HI Donna

This disease sounds like a terrible thing to have and experience. No a days there are so many medications being prescribed and then taken off the shelves because of severe side effects that it makes you wonder what to do in the case of having any disease.

Hi Donna,

Nice of you to put this info online.  This is such a complicated illness with no sure fire way of treating it.  The magnesium, potassium and B vitamins may provide minimal improvement in the condition, but I know two ladies (one of which is my sister) that now take several supplements, and through trial and error, have settled on certain ones that seem to make a slight difference. 

I sometimes wonder if those suffering would be courageous enough to perhaps try drastically increasing certain supplements for a short period of time, I wonder if that would make a difference.  But most are under a doctor's care, and the doctor will say no.  Since they are sometimes afraid of making things worse, they tend to not experiment - and when I say experiment, I certainly don't mean anything drastic, just maybe doubling the recommended dosage, throughout the day, not at one time.

If you think about it, when you have a headache, you measure it before you take a pain killer.  Is it a two tablet, three or even four tablet headache?

If your body is in pain constantly and you can only take so many painkillers, perhaps adding extra supplements at double or even triple strength for a short period of time would provide some improvement of the condition.

I always do that when I am starting a new vitamin or supplement, as long as it is safe.  Some supplements should NOT be doubled, just as some drugs should not be doubled.  But if your body is deficient in a certain vitamin or mineral, it can take quite a long time to catch up if you're on a maintenance dosage, which is the recommended dosage usually written on the label.

Wouldn't it be nice if insurance plans covered visits to natural and alternative doctors who could help set up a regimen of supplements, diet, etc. and then monitor the patient's progress. 

Yes it would!

Warm regards,

Sandra Cobb

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  I am at what I hope to be the final stages of treatment for something that has been diagnosed as fibromyalgia, MS, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain syndrome, rheumatoid artheritus and a host of other serious illnesses. After going through all of the treatments for all of these illnesses with no real relief I continued my search for answers to my problems. Well, about three months ago I got a new diagnosis with something that can present itself with all of the above symptoms and many more.   

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