections.
In addition, when we get a sinus or respiratory infection, humming could help us recover faster.
What could be easier than humming. And if humming can help us both prevent and recover from infections, what do we have to lose by trying it.
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 02;166(2):131-2
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Daily humming accomplishes two things for our sinuses: (1) increases air exchanged between the sinuses and the nasal passages and (2) increases blood flow in the sinuses.
During humming, the air exchanged between the nasal passages and the sinuses is 98 percent - almost a complete exchange. But during normal exhalation, without humming, the air exchange rate is only 4 percent.
In addition, sinuses are one of the body's major producers of nitric oxide. And nitric oxide helps dilate capillaries and increase blood flow in the body. Strikingly, when nitric oxide levels are measured during humming, the nitric oxide levels are 15 times higher than during normal breathing.
Poor air exchange between the sinuses and the nasal passages plus poor blood circulation in the sinus cavities create a good environment for bacteria to grow and develop into infections.
So daily humming could definitely help you prevent sinusitis and upper respiratory infections.
In addition, when we get a sinus or respiratory infection, humming could help us recover faster.
What could be easier than humming. And if humming can help us both prevent and recover from infections, what do we have to lose by trying it.
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 02;166(2):131-2
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9/24/07
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) - Yes, RLS is often resolved with simple natural solutions
Many of us sort of chuckle when we hear about Restless leg Syndrome because we can not believe it is a big deal.
But for those who are troubled with the powerful RLS leg jerks and jumps, RLS is extremely exasperating. RLS sufferers can go for years without good, sound, normal sleep.
Of course. drug companies are now jumping on the RLS bandwagon and developing expensive prescription drugs for RLS. But a restless leg syndrome sufferer can usually find a solution without resorting to prescription drugs.
Many have found that their RLS decreases if they eliminate caffeine from their diet. Others find that eliminating caffeine in the afternoon and evening is enough to give them relief.
Many RLS sufferers find that RLS decreases or disappears when they decrease or eliminate carbohydrates from their diet. The worst carbohydrates appear to be sugar, bread, and potatoes.
Others find that RLS can be resolved with a combination of calcium, magnesium, and vitamin D.
Finally, a reader of this blog wrote to say that she uses diet tonic water to eliminate her RLS. She read about the diet tonic water solution several years ago in a European magazine.
She tried it. The diet tonic water works for her! According to the article she read, it is the quinine in the diet tonic water that does the trick. What could be simpler than that!
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But for those who are troubled with the powerful RLS leg jerks and jumps, RLS is extremely exasperating. RLS sufferers can go for years without good, sound, normal sleep.
Of course. drug companies are now jumping on the RLS bandwagon and developing expensive prescription drugs for RLS. But a restless leg syndrome sufferer can usually find a solution without resorting to prescription drugs.
Many have found that their RLS decreases if they eliminate caffeine from their diet. Others find that eliminating caffeine in the afternoon and evening is enough to give them relief.
Many RLS sufferers find that RLS decreases or disappears when they decrease or eliminate carbohydrates from their diet. The worst carbohydrates appear to be sugar, bread, and potatoes.
Others find that RLS can be resolved with a combination of calcium, magnesium, and vitamin D.
Finally, a reader of this blog wrote to say that she uses diet tonic water to eliminate her RLS. She read about the diet tonic water solution several years ago in a European magazine.
She tried it. The diet tonic water works for her! According to the article she read, it is the quinine in the diet tonic water that does the trick. What could be simpler than that!
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9/23/07
Diagnosing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - To properly determine if you have CFS is difficult and time consuming - You and your doctor must not rush!
No doctor can use a short, simple process to determine if a patient has chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). To properly diagnose CFS according to Centers for Disease Control guidelines, a doctor must evaluate a potential CFS patient over an extended period of time - often several months.
Why?
