Paging Dr. Lam ( and Dr. Silva)
One part of the puzzle of having CFS is dealing with all of the seemingly unrelated symptoms you have. You're dizzy, and weak, your joints and muscles might ache, you can't walk across the room. You can't remember what you just said or what you just did.Sometimes you feel good, though, for seemingly no reason at all. You might be able to make dinner, walk down the street, or go out with friends, only to be hit by a crash and be bedridden, only to get up and have it all happen again. I can't tell you how many times I thought I was finally "cured" only to go out and "overdo it" (trying to catch up with everything that didn't get done when I was sick), and then
find myself bedridden again. The other issues is that no one seems to get just how awful you feel. You feel really, really sick, but you don't look sick, but you feel sicker than you've ever been in your whole life. I actually thought I was dying. I often had a feeling of doom, that I would never recover.But in my research I found out something interesting about this.
The whole tendency to dwell on how awful you feel, and that horrible sick feeling that you have, is actually a symptom of sympathetic nervous system dominance...it's as if feeling/dwelling on just how sick you are, is a symptom in and of itself. This little piece of information is something I learned from Dr. Lam. Dr. Lam is an Adrenal Fatigue specialist, who has an extensive website devoted to health, healing and his supplements. It's actually interesting and informative, and he told me himself that he contracted Adrenal Fatigue in medical school and no doctor could cure him, so he developed his own treatment and supplements. (more on him later). I will add that when I asked him if he had recovered he could not give me a straight answer, and from what I could gather he had learned to manage his symptoms enough to devote himself to the study (extensive study, if you go on his website) of adrenal fatigue. He makes it sound really, really complicated and involved.
But as an aside, I will tell you another reason why I did not take the "medical treatment" route.
Every other person in my family happens to be a doctor of one sort or another. NONE of them understand CFS, FIBRO, IBS, etc. ( again, more on that later), but one of my family members is an endocrinologist at the National Institutes of Health. She told me that Adrenal Fatigue does not exist.
Period. End of Story. So that was all I needed to know.
So Dr. Lam was my third to last professional that I consulted with before I finally found an effective treatment. In many ways, he was awesome. He told me we had to "reset" my nervous system. I was to do nothing but what he told me! I could not exercise (no worries there) for three months. He had me take high doses (really really high) of Vitamin C, and take his Adrenal Support supplements.
I had already tried Dr. Wilson's supplements, which made me waaay overstimulated and panicky and crazy. So Dr. Lam's supplements made me feel high. I thought I was cured, I thought this was the magic bullet I was looking for! I felt great! And then I crashed. Badly. To the point where I couldn't get out of bed.
So while I was in bed I figured I would try The Silva Mind Control Method. I had read the Silva Mind Control book a good twenty years earlier, so I thought I would purchase the audio program and listen to it since that was about the only thing I could do. I was in a hurry because I needed to get better and get out of bed to take care of my family. And I really wanted to exercise again. In short, it didn't work, and
I was actually disappointed because there was a special addendum that I had purchased on healing. It was a Native American man talking about healing, and it really wasn't helpful. So much for the Native American Medicine Man! He did have lots of nice things to say, but no real help to offer...
©themedian_of infinity
find myself bedridden again. The other issues is that no one seems to get just how awful you feel. You feel really, really sick, but you don't look sick, but you feel sicker than you've ever been in your whole life. I actually thought I was dying. I often had a feeling of doom, that I would never recover.But in my research I found out something interesting about this.
The whole tendency to dwell on how awful you feel, and that horrible sick feeling that you have, is actually a symptom of sympathetic nervous system dominance...it's as if feeling/dwelling on just how sick you are, is a symptom in and of itself. This little piece of information is something I learned from Dr. Lam. Dr. Lam is an Adrenal Fatigue specialist, who has an extensive website devoted to health, healing and his supplements. It's actually interesting and informative, and he told me himself that he contracted Adrenal Fatigue in medical school and no doctor could cure him, so he developed his own treatment and supplements. (more on him later). I will add that when I asked him if he had recovered he could not give me a straight answer, and from what I could gather he had learned to manage his symptoms enough to devote himself to the study (extensive study, if you go on his website) of adrenal fatigue. He makes it sound really, really complicated and involved.
But as an aside, I will tell you another reason why I did not take the "medical treatment" route.
Every other person in my family happens to be a doctor of one sort or another. NONE of them understand CFS, FIBRO, IBS, etc. ( again, more on that later), but one of my family members is an endocrinologist at the National Institutes of Health. She told me that Adrenal Fatigue does not exist.
Period. End of Story. So that was all I needed to know.
So Dr. Lam was my third to last professional that I consulted with before I finally found an effective treatment. In many ways, he was awesome. He told me we had to "reset" my nervous system. I was to do nothing but what he told me! I could not exercise (no worries there) for three months. He had me take high doses (really really high) of Vitamin C, and take his Adrenal Support supplements.
I had already tried Dr. Wilson's supplements, which made me waaay overstimulated and panicky and crazy. So Dr. Lam's supplements made me feel high. I thought I was cured, I thought this was the magic bullet I was looking for! I felt great! And then I crashed. Badly. To the point where I couldn't get out of bed.
So while I was in bed I figured I would try The Silva Mind Control Method. I had read the Silva Mind Control book a good twenty years earlier, so I thought I would purchase the audio program and listen to it since that was about the only thing I could do. I was in a hurry because I needed to get better and get out of bed to take care of my family. And I really wanted to exercise again. In short, it didn't work, and
I was actually disappointed because there was a special addendum that I had purchased on healing. It was a Native American man talking about healing, and it really wasn't helpful. So much for the Native American Medicine Man! He did have lots of nice things to say, but no real help to offer...
©themedian_of infinity
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