tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83117742753304067212024-03-13T21:00:41.094-07:00Fibro and IUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger256125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-50951499229453662362012-03-15T15:04:00.004-07:002012-03-15T16:08:34.333-07:00I'm Still HereWell, I have hit my 3 month marker for the Guaifenesin Treatment I started. <br />
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As the treatment states "You will feel worse, before feeling better".<br />
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That's no lie! I've been in a horrible flare and can feel my entire body going through many changes. <br />
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Almost as if my symptoms I accrued over the years in a slow process has gone into a reversal at at much faster rate. <br />
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I've have such limited mobility (hard to sit up at the computer) and horrible brain fog to keep posting on a weekly basis. I have kept notes regarding my progress and will share when I start feeling better.<br />
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I'm in this for the long run. I will continue using this protocol for one year as recommended and continue to blog my journey.<br />
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For more information, visit the National Fibromyalgia Associations page <br />
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<a href="http://www.fmaware.org/site/News2d1b2.html?page=NewsArticle&id=6133">FMAWARE</a><br />
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http://www.fmaware.org/site/News2d1b2.html?page=NewsArticle&id=6133Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-68480013805127029062012-02-02T11:05:00.000-08:002012-02-02T11:09:37.785-08:00Week 3 Guaifenesin ProtocolBelieve it or not, I'm still sick with this cold bug. What typically takes everyone else to get get over it, it takes me twice as long. From the looks of things around here this sounds about right. My whole body hurts, so its hard to tell if the protocol is even working. I'm going to assume deep down inside it is. I'm trying not to give up hope, since it is so early in the treatment. It's hard to tell yourself to give the treatment an entire year to gain the full effect. I'm not one who has a lot of patiences which makes it hard to just give it time. I'm in pain, sick, tired and extremly exhausted and that doesn't help to think with a clear open mind. Sorry I don't have much more to share regarding my progress. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-18650431196413210012012-01-29T14:00:00.000-08:002012-02-04T18:19:15.256-08:00Are you a Chronic Babe?If so, come join us!<br />
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This is a great place to get to know Babes with Fibromyalgia and other Chronic Illnesses.<br />
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Kuddos to Jenni Prokopy the founder of this amazing, welcoming and informative web site. <br />
There is a a Group for us called "Fibrobabes". <br />
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Let me know if you join so that I can add you!<br />
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<a href="http://chronicbabeclub.ning.com/">ChronicBabe</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-10306847196365012772012-01-24T09:50:00.000-08:002012-01-24T11:24:23.523-08:00Week 2 Guaifenesin TreatmentI'm still sick with cold/flu as of today. My entire family is sick as well. It helps to know its not a side effect of the Guaifenesin even though my symptoms aren't listed as side effects to it. Since my body reacts differently to medications, it's good to know I'm<br />
Not the only one sick here.<br />
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Even though I've been in bed this week, I noticed that when I do get up to make meals or use the bathroom, I'm doing little things with more ease. The stiffness continues to ease up. <br />
I'm still experiencing tiredness, fatigue and less pain throughout my body. The pain, instead of being all over every inch of my body, it's generalized in certain areas only. Ie; My left arm, elbows, hands and legs.<br />
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I also noticed a symptom I haven't had in over a year which is hot spots on my hands and elbows. (Swelling and very hot to touch areas). This might explain where the protocol states you will notice old symptoms return.<br />
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The lumps on my left upper arm don't hurt as much when I rub them. I used to cry if I would just touch them.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-55321650610471243232012-01-20T11:39:00.000-08:002012-01-20T11:39:17.585-08:00My SabaticalI wanted to appoligise to my followers for neglecting and not updating my<br />
Blog. I'm sure a lot of you understand how our symptoms are so unpredictable with Fibromyalgia and we can have many bad days.<br />
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For me, the past couple of years my symptoms have become so debilitating and the pain and fatigue left me doing basically nothing, except to drag my hurting, stiff, tired self out of bed just to suck it up and make it to work for the two days a week I work the 9 hours. Some days my arms hurt so bad I was unable to lift them and unfortunatly the last thing I felt like doing was typing.<br />
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I'm trying to update the reference and blog pages. I'm sure some of them are broken links by now. Send me a message if you'd like me to add your blog or if you have a favorite related web sit you'd like to share.<br />
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So, I look forward to getting back on the saddle again!<br />
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Gentle hugs to you all,<br />
StaceyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-78659446828630635882012-01-19T21:10:00.000-08:002012-01-20T12:06:05.298-08:00H pylori and FibromyalgiaH Pylori is a stomach bacteria- <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori</a><br />
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The link below is to the article that states that it could be related to Fibromyalgia.<br />
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Ironically, I was dx’ed with H pylori when I was 7 years old in 1972. I have had years of Fibromyalgia symptoms and finally a diagnosis in 2008. Interesting theory.<br />
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<a href="http://chronicfatigue.about.com/b/2010/12/07/bacteria-tied-to-fibromyalgia.htm">http://chronicfatigue.about.com/b/2010/12/07/bacteria-tied-to-fibromyalgia.htm</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-32916124992183991192012-01-19T19:31:00.000-08:002012-01-24T10:11:43.304-08:00Days 5-7 Guaifenesin TreatmentIt's hard for me to assess my progress at this time because <br />
I came down with a bad cold and flu. <br />
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I'm still experiencing a little less pain and stiffness. <br />
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I can't wait to get over this bug so that I can continue to chart my progress.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-59054743481560398322012-01-15T21:01:00.000-08:002012-01-20T12:19:00.464-08:00Day 4 Guaifenesin TreatmentAs I got ready for work this morning I noticed that I woke up feeling less stiffness. (I work a total of 9 hours a week to pay for groceries, gas and medications. Most of those 2 days are torture). I went to put on my boots with little effort. I thought I was being deceived or confused and paid more attention to the other boot with the same result.<br />
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Normally, it hurts so bad to bend at the hips and squeeze my hands to pull my boots on. I usually sit on our sofa which is Lower to the ground to help ease the pain and less struggle.<br />
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Later in the day, I noticed a worse flare coming on. Shooting pings and pains throughout my body and reoccurring muscle spasam. That I haven't had for about a year. It seemed like my symptoms through out the years finally bundled into one symptom. Massive pain and stiffness which made it hard to notice anything else going on with me. I should note that my urine has this unexplainable order that the doctors can't seem to find a cause to and I have lumps in my forearms both left and right arm. Left side the worse and at the bottom of my legs near my ankles.<br />
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Continuing to take the 200mg dose 2x's a day.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-46057910642845577102012-01-14T20:15:00.000-08:002012-01-20T12:19:00.466-08:00Days 1-3 Guaifenesin TreatmentI took the recommended dose of 200mg's of Guaifenesin two times a day for these three days. I didn't notice any symptom changes. Just my normal excrusating pain through out my entire body. My neck, shoulders, forearms, elbows, hips thighs, knees, ankles and feet. <br />
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The protocol states that you should feel worse in the first week and that suggests you are at the right dose, before FM symptoms begin to reverse. It also says that for every year you've been sick it could take a month or so per year to see reversal of symptoms. However, every person is different.<br />
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I beleive that I have had FM for years. I remember mild symptoms after my first child when I was in my early 20's. I am 46 now. I was dx'ed in 2008 when my symptoms exacerbated and became dibilatating which was about a year prior.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-661790186600028782012-01-14T15:46:00.000-08:002012-01-24T11:25:41.733-08:00The Guaifenesin ProtocolAfter stumbling upon this book "What your Doctor may NOT tell you about Fibromyalgia and all the years of suffering with my FM and no adequate treatment, I decided to give this protocol it a try. I have absolutely nothing to loose by trying this treatment option. Especially, since I've already lost the quality of my life, my social life, my career, and some relationships! You can download a free sample of the book which consists of 100 pages of content from throughout the book. I am not solicatating this book or profiting from it in any way. The sole purpose of these blog posts will be to share my own personal experiences using this treatment since all others have failed me.<br />
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I thought about the title of the book thinking the reason you doctor might NOT tell you is probally because of their lack of knowledge and information. However, it is mentioned in the book that some doctors use this treatment on their patients. Obviously NOT mine :)<br />
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One last thing, the author of the book won an award from the National Fibromyalgia Association (NFA). I am having a Fibrofog moment and can't recall the name of the award. I will update that later. Do excuse any typos as well, this is the first post I've created using my<br />
Mobile device,(which is a much smaller device that I'm used to using) unfortunatly since my Mac has decided NOT to turn on. <br />
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Here is a link you might want to check out prior to the purchase of their books and DVD 's. It states on this website that all profits goes to Fibromyslgia Research-<a href="http://www.fibromyalgiatreatment.com/index.htm"></a><br />
