Fibromyalgia, The Other F Word

Fibromyalgia and/or Myofascial Pain Syndrome* have been documented in my patient charts for years, but not until 2014 did I ever bother to learn a little fibromyalgia because as debilitating as it can be, it was the least of my pain origins.

However, as my degenerative disease processes have progressed and as I have gotten other pain issues well managed day to day thanks to the numerous herbs, minerals and supplements I take, my muscle damage pain challenges have finally became front and center.

In other words, if you fall down a flight of stairs and break multiple bones from head to toe, you will mess up muscles, ligaments and tendons too, but all you will know is that pain is everywhere. 

When the doctors triage you, their focus is going to be on the worst damage first, your broken bones, because in situations where damage is addressed immediately and properly, your muscle, tendon, ligament damage will typically heal well by default. 

In a situation like mine and too many others, where a person has numerous areas of extensive (spinal) damage that is not treated promptly and properly thanks to being jerked around by reprehensible work comp doctors who lie and deny about a person's medical needs in order to collect fat paychecks, the likelihood of chronic pain is guaranteed as are the numerous degrading disease processes that result such as degenertive disc disease, arthritis, etc...then what happens by default, is that the surrounding, supporting muscles, ligaments, tendons, etc...will cause chronic pain by default both because they bear far more stress due to supporting weak damaged discs and verterbrae, the very structures which are actually supposed to support them and also because of referred pain.

I was so blinded by pain from every structure in my damaged spine from my cord to a slipping vertebra to 7 herniated discs, damaged nerves, muscles, ligaments, joints, etc...that it took me a very long time to figure out what different pain types feel like and which of my damage is likely flared because they all used to happen simultaneously as the rule, which was utter hell on earth.

I eventually learned though

which pain types likely stemmed from which damage sources and that was a tremendous gain to my health

because it allowed me, when still on 9 DIFFERENT Rx's

as the rule to know which to take vs. taking all of them. 

Read that again: To know WHICH Rx's to take

for the specific type of pain happening. 

Meaning, why take an anti-inflammatory

AND a muscle relaxer

AND a pain pill when you suspect

the pain is muscle based in origin? 

Why not just take the anti-inflammatory first

and if within 1 hour it has not even taken the edge off,

then take your muscle relaxer only. 

Also I always start with 1/2 a pill and

 if within 60 minutes it is helping, but not enough,

I take the other 1/2 and I have my answer that it was indeed muscle based and I didn't have to take a pain pill too!

If you take every pill in your arsenal

but didn't actually need to, to get your pain reduced,

all you are doing is guaranteeing future systemic breakdowns that will cause multiple health issues

with your organs and other body systems!

(And in too many cases, addiction.)

Thus, if you too have numerous areas of damage

that cause various types of pain for which you have narcotics, muscle relaxers, nerve damage  pills, etc...

I can't recommend strongly enough that

you learn to pay attention to your body

and keep a record of where the pain is and what it feels like. 

If you aren't able to figure out what damage is the source,

your pain doc or ortho or neuro doc should be able to discern that, as long as you provide him/her with clear and specific symptoms as well as the activity you were doing at the time that the spasms, pain, ache, etc...occurred. 

I now manage debilitating muscle pain

naturally with Magnesium Malate.

Click this link for more info:

 http://www.spinaltrapb2g.com/supplements_l-lysine_-_a_must_to_eliminate_stress_induced_cold_sores/magnesium_malate

In the interest of being patently clear, due to my extensive damage, I am still easily flared into severe pain both with and even without activity.  A cough, YAWNING, a turn of my head or raising my arm, can still send breathtaking, excruciating pain through me.

The thing is, THIS WAS THE CASE even when I was on multiple mood and mind altering Rx's! (NINE!  I had NINE Rx's!  9! Do you know how unhealthy that is??!)

So WHY harm my health and set myself up

for the myriad of new damage and

irreversible health conditions that come

as a result from taking just one Rx for life,

let alone the 9 Rx's as I used to?!

I know of what I speak, trust me on this.

Thus, ATTENTION all of you who take:

Flexeril (generic name Cyclobenzaprine) or

Zanaflex (generic name Tizanidine)

for your fibromyalgia pain,

PLEASE try Magnesium Malate!

The first time I took it,

it worked within ONE HOUR

to ELIMINATE hideous knee pain

that had me limping for a day or two!

I met a woman in 2014 who blew my mind

when she told me that she has fibromyalgia

and is on 3 Flexeril 10mg a day

but because it makes her so groggy and useless,

her dr. put her on an A.D.D. medication

to give her the energy that she needs to function! 

That is the equivalent of someone taking valium to relax

and cocaine to perk up!!!

SHEER INSANITY! 

The fact that it is dr. prescribed makes it even worse because the average person trust their doctors are doing right by them.

That crazy mixture is NOT in ANYONE'S best health interest!

Do you have any clue what that daily routine

will do to your body??

Your heart?

Your brain? 

Can you say stroke? 

Aneurysm? 

Heart attack?

DEATH!

Let me tell you something, if I take JUST ONE Flexeril 10mg,

I am lethargic, dizzy and a total zombie not just for that day, but the ENTIRE NEXT DAY TOO!!!

That's how HORRID that pill is! 

Ditto my Tizanidine 4mg pills! 

