I have nerve pain in my legs, feet, shoulder, neck, and some around my eyes. It feels like someone is ripping the nerves out of my legs, and it has been limiting my productivity.
I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 1997 @ Sansum Med Ctr, but my sister told me they had to diagnose [...]

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My wife has advanced Rheumatoid/Systemic Lupus Crossover. She is in pain most of time - causing chronic depression, sleep deprivation - resulting in kidney damage and abnormal globulin levels. Interested in FSM as possible treatment - I am an RN and am not satisfied with some of the results a long history of current treatments [...]

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I have an elderly friend with shingles. He is suffering greatly from the pain. What can you suggest that could help both the shingles and the pain?
Shingles is an exacerbation of the chicken pox virus that has stayed dormant on your friend’s nerves for years.
The trigger for shingles is usually some kind of stress:

emotional,
viral,
trauma,
sleep deprivation,
excess [...]

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I have been on Cymbalta for some time and my weight has skyrocketed. My primary care physician has counseled me to get off of the drug. I cold-turkeyed the drug three weeks ago. Since then every nerve in my body has gone crazy - the pain from what we think is a [...]

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I was just newly diagnosed w/ XMRV and my immune system is very damaged. full of toxins, pathogens, viruses, bacterias. etc. SEVERE all over body pain, bad stomach inflammation…more. using probiotics + and only getting worse daily. I’m very ill!
Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) indicates an immune system problem.  Building the immune system is [...]

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The effect from sugar that bothers me the most is hot flashes and night sweats. Could this be an allergic reaction to sugar?
I doubt this is an allergic reaction to sugar, but it is always possible.
The more likely explanation is that because sugar is a pro-inflammatory substance, it will

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A well-respected physician at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts was found to have falsified data in 21 studies that he submitted for publication between 1996 and 2008, reports the Wall Street Journal. Most were in the pain

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Everyone is familiar with pain.  Most pain is caused by inflammation.  Most of the inflammation comes from tissue damage that may occur from many different exposures.  We have all felt the pain from sunburn, or putting our hand on a hot burner, or holding ice cubes.
We’re also very familiar with the pain caused by

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A patient came into my office four weeks ago, with abdominal gas, bloating, and pain. He had had a gastroscopy, which demonstrated a mild gastritis (stomach inflammation), and Barrett’s esophagus. Barrett’s esophagus is

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Breathing may seem to be an insignificant subject, but it may be the most important activity in which we can be engaged.  We can go weeks without food, and we can go days without water, but we can only survive minutes without breathing.
Patients who come into my office who are fearful, anxious, worried about [...]

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