... the focus is always on treatment of the symptoms, which is quite understandable. However, treating the causes of fibromyalgia and other chronic illnesses should be the goal, so the body can heal itself.
Yeah, wow, of course, some day we will be closer to the causes. Sorry to say it's not that easy. I've often thought I was "closer to the cause", and looking at connections gave me clues as to what treatment to prioritize. I've found many many triggers, if that's more what you mean, and have learnt to prevent and alleviate them, which has decreased many pains and increased my quality of life. But of my fibro and my MCAS the real "cause" is completely in the dark. What I'm pretty sure about is, that mine are different to those of others and very very complex. So whilst no one could do more than I do, spending a full-time job on researching and testing myself, I've no way managed to get into that ideal position that my body can heal itself.
He was very chronic with fatigue
Funny way of putting it, is it a typo or did you mean it like that?
What we found (we were both Physios working together) was that his blood vessel tone was very low which meant his rate of blood flow was slower than it should be. This meant less oxygen
These to me are not triggers, but connections, not causes, much less a single root cause. I've found out many connections, the main ones being connected to the fact that GABA works for me. But it's more like having trialled GABA and seeing that it helps several symptom areas, which sure is close to what you are hoping for.
Then we came across some work done by Frederick Erdman and started to study this and work out how it worked.
I've found information hints on handspringbodywork, but none of the links are helpful (not working or...
. The study of his done in 2003 (no abstract, article behind paywall) refers to "hot and cold therapy". These are things I've tried everything of and actually have done whole body cryotherapy for over a year and still use cold showers to get to sleep and reduce pain (and likely inflammatory substances like cytokines). Most people with fibro try heat, most are wary of trying cold, as cold generally seems a problem ( for me too, if it's too long, but heat too).
discovered frequency healing, including Hulda Clarke's work... more advanced frequency generators that can scan the body for any irregular pathogens or frequencies
I've also tried several spooky methods, like bioresonance claims similar, despite them not having any medical evidence. The practitioner was good, scanned, treated such irregularities and then thankfully after about 8-10 treatments said: OK, that was it, it doesn't seem to be anything I can treat with this method. Doubt I'll be able to find people doing that here. But looking generally at what Hulda Clarke claims this can do it annoys me when people make high health claims, specifically use "medical" terms without the least proof and make gadgets or protocols that cost quite a bit of money. I much prefer someone like Erdman suggesting things which are more common sense.
Treating the cause is always the way to long-term changes.
Remember, healing in chronic conditions is always slow, but all good things take time.
Support the body, remove obstacles getting in its way and it will do what it is designed to do, heal itself.
Sorry to say: Commonplaces that are very exasperating to us and especially me after all I've tried.
As far as supplements are concerned these are useful to support the body while it repairs
Yep, and as nothing else has worked and everyone is stumped, I'm down to support, nil repair....
one that my Dad took for the brain fog and that was Glutathione .... L-Glutamine, not Glutathione...
Oh yes, glutamine was one of my first, in conjunction with GABA, to balance it/serotonin out as it increases dopamine. Tried all kind of dosages - increasing too much suddenly caused the most severe stabby thigh cramps that made me cry out in the middle of the day. But didn't take long to figure out what it was. Now I'm down to 0.6 and 0.3g per day. It's one of the amino acids (the other is theanine) which allows me to increase the GABA/serotonin to do its work.
Highly sophisticated stuff to get this all into balance and tolerance. And yet I'm still blundering around in the dark, not "bedridden", but pretty much housebound at the moment, just with a pretty high quality of life due to my optimism, inner energy and keeping contact to the "outside world" via short stints and typing....
Healing? A few days or even an hour walking in my shoes, doing what I do every day, every hour, every minute, would cure that optimism!