I gave them both up because they made me a USELESS ZOMBIE.

I know her doctor thinks they are doing right by her,

but they are NOT. 

Again, it is a recipe for insanity,

not your best health, now or ever!

You would do your quality of life a huge favor to get off of those horrid Rx's that leave you not even realizing "the fog job" it is doing to your brain, emotions and by default, behavior.

If you cry easily and/or a lot while on them, please realize that it is these Rx's.

If you are clinically depressed, these Rx's are only

going to increase your symptoms of all-consuming unhappiness.

In my experience they make you only be able to REACT to life vs. respond, which is indescribably unhealthy not just for you but everyone in contact with you.

Additionally, that constant negative status depletes your adrenal glands and further diminishes your health, energy and quality of life.

If you need a quality prescription muscle relaxant AT TIMES*, that won't simultaneously alter your mood and throw your energy down the toilet, ask your doctor if you can take Skelaxin 800mg (generic name Metaxalone). 

In my experience the brand Skelaxin is JUST AS EFFECTIVE as the evil muscle relaxers above but WITHOUT making you feel like your head is in another room...they do make me a little tired, but NOTHING compared to the HORRID lethargy of flexeril and zanaflex.

So if you work and/or have kids and/or any need to be a functioning adult in any capacity, including driving, you simply won't be able to be one on these Rx's. 

Which is apparently why some doctors also prescribe A.D.D. Rx's for people on these muscle relaxers! 

This is such an unimaginably unhealthy roller coaster ride for your brain and body in general! 

Please, if this is your daily pain management routine, STOP. 

Even if it appears to be "working" for you, it isn't worth what it can and will do to your health in the long run, that will very likely leave you even more debilitated!

If you think you were held back from living your life by Fibromyalgia, what about when you have a stroke or a heart attack?  IF you even survive either of these events of course.

I don't normally try to scare anyone into going herbal, I believe that presenting honest, clear information and results is enough to provoke the thought process necessary to get reasonable people who truly want to get their health back 2 good naturally, to do so. 

However, this situation would be my exception to the rule! 

Since I am not a doctor I can't explain the specifics of why it is such a horrible treatment plan, I just know that my God given/God driven instincts tell me so. 

Sort of like since I am not an engineer, I don't have the ability to explain to you the physics of why a plane will crash if you nose dive it, I just know it will...don't nose dive your health!

PLEASE, STOP this horrid cocktail of what I can only guess are uppers and downers.  I don't know.  I am not a drug expert, I have never abused my prescription drugs, nor have I have ever tried any form of illegal drugs, including marijuana.  (Yes, I know, it's not illegal everywhere anymore.  That doesn't matter and it isn't my point.)

As a foodie I tend to use food analogies that most will relate to so let me put it this way:

If you put a cup of sugar in something and that makes it too sweet, then it may make sense to add salt to balance out the sweetness to achieve the flavor you seek, but that doesn't make the excess sugar and salt any less unhealthy for you, your blood pressure, etc...

Just because you can't taste the damage

that it is going to do to your body,

does not mean that it isn't damaging your body.  

Did you know that you can't always see, smell or taste the bacteria that causes food-borne illnesses? 

But just because you can't see, smell or taste them,

doesn't mean that you won't get very ill

and in the cases of children, elderly and

those with weakened immunse systems,

be exposed to life long health syndromes or even die.

Ditto this horrible mix

of prescription pills.

And let's face it, most "salt-o-holics" don't stop abusing salt until they have health issues sending them to the doctors, like high blood pressure.  As factually, some people's loved ones don't find out they had a heart problem and shouldn't have used salt, until the autoposy.

Listen, I get how every second of severe debilitating pain feels like a year, how there are times when even taking a deep breath can slice through you like a knife. 

If you have rhomboid pain (those muscles around the shoulder blades) that flare up like mine, then you know that it feels like someone is taking a hot fireplace poker and pushing it into you, hard!  Trust me when I say that Magnesium Malate has helped that immeasurably!

The fact that I well know the insidious nature of life altering chronic pain and take Rx's as the exception and not the rule should speak volumes about the results of going God, herbal and learning the art of music meditation! 

I am not saying you shouldn't seek pain management solutions; you absolutely should.  I just encourage everyone to seek safe for them, low cost, FAST ACTING & EFFECTIVE NATURAL solutions of which I speak of on Spinal Trap and credit God with for creating and leading me to them, to get my quality of life back 2 good. 

Supplement these natural efforts with a Toradol injection when deemed appropriate by your doctor. Toradol INJECTIONS take me out of a pain level 10 in five minutes or less!

http://www.spinaltrapb2g.com/rxs/toradol_injections

If you have any questions, email me.  I'm a holistic life coach and my goal is to help as many people figure out their best action plans to get their lives back 2 good as possible! 

I don't have all of the answers, nor claim to, but if you read Spinal Trap, you will see I have been blessed to discover numerous natural, successful methods of pain reduction and elimination. 

If you live with chronic pain, any reduction in it, is a health victory!  God Luck with reducing yours!  (That's not a typo; all good things come from God.)

http://www.spinaltrapb2g.com/god_luck

*My reading has shown that not all doctors consider these two diagnoses to be the same, hence the and/or.  Regardless, they both cause pain so focus on that point and don't get lost on the technicalities of which the medical community don't agree.