Back Again After Health Struggles

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DesertKnight

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Hey friends,Its me again. I haven't been around much. We're finally getting over a stint of bad health with my son. First asthma attacks, then a hospitalization for viral meningitis, then for Christmas he developed optic neuritis and basically lost his vision. Thankfully his vision is recovering slowly and the other issues have cleared up...however...all this time in hospitals and optic neuritis (of all things) have once again left me beat and BFS has decided to visit me again. I never fully stopped twitching, though a couple of days could go by where I hardly noticed any. For the most part I was at a point I only had maybe a hundred a day. Well apparently my body is retaliating with an increase in twitching and now some lovely burning sensations in my arms but primarily my legs. I'm not worried its something bad, because I know better by now. I just need a pep talk. I can't discuss this with just anyone seeing as everyone I know personally knows I'm a hypochondriac and dismiss me when all I need is a little support. I hope you all had wonderful holidays! Here's to a new year with fewer health worries!
 
HI Plainslady, hang in there girl. so sorry you had to go through all those health issues with your son. So glad he is getting better. Your description of your bfs and how it has been behaving lately is EXACTLY me!!! I too, was doing really, really well. I also just recently started back on here after being gone since October. I was doing so well... twitches never completely gone, but very very manageable. I would also have several days in a row where I would feel maybe only a few and the other days it was around 100 or less a day. For some reason the past 2 weeks my right eyelid started up bad again and then the past few days its been pretty bad and then last night was horrible!!! Still not as bad as the day it started and the 3 months after, so I keep reminding myself to be thankful for that. You know it's the stress and illnesses going around your house. You also know that your body is capable of calming down because it has before, so just hold onto that. This storm WILL pass!!Tanya
 
by the way, it's not just my eye, my post made it sound like that. No, it's my whole friggin body as usual...hotspot is eye and all fingers on both hands + random twitches EVERYWHERE else..... :rolleyes:
 
Thank you Tanya. We've been through quite a bit since Thanksgiving. When we took my son to the ER for the meningitis, the doctor asked if I was going to ride with him on the plane if they had to life watch him. Seriously, right at that moment, I had a twitch so hard in my shoulder it jerked my arm up. Then my legs started, then my lip. Ten minutes after he asked me that I felt like I had a batch of popcorn popping inside of me. I also went two days with less than two hours of sleep total while he was in the hospital. Then, when the optic neuritis hit a couple of weeks later, I about died right there. The doctors told me "it could be a brain tumor, a leftover gift from the meningitis, or MS (unlikely). Thank God it was a rather benign case. I feel like all the advances I had made in the last five months was erased. Thank you for reminding me its just a storm that will pass. You and I are fortunate we've had those times when the BFS calmed so much. That has really proven to me the benign (yet maddening) nature of BFS.
 
Too bad that not many are open to Oriental concepts......although all the organ systems nutrition the eyes..it goes back to the Liver-System which affects eyes, tendons, nerves, finger-toe nails, knees, to name a few. During the past months I even went to see an Opthalmic Surgeon who had removed a cyst several years ago from the corner outside my left eye. I asked him WHY I RECENTLY started to have what feels like double vision especially in the evening. He explained that each eye has six muscles and even if just one muscle becomes either too tight or too loose that's all that is needed to produce double vision and as long as it wasn't happening all day long there was nothing to do for it. Not fun when I am trying to drive at night. I have to close one eye so I can make a turn. BUT.....this according to Oriental medicine goes back to an imbalanced liver-system. Not diseased...not serious...JUST imbalanced/stressed from various factors and in my opinion the same imbalance which is at the root of the twitching. 43RichyThe43rd
 
Hi there,Sorry to hear about your latest BFS session. It's so maddening when it returns. I too have been suffering a relapse like you. Mostly in my calves with fasics, burning and stiffness. However this time round this time round my forearms have joined the party as well. Really seems to be my point in the year when it visits me.If I track my attacks over the last 2 years they've happened around November and lasted through to march. Thoughts are with you
 
Oh dear, I'm so sorry you've been going through so much stress. I have noticed my twitching increases whenever anything stressful goes on. I have to have a breast biopsy next week, and have been twitching more as a result (I think that's it at least). And, yesterday I got home from a business trip to find out my son has croup, and my twitching has been horrible. I also had improved quite a bit, where there were days that I hardly twitched at all, and lately it's been much, much worse.I think you've hit the nail on the head that stress makes this stuff so much worse than normal.I'm so glad your son is on the mend!!! I go into a tailspin when my children have colds, worrying about them. I can't imagine what you have been going through.Sending you a hug...Mitra
 
BillWhat you describe is ONLY the outer edges of Chinese medicine including acupuncture, herbs etc. All of the planes of existence are ONE therefore if one is skilled they CAN positively affect all the way to the most etheric through the gross physical. Take for example....the famous Japanese BLIND acupuncturist (most of them are) who can enter into ALL of those dimensions by just one single acupuncture point on the right hand called HE GU (LI-4). It is NOT the needle or the herb that makes the difference. It is for sure the person behind that needle. That is WHY every formula I use is individualized and hand made by me for my patients. There is so much more that goes into prescribing an herbal formula than simply "the herbs".43RichyThe43rd
 
When I had the pleasure of testifying before the US Dept of Health & Human Services in Washington DC - January 2003 before a special subcommitte on National Health & Vital Care. There were mostly MDs on that committee. One such MD was mouting off that ALL massage therapy was the same; all acupuncture was the same...etc etc. We went off internet streaming so I did not embarass the MD. I proceeded to ask her if she ever actually - by her own hand - stick an acupuncture needle into someone? She said no. I then asked her - if I handed her an acupuncture needle and told her where to stick it for example - in my thigh....would that make it acupuncture? She immediately became quite and understood just an inkling of the point I was trying to get across. Its not the needle but the person behind that needle.
 
And BTW Bill...just like I wouldn't go to 85% of the MDs or Chiropractors out there in the world...I ALSO wouldn't go to 85% of the acupuncturists.
 

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