Re: Lea: Lightheadedness and weird feeling in head sometimes...

[Guest guest]

GT,

You are right in being afraid to take steriods. They are extremely

toxic to the body.

In fact, Dr. Weil strongly cautions against them in his book

Natural Health, Natural Medicine, in the chapter on " How to Protect

Your Immune System. " He says (page 194:

" Steriods cause allergies and inflammation to disappear as if by

magic. In fact, the magic is nothing other than direct suppression

of immune function. I have no objection to giving these strong

drugs for very severe or life-threatening problems, but even then I

think they should be limited to short term use: no more than two to

three weeks. I deplore prescription of steroids for illnesses of

mild or moderate severity or for months and years at a time. I have

known them to be given to patients with mild cases of poison ivy,

infants with diaper rash, and adults with back pain and

undiagnosable fatigue. Steroids are terribly toxic, cause

dependence, suppress rather than cure disease and reduce the chance

of healing by natural methods of treatment. Moreover, they weaken

immunity. "

" In summary: Do not use steroids in any form until you have

exhausted all other possible treatments. If you must take a steroid

for a severe problem, limits its use to a few weeks at most. "

I think that most of the support group leaders who have been in this

issue for a number of years can say with a fair degree of confidence

that the women getting better are those who did not use toxic drugs

during their illness. As Kenda pointed out, and what I've believed

for years, is that we MUST PROTECT OUR LIVERS. Drugs are toxic to

the liver, and while I understand that some women absolutely need

drugs to attain some level of bearable comfort during this ordeal,

the sooner they get off of them, the better. I myself took NO drugs

during my illness. I refused to. I know a doctor in this cause who

also refused to take drugs to treat the illness, because they

understood that the natural way to healing is the better way in the

long run. That is the principle this group was founded upon--to

promote healing through natural therapies. I believe it works, as

we've witnesses so many women getting better through natural

therapies. Yet, at the same time, we've seen women remain ill for

some reason...and I have to wonder if it is because of using drugs

that, as Dr. Weil pointed out above, cause dependence, suppress

rather than cure disease and reduce the chance of healing by natural

methods of treatment.

Your intuition about steroids is correct, GT. You are better off

without them in the long run.

Hugs,

Patty

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> Hi,

>

> Oh great..

>

> I wondered if I could have inflammation of the brain

> because I have been diagnosed with neuritis. Has

> anyone been treated with steroids for this??

>

> I am afraid to take steroids because I also wonder if

> a virus or some other microbe might be causing some

> of my problems.

>

>

> GT

[Guest guest]

la

The symptoms you are giving are very common in fms and fms is

becoming exceedingly common. I was diagnosed with fms when I was

26. I am now 50. I have experienced just about every symptom

possible. I was told I had neuritis too. I got checked for ms

several times because of all the numbness, tingling, pins and

needles and other weird symptoms I had. I didn't get implants until

I was 35 years old. I was 46 when I started developing even more

symptoms --much more acute than I had had previously. Within a few

weeks I started having Raynauds, terrible pains everywhere, creaking

neck, all kinds of brain fog and weird brain symptoms, bee sting

like pains in my head, skin changes such as skin so dry I was

rubbing vaseline all over my body and face, lost 10lb due to

unrelenting indigestion, nausea, heartburn, difficulty swallowing,

skin hardening in areas on my face, altered sensation in my

fingertips, nose, and ears, rapid heartrate and continual pvc's,

rashes, eye flashes, and on and on. After getting the explant I

immediately went on antibiotic therapy ---as I was tested and found

to have mycoplasma fermantans. I knew the first night that the

antibiotics were affecting something. I lay awake all night long

with gnawing pain up and down my arms, legs and face....the

antibiotic was causing it. AFter several hours my skin altered

back to being easily moveable. And my fingertips started turning

moist like they used to be. So between the antibiotic therapy-which

I am still on--and the explant and detoxing, I got my life back.

And even symptoms that I had that were from fms have gone away and

only return now and then and almost always connected with a detox

reaction. I have been explanted almost 4 years and the road to

health for me has been up and down. There wasn't one simple

solution. Indeed, I am still working on different facets of my

health. I would not get on steroids. I have had many people tell

me that those on steroids generally do worse than those not on

them. Steroids depress your immune system, effect every hormone in

your body, contribute to osteoporosis and just are not good for you.

Plus manypeople on steroids get little relief. There are many

suggestions on this site and many on sites for autoimmune illness.

Sometimes it is like finding a needle in a haystack to hit upon the

things that will successfully guide your body back to a healing

mode. But I would for the most part, stay away from conventional

drugs and medicines. And the diagnosis these doctors give dont mean

much of anything considering their solution to most of these

diagnosis is to offer painkillers and immune suppressants. Have you

read The Maker's Diet? Tried any of Garden of Life's supplements?

Done any liver detox? these are good places to start.

love,kathy

>

> Hi,

>

> Oh great..

>

> I wondered if I could have inflammation of the brain

> because I have been diagnosed with neuritis. Has

> anyone been treated with steroids for this??

>

> I am afraid to take steroids because I also wonder if

> a virus or some other microbe might be causing some

> of my problems.

>

>

> GT

>