This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself

[Gondwanaland]

By Ryan Prior, CNN

Updated 1540 GMT (2340 HKT) July 27, 2019



(CNN)Doug Lindsay was 21 and starting his senior year at Rockhurst University, a Jesuit college in Kansas City, Missouri, when his world imploded.
After his first day of classes, the biology major collapsed at home on the dining room table, the room spinning around him.
It was 1999. The symptoms soon became intense and untreatable. His heart would race, he felt weak and he frequently got dizzy. Lindsay could walk only about 50 feet at a time and couldn't stand for more than a few minutes.
"Even lying on the floor didn't feel like it was low enough," he said.
The former high school track athlete had dreamed of becoming a biochemistry professor or maybe a writer for "The Simpsons."
Instead, he would spend the next 11 years mostly confined to a hospital bed in his living room in St. Louis, hamstrung by a mysterious ailment.
Doctors were baffled. Treatments didn't help. And Lindsay eventually realized that if he wanted his life back, he would have to do it himself.


https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/27/health/doug-lindsay-invented-surgery-trnd/index.html

 

[Tammy]

Hmmmmmmmm. He started out with Mono......which is EBV. Something I learned from Anthony William is that adrenaline is one of several things that can act as fuel for the EBV. So take away the fuel.......or I should say lessen the fuel might have been enough for the virus to go dormant. Just pondering.

 

[nyanko_the_sane]

I am glad Doug persevered and found his cure. Now he is helping others find their cure too.

As the popular proverb says, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."

 

[Sidny]

@Wayne just posted on this same story here
https://forums.phoenixrising.me/thr...nal-medullary-hyperplasia.77136/#post-2219846

@Tammy sorry if I missed it, but where does it say he had mono?
Also I think adrenaline acting as “fuel” for EBV is more of an indirect mechanism as adrenal activation is immunosuppressive (I think)

 

[Tammy]

@Tammy sorry if I missed it, but where does it say he had mono?

Early on in audio he mentions that the Dr.s reported he had mono

 

[Sidny]

Early on in audio he mentions that the Dr.s reported he had mono

Can you point out where exactly? After reviewing the article several times I can’t seem to find a mention of it.

 

[Tammy]

Can you point out where exactly? After reviewing the article several times I can’t seem to find a mention of it.

It's not mentioned in the writing...............it's mentioned when the man is talking in the video.

 

[nyanko_the_sane]

I think the research is showing EBV is to blame in a lot of diseases and conditions.

 

[Sidny]

It's not mentioned in the writing...............it's mentioned when the man is talking in the video.

Ah I didn’t even realize there was a video I just read the article. It’s kind of odd though how the text article makes no mention of it!! Seems like something critical that shouldn’t have been left out!