> Does anyone have any suggestions for getting rid of this problem
> naturally? I was considering some chelation, but I think the nerve
> damage is already in place, whether or not there is still platinum in
> my body.
Here are some posts I've collected-
From: basenjo@iowatelecom.net
Subject: [cancercured] acupuncture for neuropathy
Date: April 18, 2008 11:45:00 PM PDT
To: cancercured@yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: cancercured@yahoogroups.com
This may interest you, Al. Although the group consisted of HIV
patients, the results are impressive. Scroll down to the final two
sentences for the conclusion, if you want to skip the statistical mumbo
jumbo.
Effect of Acupuncture on Pain and Subjective Peripheral Neuropathy in
Persons with HIV
Phillips KD, et al. Department of Family and Community Medicine,
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio,
TX.
Researchers tested 21 subjects to determine the effect of 5 weeks of
acupuncture treatment in a group setting on pain and symptoms of
peripheral neuropathy in patients with human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV). The subjects completed the Pain Rating Scale and the Subjective
Peripheral Neuropathy Screen (SPNS) before and after 5 weeks of
acupuncture. The acupuncture treatments occurred two evenings per week.
Each of the 10 sessions consisted of participants receiving 10-15
needle insertions in acupoints that addressed the individual's changing
pattern of pain, sleep problems, or other health issues. The treatment
utilized only main or common points located below the elbows and knees,
and on the head, neck, and ears. Only reactive points were used in the
acupuncture treatments. Needles were left in situ for 30-45 minutes.
A comparison of the pretreatment and post-treatment Pain Rating Scale
results indicated a significant reduction in present pain (p = 0.0002),
least and most pain in the last 24 hours (p < 0.0001 and p = 0.0004,
respectively) and the total pain summary score (p < 0.0001). Symptoms
reported in the SPNS were reduced during the 5 weeks of acupuncture.
Scores for pain/aching/burning, pins and needles, and numbness in the
hands and feet were reduced (all significant at less than p 0.0065), as
well as the total summary score (p = 0.0001). Researchers concluded the
results of this study indicate that subjective pain and symptoms of
peripheral neuropathy were reduced during the period of individual
acupuncture therapy delivered in a group setting. While the study
design did not allow for control of nonspecific placebo factors, the
data support the hypothesis that acupuncture in a group setting can
reduce pain and neuropathic symptoms in HIV-infected individuals.
For what's it's worth, I've had success with acupuncture for a variety
of problems, from depression to back pain.
Bill
Bill Asenjo, PhD, CRC
www.billasenjo.com
basenjo@iowatelecom.net
Cell 319-461-4516
Phone/Fax 319-658-2016
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From: basenjo@iowatelecom.net
Subject: [cancercured] peripheral neuropathy & ALA
Date: April 24, 2008 3:20:41 PM PDT
To: cancercured@yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: cancercured@yahoogroups.com
* Alpha Lipoic Acid - In Germany, alpha-lipoic acid is an approved
medical treatment for peripheral neuropathy. It speeds the removal of
glucose from the bloodstream, at least partly by enhancing insulin
function, and it reduces insulin resistance, an underpinning of many
cases of coronary heart disease and obesity. The therapeutic dose for
lipoic acid is 600 mg/day. The richest food source of alpha-lipoic acid
is red meat – but to ensure proper health, use lean cuts of organic
beef that has not been subject to antibiotics or feed lot practices.
Bill Asenjo, PhD, CRC
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From: robert-blau@webtv.net
Subject: [never_do_harm_to_anyone] Vitamin D helps relieve pain among
diabetic patients with neuropathy
Date: April 25, 2008 3:08:05 PM PDT
To: searching-alternatives@yahoogroups.com,
SymphonicHealth@yahoogroups.com, oleandersoup@yahoogroups.com,
never_do_harm_to_anyone@yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: never_do_harm_to_anyone@yahoogroups.com
Moderator's Note:
To find out lots about Vitamin D, do a search under "Vitamin D
Counsel," where you will see what some of the most knowledgeable
scientists in the world say about Vitamin D.
Of course, with regard to Vitamin D relieving neuropathy pain, the best
thind is to eat and live so as not to get diabetes in the first place!
Get off the Standard American Diet and onto the Gerson/Genesis diet!
