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[Cowgirlgrace]

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Oh, that is soo aweful! Sorry she's going through that and the family as well. I'm not big on sueing people but leaving in clamps and causing this much distress is uncalled for. Doctors really need to start doing things right! A farmer couple in our area has been having a tough year. She had back surgery that didn't go well. Went back to the doctor complaining several times of pain that should have been going away but getting worse. Doctor just thought she was a complainer. They went to another for a second opinion and found out she had a staph infection! Now she's has a pic line to her heart and her DH is administering her antibiotics at home. She has to be on it for months. It's scarey. I had to do that with DH when he contracted nocardia (sp?) pneumonia. He was on it for months also. Hope your mom is fine since she can't have antibiotics.

 

[Chickielady]

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One thing that makes me mad is Dr's write prescriptions for Lipitor and other cholesterol lowering drugs like they are handing out candy. These drugs do lower cholesterol, however they have no clinically significant affect in reducing the number of heart attacks in the people who take these drugs! There is something else going on here! It is not simply the cholesterol number that causes the hear attack.

I'll stick to my oatmeal with Cinnamon. Oatmeal reduces cholesterol and cinnamon helps control blood sugar, and I am not poisoning myself!

I agree. A 100% natural diet with no additives. Lots of herbs and whole grains, gluten free if need be. Everything whole and pure and raw as much as possible. Plenty of fresh air and exercise. I know there are people who have no choice but to be on the drugs the doctors put them on but we really need to be advocates for our own health. There are so many people on so many drugs and they don't even question it. They feel more sick on the drugs than when they started taking them.

I agree whole heartedly, but look at the rest: the Industrial revolution with all it's exposure to chemicals.
I worked as a hand silk screener making printed circuit boards Waaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day....when Gates was still in his garage.
We used horrid chemicals & electroplating and etching with all sorts of acids.
I parked my Harley inside a bay door one day (so it would not be stolen) and all the aluminum & chrome was BLACK by the time I got off work.
We used heavy epoxy resins & nomeclature inks, now know to cause "sensitization" to the immunal system that I described before in the rain barrel theory.
If I get so much as a drop of epoxy resin on me, I scald as if boiling water was poured on me.
THAT was my rain barrel overflowing.
The chemicals we use daily, in work, are far overlooked than are wat we eat.
What we eat does not sensitize the immunal system...in my findings, what sensitizes the immunal system has always been outside sources, car wrecks in fibromyalgia (still under research) and smoke from a forest fire in the case of the perfectly healthy pediatrician.
The fumes from iron work...or the fumes from car painting...these were never an issue before industrialization.
Clean air & no toxins whatsoever are what we all need to survive healthy.
Our auto immune diseases are all maifested from industries we have worked in....sailers and all the issues they went through in shipbuilding & pipe fitting. The list is endless.

 

[Chickielady]

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No. what these worms (Hook Worms) do is manufacture a drug which hypnotises the immunal system into calming down & not reacting to their presence, there by, an allergy or immunal disease sufferer suddenly has no allergic reactions.
Allergies (like "hay fever") and other problems occur when the immunal system gets really ticked off at something,,, such as bee venom, wasp venom, wheat, or what have you, but always a protein...the T cells go rampant & attack healthy tissue as well (that is why you get a sore throat with streph throat infection, it is not the streph bacteria that makes your throat sore, it is your immunal system in there attacking & in the process attacks some throat mucosa as well)
The chemicals the worms make calms the immunal factory (T cells) and they calm, and allow whatever to go on without the attack...
Viruses are a whole different movie.
The immunal system can in most cases find & kill viruses in your body.
Such is as vaccines, take the merk's vaccine for example::
It is a live albeit iradiated & weak live virus. It can only barely live for 1 hour.
So we give the shot to the chicken, and during 14 days time, the chicken's immunal system "blueprints" the virus...so the immunal system "knows" this is a virus...and has time to prepare for it...and waites for it....
And if Marek's virus come along, the chicken's immunal system wipes it out instantly.
This is how all vaccines work.
And we now know that IF the virus does not ever come, after years, the immunal system "forgets" this virus.
That is why the authorities are recommending so many of us vaccinated boomers to be revaccinated...cuz polio & the rest of the viruses we got as kids never came around & our immunal system "forgot them.
The immunal system has to get "exercised" or it "forgets"

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I'm 5' 10"....but it is still hard to get into them. DH is always stashing stuff on TOP of the fridge....so I could never get into the cupboard behind it. I do like the drawer under the fridge though.