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What your Doctor May NOT tell you about Fibromyalgia-http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446694444?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-4519096175998109962012-01-13T08:00:00.000-08:002012-01-20T12:50:14.239-08:00My Life with FibromyalgiaFIBROMYALGIA HAS NO CURE YET<br />
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I WAS HAPPY THE DAY MY DOCTORS AND I MET<br />
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TO THINK MY PAIN COULD BE OFFSET<br />
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MEDICINE IS A START I BET…<br />
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I AWAKE IN THE MORNING IN SO MUCH PAIN<br />
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UPSET AT THE LIFE I CAN'T MAINTAIN<br />
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I FEEL A WEIRD FEELING IN MY BRAIN<br />
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WONDERING IF I AM GOING INSANE...<br />
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THE PAIN FILLS MY BODY IN DIFFERENT WAYS<br />
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LYING IN BED FOR SEVERAL DAYS<br />
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HOPING TO RELEASE A PAINFUL DAZE<br />
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BUT I HOPE AND PRAY AND THE PAIN STILL STAYS…<br />
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MY PAIN HURTS HERE AND THEN THERE<br />
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IT'S NEVER THE SAME BUT IT HURTS I SWEAR<br />
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ONE DAY IT'S MY HIPS THAT FLARE<br />
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OTHER DAYS ITS MY HANDS THAT WEAR...<br />
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MY LIFE IS NOW PAIN AND SLEEP<br />
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AND THO I SLEEP IT IS NOT DEEP<br />
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SO I WANT TO SLEEP AND COUNT MY SHEEP<br />
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BECAUSE MY SANITY I HAVE TO KEEP.<br />
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by Kacy Wright kacybaldock@yahoo.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-16444152532078787702011-12-23T00:21:00.000-08:002012-01-24T10:02:47.977-08:00Living with an "Invisible Illness"While from the outside I may seem normal,<br />
It’s the part that you can’t see,<br />
The constant pain and struggles within,<br />
Are ever so apparent to me.<br />
<br />
Although I may wear a smile,<br />
Often times it's covering the tears,<br />
Yet not tears because of sadness,<br />
As it often may appear.<br />
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Don’t be too quick to judge though,<br />
Because there is so much more than is known,<br />
What may seem to look like one thing,<br />
Just might turn to prove so wrong.<br />
<br />
I may sometimes seem unfriendly,<br />
Or too centered around self,<br />
Because sometimes standing takes all I’ve got,<br />
And there is just no energy left.<br />
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Sometimes my words may sound awkward,<br />
My communication may not always convey,<br />
My true inner thoughts and feelings,<br />
Aren’t always expressed by what I say.<br />
<br />
You may think that I’m not really listening,<br />
Sometimes my face or speech may not show,<br />
But I do hear every word you say,<br />
I really want you to know.<br />
<br />
The information doesn’t always process,<br />
As quickly and as clear,<br />
And sometimes it takes me longer,<br />
To interpret what I hear.<br />
<br />
I possibly miss many opportunities,<br />
To offer needed love or support,<br />
Because sometimes it just takes to long,<br />
For my thoughts and words to sort.<br />
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So if my actions seem inappropriate,<br />
In the things I say or do,<br />
I hope that you can understand,<br />
That it is not because of you.<br />
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There are times I get discouraged,<br />
When forced to accept my inability--<br />
It’s hard to admit my limitations,<br />
And it leaves me feeling so guilty.<br />
<br />
Yet every moment is a reminder<br />
As I look all around,<br />
The effort it takes just to get through the day,<br />
Just picking my feet up off the ground.<br />
<br />
I am not looking to find pity,<br />
I am just attempting to explain,<br />
That the person that you may often see,<br />
And the real me aren’t exactly the same.<br />
<br />
You may not see the peace and joy,<br />
When you look upon my face,<br />
But I know that each day I live,<br />
Is because of God’s amazing grace.<br />
<br />
It is hard to always be cheerful,<br />
When the pain is so very real,<br />
And not everyone can comprehend,<br />
The extend of how I feel.<br />
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I don’t see it as all bad though,<br />
Although I’d much rather it not be so,<br />
But I know that if I must endure,<br />
God will strengthen me as I go.<br />
<br />
It may seem as if I take no pride<br />
In the way that I look or dress,<br />
However, there might be much more going on,<br />
Inside of the big mess.<br />
<br />
My home may not be nice and neat,<br />
My bed not always made,<br />
The laundry may not all be done,<br />
And often it makes me ashamed.<br />
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But I must only do what I am able,<br />
Each day I have to choose,<br />
What is most important right then,<br />
And the tasks I am able to lose.<br />
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All the plans and dreams I once held,<br />
Now don’t seem quite so clear,<br />
Yet I feel a peace within,<br />
As my Lord keeps drawing me near.<br />
<br />
To have a chronic illness,<br />
Or a disability that one must bear,<br />
Somehow puts life into perspective,<br />
And helps to make us more aware.<br />
<br />
I realize now that each day I live,<br />
