Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Ugh, Has It Turned Into Chronic Fatigue?
I cannot begin to tell you how much I hate feeling useless. I’ve spent at least half my life playing in basketball or softball games or going to practice or playing in the street with my brothers and neighbors. Now, it was all I could do to get up to make sure the dogs went out (I don’t even have to walk them, just let them into the yard and then back upstairs), much less get some food. I desperately want to shower, but that’s duking it out with wanting to lay down again. Luckily, I’m not stinky, because that would drive me crazy. Mostly, I’m just sad. I used to enjoy bedtime, but when it’s always bedtime, it becomes a whole lot less enjoyable. On my good days, I feel like a normal human being and can do normal stuff. But, those days are pretty rare. Mostly, my body wants me to sleep…and sleep some more. I’m so lucky to have a job where I work from home, and work whatever hours of the day that I want to work. I’m good at what I do, so I can generally have my brain compensate for random useless busywork. I’d kill to be able to keep a schedule, getting up at a certain time, working certain hours, being off certain hours. Now, whenever I’m up, I need to work. Heh, or blog about feeling crappy. I’m not suffering from clinical depression; however, this is totally depressing and is taking a toll on me. It started with the herniated disk, but I’m even less functional now than I was with the herniated disk. I didn’t really think I was suffering from chronic fatigue, until I read about it. Hmm, all the symptoms, they fit. Great.
I swear, tomorrow I’m going to find something fun to write about…if it’s the last thing I do.
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Oh my gosh, I’ve been on vacation and hadn’t realized all this crappy stuff. I am so sorry. I have some measure of understanding what you are going through, but not completely because my symptoms are different.
Your brother has helped me so much that I want to cry when I think about it. I don’t really understand the whole bio-cranial thing, but it works, dammit. After a 5 day vacation with my daughter, I feel remarkably decent, where before a 5 day vacation that involved staying up late, walking, etc., would have put me in bed for days. I push myself beyond my limits for the sake of my daughter, because I don’t want to be the “disabled mom”, then I recuperate when she visits her dad.
Anyway, please let me know what I can do to help. I am so glad I am seeing your brother today because I am overdue. I wish I could send you money…but I can at least send chocolate.
BTW, the Sonicare has changed my life. I love that thing so much. Who would have thought?
moonandsun03 on 07/12 at 10:08 AM -
OK - I think I have an idea - you probably already thought of it. If bio-cranial is working for Moonandsun03 - how about you think about flying Craig into Las Vegas (maximum round trip ticket $200) - it can be good in 2 ways - help you with your pain management/fibromialgia (sp) and Craig can start establishing his business here - entertainers/dancers love him. I think I read before that you spent over $200 a month taking meds…. once Craig gets enough business the trips will more than pay for themselves…a thought and what do you think?
Ilona on 07/12 at 01:32 PM -
I just want to let you know that I have been thinking about you lots. Hope it all gets better soon.
laurie on 07/12 at 02:27 PM -
MoonandSun, I’m so glad you’re doing better.
Ilona, a flight will get him here for one day, I can’t afford to make up for the patient payments that he’ll lose. One day of treatment won’t fix me. :(
Laurie, thanks.
Flippy on 07/12 at 05:53 PM -
I have it all planned out. It’s a long term goal… First, he does not work everyday. If he could rent space once a week in someone’s ffice, get 10 + people in (maybe more) times whatever his fee is - he could build a nice little business over here - visit all of us and cure (or at least really help) your condition. Let’s keep thinking about it!!!
Ilona on 07/12 at 07:10 PM -
Well, I have always wanted him to teach my chiropractor, so maybe we can work out a deal with him. He’s a nice guy…he and Craig would get along well. Perhaps it could be mutually beneficial, and cure Leigh-Ann and I at the same time. I know that once I was getting treated and if I felt better, I could get patients. Right now, though, I’m just tired. And tired of being tired.
Flippy on 07/12 at 09:04 PM -
There is a small problem with me opening a satellite office in Las Vegas. Last I checked it is in the state of Nevada. My license is only good in California (I’m already a criminal here). I am not allowed to teach another doctor outside the auspicies (I’ve never used that word) of the Bio Cranial Institute. There is the possibility of a long weekend. I am working on Mindi Abair on Friday July 27 in Stockton—she is then in Las Vegas on Saturday. Could possibly be there Sat-Mon morning. I’ve had a few patients ;ives turn around in as little as three visits—NO GUARANTEES though. Moonandsun03, thanks for the testimonial (I’ll pay you later, just kidding). All the testimonials on my site are real. Next week I plan on video taping them (Be ready to smile Moonandsun03).
Craig - Bro - Dr. Ross etc. on 07/12 at 10:34 PM -
Oooh, spying on my blog. Actually, I know that you read occasionally - I check my stats. We’ll buy you some nice buffet dinners or lunches while you’re here. Paris, Bellagio, or Treasure Island, for treatment for the two of us.
I was wondering about the licensing thing. Maybe I can get my doctor to go out to eat with us, and we can discuss him getting licensed for bio cranial.
