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I have seen a variety of misleading information regarding the ONDAMED. I hope this clarifies this to those confused by some of the earlier postings. This article was presented at the most recent ILADS Conference in forum featuring Dr. Bock --who has okayed me to publish this in this forum.
ONDAMED, Lyme Disease and the Upward Spiral By Michael McNally
In the year 2000 my life took an abrupt turn. This turn took me down a road that has been torturous, enlightening, discouraging, unjustified, and uplifting. The experience of having Lyme Disease is a unique one on every level. From the unique combination of symptoms that afflict each patient with Lyme to the unique experience of being abandoned by the medical community and having to creatively navigate your way through the unfriendly waters of insurance companies hell bent on seeing that you don't get proper care.
My Lyme story is a typical one in that I was undiagnosed for a couple years. I spent time getting poked and prodded as I was bounced between ``specialists'', none of whom suspected Lyme or wished to pursue it despite the fact that my 30+ symptoms (mostly neurological) seemed to fit the bill. I was fortunate enough to be put in contact with Dr. Bernard Raxlen, who through ordering accurate lab work via IGENEX and brain imaging (SPECT), definitively diagnosed me and told me I was the poster child for Lyme disease.
The distance between myself and Raxlen was prohibitive to see him enough, so he recommended Steve Bock, MD of the Rhinebeck Health Center. Over the next three and a half years Dr. Bock treated me, using a variety of modalities, both conventional and alternative. Through treatment of virtually every antibiotic, 150 hyperbaric dives, heparin therapy, questran and countless supplements I went from about 30% to about 60%. I had improved significantly but I was by no means fully functional. I still had major symptoms which included severe neuropathy, muscle atrophy in all four limbs, memory loss, brain fog, tremors, dyslexia, arthralgia and fatigue.
For the years that I had been seeing Dr. Bock, he diligently kept records of all my symptoms during office visits. From week to week these symptoms were transient and changed in their intensity. What frustrated me was that many of my symptoms were not recognizable or quantifiable using traditional methods of diagnosis (or even describable using conventional medical terminology). In addition, when I met other Lyme Disease sufferers none of them had the exact same symptoms as me, due to the fact that Lyme is opportunistic and preys on each human's dynamic weaknesses, whether they be genetic, psychiatric, autoimmune related or a history of previous disease or trauma. If there were only something that could address My gamut of issues. Enter ONDAMED.
In the spring of 2003, I walked into Dr. Bock's office extremely dejected and depressed. I had tried everything and was still not well. He had bent over backwards trying his best to get me well. We had worked as a team over the last three and a half years. He was always open to new protocols and provided me with hope when I had none.
We went through our normal office visit. I went down my depressing list of pathetic symptoms, whose reality occurred in only two places--my body and the pages of his notes. As Dr. Bock was writing them down, I began to weep. This was not the first time I had shed tears in front of him. Unfortunately this comes with the territory of being a Lyme Literate MD. I felt he was out of options and I lacked the will to keep going. As I began to blubber about how I wanted to thank him for all that he had done for me and that I needed to start accepting the fact that I would never be any better than I was- he stopped me in mid sentence. ``Mike'', he said , ``I have this new thing I want you to try.'' I looked at him skeptically, thinking ``Okay, this guy is just trying to talk me off the ledge.'' But I bit and asked him what it was. ``Its ONDAMED, hold on a second.'' I was his last patient of the day and he walked out of the room leaving the door open. I heard him in the hallway calling his wife, telling her he was going to be home late. He asked me to follow him upstairs to another room. Normally I would research a protocol prior to trying it, as I felt that by understanding it intellectually I could make an educated decision as to whether it was worth it or not to try it.
Dr. Bock however provided me with no explanation other than he thought it might help and seeing as I wasn't in any state to investigate the complexities of anything, I went along. For the next hour I was hooked up to this thing called ONDAMED. Dr. Bock was feeling my pulse, dialing and wanding me with this device that had strange sounds coming out of it. That particular day my left shoulder was aching beyond belief and my upper leg muscles were burning and twitching, symptoms I had not mentioned to him earlier in the visit. While feeling my pulse for amplitude changes and scanning my body he noted that those areas reacted significantly and asked me if they had been bothering me more than normal. I said yes and asked him if the device was telling him that. He replied, ``No, your body is telling me that.'' It was amazing, for the first time I had someone who could concretely confirm that these symptoms were real. In addition, of all things, it was my body by way of my pulse, not my words or a blood test , that was confirming that what I felt was real and tangible.
What I would later learn is that what Dr. Bock was feeling for was something called the Vascular Autonomic Signal (VAS). The VAS was discovered in the 1960's by a man named Paul Nogier in Lyon, France. Nogier, was a Physicist and Neurologist but most importantly was the Father of Auricular Acupuncture. What Nogier discovered, and ONDAMED inventor Rolf Binder expanded upon using Pulsed Electromagnetic Energy, was that when there are disturbances (i.e. stagnation, occlusion, congestion, blockage, fracture, etc.) either on an energetic or physical level, one can detect this disturbance through a change in amplitude in the pulse, by introducing specific harmonious energy fields into the body.