Is a gift from God above,<br />
It is hard not to lean on Him,<br />
Or to look to His great love.<br />
<br />
I now can fully understand,<br />
On my own, there is nothing I can do,<br />
It is only be faith and prayer,<br />
That I can make it through.<br />
<br />
It may seem an exaggeration,<br />
No one can always feel so bad,<br />
But only those who have walked in these shoes,<br />
Can appreciate the battles that I have had.<br />
<br />
I see so many people less fortunate than me,<br />
Don’t have to look very far,<br />
There are so many suffering all around,<br />
It doesn’t matter who you are.<br />
<br />
Circumstances and illnesses can hit unexpectedly,<br />
And you can never really be prepared,<br />
It may be difficult to understand,<br />
Leaving you vulnerable and feeling scared.<br />
<br />
I must constantly guard my thoughts and mind,<br />
As Satan always tries to bring me down,<br />
He wants me to feel hopeless and unworthy,<br />
And turn my smile into a frown.<br />
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It is hard not to get depressed,<br />
When I see the burden my family must bare,<br />
The fact I cannot always meet their needs,<br />
No one could be more aware.<br />
<br />
There are times I feel like giving up,<br />
When I look too far ahead,<br />
But I know if my loved ones were given the choice,<br />
They would just choose to have me here instead.<br />
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There are so many ups and downs,<br />
New challenges each day,<br />
I must strive to keep my eyes on God,<br />
So that I be not led astray.<br />
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It would be so difficult to cope,<br />
Without God, my hope would all be gone,<br />
Because through submitting to Him in prayer,<br />
Is when my weaknesses are made strong.<br />
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So when you see the way I look,<br />
When my insecurities are in view,<br />
Base who I am on what’s inside,<br />
Not by the things that I can do.<br />
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The greatest lesson that I have ever learned,<br />
Is the reason that I am here on earth,<br />
Is not to live for self and gain,<br />
For in these things are not my worth.<br />
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God has a purpose for my life,<br />
Although the details I may not see,<br />
He still has it under control,<br />
And is continually watching over me.<br />
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Maybe one day I will be well,<br />
And my health He will restore,<br />
But if that is not in God’s will,<br />
I will still praise Him ever more.<br />
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If this suffering can bring honor to Him,<br />
I will gladly accept the call,<br />
Because of His great love for me,<br />
He suffered and gave His all.<br />
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I have to believe that what I am going through now,<br />
Will somehow work together for good,<br />
And one day it will be revealed,<br />
And all things will be understood.<br />
<br />
While I still worry about what you think,<br />
More the example that I may show,<br />
I am learning so much more each day,<br />
And this has really helped me to grow.<br />
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by Mary Hastings<br />
written May 2003Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-40161782656270386872011-03-22T00:01:00.001-07:002011-03-22T00:01:00.163-07:00NFA Chat Room ClarificationIn case you missed one of my previous posts regarding the National Fibromyalgia Chat Room, I want to clarify that it is not an actual "Chat Room".<br />
It's set up as Forums. It's still a great place to meet and respond to others with Fibro.<br />
You can find it here <a href="http://www.carepages.com/search?x=31&y=15&search%5Bterms%5D=fibromyalgia">Care Pages </a>.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-86012688002548618612011-03-21T09:19:00.000-07:002011-03-21T09:21:22.449-07:00A Healing Journey -- 10 Minute Meditation<iframe width="480" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2NZBi-ohJdM?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-67117621157923610382011-03-20T16:08:00.000-07:002011-03-20T16:14:45.294-07:00Two New Blogs Added-Reference XMRV<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I just added two new blogs to the "Related Blog tab" above.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">They both reference </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">XMRV</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMRV"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">for XMRV definition click here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">). Compliments of my friend Linda O.</span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Since I'm not educated enough on this virus or how it could be related to FM, CFS and other medical conditions, I wanted to provide you with a link that will explain it in a somewhat simple way for you to understand. Here is an article written by Adrienne Dellwo at </span><a href="http://About.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">About.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> Click here to read </span><a href="http://chronicfatigue.about.com/b/2009/10/12/xmrv-retrovirus-linked-to-fibromyalgia-chronic-fatigue-syndrome.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">XMRV: Retrovirus linked to Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px; line-height: 26px;"><br />
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Bloggers from all over the world will be blogging about spreading awareness, personal experiences, and of support and understanding. I will be blogging on this day, will you?<br />
