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Mati

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Re: Physical health
« Reply #15 on: August 05, 2005, 05:11:15 AM »
Hi

This is the first time I have heard of guai so I am trying to find out about it and have joined a support list. I have ME/CFS, FMS and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and I blame mercury poisoning from teething powders at a few months old, then a big dose of pesticides when aged 40 for my health problems that are so bad that I spend most of my time in bed since relapsing doing courses etc in an effort to restart my life. I am in a new area so am totally alone apart from two days a week when a carer comes in to do my flat and shop etc. It would be wonderful for me if I even got a small improvement so that I could get out more to meet others. I was doing well until this relapse and it has made me worry about doing anything now, and I had planned on doing a university course at home part time. The six years it will take will put me into retirement age and I worry in case it holds my health down. There is so much I want to do now that I have got my head sorted out for the first time in my life since being molested by a relative from 6 onwards. In the UK there is no help for environmental illness but yesterday it came in the news that there may be a blood test soon for ME/CFS so that is encouraging.

The MCS causes the most problems as far as isolation is concerned. I wonder whether the guai has been known to help with this. A Dr in the US says tghat B12 injections help but my GP will not agree with it.

I got so bad through being with the n and ended up in a council house due to his failure to get an employer to take him on, that was flea ridden and the council sprayed it with us still in. The courts have thrown the litigation I started out as with others poisoned with pesticide as it is a big political issue. The 'sheep-dip' farmers have been silenced as well.

I am thinking of trying to get a home sauna and wonder whether anyone here has found it helpful.

I must say that my former optimsim has had a severe blow since the relapse. I just hope that I have hope but I must take it slower this time.

Mati

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Re: Physical health
« Reply #16 on: August 05, 2005, 10:34:27 AM »
Hi Mati,

So sorry to read how poorly you are doing!  I know exactly what you are going through: have been in the same position, and have on a couple of occasions was hardly able to get up from bed for months at a time.  At my worst, barely enough energy to drag myself into the shower once a week, and the exhaustion + pain in my arms so bad it was not even possible to wash my hair.  Currently, though physically not at my worst point, am terribly weak, and fatigue and pain strikes with little (sometimes no) effort.  The sensation of feeling the energy suddenly drain from my body as if someone pulled a cork is a regular occurrance.  Like you I also have the MCS... it seems that ALL of these things are connected.

If you haven't found it yet, go to http://www.fibromyalgiatreatment.com/  for info on the Guai.  There is link somewhere on there to a listserve for folks on or thinking of being on the protocol.  Several on the list are in the UK and could likely tell you what help there is (or not?) available there.  I am going to do this guai thing somehow! 

You sound so lonely/alone!  Sending you a BIG cyber-hug ((((((((((MATI)))))))))) !!  Are you one that is normally pretty social and enjoys getting out and being with people?  If so it seems the isolation must be just devastating to you.  Hope you can get on the guai & have yourself feeling good enough to get out and about SOON!

Ariel 






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Re: Physical health
« Reply #17 on: August 07, 2005, 01:05:27 AM »

The MCS causes the most problems as far as isolation is concerned. I wonder whether the guai has been known to help with this. A Dr in the US says tghat B12 injections help but my GP will not agree with it.
Mati
There is some doctor treating MCS and FMS and CFS as an environmental disorder. He's using some kind of antibiotic, I think. The doctor has a web site. I didn't save the info because Guai does it for me.
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Mati

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Re: Physical health
« Reply #18 on: August 08, 2005, 04:06:22 PM »
Hi Ariel

Thanks for the hug xxx

Also thanks for the site. I have joined the list. I am going to do the Guai thing too.

Yes I am normally one to get out and about and the isolation is terrible but I am managing to get out a bit now. I am getting my counselling again after a break of four weeks which makes things easier. My counsellor is just a trainee and is having to find work to get her over the holidays but she is worth waiting for. Even though my body is a wreck, my emotions and mind are healing all of the time. This week I am feeling a new strength.

Thanks Sally

Mati