Vitamin D helps relieve pain among diabetic patients with neuropathy
A research letter published in the April 14, 2008 issue of the American
Medical Association journal Archives of Internal Medicine reported that
vitamin D supplementation reduced pain levels in patients with diabetic
neuropathy. The condition occurs when high levels of glucose damage the
nerves, and can include burning, tingling, numbness, and throbbing
sensations.
Drs Paul Lee and Roger Chen of the Concord Repatriation General Hospital
in New South Wales, Australia enrolled 51 type 2 diabetics with
neuropathy for the study. Pain severity was rated via two questionnaires
and serum 25 hydroxyvitamin D and parathyroid hormone levels were
measured at the beginning and end of the treatment period. All
participants were found to have insufficient levels of vitamin D at less
than 24 nanograms per cubic milliliter at the study's onset, and were
given a mean dose of 2,059 IU of the vitamin for three months. Continue
Reading [Search at lef.org]
Neuropathy
In all forms of neuropathy, there is abnormal stimulation of nerves or
damage that results in pain. Peripheral nerves are sensitive conduits
that carry impulses from the extremities back to the central nervous
system (i.e., the spinal cord and brain). Impulses are transmitted along
nerves by changes in the electrical charge of the cell membrane caused
by movement of ions such as sodium, potassium, and calcium. Impulses are
transmitted between nerves by neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine
and substance P, which is responsible for transmitting pain impulses.
For protection, most nerves are covered with a thin sheath called
myelin, which is made from choline and lipids. The myelin functions like
the rubber wrapping around an electrical cord: it insulates the nerve
fibers and prevents abnormal transmissions.
Depending on the nature of the specific neuropathy, some part of this
system breaks down. In diabetic neuropathy, for example, there is a
change in the microvascular network that supplies the nerve with
nutrients. This lack of blood supply and nutrients causes the nerve to
function abnormally. Diabetic neuropathy tends to occur in more than one
nerve area (this condition is called polyneuropathy) and may cause loss
of sensation and pain that typically worsens at night. In severe cases,
diabetics can suffer from a kind of neuropathy called autonomic
neuropathy. In this case, the autonomic nervous system, which controls
automatic body functions, is affected with possibly serious
consequences, including gastrointestinal problems, bladder-emptying
problems, abnormal heart rhythms, and even sudden death (El-Atat FA et
al 2004). Continue Reading [Search at lef.org]
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From: ddarrin@......
Subject: Re: CS>Vaccines- chronic fatigue / NIACIN
Date: October 18, 2007 9:26:07 PM PDT
To: silver-list@eskimo.com
Nenah:
Glad to have you back!
I well know the power of Niacin, the first time I used it I took a 500
mg tablet and waited about a half an hour for the flush, it didn't come
so I took another one. I turned bright red all over ( not like a swim
suit) and the slightest movement made me feel like I was rolling in
fiberglass insulation. My heart rate came up until it seemed close to
that of a jackhammer.
That lasted for 12 hours, so that is why I always say to start small
and work up.
Now I take 3 grams and get a mild flush which is my goal. The niacin
has rid me of all spider veins and turned my numb right foot back to
normal for a 20 year old. I'm 72. Sounds to me like Hubbard may be
full of it!
Dave
=======================
From: "Dave" <ddarrin@.......
To: <silver-list@eskimo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: CS>Vaccines- chronic fatigue
...I never felt right for 42 years, Then I diagnosed my problem myself
with the help of the Internet and cured it with CS in three days.
Chronic Fatigue, Pain and Arthritis were the main problems (as well as
brain fog) and I'm sure they would have called it one of those if given
the chance. It even went so far that they wanted to remove the
cartilage from my affected joints. After whipping the Lyme I cured the
arthritis with CMO , Glucosamine, Condroitin along with 6 grams a day
of vitamin C and equal amount of L-Lysine and 6 grams of Niacin to help
the circulation of these things to the joints. If you want to try this
start very small on the niacin as the flush can be severe until you
build up a resistance.
Dave
=================================
Hi Dave.
Glad to hear that you finally healed yourself. What a story!