<a href="http://www.bloggersunite.org/event/fibromyalgia-awareness-day">Fibromyalgia Awareness Day // Bloggers Unite</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-35503434126982776532011-03-15T18:00:00.000-07:002011-03-20T18:32:15.817-07:00Adrienne Dellwo<div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Adrienne is an experienced journalist at </span></span><a href="http://www.about.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">About.com </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">who was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in November 2006.</span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Bookmark her page to keep up with her personal stories of fibromyalgia and many articles at:</span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c4a42;"><a href="http://chronicfatigue.about.com/b/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Fibromyalgia & CFS by Adrienne Dellwo, about.com guide</span></span></a></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-83461993163513634702010-11-30T18:57:00.000-08:002012-01-20T11:22:49.251-08:00Online Community Expands<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Online Community called "</span><a href="http://www.patientslikeme.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">PatientsLikeMe</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">" has added CFS & Fibromyalgia to its communities. A place to share, discover new ideas, how to cope and meet people with the same disease.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Click here to visit: </span><a href="http://www.patientslikeme.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">PatientsLikeMe</span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="font: 18.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The National Fibromyalgia </span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Association has launched an </span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">online Chat Room.</span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Share your challenges, hopes and triumphs with others in the fibromyalgia community. </span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Visit </span><a href="http://www.carepages.com/fmaware"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">www.carepages.com/fmaware</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> and type in “fibromyalgia” or “NFA” in the search window to meet and respond to others.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="color: #5819c9; font: 18.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><a href="http://www.fmaware.org/site/PageServer"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Source</span></span></a></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;"></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-62852632727847406682009-11-15T08:00:00.000-08:002011-03-21T16:20:20.608-07:00World Me & FM Prayer & Meditation Days<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; line-height: 18px;">is on December 7th 2009.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #464646; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I wanted to share this bittersweet article. I'm really happy to hear that there is a Fibromyalgia thrift store, but sad about the incident. Bless the volunteers hearts who run this organization.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">METRO VANCOUVER - Slightly more than a week after the Fibromyalgia Well Spring Foundation opened a new thrift store in Langley, someone has broken the front window and grabbed some goods, the organization’s founder said Monday.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Cheryl Young said the theft early Saturday morning was ironic because the thieves stole from an organization that helps people in need.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“We’re a charity working for people who don’t have a lot of money,” she said. “They’re on pensions and disability.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Young said she had run the three-year-old organization out of a 9-by-12-foot area in her mobile home in Langley before moving the office to the 2,000-square-foot location at 109-20631 Fraser Hwy. and opening a new thrift store and drop-in centre there on Oct. 1.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">She said the organization had gone through a lot of work to open the new location.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The perpetrators of the early morning theft grabbed $35 in cash from a cash box accidentally left near the window and also stole some pieces of costume jewelry, but the big expense will be the cost to replace the window, said Jason Stratman, a volunteer with the organization.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Volunteers run the organization, which seeks to raise awareness about fibromyalgia and offers support through groups in Langley, Surrey, Abbotsford and Chilliwack. The charity is funded by grants and donations.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Young said that the Langley RCMP has no suspects in the theft. RCMP Officer Holly Mark wasn’t able to obtain information on the case during the holiday on Monday.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; width: auto;"></div><div class="copyright" style="line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Charitable+thrift+store+suffers+smash+grab/2094332/story.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Source</span></span></a></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-59160176907167238302009-10-11T10:23:00.000-07:002009-10-11T02:20:40.354-07:00How is Neurofeedback Being Used Clinically?