by Gwynn Alcorn

Created on: February 22, 2009   Last Updated: March 03, 2009

After years, often decades, of being treated with drugs, surgeries and even psychiatry, a medical specialist may finally diagnose you with Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

And this is the diagnosis: "There is no known cause, there is no effective treatment and there is no cure. You will be on drugs for the rest of your life, but you will still suffer debilitating pain and draining fatigue."

Now there is a diagnosis to brighten your day!

In fact, it did brighten my day when I received that diagnosis. Doctors could not help; therefore I was freed from their recommendations for drugs, surgeries and psychiatric counselling. I was at last confident to go on my own search for healing. I couldn't do any worse than what the medical profession was offering.

Fibromyalgics (to coin a term) suffer from 20 to 30 conditions. Here are just a few of them: tenderness in at least 11 of 18 specific trigger points on the body; widespread and moving target flesh pain; chronic fatigue (about the only difference between Fibromyalgia (FMS) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is whether you hurt more than you are tired, or your are more tired than you hurt); hypoglycemia or diabetes caused by malfunction of the pancreas; poor digestion resulting in diarrhea or constipation and/or irritable bowel; mal-absorption of nutrients, particularly protein, causing weakness; lack of deep sleep which prevents cell regeneration; systemic yeast infection; alternating chills and fever; hypothyroidism; reduced ability to think clearly - referred to as Fibro-fog; and depression.

Well, no wonder there is depression.

The May 15, 1998 issue of the Toronto Star, in a feature on Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia, quotes Dr. Susan Tainsh, associate professor of medicine at McMaster University, as telling her patients, "If you're NOT depressed, you need to see a psychiatrist."

The Path to Health

The path to health starts with three daily essentials - drinking a minimum of two quarts of pure water to wash the toxins from the inside of our bodies, a herbal cleansing tea and 30 to 50 grams of fibre to start pushing the toxins out of our poisoned bodies. If a fibromyalgic is not willing to start cleaning the body on the inside, being healthy again may remain only a dream.

A woman who was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue at the same time I was in 1996 is on $2,000 worth of drugs per month, taking daily morphine shots and is virtually unable to function, including not being able to return to work.

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