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Tuesday September 8, 2009

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 ASK LENA HEALTH Q & A EDITION!
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Today's questioner is undiagnosed by the conventional world but he has all the symptoms of an autoimmune system disease and as with an autoimmune problem you start at the beginning and work into rebuilding and repairing the immune system. There are a multitude of autoimmune diseases; diabetes, MS, MD, FMS, Allergies, etc. I could go on naming them but what it boils down to is a world gone awry that has the majority of people's immune systems depleted and/or over reacting to outside or internal stressors. Are you suffering along those lines? Have you tried natural healing or buying into the conventional medical worlds brainwashing of treatments without success? People wait until doctors have given up and then contact me. By the time I hear from them the system is really out of sync and takes much longer and more dire steps to heal! Don't be fooled and be one of those!

The answers to questions submitted to me each week come from my 20+ years as a Medical Office Nurse along with many years and ongoing education in nutritional and alternative treatment modes. Add that to many years of friendship with Dr. Wayne Garland, a very knowledgeable naturopath and herbologist, who many years ago, beat his cancer death sentence given by the traditional medical world, has helped along the alternatives path and hopefully help to give hope to those who need it... Also receiving a lot of study reports and try to ascertain if they are good or bad then report them to you, which has increased my knowledge along the way and I pass them on to you to use or not...

I am not a doctor or dentist and you should not think of me as one!! My years observing life and health of the many people/patients around me and the contradictions of the traditional medical world's idea of treating - prescription domino effect - while watching those same schooled methods that aren't relieving illness but creating far more health problems than they help. Those same medical professionals aren't telling people how to get healthy or how to prevent illness, which led me to look for something to change that premise for myself and those around me. In looking outside the Westernized medical profession I found and continue to find alternatives that really work to create health and longevity - when adhered to - beyond anything the traditional medical world can do...

Ask Lena Health Questions and Answers is for your information and education only and in some instances to give you a different perspective on a particular problem! My wish for you, in the use of the information gained here, is that you will apply it in a smart and safe manner in order to enhance your life and not harm it! Not to be used in place of your judgment but in  addition to... Even though I daily watch people become healthy with the information imparted here nothing works 100% of the time for 100% of people...

I have always felt that I had to know all sides to a problem and then make a decision for myself and I hope that will be your attitude as well! 

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Thank you for your confidence and inquisitiveness! 
Lena

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QUESTION:
 
I have been having Dizziness, Burning sensations throughout my body and Band like feelings in my left calf and back. Also my feet are most of the time numb.
I go to the bathroom every fifteen minutes during the Day. This has been going on for the last three years I have had countless blood tests and MRI's of the Brain and spine coming back negative. I take glucmine multi vitamin, multi B, Fish oil flax seed oil
 
My age 45
Sex Male
Medications: Neurantin,Xanax
 
In response to questions I asked Paul; 

I am taking the Neurantin for a nerve block. To block out the burning and the Pins and Needle sensations my body gets every day. I take the xanax to calm down the dizziness caused by the neurantin. I am taking glucamine for knee / joint problems.

Lena's statement: As our correspondence went on Paul confided he believes he has MS, whether he is correct or not remains to be seen but autoimmune diseases all begin in the brain so it really doesn't change my answer. Having had an autoimmune disease myself for 30 plus years I feel I have a take on autoimmune that some may not have.
 
 
ANSWER:
 
Okay Paul, to try to answer your concerns and give you options to what you are now doing that I feel will work much better than the your current regimen, which doesn't seem to be helping a lot. Before I do that I would like to say; I'm assuming you have had blood sugar blood tests done to rule out diabetes... Those same symptoms - dizziness, frequent urination, burning and numbness of the limbs - are also the symptoms seen in a person with long term diabetes and since I'm assuming the doctor has ruled out diabetes will give you options.
 
It stands to reason your brain isn't getting all it needs for communicating with the rest of your body creating a severe lack of proper circulation, which causes dizziness and leg problems as well as numbness. Whether it's MS or another autoimmune disease the natural treatment is the same as they all begin in the brain.
 
It would seem that the Xanax isn't working and may very well be causing some of the problem, as the symptoms you describe are ones I heard over and over from patients who were on Xanax or Prozac when I worked Internal Medicine.  Your muscles are also not working well and that too starts in the brain. So it's time to get off the damaging drugs not only to relieve your symptoms but because you are risking severe heart and liver damage as well as permanent muscle damage when taking both.
 
The vitamins, flax and fish oils are good for you so that would be good to continue. Sadly, without a minerals balance in your system you are not absorbing them very well and wasting a lot of money and not getting the results you could.
 
I will suggest some alternatives not knowing if you want to go natural treatments or not but I can tell you that you would feel 100% better if you did. But, it will take time as we will have to wean you off of both the neurantin and Xanax over a period of two to three weeks as the withdrawal can be deadly from withdrawal?
 