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51); font-family:Times;"><p><strong><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Migraines, Headaches and Chronic Pain<br /></span></span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Thearapists and MDs report that the frequency and intensity of migraines are often reduced- and sometimes eliminated. It appears the increased brain stability reduces the brain’s susceptibility to migraines. Clinicians report that improvements tend to holds, and medications can often be reduced. Chronic pain improvements (how the brain manages pain) are often significant, even in the most sever pain syndromes such as RSD.</span></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">• Sleep Dysregulation<br /></span></span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />One of the first changes clients typically report with Neurofeedback training is sleep. Changes often include improvement in insomnia, bruxism, poor sleep quality, difficulty waking, frequent waking, and nightmares.</span></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">• Autism, PDD, and Reactive Attachment Disorder</span></span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br />Autism, PDD, and RAD are the fastest growing areas of Neurofeedback. The calming effects of Nuerofeedback produce noticeable results quickly in these severely affected populations.</span></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">• Substance Abuse<br /></span></span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />In a study soon to be published, Neurofeedback was compared with a 12 step program. The population was a crack, cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroine users. Sustained abstinence was 5 times greater with the group that got Neurofeedback taining. This confirms previous published studies with equal results for alcoholics. Substance abuse is an obvious form of poor self-regulation, and self-medication. 50% of this population is ADD/ADHD, many have mood or sleep disorders.</span></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">• Epilepsy<br /></span></span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Multiple peer-reviewed studies show a reduction in seizures that are non-responsive to medications- and that the training effect holds. An MD recently reported on a 7 year old patient experiencing up to 100 seizures a day. He was uncontrolled on medication, under supervision by Boston Children’s Hospital. With extensive Neurofeedback, he is now seizure free and off most medications.</span></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Neurofeedback is not a treatment that “fixes” these problems. All of these problems at least in part relate to some type of brain dysregulation. Particularly since the 1990s, neuroscience has identified “brain problems”- departures from a normal population that can be seen in a qEEG, SPECT scan, or other types of brain map. EEG training helps improve brain regulation, which usually helps reduce symptoms related to brain dysregulation.</span></span></span></span></span></strong></p></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-34474056837232118912009-10-07T12:06:00.000-07:002009-10-07T12:45:51.211-07:00The Whitcomb Method<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Last year, after watching numerous videos regarding this method. I almost went to see this Doctor. His practice is a three-four hour drive from here. I was going to take advantage of lodging at a home where someone offer their homes out to patients. I was told that it could take a month or more for treatment to work and stay effective. I was ready to pack up my things and go! However, at the time I didn't have health insurance, and the costs were to much of a burden on us. Well, I really do believe things happen for a reason. After reading these </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">allegations</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, I'm glad I didn't go after all.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;"><p class="storyIntro" style="width: 100%; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="storyDateline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">LAKE TAHOE, CA (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">KGO</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) -- </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A south Lake Tahoe chiropractor claims he has discovered the cause of a painful, chronic condition. He charges patients thousands of dollars for his cure. But the I-Team has uncovered serious questions about whether it works and whether the treatment is perhaps even dangerous.</span></span></p><p class="storyIntro" style="width: 100%; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A retired investigator for the state chiropractic board tells us this is the one case that he could not forget -- the one that got away, in his words. And he is frustrated that the board has been taking no action.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"It actually doesn't hurt, it actually feels -- feels good," says chiropractor Paul </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whitcomb</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For a small town chiropractor, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whitcomb</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> has a sophisticated marketing operation.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He posts videos on the Internet to promote his treatment for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">fibromyalgia</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. The symptoms include chronic muscle pain, fatigue, headaches and depression.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Medical experts we talked to say there is no single known cause for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">fibromyalgia</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, and no cure. But </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whitcomb</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> claims to have discovered the root of the problem -- a misalignment between the first vertebra and the skull. After six days of treatment, one patient makes what appears to be a miraculous recovery.