Guest guest Posted June 17, 2001 Report Share Posted June 17, 2001 Dear Dawn Rose, I also noticed the quiet spell. I don't go to any other board--just this one. However, as I was cured before this board even started, I rarely initiate any posts--I'm just in the response mode, when something moves me or when I have something to add. This board has gone quiescent before and then picked up, but it's good of you to make the effort to keep it going. How are you feeling? What was the sense you got from our surveys? Although there were not many participants, it reinforced my belief that no one has gotten better using the medical model alone. As GD goes into remission spontaneously in approximately 30% of cases anyway, I wonder if the medical model is doing any good at all, or is just doing harm. When used as part of a recovery program, ATDs are helpful, but used as the doctors prescribe them, people seem to go hypo and thus prolong their illness--never returning to a healthy balance. Do you have any alternative medical centers or complementary physicians in your country? Can you contact them if you do? I am REALLY wary of allopathic doctors, and our survey confirms what I already believed. Take care, AntJoan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2001 Report Share Posted June 17, 2001 Ant Joan, what's allopathic? Traditional medicine? Donna http://trak.to/lifewww.reliv.comTake control of your health! Re: dead site? Dear Dawn Rose, I also noticed the quiet spell. I don't go to any other board--just this one. However, as I was cured before this board even started, I rarely initiate any posts--I'm just in the response mode, when something moves me or when I have something to add. This board has gone quiescent before and then picked up, but it's good of you to make the effort to keep it going. How are you feeling? What was the sense you got from our surveys? Although there were not many participants, it reinforced my belief that no one has gotten better using the medical model alone. As GD goes into remission spontaneously in approximately 30% of cases anyway, I wonder if the medical model is doing any good at all, or is just doing harm. When used as part of a recovery program, ATDs are helpful, but used as the doctors prescribe them, people seem to go hypo and thus prolong their illness--never returning to a healthy balance. Do you have any alternative medical centers or complementary physicians in your country? Can you contact them if you do? I am REALLY wary of allopathic doctors, and our survey confirms what I already believed. Take care, AntJoan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2001 Report Share Posted June 17, 2001 Donna: I know what you meant my 'traditional' medicine, but you have to be careful with terminology like that. Accupuncture, for example has been around for about 3,000 years. Herbs have been used as medicines for more than 25,000 years. Doesn't get much more traditional than that. But yes, allopathic medicine refers to MD's. Me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2001 Report Share Posted June 17, 2001 In a message dated 6/17/01 10:50:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, roberts5@... writes: Ant Joan, what's allopathic? Traditional medicine? Yes, it means Western medicine, with its emphasis on pills and surgery after one is sick, rather than preventative medicine and viewing humans in a holistic manner. Allopathic medicine treats symptoms or diseases rather than people, and gives patients poison pills that suppress one symptom but cause others. I believe it's OK to use these medicines on occasion if the patient has researched the illness and the medication and makes a decision that this is the wisest choice at the time, but I would never leave that decision to any traditional doctor. AntJoan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2001 Report Share Posted June 17, 2001 Dear Me, It's true that natural healing has been around for thousands of years, but, in the U.S., it's not traditional, e.g., most folks in the last hundred years or so have gone to doctors trained in Western medicine. I guess it depends what we mean by "traditional." AntJoan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2001 Report Share Posted June 17, 2001 Oops! Didn't mean to step in it like that! Sorry. You're right, though. I did mean the medical community. http://trak.to/lifewww.reliv.comTake control of your health! Re: dead site? Donna: I know what you meant my 'traditional' medicine, but you have to becareful with terminology like that. Accupuncture, for example has been aroundfor about 3,000 years. Herbs have been used as medicines for more than 25,000years. Doesn't get much more traditional than that. But yes, allopathicmedicine refers to MD's.Me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2001 Report Share Posted June 17, 2001 Thanks, Ant Joan. I thought that's probably what it was. Donna http://trak.to/lifewww.reliv.comTake control of your health! Re: dead site? In a message dated 6/17/01 10:50:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, roberts5@... writes: Ant Joan, what's allopathic? Traditional medicine? Yes, it means Western medicine, with its emphasis on pills and surgery after one is sick, rather than preventative medicine and viewing humans in a holistic manner. Allopathic medicine treats symptoms or diseases rather than people, and gives patients poison pills that suppress one symptom but cause others. I believe it's OK to use these medicines on occasion if the patient has researched the illness and the medication and makes a decision that this is the wisest choice at the time, but I would never leave that decision to any traditional doctor. AntJoan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2001 Report Share Posted June 18, 2001 Hi all, I'm still here but busy. Will post later today, MONA!!! dead site? Hi there, This is my favourite site where I first found help and encouragement after hyperT diagnosis. It might be my computer, but I haven't had many posts at all from this board - has it gone quiet?? If a group remains inactive for a spell, does close it down in the end? I would hate to think the archives might suddenly dissappear as I haven't read them all yet and believe they are an ENORMOUS well of information. I will now go and do what I SHOULD have done first of all which is to check the site itself to see if you have all been busy afterall. Hope you are all well I particularly miss Mona and Antjoan, I think many people I ment on the HyperT board are now using the GD board??? But not those two - how are you both?! DAWN ROSE _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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