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Comment by Clarence Dember on August 11, 2011 at 4:25pm

To Grace.
Well, there's also the screening process which comes with any anticipated treatment. Who's a candidate and who is likely to receive no benifit from the proceedure(s). When I got my vision corrected with RK and then Laser I went through screening for it to determine candidacy. I am sure the trials have moved along. since this new hypothisis of M.S. origins and treatment strategy.

Comment by Grace Fitzpatrick on August 11, 2011 at 10:49am

I have a little problem with nearly dying under anesthetics.  Before I get any kind of surgery, I want to be 1000% sure it's going to work 100%.  Because I have the very strong chance of dying from the anesthetics.  I may die from MS years from now, but I could definitely die tomorrow if I were put under.

 

I believe his name is Dr Graham from the UK who is doing a lot of research on MS and Gulf War illness in British Gulf War vets.  He has had some success at treating these conditions with non invasive procedures.  I have been following his work for awhile now.  MS is most common in Scotland, so the UK is a good place to watch for developments in MS research since they do a lot of it.  

Comment by Clarence Dember on August 11, 2011 at 10:38am

I have 6 sisters, all married with multiple children, and many are now adults. I think babies are the most demanding clients. But I chose not to have any because essentially I would be locked up for what I'd do if someone abused power on an infant I contributed bringing into being. I would be way too wrapped up in that watchful mode. I have chosen other battles with no regrets. I sleep in the day so; over and out.

Comment by Clarence Dember on August 11, 2011 at 10:28am

To Grace. According to the medical doctors testing the proceedure, what damage is done may be rerouted or in terms of motorcortex it may be irreparable damage. Depends on the acute nature of M.S. inthe poorly working blood circulatory system of an individual's brain. Some brains are damaged beyond repair, some can improve. Further degredation of brain tissue and function (from the effects of blocked or badly formed or absent blood circulation) can be mitigated by the surgical proceedure if the "proof" can be attained by others.
Dr.Zamboni in Italy has reversed the course of M.S. in his wife and some others before he was commanded to STOP while science duplicates the achievements he and his team of vascular surgeons have realized in their M.S. patients. If I had M.S. it would hold out a hope for a end to further deterioration from M.S. with possible reversal for some not yet in full neuropathy.

Comment by Grace Fitzpatrick on August 11, 2011 at 10:27am

It's been four and half years since I had a baby, but I had a birth plan that was strictly followed.  I labored on for 39 hours when I finally gave up and had a c-section.  I was never forced at any point - even though it would have probably been easier on me to have had it done on day 1 of labor instead of day 2.  I don't remember what every single test was they did on my babies.  They took a blood sample from the baby's foot which was probably the only painful one.  The hearing test was a bit of a bite because my baby had bad acid reflux and almost never slept. The nurses do the hearing test while the baby is sleeping.  My baby almost never slept - just screamed and puked.  With a baby like that, believe me you do not want them woken up for any reason.   In fact, her first month was spent vomiting and screaming.  Not fun. 

 

I never had this pushed around by doctor's experience.  I know it used to be that way, but usually they do try to follow the birth plan the parents lay out.  Of course, once you get there, you may change your mind on the whole "no pain meds" idea.  I know a lot of women who did. 

Comment by Clarence Dember on August 11, 2011 at 10:12am

To Avicenna : Actually it was not my idea to submit. I had a great future as a
demanding client of my parent's origin till doc with forceps bent my soft skull and doped me at birth. You may have to look up the word attenuated so I'll explain: It does not do to force a shut
down of babies central processor band width when the baby is still precomceptual. This teaches the organism (ah, the body and brain are termed
an organism) it is supposed to go off line and submit under pressure of sensory overload, and THIS builds in a "dumb ass reflex" before concepts are formed to
contexualize sensory data. Certain MDs in maternity wards have such a domination complex they want everyone to submit at any cost to the Psyche.
This primal trauma derails process which new borns must own. It is just a sample of the all mighty medical doctors dominance kick. Thereafter. the dumb ass reflex can be evoked subconsciously by someone, anyone who has the right combination or let us say magnatude of sensory overload to dump on the unsuspecting human. No concepts required for the dumb ass reflex to jump start into operation. You just have to be there before mom and dad have control of their life long investment. Get em early enough and put the dumb ass in them deep enough and they will run from their own shadow for the wrest of their lives. People that do this should be locked up
as child abusers. They are despotic and incideous zero sum game zealots. Too bad for them I remember what's in my experience and I write it down. Oh, you need proof again don't you? Has ethics become a barrier to knowledge at last?