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"I have no pain. I feel fantastic. I'm able to climb stairs," says Joan.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Then, there are the appearances on local TV, like a religious show in New Mexico, his book and a telemarketing center that his son runs out of Orange County.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">All this self-promotion has helped build </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whitcomb's</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">fibromyalgia</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> relief center in South Lake Tahoe into a thriving business, drawing patients from around the country and the world.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"Just like that. And that's enough. It's that simple," says </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whitcomb</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He calls his treatment "The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whitcomb</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Method," a quick neck manipulation, three times a day, five days a week, for at least two months. The cost -- $7,000 and up. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whitcomb</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> claims a remarkable success rate.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dan Noyes: "So you're saying 94 percent of the time, 95 percent of the time, it works for people."</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Paul </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whitcomb</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">: "This is an estimate, but I think that's pretty accurate. It works for that many of the people."</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">But there is a long list of patients who say the treatment does not work, and the added costs of staying in Tahoe can be expensive.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"My pain was definitely worse. I felt a heck of a lot more depressed, and because I'd been, you know, I'd been duped for ten grand, I mean, who feels great after that?" says former patient Walter </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Schulte</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Schulte</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> is among at least nine patients who have filed complaints with the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"I contacted maybe 40 to 60 people, and a high majority of them were ill again," says former patient and employee Susan </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Uribe</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Uribe</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> says she worked at </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whitcomb's</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> call center in April and that many of the former patients she contacted were in serious financial trouble.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"A lot of them were crying because a lot of them now were facing bankruptcy," says </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Uribe</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"Once the word got out that I was investigating it, I was getting calls from all over the country," says Al </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dockus</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, a former investigator with the California Chiropractic Board.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dockus</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> was the investigator assigned to the case. He retired this March after seven years with the chiropractic board. This is the one case he says he cannot forget.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"When I started working on this case, it was just so egregious what this man was doing to these, to these victims. To me it was a slam dunk," says </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dockus</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As part of the investigation, an independent chiropractic expert reviewed the medical records of 10 patients and concluded </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whitcomb</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> committed several acts of "unprofessional conduct," including "incompetence... repeated acts of gross negligence...[and] excessive treatment."</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Wallace Sampson, a retired oncologist, has spent 30 years debunking alternative medical treatments. He is critical of chiropractic in general, but especially of Dr. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whitcomb</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"With each one of these neck manipulations you increase the chance of a stroke," says Sampson.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There are some studies that question that link, but Sampson says he sees no merit to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whitcomb's</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> technique.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"This is not only below standard. There is no standard that says you could do anything like that, and you shouldn't get away with it," says Sampson.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Noyes: "Is there any outside medical research, anything at all that says that what you are doing works and it is not dangerous to the patient?"</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whitcomb</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">: "There are a couple of neurosurgeons who are doing the same thing who have been doing research in this as well."