This is off subject but reminds me when I climbed on top of the fridge to paint or something and fell off. Seriously knocked my back out of whack which brings me to my point. Pettec mentioned stretching a certain way and it released her back. Well, I was in excruciating pain for a few days then placed my hands in the small of my back and stretched backwards. It sure felt good, then I felt an immediate release and all was back to normal. Have no idea what I did but I unstuck something!

An excercise I was given was to put your hands up on a door jamb then lean forward and let your back arch and stretch. Of course this is no good for those who are too short to reach the door jamb.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I'm 5' 10"....but it is still hard to get into them. DH is always stashing stuff on TOP of the fridge....so I could never get into the cupboard behind it. I do like the drawer under the fridge though.

This is off subject but reminds me when I climbed on top of the fridge to paint or something and fell off. Seriously knocked my back out of whack which brings me to my point. Pettec mentioned stretching a certain way and it released her back. Well, I was in excruciating pain for a few days then placed my hands in the small of my back and stretched backwards. It sure felt good, then I felt an immediate release and all was back to normal. Have no idea what I did but I unstuck something!

An excercise I was given was to put your hands up on a door jamb then lean forward and let your back arch and stretch. Of course this is no good for those who are too short to reach the door jamb.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I'm 5' 10"....but it is still hard to get into them. DH is always stashing stuff on TOP of the fridge....so I could never get into the cupboard behind it. I do like the drawer under the fridge though.

This is off subject but reminds me when I climbed on top of the fridge to paint or something and fell off. Seriously knocked my back out of whack which brings me to my point. Pettec mentioned stretching a certain way and it released her back. Well, I was in excruciating pain for a few days then placed my hands in the small of my back and stretched backwards. It sure felt good, then I felt an immediate release and all was back to normal. Have no idea what I did but I unstuck something!

An excercise I was given was to put your hands up on a door jamb then lean forward and let your back arch and stretch. Of course this is no good for those who are too short to reach the door jamb.

 

[Chickielady]

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This is off subject but reminds me when I climbed on top of the fridge to paint or something and fell off. Seriously knocked my back out of whack which brings me to my point. Pettec mentioned stretching a certain way and it released her back. Well, I was in excruciating pain for a few days then placed my hands in the small of my back and stretched backwards. It sure felt good, then I felt an immediate release and all was back to normal. Have no idea what I did but I unstuck something!

An excercise I was given was to put your hands up on a door jamb then lean forward and let your back arch and stretch. Of course this is no good for those who are too short to reach the door jamb.

Ahmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm door jams do go all the way down to the floor~~~~~~~~~~~~silly boyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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This is off subject but reminds me when I climbed on top of the fridge to paint or something and fell off. Seriously knocked my back out of whack which brings me to my point. Pettec mentioned stretching a certain way and it released her back. Well, I was in excruciating pain for a few days then placed my hands in the small of my back and stretched backwards. It sure felt good, then I felt an immediate release and all was back to normal. Have no idea what I did but I unstuck something!

An excercise I was given was to put your hands up on a door jamb then lean forward and let your back arch and stretch. Of course this is no good for those who are too short to reach the door jamb.

You are repeating yourself again!

 

[Totalcolour]

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Yup. When I was 6 yo, I got chicken pox, but never recovered. Then, several specialists later, they said I had "Psoriasis". Now they know it's auto immune. Have had every treatment there is, but when it went to the bones had to go see a rheumatologist. He was the one put me on Methotrexate, and WOW, did it help.

He was a doc in California. I swear, the docs up here aren't nearly as good as this guy was. They keep wanting me to try drugs I already have tried that don't work. One doc even told me that as a doctor, he had years of training which I didn't have. So my answer was; " I have had this disease longer than you have been alive, and your few years "specializing in Dermatology" does not qualify you to treat MY disease, which I know intimately" Then I left and got a GP who is wonderful. He actually listens.

So, now to go back and see if my insurance will cover the biologics again.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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