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Blog entries by gbells
Today I continued the exercise release regimen. I did it at the lower and upper throat area and a strange thing happened, it triggered gagging. Early on in my CFS I had dysphagia with difficulty swallowing. So I know this is an affected area. While weird and a little uncomfortable I see this...
Slept like the dead last night. Work up ready to fight. Used oppositional muscle groups for resistance combined with cross friction massage of muscles and fascial groups. Used pre-treatment meds and supps. Ribs turning into a furnace with heat production. Sweating. Energy drain post. This...
The exercise massage reigmen is working. I can notice that my leg weakness getting out of a chair has decreased about 50%. I discovered that fascia is very imporant to release, not just muscles. My mood is elevating by a huge amount. This is very encouraging.
I became sick with ME in 2008. I was recovering from mononucleosis then made the mistake of kissing a girlfriend who had active HHV6. Symptoms started as a cold then progressed to muscle twitching followed by cold skin, gagging, overactive bladder syndrome. Next I was bitten by a flea from an...