</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Noyes: "Which one?"</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whitcomb: "Dr. Rosner."</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">That is Dr. Michael Rosner from North Carolina who had his license suspended in 2003 for performing unnecessary brain surgeries on eight patients.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"These are just tools we've developed. We use these for testing," says Whitcomb.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">When Whitcomb says tools, he means it. Those are attachments for a socket wrench, outfitted with rubber tips.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Noyes: "You buy this stuff at a hardware store?"</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whitcomb: "Yes, mmm. Actually at an auto parts store."</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"This one was totally off the wall. I've never seen anything like it. And anyone I explain it to says, 'You're kidding me. This guy's doing what?'" says Dockus.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dockus says it has been a frustrating wait. But more than three years after that first complaint, and just a day before our interview, the chiropractic board finally took action.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"I think it did take too long. Yes, absolutely," says Brian Stiger, executive officer of the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The board is moving to revoke Whitcomb's license. The complaint forwarded to the attorney general's office charges Whitcomb with administering "excessive treatment" and making "sensational statements which are intended to deceive the public."</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"We have evidence to support taking action against Dr. Whitcomb's license," says Stiger.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"Are we taking advantage of desperately ill people? I think we're providing something for people so they can recover. Is our treatment perfect? It can't be perfect. Nothing's perfect," says Whitcomb.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whitcomb is not only facing the possible loss of his license, he could also be fined $40,000 or more to cover the cost of the investigation. A lawyer for the doctor tells us he will demand a hearing on the complaint and fight it to the end.</span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px;"><br /></span></p><p style="width: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px;"><a href="http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/iteam&id=6507206">Source</a></span></p><p></p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311774275330406721.post-88142933270555788332009-10-07T11:28:00.000-07:002009-10-07T11:38:33.562-07:00Arthritis Radio<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; "><div class="posttitle" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><h2 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Thanks to the </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Arthritis Foundation they sent me this tweet I wanted to share.</span></span></span></span></h2><h2 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Follow them @ </span></span></span><a href="http://twitter.com/AFWPA"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">AFWWPA </span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">on</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://twitter.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"> Twitter.</span></a></span></span></span></h2><h2 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></h2><h2 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://arthritisradio.podbean.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Arthritis Radio</span></span></a><a href="http://arthritisradio.podbean.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"> Episode 9, Part 2: Fibromyalgia: The Mysteries, Diagnosis and Treatment</span></span></a></span></h2><p class="post-info" style="line-height: 1.6em; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: url(http://s9.podbean.com/wp-content/blogs10/170187/themes/MistyLook/img/underline1.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-bottom: 12px; background-position: 0% 100%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="post-info" style="line-height: 1.6em; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: url(http://s9.podbean.com/wp-content/blogs10/170187/themes/MistyLook/img/underline1.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-bottom: 12px; background-position: 0% 100%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">In this segment, David and Dr. Terence Starz continue their discussion on Fibromyalgia.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="entry" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 1em; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "><span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "><span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">This interview answers questions such as: What are the symptoms of Fibromyalgia? How is Fibromyalgia treated? What is the course of the condition? And what is ahead for Fibromyalgia research?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "><span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Also be sure to check out Part 1 of this interview, which can be found below in our previous post.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "><span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "><span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Enjoy the interview!</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><a href="http://arthritisradio.podbean.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Source</span></a></span></p></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0