Because:
1 - Patients who have CFS do not look ill;
2 - There is no blood test, x-ray, MRI, or other test which can determine if a patient has CFS;
3 - Symptoms vary from patient to patient in terms of number, type and severity;
4 - The principle symptom of CFS is fatigue, and fatigue is a symptom of many other conditions;
5 - CFS patients go through stages of remission and relapse.
Therefore, diagnosing CFS is very difficult and time-consuming because CFS is a diagnosis of exclusion. In other words, the determination of whether a patient has CFS can be made only after establishing that nothing else in the patient's life is causing symptoms similar to CFS.
For example, some of the illnesses with symptoms similar to chronic fatigue syndrome are mononucleosis, chronic Lyme disease, lupus, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, primary sleep disorders, severe obesity and major depressive disorders. Also, some medications can also cause side effects that mimic the symptoms of CFS.
When attempting to diagnose CFS, your doctor will first take a detailed patient history, including a review of medications that could be causing your fatigue. A thorough physical and mental status examination will also be performed. Next, a battery of laboratory screening tests will be ordered to help identify or rule out other possible causes of your symptoms. Your doctor may also order additional tests to follow up on results of the initial screening tests.
Your doctor should consider concluding that you have CFS only if these two criteria are met:
A - You have unexplained, persistent fatigue that's not due to ongoing exertion, isn't substantially relieved by rest, is of new onset (not lifelong), and results in a significant reduction in previous levels of activity.
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B - You have had four or more of the following symptoms for six months or more:
1 - Impaired memory or concentration
2 - Post-exertional malaise (extreme, prolonged exhaustion and sickness following physical or mental activity)
3 - Unrefreshing sleep
4 - Muscle pain
5 - Multi-joint pain without swelling or redness
6 - Headaches of a new type or severity
7 - Sore throat that's frequent or recurring
8 - Tender cervical or axillary lymph nodes.
Since CFS can resemble many other disorders, it is important that you not self-diagnose CFS. It is not uncommon for people to erroneously assume that they have CFS when they have another illness that needs to be treated. If you have CFS symptoms, see a doctor to determine if any other conditions are responsible for your symptoms.
Remember, you and your doctor can reach a CFS diagnosis only after all other conditions have been excluded -and- that can take months of diligent effort by both you and your doctor.
You as a patient, must protect yourself by making certain that you and your doctor do not rush to judgment. Because if there is a rush to judgment, the condition that you actually have will go untreated.
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Why?
Because:
1 - Patients who have CFS do not look ill;
2 - There is no blood test, x-ray, MRI, or other test which can determine if a patient has CFS;
3 - Symptoms vary from patient to patient in terms of number, type and severity;
4 - The principle symptom of CFS is fatigue, and fatigue is a symptom of many other conditions;
5 - CFS patients go through stages of remission and relapse.
Therefore, diagnosing CFS is very difficult and time-consuming because CFS is a diagnosis of exclusion. In other words, the determination of whether a patient has CFS can be made only after establishing that nothing else in the patient's life is causing symptoms similar to CFS.
For example, some of the illnesses with symptoms similar to chronic fatigue syndrome are mononucleosis, chronic Lyme disease, lupus, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, primary sleep disorders, severe obesity and major depressive disorders. Also, some medications can also cause side effects that mimic the symptoms of CFS.
When attempting to diagnose CFS, your doctor will first take a detailed patient history, including a review of medications that could be causing your fatigue. A thorough physical and mental status examination will also be performed. Next, a battery of laboratory screening tests will be ordered to help identify or rule out other possible causes of your symptoms. Your doctor may also order additional tests to follow up on results of the initial screening tests.
Your doctor should consider concluding that you have CFS only if these two criteria are met:
A - You have unexplained, persistent fatigue that's not due to ongoing exertion, isn't substantially relieved by rest, is of new onset (not lifelong), and results in a significant reduction in previous levels of activity.
