For over a decade I have lived with fibromyalgia, so I encourage alternative pain treatments as most fibromyalgia research is based on treating symptoms with medications that have long term side effects.
It is important to take charge of your own pain and find healthy alternatives to deal with it.
Many people have cured themselves and though not all treatments are effective for each person, it is worth a try.
Most physicians focus on the approved list of medications to treat symptoms whether they are effective or not.
If they are treating symptoms, then why can't you do it too? There are more healthy alternatives like far infrared heat in addition to cold gel wraps.
Sadly, physicians who specialize in any research may have the very best intentions for finding a cure, but they have to primarily focus on medication studies for pharmaceutical companies as a necessity to pay their staffs.
This means they can only devote a small amount of research to find the source of the problem.
Medications to be approved have to be better than the placebo, but how much better? You could potentially spend most of your income on products that barely make any difference, which may result in permanent health damage.
It is important to remember that most medications must clear through the kidneys or liver primarily.
I recall meeting one lady at COSTCO who spoke highly of her pain doctor.
The only problem now she said was that her kidneys and liver are having significant problems after all those years of fighting pain with medications.
One has to consider the tradeoff.
I also met a man who had such severe pain from childhood from a genetic bone deformity that he had spent his whole childhood taking the strongest pain medications available.
One day, he just decided he would let the natural chemicals his own body produces like endorphins, be his pain treatment.
He never took another medication for pain.
In hospitals, nurses get concerned about patients in acute pain because their blood pressure rises and they could go into shock, but for those of us in chronic pain our bodies have adapted and are unlikely to die from the pain.
However, we could from medication side effects.
Medication side effects are a leading cause of death.
Listen to the things they say as quickly as possible after the ads for medications on TV and you will know why.
What company would want to cure fibromyalgia when it is more profitable to treat its symptoms? I have met numerous people who have overcome major medical diseases by improving their health habits.
If you want, you can go to rawfamily.
org and you will find a mother who had a 9 year old son with Type 1 Diabetes, a daughter who had severe asthma, a husband slated for death, and who herself was severely ill.
She changed the family diet and they all recovered their health.
Another great resource for health is a book called "Water: For Health, for Healing, for Life: You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty!" by F.
Batmanghelidj who is a physician that was locked in a prisoner of war camp who successfully treated people with only water and salt to assist him.
Maybe we won't have a cure in our lifetimes, but the more we take care of what our body needs the more success we will have living with fibromyalgia or any other disease or syndrome.
Pain is like the oil light on your car.
If you cover it up with black electrical tape the light will stop bothering you, but one day you will hear a loud knocking noise and your engine will be destroyed.
Therefore, I have a suggestion for you, which is stop covering up the pain signal and try to find out why it keeps going on.
I recommend that you use a far infrared sauna that you can lay down in.
You can find one at yestopainrelief.
com.
I prefer the dome sauna for fibromyalgia as it allows you to completely rest the muscles.
I also use the Mueller cold packs that you can wrap around parts of your body in pain.
Just keep a few packs in your freezer and you will always have one ready.
I purchased mine at Wal-Mart.
It is helpful to alternate heat and cold as needed.
Fibromyalgia is a diagnosis of elimination, but it is rare that anyone goes through the whole elimination process.
I personally recommend considering getting a sleep study to be sure you do not have restless leg syndrome or sleep apnea.
Either problem can guarantee that you will be achy all day long due to poor quality sleep.
Make sure your vitamin D levels have been checked as such a deficiency can mimic fibromyalgia pain.
Read articles and books on the leading edge of health science.
Do not depend on the normal ranges given on the test results as pure science is far ahead of standard medical practice.
Be a detective and study the methods others have used to overcome pain and try whatever you can, but never ever give up.
Do not be afraid of pain, because there are more ways to deal with it than we have ever had in the history of the world.
Lay down in an activated far infrared dome sauna and you will understand there is hope for pain relief.
By: Dana Walters, RN, MBA
It is important to take charge of your own pain and find healthy alternatives to deal with it.
Many people have cured themselves and though not all treatments are effective for each person, it is worth a try.
Most physicians focus on the approved list of medications to treat symptoms whether they are effective or not.
If they are treating symptoms, then why can't you do it too? There are more healthy alternatives like far infrared heat in addition to cold gel wraps.
Sadly, physicians who specialize in any research may have the very best intentions for finding a cure, but they have to primarily focus on medication studies for pharmaceutical companies as a necessity to pay their staffs.
This means they can only devote a small amount of research to find the source of the problem.
Medications to be approved have to be better than the placebo, but how much better? You could potentially spend most of your income on products that barely make any difference, which may result in permanent health damage.
It is important to remember that most medications must clear through the kidneys or liver primarily.
I recall meeting one lady at COSTCO who spoke highly of her pain doctor.
The only problem now she said was that her kidneys and liver are having significant problems after all those years of fighting pain with medications.
One has to consider the tradeoff.
I also met a man who had such severe pain from childhood from a genetic bone deformity that he had spent his whole childhood taking the strongest pain medications available.
One day, he just decided he would let the natural chemicals his own body produces like endorphins, be his pain treatment.
He never took another medication for pain.
In hospitals, nurses get concerned about patients in acute pain because their blood pressure rises and they could go into shock, but for those of us in chronic pain our bodies have adapted and are unlikely to die from the pain.
However, we could from medication side effects.
Medication side effects are a leading cause of death.
Listen to the things they say as quickly as possible after the ads for medications on TV and you will know why.
What company would want to cure fibromyalgia when it is more profitable to treat its symptoms? I have met numerous people who have overcome major medical diseases by improving their health habits.
If you want, you can go to rawfamily.
org and you will find a mother who had a 9 year old son with Type 1 Diabetes, a daughter who had severe asthma, a husband slated for death, and who herself was severely ill.
She changed the family diet and they all recovered their health.
Another great resource for health is a book called "Water: For Health, for Healing, for Life: You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty!" by F.
Batmanghelidj who is a physician that was locked in a prisoner of war camp who successfully treated people with only water and salt to assist him.
Maybe we won't have a cure in our lifetimes, but the more we take care of what our body needs the more success we will have living with fibromyalgia or any other disease or syndrome.
Pain is like the oil light on your car.
If you cover it up with black electrical tape the light will stop bothering you, but one day you will hear a loud knocking noise and your engine will be destroyed.
Therefore, I have a suggestion for you, which is stop covering up the pain signal and try to find out why it keeps going on.
I recommend that you use a far infrared sauna that you can lay down in.
You can find one at yestopainrelief.
com.
I prefer the dome sauna for fibromyalgia as it allows you to completely rest the muscles.
I also use the Mueller cold packs that you can wrap around parts of your body in pain.
Just keep a few packs in your freezer and you will always have one ready.
I purchased mine at Wal-Mart.
It is helpful to alternate heat and cold as needed.
Fibromyalgia is a diagnosis of elimination, but it is rare that anyone goes through the whole elimination process.
I personally recommend considering getting a sleep study to be sure you do not have restless leg syndrome or sleep apnea.
Either problem can guarantee that you will be achy all day long due to poor quality sleep.
Make sure your vitamin D levels have been checked as such a deficiency can mimic fibromyalgia pain.
Read articles and books on the leading edge of health science.
Do not depend on the normal ranges given on the test results as pure science is far ahead of standard medical practice.
Be a detective and study the methods others have used to overcome pain and try whatever you can, but never ever give up.
Do not be afraid of pain, because there are more ways to deal with it than we have ever had in the history of the world.
Lay down in an activated far infrared dome sauna and you will understand there is hope for pain relief.
By: Dana Walters, RN, MBA