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IT’S NOT ALL IN YOUR HEAD!

Fibromyalgia Syndrome/Allergic Inflammatory Arthritis.

Dr.Gloria Gilbere

 

It is estimated that between 3 and 6 million people in the US and Canada suffer from

Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS). Eighty percent of those afflicted are women between the ages of 20 and 50. This accounts for more than 5 percent of a doctor’s practice and, for the most part, leaves the conventional medical profession perplexed, to say the least.

 

Fibromyalgis (FMS) is a syndrome, meaning that it involves varied symptoms in multiple body systems. Nearly 100% of FMS victims report they have had some type of life event or file stressor ( accident, surgery, loss of job, divorce, bereavement, relocation etc) just prior to the onset of their symptoms: chronic pain and debilitating chronic fatigue, sleep disturbances, generalized muscle and joint pain, intermittent flu-like symptoms,

depression, anxiety, digestive disturbances, general malaise and cognitive impairment.

 

Patients of FMS get referred from doctor to doctor: and are told by these doctors that their symptoms are all in their heads—just learn to live with it. Conventional medical doctors continue to refer FMS patients to psychiatrists and /or prescribe drugs for depression, anxiety, pain inflammation, constipation, heartburn and digestive distress and all other manifested symptoms.

 

Natural health care practitioners and integrative physicians and clinics, take a completely different approach. They seek to find the cause of the distress and educate the patient in lifestyle changes necessary to reverse this complicated syndrome—all with drugs that compound their varied symptomatology, unless absolutely necessary for short periods of time.

 

Conventional medicine offers no cure for FMS, however, natural therapies combined with lifestyle and nutritional modifications do, all without dangerous drugs that bring on

additional side effects and do not get to the original causes.

 

Fibromyalgia is a type of arthritis, although not specifically osteoarthritis, which is a

degenerative joint disease. According to the University of Florida, Division of

Rheumatology, there are more than 100 different types of arthritis.

 

According to DR. Paarvo Airola, a pioneer in finding biological causes for arthritis, ‘European medical thinking is fast moving toward the new biological era of medical

science, based on the philosophy that most diseases are of man’s own making and are the results of health destroying habits, wrong nutritional patterns, and other harmful

environmental factors. American official medicine and governmental health organizatons continue to cling to an outdated medical philosophy based on the Pasteurian assumption that all diseases are caused by bacteria. Consequently, the main effort of present medical research is aimed at identifying the bacteria considered pathogenic and developing a

specific drug to destroy the suspected bacteria.’

 

It is evident that the conventional symptomatic drug approach including corticosteroid therapies, has sadly failed to show positive results in management and reversal of the

disease. Hopelessness, uncertainty and drugs given for a symptom-care colour the whole present day conventional medical approach to the disease.