-plus-
B - You have had four or more of the following symptoms for six months or more:
1 - Impaired memory or concentration
2 - Post-exertional malaise (extreme, prolonged exhaustion and sickness following physical or mental activity)
3 - Unrefreshing sleep
4 - Muscle pain
5 - Multi-joint pain without swelling or redness
6 - Headaches of a new type or severity
7 - Sore throat that's frequent or recurring
8 - Tender cervical or axillary lymph nodes.
Since CFS can resemble many other disorders, it is important that you not self-diagnose CFS. It is not uncommon for people to erroneously assume that they have CFS when they have another illness that needs to be treated. If you have CFS symptoms, see a doctor to determine if any other conditions are responsible for your symptoms.
Remember, you and your doctor can reach a CFS diagnosis only after all other conditions have been excluded -and- that can take months of diligent effort by both you and your doctor.
You as a patient, must protect yourself by making certain that you and your doctor do not rush to judgment. Because if there is a rush to judgment, the condition that you actually have will go untreated.
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9/22/07
Doctors are wrong to ignore patient complaints of reactions to prescription medications
Does your doctor listen when you tell him that you are reacting to a drug he has prescribed for you?
He probably does not. In fact, your doctor rarely believes that the drug is to blame for your real - or imagined - reactions.
But when your doctor ignores drug side effects, your doctor is very often wtong! And by ignoring drug side effects, your doctor may be putting your health - and your life - at great risk! - Read more at WDDTY. - From: Drug Safety, 2007; 30: 669-75
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He probably does not. In fact, your doctor rarely believes that the drug is to blame for your real - or imagined - reactions.
But when your doctor ignores drug side effects, your doctor is very often wtong! And by ignoring drug side effects, your doctor may be putting your health - and your life - at great risk! - Read more at WDDTY. - From: Drug Safety, 2007; 30: 669-75
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9/21/07
Vitamin D Supplements: They can help you live longer
Increasing your daily intake of vitamin D supplements helps you live a longer life.
People who take a vitamin D supplement live longer because vitamin D offers protection from a wide varity of diseases.
Vitamin D boosts the immune system, helps prevent heart disease, and improves circulation by improving the function of the blood vessels.
In addition, Vitamin D offers natural protection against most cancers by stopping cancer cells from proliferating.
The body naturally produces vitamin D when a person is in sunlight. But far too often, especially in the temperate climates, people do not get enough vitamin D from sunshine simply because they do not get enough sunshine.
Vitamin D can be also found in eggs, milk, oily fish such as cod and sardines, and yogurt.
But the total vitamin D that people obtain from sunshine plus foods is often insuffient.
Therefore, researchers say it is very wise to increase your intake of vitamin D by taking a vitamin D supplement.
Vitamin D supplements are available in many forms including tablets and fish oils. Generally, fish oil supplements, including cod liver oil supplements, are preferable because the oils are better absorbed by the body.
Even 600 IUs per day offers protection. - From: Archives of Internal Medicine, 2007; 167: 1709-10
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People who take a vitamin D supplement live longer because vitamin D offers protection from a wide varity of diseases.
Vitamin D boosts the immune system, helps prevent heart disease, and improves circulation by improving the function of the blood vessels.
In addition, Vitamin D offers natural protection against most cancers by stopping cancer cells from proliferating.
The body naturally produces vitamin D when a person is in sunlight. But far too often, especially in the temperate climates, people do not get enough vitamin D from sunshine simply because they do not get enough sunshine.
Vitamin D can be also found in eggs, milk, oily fish such as cod and sardines, and yogurt.
But the total vitamin D that people obtain from sunshine plus foods is often insuffient.
Therefore, researchers say it is very wise to increase your intake of vitamin D by taking a vitamin D supplement.
Vitamin D supplements are available in many forms including tablets and fish oils. Generally, fish oil supplements, including cod liver oil supplements, are preferable because the oils are better absorbed by the body.
Even 600 IUs per day offers protection. - From: Archives of Internal Medicine, 2007; 167: 1709-10
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