Friday, August 28, 2015

Exhaustion...Severe Foot Pain...Lyme Disease?



Interesting story…imagine one day, you wake up in the morning…and by the way…yesterday was just a normal day…but TODAY… you can’t STAND UP.  Your FOOT HURTS so badly that you can’t stand.  So you crawl to get your clothes…crawl to the car…and into the ER.  The doctor’s assessment indicates a lack of Prednisone in the foot, so they shoot it up and send you on your way.  

Huh…they do this with football players…because there is nothing more important than scoring touchdowns, so they SHUT OFF the inflammatory response of an injury…so you CAN’T feel the PAIN…and you go back in for more touchdowns.

This person wasn’t scoring touchdowns, but they sent him back in the game of life…unable to protect his injury.  As you can imagine, pretending it isn’t there, doesn’t tend to HEAL! 

So next, he scheduled with the SPECIALIST.  The specialist diagnosed “reactive arthritis”…defined as joint pain caused by INFECTION (that’s from medical texts folks!).  The prescription…methotrexate.  This drug blocks DNA synthesis, cellular repair and healing…it is used with autoimmune diseases and cancer to SUPPRESS the immune system. 

Huh!?…that seems contraindicated to resolving an INFECTION, and healing a freaking injury!  And Meloxicam…another “pretend it’s not there” pain hiding drug!  

He lived on these toxic drugs for a year…pretending…and then his doctors said, “you know…these drugs are toxic and unhealthy…now that the pain is gone…you should wean off them.”  And so he did…and… can you believe it…the pain came back!  

“Ok…I mean it this time…we are going to John Hopkins Medical Center…the cream of the crop.”  He was serious…drove to Maryland to see a prestigious Doctor.  His creamy doctor suggested methotrexate!  (Yeah, that’s the same crappy health blocking drug he was already on!)  Only this time the damage was so severe, it didn’t take the pain away!  

He tried Sisters of Mercy…they ran some additional tests…and said…maybe it’s Lyme Disease.  Huh??…not so crazy…I have seen cases of regional pain syndromes that turned out to be Lyme related.  Maybe…we’ll keep it in mind….

So, by the time he sees me…clearly indicating desperation to see the voodoo guy…he is exhausted... he is having headaches and visual disturbances…and his shoulders are aching.  But voodoo doc has learned from the past…we tested Lyme and co-infections in multiple ways, and found a hyper-tonic response (muscle tightening…a stress reaction).  We found a remedy to resolve that tension…from my Lyme and co-infection resources.  

And we ran our typical full system labs.

The labs revealed inflammation and adrenal exhaustion…which may have simply been a result of this 2 year journey.  I tested for many natural anti-inflammatory plants…and after at least a dozen fails…we located Manjistha.  

Manjistha is an Eastern plant…found in India, China, and some areas of Africa.  Its traditional use is for spider and snake bites…because it flushes the lymphatic system.  It is also known as an immune STIMULANT (am I an idiot, or does it make sense to support and stimulate the immune system if there is an infection!!??)…and its history includes treating all inflammatory joint problems, because of its anti-inflammatory properties.  

Hopefully, you are getting that we do all this testing for one reason…RESULTS.  

Well, after 2 years of pain, which he rated as 10 out of 10 when he came in…unable to control with DRUGS…and was wearing a cast for his ankle…including through several of my visits…he comes in after 6 weeks on this protocol…with NO CAST!!  He relates that his ankle is maybe slightly sore…he has NO SHOULDER PAIN…and his energy is 7-8 out of 10!  

I guess this could just be coincidence…maybe he was just ready to heal.  Maybe he made the right dietary changes (I did note he was a diet soda drinker and asked him to stop)…Maybe.  

I guess I have had so many of these “coincidences” that I start to reason the nourishing the body does lead to healing.  Even if Johns Hopkins Medical says I am a Quack…Oh, well…I bet you can learn a lot from DUCKS! 

1 comment:

  1. Foot pains is very rare for those people whom walk and run and due to this they feel stress on their body and does not work properly . The massage from Physiotherapy North Ryde called physiotherapy is best in this pain and you must also have tests of your body like uric acid to find whether there is an increase in uric acid.

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