You mentioned building up a resistance to niacin so after a while you
don't flush from it. You may not know that although this is a common
perception of many, there are other factors involved. I thought I'd
share with you a tidbit about niacin from my book on sauna therapy,
======beginning excerpt======
Niacin (also called nicotinic acid or Vitamin B-3) is known as the
"flushing" vitamin because it causes the skin to redden or become
flushed due to capillary enlargement and increased blood flow. It also
makes the skin feel itchy and prickly. If people take high enough doses
of B-3, they sometimes also feel nauseated, dizzy, disoriented, and
even mentally unstable and volatile. For these reasons, niacinamide --
a close relative chemically to niacin that does not cause skin flush or
other symptoms -- has become a popular substitute. However, it turns
out that this "flushing" property unique to niacin is not only crucial
to the detoxification process, but indicates that a detoxification
process is actually occurring.
Hubbard's research on niacin, begun in 1950, explains how
this detox process works. In Clear Body, Clear Mind: The Effective
Purification Program, he wrote:
Odd manifestations occurred when this vitamin [niacin] was administered
to individuals. Its most startling effect was that it would turn on, in
a red flush, a sunburn on the person's body in an exact pattern of a
bathing suit! These were very neat patterns. The bathing suit outline
was unmistakable. What kind of "educated vitamin" was this that caused
bodies to turn on a flush exactly like a previous sunburn, showing the
exact pattern of a bathing suit outline?
Could it be, Hubbard wondered, that niacin in itself does
not cause a flush, but instead causes the body to start discharging old
waste materials that had been stored in the fatty tissue? What if these
people were simply recovering from a prior case of sun poisoning,
acquired from too much sunbathing while in a swim suit? The subjects in
this research program took carefully controlled dosages of niacin. At a
200 mg. (milligram) dose, the "sunburnlike" flushes eventually
disappeared, at which point the dose was increased to 500 mg. At a 500
mg. dose, the flushes recurred, but with less intensity, at which point
the dose was increased to 1000 mg. (which equals one gram). At a 1000
mg. dose, there was a small reaction for several days, at which point
the dose was increased, and so on. Finally, at a 2000 mg. dose, Hubbard
reported, there were no more niacin flush "side" effects. "The person
would feel fine, his 'sunburn' would be gone, and he would experience
no more flush from the niacin."
Both British and American pharmacopoeia agencies, Hubbard
also pointed out, "advertised" that the niacin flush -- presumably an
intrinsic characteristic of the vitamin -- is inherently negative to
the body, and thus "toxic" in large amounts. "But if niacin was toxic,"
the author asked, "how was it that the more you 'overdosed' [on] it the
sooner you no longer experienced the sunburnlike flushes from it?"
Those in orthodox medicine circles hypothesized that this was an
example of the body's adjusting to unfavorable conditions by repressing
the symptoms, and thus appearing asymptomatic. But this hypothesis was
completely unsatisfactory, in view of the bathing suit outline on the
test subjects! Nevertheless, Hubbard's revealing evidence was mostly
ignored by mainstream doctors and scientists. They didn't consider
Hubbard qualified to do research, regardless of how carefully he
designed his experiments or how coherent and rational his observations
were.
Six years later, Hubbard had the opportunity to gather even
more compelling data when working with subjects who had been exposed to
fallout from atomic bomb tests, atomic accidents, and materials that
had been part of an old atomic bomb explosion. "In 1956," he wrote,
"niacin was reacting differently on people than it had in 1950, and the
effects were more severe."
People on the research program in 1950 had experienced only past
sunburn flushes. In 1956, people on the research program, while
experiencing a flush, were also experiencing nausea, skin irritations,
hives, colitis and other uncomfortable manifestations, on the same
vitamin and in the same dosages as had been used in 1950.
One highly significant detail is that some of the same people
participated in both Hubbard's earlier and later research. What had
changed? Only the newly developed health problems the subjects brought
with them to the second research project! The first group of research
subjects, who needed to recover from sun poisoning, developed symptoms
uniquely related to their condition. The second group manifested
symptoms specific to atomic radiation poisoning (as well as more
symptoms in general) because they had been exposed to nuclear waste.
Hubbard's explanation 50 years ago was convincing then, and seems
equally convincing today: that niacin is an effective and powerful
catalyst that induces the body's detoxification response without itself
becoming transformed in the change. Niacin's use in sauna therapy is
also a wonderful choice since its dilation of surface blood vessels
allows heat to escape.
======end excerpt======
--By the way, I'm glad to be re-subscribed to this list, after a fairly
long hiatus.
Nenah
Nenah Sylver, PhD
http://www.nenahsylver.com
* author, The Handbook of Rife Frequency Healing
* author, The Holistic Handbook of Sauna Therapy
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