When Dr. Bock finished the treatment I felt relaxed and calm. The next morning I felt better than I had felt in years. My pain was gone and I noticed that there was a significant decrease in the muscle atrophy in my limbs. I called him up and asked him if he had treated the Lyme. He replied, ``No, I treated YOU!''
His answer seemed cryptic but I didn't care, I felt awesome. The following months saw me go from 60% to 90%. I have maintained this level for the last four years and have not needed to be on any antibiotics. I still receive treatment but the intervals between treatments have gone from three times a week to about once or twice every two weeks.
``No, I treated YOU with the ONDAMED'' What does that mean? If you were to get thirty Lyme patients in a room, not one would have the exact same symptoms as another. Lyme and its co-infections go into the body biologically the same, but once they enter, they act very differently based on the individual. The concentration of symptoms in certain systems varies based on numerous combinations of variables. Lyme's opportunism and intelligence are what make it so elusive. Pre-dispositions to certain conditions are almost always exploited by Lyme which allows for secondary issues to arise, resulting in an immune system that is taxed beyond its capabilities. This has left physicians with the daunting task of trying to treat patients possessing an infinite combination of symptoms with a minute number of tools. This puts them in a position where they have no choice but to treat the disease, rather than the individual, with pharmaceuticals never designed to fight Lyme specifically in the first place.
ONDAMED, however, is not only able to find and address these complex issues, but also prioritizes them, based on what the patient's body is telling you. Suddenly the practitioner is provided with clarity and this chaotic organism ravaged by sickness begins to reveal an order that the practitioner can act upon. The problems a patient is dealing with become literally palpable to the practitioner. The days of thinking abstractly about a particular patient's illness are replaced by a concrete understanding of where and how the patient's symptoms are affecting them. This is not to say that any of the other modalities you are using become obsolete. Certainly it is crucial to get the bacteria load of the patient down via antibiotics or other methods, however if the answer were as simple as killing bacteria in whatever form it exists (Cystic, L-shaped, etc.) we wouldn't be talking about this. With ONDAMED you have the ability to honestly say to a patient, ``Okay, you do have Lyme Disease and co-infections but we are going to look at how and where this has effected YOU and we are going to address it NOW!'' As an ONDAMED practitioner, you don't have to wait three weeks for test results or months to assess the efficacy of an antibiotic. You make discoveries about the patient and you act immediately using frequency the patient's body has told you to use. With ONDAMED, we don't focus on what the causative agent is because we don't follow the traditional bio-chemical medical model. We are working with the physics model , via Pulsed Electromagnetic Frequency (PEMF), in a way that brings the system, organ and/or region of the body that has been effected by the disease back to a healthy and fluid state. We are more focused on negating the long lasting negative effects of the bacteria rather than destroying it. ``Physics precedes chemistry'', J.B. Sharma once said.
Does the patient herx? Based on my own personal experience and the experience of countless other Lyme patients, Herxheimer Reactions rarely occur when using the ONDAMED. The reason why is simple-We are not going after the Lyme initially. The end result of any illness is going to be lack of movement within the body. Depending on what field one specializes in the vernacular changes. Some call it stagnation, others blockage, occlusion, inflammation, scar tissue, neuropathy, etc. Yet they are all describing, fundamentally, the same thing. The objective of the ONDAMED is to use frequency that already exists in the body as a vehicle in creating movement where disease has created blockage. The goal of antibiotics and other antimicrobials is to destroy bacteria, which sets off a sequence of events that often overloads organs, already taxed and under-functioning from the initial pathogen (Lyme) and medications. The result is a toxic patient whose only vehicles of evacuating toxins are overburdened, making the patient sicker. ONDAMED is the tool that will allow you to forgo this by finding and treating the patient-specific blockages that have made their bodies' virtual rush hour traffic jams. By initially creating fluidity and movement in the effected organs and systems within the body, the ONDAMED allows for other modalities to work in a way that is not counterproductive to their designed purpose. ONDAMED is not a substitute for other modalities. ONDAMED provides synchronicity and flow to any protocol you may utilize.
What is interesting is that, in my experience with Lyme and other Chronic Illness in relation to treatment with ONDAMED, it appears that most patients who have been treated adequately by an LLMD have bodies that are ready to get well. It is my theory that in many cases the bacteria load within patients treated with long term antibiotics is at a level that the body is ready to take over and resume normal function in turn keeping the bacteria at bay. What is impeding this from happening is the aforementioned state of stagnation that is common in Lyme patients on both macro and micro-levels. The sedentary life that ensues when someone suffers from chronic Lyme perpetuates sickness down to the cell. However when there is a tool like ONDAMED that is able to create movement on a molecular level, a momentum begins to build. Organs and systems begin to function again, which allows the body to begin heal, which makes the patient feel better, which leads to patients becoming more active, which begins to perpetuate a movement toward health. I have seen this occur time and again with patients who are chronically ill being treated by ONDAMED, and rather than a downward spiral one begins to see an upward spiral.
