My treatment
I'm always amazed how the medical community craves concrete documentation in order for them to validate the efficacy of treatments.(this process is called case reviewing)
BUT, when a doctor who practices alternative medicine, such as my doc, offers 100's of successful cases for review, the mainstream medical community isn't interested?
The above is a big dilemma we face in the future, if we want to expand the scope of proven effective treatments.
MY HEALTH-- As I replied earlier in this post, I do have some lingering cognitive difficulties. From my low point in December, where I was at 1/10th of a percent functional. I'm now 90% physically and up to roughly 85% neurologically. I have a little more nerve damage than originally thought and nerves take a long time to heal. Specifically my cranial nerves and areas of my ganglia dorsal(brain stem).
Remember my starting point in rehabilitation started with leaning up for 30 seconds to retraining my brain to do everything properly again. Read, write, word recall, focus and completing a thought process. Literally SWEATING, while forcing my brain to take in a few words out of a book.
MY TREATMENT-- O.K.... I'm assuming everyone had a chance to read the informational link I provided in my reply "Warm Greetings" yesterday. If so good for you, if not, I'm gonna post it below. It's a fairly long read, but it will give you a very good understanding of neural therapy.
http://www.naturalworldhealing.com/index_files/neural-therapy-1.pdf
I was treated with Neural Therapy in combination with acupuncture, laser light therapy, and nutritional replacement.
Before I go one step further, THE SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME OF THESE TREATMENTS, VARIES GREATLY. IN MOST CASES, A DIRECT RESULT OF THE PRACTITIONERS SKILL LEVEL.
When the correct formulas are used by a skilled practitioner, results are astounding, which I see every week. However when the wrong agents are used, especially by a practitioner who does not know how to apply, the results can leave you sick and broke... like I've found out in the past. This goes for anything...from Vitamin IV's to Acupuncture and so on.
Even though I used the other treatments mentioned above, they were only complimentary treatments to neural therapy. However they were all important for bringing my body back to health as quickly and safely as possible.
CONCEPT OF NEURAL THERAPY-- It seems Neural Therapy is based on the principle of.... the need to have proper homeostasis throughout the body. This seems to be the key in overcoming chronic illness and many pain conditions. Our immune system, which is made of cells, proteins and tissues forms a strong electrochemical bond throughout our body.(Not quite as electric as the toaster, but enough). In chronic illness of all sorts, we develop disturbances in the immune system or the electrochemical function of it. Neural Therapy, if done properly, corrects these disturbances or blocks. In turn, restoring our nervous system and immune system to a state of equilibrium. Neural Therapy is applied by injection, into meridian or trigger points throughout the body. In common practice, anesthetics are used as the injection agent.
O.K. listen closely. My doc had been using traditional neural therapy for years, as described above. He was having fairly good results. Fairly good, being 20% or 2/10 success ratio with several neuro-immune diseases, including ME/CFS. Of course success can be interpreted differently. SO lets just classify success as mostly recovered or complete resolution of symptoms.
At the same time, SEPARATELY doc was using homeopathic's and seeing a fairly good success rate in combating virus', bacteria, fungus, toxins and so on, with a higher success rate than Neural Therapy, but used for more general issues such as the ones I just mentioned.
DOCS UNIQUE TWIST ON NEURAL THERAPY-- Good guess, yes, he decided to combine the two. He replaced the standard anesthetics with homeopathic's. Some doctors do use other agents such as bee venom but very few in the world use homeopathic's now. These homeopathic's are hand-picked and matched to each patients needs. They are very specific formulas.
BENEFITS-- By combining the two, the homeopathics are effective on a CELLULAR LEVEL, because they are now being INJECTED into very specific points. Rather than simply being used orally or trans dermal. The effects from the treatment now last up to 10x longer as well.
In ME/CFS, docs focus is on the spinal cord and areas of the brain stem. As he feels these are major areas of infection and subsequent damage. (Such as my case).
Neural Therapy also induces detox. Deep detox, again on a cellular level, even detoxing the bones.
However there are two main obstacles those with ME/CFS face in recovering.
1) Ion Channel dysfunction-- This makes it nearly impossible for anyone with severe ME/CFS to detox.
In order for proper detox, chemicals need to transfer from cell to cell, On there way from tissues to the intestines and excreted.
With our Ion channel dysfunction, minerals are unable to permeate the cells properly. Cells need minerals and amino acids for detoxifcation. However the toxins can be forced up off the cells if enough effort is made..i.e. Glutathione I.V's or most mineral I'vs.
PROBLEM--Once these toxins are forced off the cells with these treatments, especially the neurons they still can't be fully filtered through the system... because of the ion channel dysfunction. That is a prime reason why I got hurt and many others in thier detoxification efforts. Most doctors assume if they are putting something naturally good in us, there should be no problems, thats incorrect. On the other end, most ME/CFS patients feel as though it's impossible for them to detox or use antibiotics/antivirals without negative reaction. I'm talking about much worse reaction than a herx that most experience in detox.
By correcting the imbalances in our electrochemical field, neural therapy restores the integrity of the cells. Allowing them to strengthen and once again function normally.
2) LEAKY GUT--This is a HUGE problem for nearly every ME/CFS patient whether they realize it or not. Now even if the Ion channel issue was corrected, the gut needs to heal or the toxins just recirculate throughout our bodies once the toxins make it too the intestines. Most ME/CFS patients cannot tolerate supplements designed to help the gut.
ACUPUNCTURE-- This is where acupuncture comes into play. Yes, it does work, there is a reason it's been around thousands of years. However, as mentioned earlier, success depends on the practitioners skill level. Not only does acupuncture strengthen the gut but it offers tremendous benefits for the liver, Kidneys, spleen and the rest of the body. Helping us accomplish our goal of returning the body back to proper homeostasis.
I tried not to be too technical so this was easier to understand. As it is a very complicated process.
I will discuss this treatment in more detail as questions are asked. In the meantime, I'm gonna make one more reply to this post within two days before I answer any questions.
Next, I'm gonna talk a little about my doctors perception of the disease and the future course of these treatments and others on the horizon. As I discuss more, the benefits of neural therapy applied this way will become more evident.
Thanks!!
Mike
(Mike has opened up alot of new ground and we're going to continue the discussion on a new thread. You can find it at the following thread in this Forum: 'Listen To ME: Mike Dessin on the Doctor's Treatment that Benefited Him So Greatly See you there!