Comment by Grace Fitzpatrick on August 11, 2011 at 10:08am

Clarence, I'm not sure how doing things to my vascular system would remove the scaring on my nerves and brain or repair the damage to my myelin sheaths.  I didn't get MS the standard way.  I was in a chemical weapons attack and had contact the nerve agents, so what works for other people who got it some more "natural" way wouldn't necessarily work for me.  Even though I detest the mountain of side effects the NSAIDs the VA prescribed give me, they are making a significant difference.  I wish there was some other drug that did not make me sick which would work just as well, but apparently there is not.  The VA and the University of Texas have been studying this and they say (in my experience this seems to be true) that Gulf War vets with problems like I have - have a lot of problems with inflammation.  I did try the cherry juice and other natural anti-inflammatories, but they just didn't work very well for me.  I really didn't want to go on these side effect laden drugs.  Maybe some people love drugs, but I hate it.  I really wish there was another way.

Comment by Clarence Dember on August 11, 2011 at 9:53am

To Avicenna : Actually it was not my idea to submit. I had a great future as a demanding client of my parent's origin till dock doped me at birth. You may have to look up the word attenuated so I'll explain: It does not do to force a shut down of babies central processor band width when the baby is still precomceptual . This teaches the organism (ah, the body and brain are termed an organism) it is supposed to go off line and submit under pressure of sensory overload, and builds a dumb ass reflex before concepts are formed to contexualize sensory data. Certain MDs in maternity wards have such a domination complex they want everyone to submit at any cost to the Psyche. This primal trauma derails process which new borns must own. It is a sampleas a sample of the all mighty medical doctors dominance kick. Thereafter. the dumb ass reflex can be evoked subconsciously by someone who has the right combination of sensory overload to dump on the unsuspecting human. No concepts required for he dumb ass reflex to operate. You just have to be there before mom and dad have control of their life long investment. Get em early enough and put the dumb ass in them deep enough and they will run from their own shadow for the wrest of their lives. People that do this should be locked up as child abusers. They are despotic and incideous zero sum game zealots. Too bad for them I remember what's in my experience and I write it down. Oh, you need proof again don't you? Has ethics become a barrier to knowledge at last?

Comment by Grace Fitzpatrick on August 11, 2011 at 9:21am

Most strong pain drugs leave someone out of it which is why the people I know with fibro, arthritis, etc choose not to use pain meds outside NSAIDs. The point is to be able to do things that you can't normally do due to pain - not to be so out of it you can't do anything.  I read cherry juice is a strong natural anti-inflammitory and I have tired it, but a)I don't like cherries  and b) it didn't work as well as Aleve - at least I didn't think so. I can't say it didn't work at all, but when you have a migraine due to inflammation, you want something that works all the way not a little bit.   On the flip side, I don't think drinking a lot of cherry juice is actually harmful - which is more than I can say for some supplements. 

 

Thanks for explaining how thyroid disease kills, because I did wonder why my aunt died.  She just up and died one day with no real warning.  She had taken thyroid meds for years and done really well with them.  They really changed her life and allowed her to get up and do things when all she could do was sit around before.  Then she rejoined this weird church that had all sorts of strange dietary rules and convinced her to take kelp instead of taking her meds.  Maybe kelp would have worked if she just had a little problem and not been worse case scenario.  This church is very odd even by church standards.  Even most religious people think this church is really out there. 

 

Infant conjunctivitis must have been a more widespread problem than it is now.  They do a lot of tests on newborns (most not very invasive).  It must be working, because we have a very low infant mortality rate in the US. 

