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    migraines with fibro?

    My daughter has MS, and she has had severe headaches since she was a teenager. They have never been able to find what caused the headaches, or find any way to treat them, so all she can do is take some heavy painkillers, and try to sleep until the headache goes away. She has a lot of trouble...
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    I am no longer myself....

    I have trouble when I first wake up, so I usually try to move slowly first thing in the morning, and let my body have a chance to stretch out the muscles slowly, before I do any kind of bending or other things that can cause muscles pain, more than normal. I have found that it helps me to take a...
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    Keeping your body alkaline.

    One of the important things is to keep our body alkaline for health. When we eat acid-making foods, our body will easily get sick, and we are more apt to contract a disease, or to have more arthritis or other joint pain. Water has a pH very close to the optimal pH for the human body, so drinking...
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    How do you pay for alternative medicine?

    It seems to me like doctors are not actually healing us most of the time, what they do is called "treating " us, which means basically that they are making the symptoms less noticable. It doesn't actually make the illness go away, just masks the symptoms, so we continue to require more...
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    Alternatives For Other Health Problems

    I think that garlic is one of the foods that is supposed to lower the bad cholesterol, and also virgin coconut oil is supposed to help with this , from what i have read. I seem to do better when i don't use sugar or eat sugary/floury foods. I can always tell the difference when i have sweets, or...
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    What makes it better for you

    I have been reading about the healing properties of dmso, and am now starting to use that more for the pain, as well as taking more MSM and vitamin C every day. This really seems to be helping me with lessening the pain, and making me more mobile. I had used dmso for years, but only when I fell...
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    Does medical marijuana help?

    I was just reading about some of the healing properties of basil today. Besides being an anti-inflammatory that can help treat arthritis, and being good for improving memory, and helping to get rid of those fall and winter colds that will soon be coming along, it is helpful for a host of other...
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    Best sleeping positions?

    I found a sleep number bed on Craigslist, and it was only $200 for a Queen size, everything included. We have had it about 6 years now, and it is the best thing for my back of anything I have ever used. I am still usually stiff when I first get up, but that is from the lack of circulation , at...
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    Do vitamins help you

    I have read that vitamin C is supposed to be anti-inflammatory, so that would help with the swelling and pain. I buy mine in powder form and add some into juice or smoothies, and also in lemonade and even ice teas, or hot tea. I think that taking vitamins will always help a person to feel...
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    Ever feel lonely?

    I think that this is so right ! I get really lonely sometimes as well. Being on the Internet is kind of my social life now that I can't get outside and do things like I used to be able to do. I really miss being able to go on walks with the dogs. I used to walk every day until it got to where I...
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    Which Age Would You Go Back to If You Could?

    Looking back over my life, there is a lot that I would like to just erase and live over differently, if I had the chance to do that. However, I love my children, so I would not want to go back far enough to lose them, but after that, modifying my life, and making wiser decisions would definitely...
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    He is still upset

    I think that the stress cannot help but be making things hurt worse for you, at least that is how it affects me. Sometimes it is the weather , or whatever that seems to cause the flare ups, but when things are really stressful at home, then it seems like all of me aches worse than normal. If you...
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    Laughter

    One of my favorite authors is Patrick McManus, who grew up in a small Idaho town, and writes hilarious stories about his life there as a boy, riding his bike and camping out with his friends. I first read one of his books when I was in the hospital with a broken leg. I really wanted something...
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    Alterative Methods For Healing

    I was just reading an article about an English lady that had contracted breast cancer, and the usual chemotherapy treatment was not helping her. Her husband had just returned from a trip to China, and some friends had sent her some herbal remedies to try. As they laughed about this, saying if...
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    how many of you use pain meds?

    My doctor has offered to prescribe some pain medication for me, but so far, I have refused. You see all the ads on TV, ad showing such wonderful results, but then they also mention all the side effects that are possible, and some of those are pretty radical, so as long as I can make it without...
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