We have to get your brain to working better so the signals can reach your muscles and tendons as well as improve your circulation. Once that is done your symptoms should subside. That can take a few weeks to a few months or possibly immediately. I've had some who called me within a few days surprised at how their brain was working and the numbness and dizziness was gone yet others took up to three months. It depends on your body and how badly it is damaged.
 
Here is a beginning protocol that I know works! Some require changes and some don't I don't know where you are in that equation but this is the beginning of a new life, should you decide to follow it.
 
1)     For men this seems to be a stumbling block and a step that if not undertaken prevents true healing and/or slows down the healing processes? Start by getting off the medications while doing a 7-day cleansing diet along with balanced minerals and probiotic digestive enzymes to speed the healing along with cleansing. IT'S ONLY 7 DAYS so you can do it! For some, drug withdrawal happens in just a few days without horrific withdrawal symptoms when doing the cleansing diet, I will instruct you in the proper withdrawal steps when you are ready.
2)     Walking, at least 5 or 6 days a week - every day would be best but most cannot manage that - 45 minutes each session. That will most likely require working up to the full 45 minutes with your legs in pain and feet numbness but with time and by increasing a minute or two a day you will get there. This is extremely necessary for faster circulation improvement.
 
With the following formulas to heal and repair;
3)     Life Transfusion Ionic Liquid Minerals; this is necessary to help your brain emit electrical impulses giving it a better chance for communicating with the rest of your organs and systems. Absolutely necessary before anything else can function properly.  Read Is Your Brain Plugged In to understand this.
4)     Circulatory Support herbal formula; A host of herbs combined in just the right amount to further assist your circulation and work to overcome the damage done to you heart and liver from the medications Neurantin and Xanax.
5)     Probiotic Digestive Enzyme formula, necessary to repair your immune system, killed with taking these drugs. 80% of your immune system is in the digestive tract and it must be repaired to give you the best chance of not contracting viruses, bacterial infections or fungal infections.
6)     Structural Lubrication & Skeletal Support for your knee and joints; These two formulas work miracles with the bones, joints and tendons. I can personally attest to that as can thousands of others.
7)     This is optional and will let you decide if you want it. Tolerance StressX anti-anxiety formula is great at relieving depression and anxiety, which happens when stressed. This also helps rebuild the adrenal system that is damaged with prolonged stress and illness. Might be good as a beginning thing to do to replace the Xanax withdrawals.
 
The doses for you will then be established if you choose to follow these suggestions. Balance is key to healing the body. All I ask is that you give these a try for three months to see what can be accomplished for you. I?m very confident with Dr. Garland and I guiding that you can get healthy again. 45 is young so be smart and get healthy!
 
Hope this answers your questions and gives you options.
Lena

Paul chose the natural route and I expect he will feel so much better and healing will begin shortly. He will receive his supplements mid week.

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Thought for the Day
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Regular use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (ibuprofen, aspirin, etc.) puts a severe strain on the digestive system.

How severe? According to the American Gastroenterological Association, long-term NSAID use is responsible for well over 100,000 hospitalizations each year due to upper gastrointestinal adverse events, and may contribute to an astonishing 16,500 deaths per year.
 

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MOTIVATOR
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NO ROOM IN THE BANK

Is your life full and busy? If you're like me, maybe it is TOO busy.
Sometimes I fill my life so full doing things I think I SHOULD do, I don't have time for the things I WANT to do, even if some of those things are important. It seems that I have a thousand deadlines to meet, and too often I can't find enough time to write, I skip my exercise routine, or I neglect uninterrupted time spent solitude and meditation.

But it helps to remember a story about a young girl and her bank.

The little girl's father had just given her a silver dollar to put into her bank. She excitedly ran off to her room to "deposit" the coin. However, in a few minutes she returned and handed the silver coin back to her father.

"Daddy," she said sadly, "here's your dollar back. I can't get it into my bank."

"Why not?" her concerned father asked.

"It's too full," she said, obviously disappointed.

Her father accompanied her back to her room and, sure enough, her bank was too full to accept even one more coin. It was stuffed with pennies.

If your life ever like that bank? So full of errands, obligations and
activities of no lasting value, that there simply is no room left for what is truly important - the silver dollars?

Author Grenville Kleiser once said, "To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile."

Have you made room for a few large coins in your bank; for something you believe to be worthwhile? If not, you may have to take out a few pennies, but I suspect you will never know they are gone.

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Steve Goodier Publisher@LifeSupportSystem.com  is a professional speaker, consultant and author of numerous books. Visit his site for more information, or to sign up for his FREE newsletter of Life, Love and Laughter at http://LifeSupportSystem.com

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