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  1. jmolina

    Article: In the Dragon's Jaws: How To Be Sick - A Buddhist Guide to CFS by Toni Bernhardt #1

    Balance It isn’t that I don’t recognize that I’m ill and have very limited abilities and freedoms. I realize it fully. I also realize that I may not get any better; that this is the way my life has been since I was 40 and it may well continue this way until the end. But I never give up hope...
  2. jmolina

    Article: In the Dragon's Jaws: How To Be Sick - A Buddhist Guide to CFS by Toni Bernhardt #1

    Balance I'm with you Victoria. Here is a piece I wrote in 06 I stll find it applicable. Balance It isn
  3. jmolina

    Article: Breathing Deep with Valtrex: A Patient Improves

    Wow, 8 grams. I have never heard of taking that much. Glad it is helping you JudyS. It took me a while to really realize I was better because I was so weak. I still can't do anywhere close to what a normal person can do, but I am much better than I was. I can appear normal for short periods...
  4. jmolina

    The Aroma of Health: first experiences with aromatherapy

    IntuneJune, Yes, if you google four thieves blend you will get multiple sites that sell this blend.
  5. jmolina

    Valtrex and EBV

    Hi Robin, I stopped getting sick all the time and fatigue improved some right away, but I was so weak from many years of not being able to do much of anything that it took a while for me to really see improvement. By a while I mean about a year or so. I was getting stronger all that time but I...
  6. jmolina

    Valtrex and EBV

    Hi everyone, I have been on 3 grams for Valtrex for 4 years now. I have no side effects. I have tried three times to decrease the amount, hoping that my body can keep the EBV suppressed. Every time within 10-13 days I come down with the full symptoms of EBV. Before I went on the Valtrex I...
  7. jmolina

    The Aroma of Health: first experiences with aromatherapy

    Hi eveyone, here is the scoop on the 4 thieves blend As the bubonic plague decimated Europe in the year 1413, four thieves were captured and charged with robbing the dead and dying victims. When the thieves were tried, the magistrate offered leniency if they would reveal how they resisted...