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Fibromyalgia - Does anything help relieve severe pain during flares?
Fibromyalgia | Last Active: Dec 8 10:09am | Replies (98)Comment receiving replies
I have that problem too. Antihistamines help. I even turn my lower underwear inside out and my night clothes inside out because anything, even the seams makes me miserable and itch. We are super-sensitive. It is as if the whole body is on high alert. I really think it may be related to all of chemicals in the water and food chain. Our bodies are telling us there is something wrong and the system is trying to fight it. I have ordered a water filtration system to get the junk out that is left by the water treatment facility (recent article on chloramines as a possible hazard. This was in the information "Chloramines are a chemical compound used to disinfect water and are made by mixing chlorine and ammonia" plus the controversy about Fluoride. See the news on what the farmers are using to fertilize their crops (meaning -- Organic -- means nothing because the "stuff" comes up through the soil, into the plants and into the crops.) Do a search on Newsnation Now for the article entitled 'This is my Chernobyl:' Texas ranchers watch cows die because of PFAS" ( Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances).
Source: "biosolids sludge" which is defined as "Biosolids are a product of the wastewater treatment process". So it seems, that in more than one state, water treatment facilities have found a new way to make more money by selling all the nasty stuff that they take out of the water in their treatment facilities, to the farmers, and it comes right back to us. So, it is in our meat and in our food supply - plants.
How in the world can we escape. And then the medical folks say we are suffering from depression so they prescribe mind medications to "make us feel better". What a world we live in.
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I can't believe it! I tooo turn my underwear and pajamas inside out for bed! Thank you for confirming my weird behaviour.
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You are extremely knowledgeable about the toxins which we may very well be reacting to. Other theories are: 1) that our central nervous systems are in high alert due to childhood trauma or other traumas and we need to calm down the system, 2) our mast cells have been impacted/damaged or are overly sensitive and are spitting out chemicals incorrectly and overshooting the mark and damaging healthy tissue (cytokine storm) ... in my case Lyme Disease and Babesiosis (bacterial and viral exposure) contributes to or causes the damage. 3) We have the MTHR gene mutation. I haven't researched this very much but from what I've read a lot of people have this genetic mutation either a single or double copy and it prevents methylation ... meaning that you can't eliminate the toxins easily once our bodies become exposed to them. It also may affect our bodies abilities to absorb nutrients. Then when we are exposed to something toxic we immediately react because we ar already full of toxic material and our cells can't eliminate those toxins quickly so we suffer. I believe when we are having a flare up our bodies are becoming full with toxins and when we are able to detox then systems improve. So perhaps Fibro is related to all of these possible causes: childhood trauma, toxins in the environment, inability to remove toxins easily due to the MTFR genetic mutation, and exposure to virus's and bacterias. Therefore I try to eat organic and get the purest water and avoid seed oils plus selecting foods that are low inflammatory and possibly low histamine, and figuring out your food sensitivities and then avoiding those foods for a period of time until the immune system calms down. Eliminate the toxic load and you might feel better. It does take a lot of work and determination to do it because we are sensitive and our environments often have things that are toxic to us that's outside of our control.