 

Home births are fine until something goes wrong.  When something does go wrong (like the mother begins to hemorrhage), there's not much time to save a life.  Giving birth can be dangerous.  Women do die from it everyday in third world countries.  Knowing that you never know if a birth is going to be smooth sailing or a race to save a life - personally I would never have a baby at home or not have an OB attending.  But that's me.  I am really glad I had the level of intervention I did both times.  I know plenty of women who used midwives and got along just fine.  I don't know anyone who had a baby at home by choice.  I know women who talked about it, but when the time came they went to the hospital or birthing center.  I think a lot of women (me included) have a lot of dreams and hopes of how a birth is supposed to go and what a newborn is supposed to be (like not jaundiced or having any sort of problem). but that's not always how it works.  When everything doesn't go right, the hospital is a very good place to be.   Having been one of those women who had a lot of things go wrong,  I can't be a big fan of home births.  No one ever thinks it's going to be them or their baby, but sometimes it is you.  OBs really do know what they are doing.  Not everyone needs one, but if you do, it's good to have them there.

Comment by Avicenna on August 11, 2011 at 5:15am

Grace - Silver Nitrate drops used to be used to prevent infant conjunctivitis. It is very effective. However putting anything in your eyes burns (Any contact lens users wish to back me up on the first few days of contact lens usage). But what bugs me is the line "So painful I blacked out". You are a baby, babies do nothing but shut their eyes and sleep for the first month atleast. 

THC is the actual active ingredient of weed, and they do have it in an aerosol form which reduces the risk of lung cancer and COPD (duh! Smoking is bad for you!). The downside is nearly every drug that offers pain relief has the issue with neurological symptoms (Because it is reliant on either dealing with prostaglandins in the same way that Asprin or willow bark extract is or neurologically like MJ does.). MJ is an inhibitor of NTransmission which is what causes the lethargy, laziness and munchies. Sativex (the name of the drug) means you can only take the drug when you are at home and not when you are out driving cars and what have you.

Clarence -

Do you realise the incredible silliness of saying "I get to decide what medicine I take not doctors" is. That's like me saying "I get to decide what plumbing I use" or "How dare that pilot fly my plane! I demand that they let me fly it!".

 

I never understood why people say "I don't watch TV". TV isn't a bad thing, it doesn't make you better than me because I do enjoy a good TV show or two. It just makes you really pretentious. I too read books, such as Guyton's Physiology, The pathological basis of disease by Robbins and Love's Surgery and K & C's medicine. Books filled with actual awesome pieces of knowledge that tell me how you work to an amazing degree. It matches up with a book called Pharmacology by Katzung which indicates what drugs you should take, dose and why.

 

Also... We are all born with mucous membranes, adenoids and lymph nodes. I have them. The inside of my nose is a "mucous membrane". My tonsils are adenoids and i have all my lymph nodes still intact.... I am sure most of us do. If you don't have the first then you cannot survive.

 

Hyperthyroid is "no joke". The symptoms are - Weight Loss, Anxiety, overheating, hair loss, muscle ache, weakness and fatigue, hyperactivity, irritability, hypoglycaemia, apathy, polyuria, polydypsia, delirium, tremors, myxoedema and sweating. Untreated it can cause palpitations and arrhythmias most notably Atrial Fibrillation which can be life threatening. It also cause ammenorhoea and sterility. Oh and untreated leads to thyroid storm which is fatal. Oh and it kills you naturally, you need thyroxine to live, but too much and you die.

The blood group thing is nonsensical. 

All cells in our bodies carry antigens, these are proteins that are recognised by our body's cells as foreign. However we normally inhibit the formation of "self" antibodies which are antibodies to our own antigens. Blood has two antigens, the first one that evolved was A and the second was the Rhesus group. There are other antigens but we are simplifying it into this. 

When you are a foetus your body begins to define what is and what isn't your antigens based on your genetics. If your blood type is A then you will carry B antibodies in your blood, if your blood type is B then you will carry A antibodies in your blood. If you have AB blood type you will carry no antibodies in your blood and you can actually recieve blood from all types. If your blood type is O then you have "no recognisable antigen" on your blood and you can give your blood to all others. 

That's it. Evolutionwise, blood type A came first, then B (obviously AB is a mix of these two types) and O was the last. I can even point out there are A1 and A2 blood types within A blood type. Not to mention there are oddities such as bombay blood which is a genetic defect that prevents the precursor antigen from e

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