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If anyone has any ideas about why I am getting these headaches please enlighten me. I have been to the emergency room three times this summer and despite every test, no one knows what is wrong. i am on painkillers but still can not function. Also I am not able to eat food without getting sick. Any suggestions? Thank you, really apprecia te the support.
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Carol in PA
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Headaches can be a symptom of low magnesium.
Headaches can be a symptom of hypercoagulation.
I take magnesium, fish oil, and systemic enzymes, which reduce my headaches and body pain.
People with Lyme Disease tend to have magnesium deficit. Hypercoagulation is due to the body's immune response to the systemic (bodywide) infection. (It can also be genetic.)
I also get pain, headaches, and fatigue as part of a Herxheimer Reaction. Liver support is needed to reduce that.
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Might be magnesium deficiency. Metagenics brand (great brand, highly absorbable)Magnesium Glycinate taken with Metagenics Cortico-B5,B6 did wonders for taking care of my headaches. After days of suffering I felt relief. For the nausea, Dr. Shen's Stomach Curing has been incredible (better than prescribed anti-nausea pills).
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I have had headaches for years, over a decade and they were more frequent and more bothersome with time. I attributed them to work stress. Headaches lead to what felt like brain burns and then neck burns. Untreated it has landed me in chronic Lyme land.
I spoke to one other lady at my LLMD and her symptoms were also headaches at first that got worst over a long period. She also had a stressful job and blamed them on the job as well. Until years into it she started developing new symptoms.
Regarding Dr Shen's SC:
"Safety California Proposition 65 Warning - This product contains a chemical or chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and/or birth defects or other reproductive harm. (For details on Dr. Shen's manufacturing processes and testing procedures see Dr. Shen's Proposition 65 FAQs)."
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Lymedin2010, California Proposition 65 is really messed up when it comes to covering herbal formulas and folks need to be mindful of this.
Removing lead from our plants, animals, earth and water is difficult.� Eons of volcanoes and chimney smoke have dusted our planet with trace amounts of lead. The latest detection technology shows that both the ocean's foam and the organic greens you purchased at the health food store contain lead. A chocolate bar may contain more lead than ten doses of herbal medicine.
If this is so, why are there no warning labels on a chocolate bar? The curious reason is, of course, money. The chocolate industry had the millions of dollars needed to go to court and prove that all the lead in chocolate occurs there naturally, so it cannot be considered a contaminant. Unfortunately, few of the small herb companies sued under proposition 65 had the resources to prove that all the lead occurring in all the herbs in all their products was also natural. That's the only reason why you'll find lead warnings on herbal medicines, but not on candy.
The typical American diet is said to contain 15 � 25 micrograms or more of lead daily, mainly originating in fruits and vegetables. Other exposures to the air, water, and industry can result in up to 200 millionths of a gram consumed daily. Typical doses of herbal medicine could add 3 to 15 millionths of a gram per day. Though these figures might sound high, they are actually quite low. The amount of lead in our bodies today is actually the lowest in recorded history.
There is, and always has been, lead in every herbal medicine. This is why many governments throughout the world have created appropriate standards for lead in herbal medicines. For example, Japan allows 20 parts per million (ppm) for total metals in herbal medicines. The World Health Organization allows 10 ppm for lead. The Australian TGA allows 5 ppm for lead in a product. Germany allows 5 ppm as well. The US Pharmacopoeia has no standards for herbs, but allows 3 ppm in drugs.
Most Chinese herbal products test at an average of 1-3 ppm, which is considered safe and incidental by all international standards for medicine. However, California's Proposition 65 requires warning at only 1/2 ppm in food, and in California, herbal medicines are considered food rather than drugs. Prop 65 allows the sale of these products, however it requires a warning.
Fear causes people to lose their perspective. The next time you find yourself worried about trace lead in herbal medicine, please remember the 200,000 people who actually die every year from taking over-the-counter, non-prescription drugs. http://www.usc.edu/hsc/info/pr/hmm/03fall/over.htmlPosts: 15 | From CA | Registered: Aug 2012
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