I would never expect a guarantee from three treatments, which is why I didn’t think flying you here for a weekend would work. But, I’m willing to try. I’m feeling much much better today. I slept a normal 8 hours, ran around doing errands, took a brief nap because my legs & hips hurt when I sat, but woke up still feeling relatively normal. That’s what’s so damned frustrating. I never know how I’ll feel. We’re also looking at another culprit. We both have gone downhill, fairly rapidly, after quitting our Gatorade kick. We figured that the powdered drink singles were better for us…and cheaper. But, almost all of them have artifical sweeteners in them (just the Celestial Seasonings Zingers don’t), and we’ve been reading about the horrors of aspartame. The aspartame “poisonings” seem to mimic Fibromyalgia. Normally, I poo poo that stuff, but we’ve read how the FDA approved it, even though it’s proven to cause cancer. Basically, the Searle company bought off the government. So, I’d like to see what quitting our beloved drinks would do too. The timing of when I stopped Gatorade (after my surgery) and when I started the FMS symptoms matches up.
(I’d write this privately, since you are my brother and all, but if someone is looking for bio cranial and comes across my blog, it’s one more person I can get to try it…if there’s a doctor near them)Flippy on 07/13 at 12:01 AM -
No caffeine, no stimulants, no artificial sweetners—If you drink gatorade—dilute it one part water to one part gatorade (way to high sugar content) Do you take Omega 3’s—they are a must, and you must get the dosage boosted up fairly high (gradually). Try Peter Gilham’s “Calm + Calcium” magnesium supplement - company - Natural Vitality (I know you can find it). E-mail me off-blog. Is it spying if it is out there for the world to see? It was more like reading the typical FMS soap opera. Note: pharmaceutical companies want to see you sick—they sell “more” drugs and kick back money to the FDA thru lobbyists.
Craig on 07/13 at 12:17 AM -
Publicly, I can say we very very rarely drink any caffeine (I generally use it as medicine once every couple of months to get rid of a headache) or take any stimulants. It wreaks havoc with my bladder and makes me feel jittery. Artifical sweeteners have been daily since we discovered the convenient & tasty drink singles that are added to water bottles.
No, it’s not spying. Oh wait, it could be construed as kind of spying if you just lurk. You don’t always though.
Well, pain meds during my herniated disk problem saved my sanity, so I can’t hate pharmaceutical companies. I agree that not everyone at every company wants what’s best for those who use their products. I’m currently reading Body Hunters: How the Drug Industry Tests Its Products On the World’s Poorest Patients - it’s pretty horrifying. And Leigh-Ann is reading Sweet Deception, which is also horrifying, but he needs better footnotes.
Flippy on 07/13 at 12:39 AM -
Yes, Dr. Mercola has a problem with making big statements and relating big horror stories about artificial sweeteners, but he’s got very few footnotes so I can follow-up on his research. He claimed that neanderthals lived the same lifespan we do today, ate as much of whatever they wanted, and never worried about being overweight. I checked his source, and it was a book called, “The Caveman Diet”. I’d feel a lot better about accepting this information as fact if it came from the anthropology department at a university. I also want Medline citations whenever he gives a case study about someone who was absolutely, positively sickened by artificial sweeteners. He’s got the anecdotes, but writes like he’s pulling them out of his butt.
I will say that the FDA and USDA are not always looking out for our best interests. I feel a bit better about the drug companies themselves, because at least at the basic research level, there are people who have dedicated their lives to truly helping others. I’m sure if your cousin Jay was the researcher on a new heart drug, no one would claim that he wanted people to stay sick so he’d make money from them. I think patients and consumers need to be informed and to do their own research, but I’m sure only about 1% of them do.
Anyway… onward, to a life filled with Stevia.
Leigh-Ann on 07/13 at 03:51 AM -
Speaking of cavemen. I use that comparison when discussing Bio Cranial. The tools I use to perform it were available to the cavemen had they known the technique. The only technology I need are my hands. Yes, I agree that researchers like Jay have very altruistic motives. However the executives don’t. I have an orthopedist friend in Indiana—he had an old friend from the pharmaceutical industry that he ran into at a cocktail party. Ten years before he told him they (his company) would have a cure for diabetes. He was now wearing an insulin pump. The orthopedist asked why they hadn’t come up with a cure yet. He said there will never be a cure—there is too much money in treating diabetes. Similar to cancer. Very sad when profits come over human life and suffering. The pharmaceutical companies love FMS - a trickle of many different drugs - pain killers, anti-inflammatories, anti-depressants, things for GI tract, neurological drugs (neurontin),urinary tract drugs, sleeping meds etc. etc.—Wow, almost more money than treating cancer
Craig on 07/13 at 07:44 AM -
Yeah, but it’s not like the pharmaceutical companies invented FMS or diabetes or cancer. I know there are lots of evil people only interested in money everywhere, but I find it almost impossible to believe that there are people who have the cure for cancer just sitting in front of them, but refuse to reveal it. There are people who are already rich and they have nothing to lose, so if they had the cure for cancer, they’d know that not only were they already set for life financially, but that they were helping millions and millions of people. The same with diabetes cures. Or any disease cures.
So, if Jay discovered the cure to prevent heart attacks, do you think there would be anyone who could stop him from getting that published? There are thousands of doctors like that in research, and I find it difficult to believe that they’re ALL in cahoots with Big Pharma.
Flippy on 07/13 at 08:45 AM
