In Reply to: Re: Have written a book about my experience being fished into the family posted by Billie on September 09, 2005 at 19:45:12:
I'm a family exer American living in France.
I came down with fibro overnight in August 1993.
I had been overworking and was stressed and I think that triggered it.
I went from being totally healthy to seriously sick from one day to another.
Over a period of 2 years I went from specialist to specialist and suffered many things at their expensive hands trying to find out what I had.
Finally someone at my church recognized my symptoms and puqt me in touch with a FMS helpgroup. By that time I couldn't turn my head at all, couldn't sleep more than a couple hours at a time, had been hospitalized for irritated bowel and irritated bladder, had knots instead of muscles etc etc you know the story.
Learning what it was helped to reduce the stress some. At least I knew it wasn't going to kill me quickly.
It seems you have already changed your lifestyle to reduce stress and avoid pollution.
That helped me a lot.
Natural sleep aids are good too. I use Valerian, Melatonin, Passifleur, Kava Kava, and a couple of others that my fibro mind-fog won't let me remember right now.
The product that helped me the most is called OPCs (oligomeric proanthocyanidins)
http://www.womenandinfants.com/body.cfm?id=388&chunkiid=21765
It works on collagen in the muscles and helps the muscle knots to soften and thereby reduces pain.
In France it's sold under the name Endotelon.
In America one brand name is called Pyknogenol but I'm sure it exists as a generic as well probably under the name OPCs.
Natural sources are the red husks around peanuts, the white of orange peels, (untreated only)grape seeds, and the bark of certain pine trees (yum).
As you may know, chronic mycoplasmic infection is the most common causal agent for FM.
Lyme diseas, and Gulf War Syndrome are closely related. They also involve mycoplasmic infection.
http://www.nzine.co.nz/features/stealthbug.html
http://www.rense.com/general18/mcc.htm
good hints at this site
http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=257&i=222