As I mentioned before, the transiency of Lyme Disease symptoms and many other emerging diseases are extremely perplexing and frustrating for both physicians and patients. With ONDAMED you are constantly assessing the movement and frequency range a problem is occurring on. Through the VAS and the frequencies the VAS indicates, the practitioner knows exactly how to proceed without any prompting from the patient. Through this constant assessment you are able to keep up with changes within the body rather than constantly playing catch up.
Let me conclude by emphasizing three things. First, multi-systemic and complex illnesses require a multi-dimensional approach. ONDAMED provides this. To look at Lyme and its co-infections simply from a traditional ``let's blow this thing out of the water with antibiotics and the rest will take care of itself'' approach is not only myopic but has proven ineffective. We must start looking at patients with a fresh set of eyes by using tools like ONDAMED that can detect the unique anomalies and tendencies within each patient.
Secondly, the Lyme bacteria is a biological entity, yet the damage it causes effects the physics of the body on a deep level. Therefore it behooves practitioners to use an approach that can address the damage done to the physics of the body. One must recognize that the wake of Lyme is just as important as Lyme itself. ONDAMED recognizes this and addresses this.
Lastly, as my friend and Energy Medicine expert Jim Oschman PHD states, ``The belief that Energy Medicine has no scientific basis is a myth.'' ONDAMED is an extension of over two hundred years of research and innovation utilizing the application of electromagnetic energy as a tool in healing the body. What Rolf Binder has developed is a technology that is at the forefront of a field that is viable, effective and most importantly --here to stay. Copyright October 2007 -Michael McNally Michael McNally began working for ONDAMED Inc. following his success in treating his symptoms of Lyme Disease with the device. He spent three years as ONDAMED's Director of Training, teaching over 400 healthcare practitioners on how to use the device. He is now a consultant for ONDAMED focusing on implementing the ONDAMED into clinics and research facilities specializing in the treatment of Chronic Lyme Disease. For more information you can contact Michael McNally directly at 607-245-9259 or 716-725-6228.
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WELCOME*)!*!! !*)!*)!)!*)! Did a quick search re ONDAMED postings, I guess someone on here, account Julz, had seizures when she did it or something- yikes!!! Have you had that happen before with people you know?
I know you said you cleared it with Doc B (we don't publish LLMDs names here just initials) but did you clear it with Jenifer the moderator? because it sounds like an ad frankly- just fyi it may get reported (not by me, honest!) but by someone else who gets that impression more than I do even!!!!!!!!!!
AND welcome Claudius, your first post!!! Why don't you tell us a bit about you*)!*)?? If you want!!!!!!!!!!!! Sincerely, Sarah
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I did 25 sessions of Ondamed and did not find it to be useful. I have not talked to anyone with Lyme that has and I know several people personally that also did it for quite some time.
Additionally, I was at the ILADS conference and I do not recall it being discussed this year. They did have a table there but that was all I remember. Certainly was not a focus of any presentation if it was mentioned at all.
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There was a private forum that was attended by about 50 of the Physicians from ILADS.There are about 10 LLMDs who have treated the symptoms of Lyme with the ONDAMED over the last 4 years with great success. ONDAME is currently developing case studies that will be available shortly. I do not and have not claimed that this will work for everyone. Like myself and others out there, when people get well they don't spend time on these boards. Lymenet and other boards are great resources but are certainly not an indication of efficacy on a large scale. My goal in posting this is not to convince patients to purchase the device. I simply want to set the record straight as to how and why it works in complex cases such as LYME. I commend you for trying it 25 times. I believe those who make a committed effort in getting well will eventually get well. The hundreds of people I have seen gt better from Lyme all have a never give up attitude. The piece that I posted should be viewed as informational--Thanks
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Are you a pharmacutical sales rep? Are you ill with Lyme?
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Claudius,
I can't read either of your posts. You must not have any trouble with neuro lyme or vision.
These will just be big blocks of ink to many of us here as we require very short paragraphs with breaks with white space. Also, my attention span is like ten seconds. If I can't see an outline sort of thing, I'm lost.
Where can we read published works or third-party reviews of this?
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Hang around and keep posting that experience. This whole question of the impact of alternative treatments needs realistic balanced imput. And of course, the truth is not negative, it is simply the truth, good, bad or indifferent
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when i sent you your newbie package from me earlier today, i sent a separate pm with the instructions on how to EDIT your solid block of text into SHORT paragraphs.
at least 1-2 other people mentioned this to you.
it appears you do NOT have lyme since you are a medical researcher, and for WHOM?'
this is a big problem we lymies go thru; can;t read and comprehend things like you wrote above; that's he MAJORITY of us who visit here.
thanks for helping us so we can read what was written. length of article doesn't bother us, but please show this on TOP line when you edit. many people have SHORT time only on here.
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bump. I thought claudius's post was very helpful and I could read it just fine. Can anyone else contribute to Ondamed information?
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