I got diagosed with Lyme last June. My main problem has been horrible pain in my feet and some in my hands. There were days I could barely walk.
It was so bad that I wore to Bledsoe boots to work because it was all I could stand to put on my feet. (Bledsoe boots are are those black rocker bottom boots that come up to your calf that people wear when they injure a foot or ankle.)
I kept thinking I had joint pain because it hurt where my muscles attached to the joint but in reality I have severe muscle knots or triggers throughout my whole body.
I bought the book The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your self-treatment guide for pain relief by Clair Davies. You can get it at Borders or Amazon.com.
After only 3 days of working on the knots in my legs and feet, my pain was greatly reduced. So much that I have stopped taking my pain meds and am doing fine.
I was able to clean my house today for 2 hours with almost no pain. For the first time in over a year!!!
It also helped that my lyme is finally coming under control with pulsed ceftriaxone therapy. I think pulsing is critical (4 days of a double dose and 3 days off)
Before this, I was taking a single dose a day for 8 weeks and was not getting better.
There is hope! Buy this book. You might feel a lot better.
Take care,
Shauna (wellinwisconsin)
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I am so glad to hear that you are feeling better due in part to finding this book. Can you elaborate at all on what you do to relieve this pain? My daughter has nodule like knots that I can feel all the way down her back on each side of her spine. They are also in the neck and shoulder region. We are currently doing Chiropractic in addition to 2 years of ABX, but I feel she is sliding backwards with symptoms.
I would love to hear how you have had success with this if you have the time to elaborate a bit more.
Thank you!!
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just don
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I WAS in MORE severe pain before I found the combo of Glucosamine- clondrition,,couple Citrical,and a good magnesium supl.
helps tremendously. IF I run out in a couple days I am climbing the walls.
The magnesium is used to relax the muscles, the calcium helps with balancing it and the vit. D it affords!!
I find MY body was terrible calcium and magnesium short. Getting those levels UP,,,helped everything else!!
It also HELPS preserve the teeth!!(and bones)I dont drink milk any more!!
"YOU" have to keep experiemneting TILL you find the right combo for YOU!!! Try try try stuff,,if after 3-4 months and no reaction try something else. IF its so gradual of help,,,stopping cold turkey usually tells you,you NEED it!!like--just don--
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TerryK
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I'm so glad to hear that you have pain relief with the trigger point book. I've been using the theracane and book for years. It is wonderful for anyone with myofascial pain syndrome.
My daughter spent a ton of money seeing doctors, pain meds etc for a migraine headache. She went to a good trigger point therapist and he literally cured it in one session.
lymedesign - the book explains how to use a theracane and how to do the therapy in order to get relief. There are often referred pain patterns associated with trigger points. You can search for the book title or thercane on the internet to get more info.
It would be good to find a therapist if you have major problems like your daughter does but if you can't find one then the book is a reasonable place to start. One does have to be very careful not to release too many toxins when releasing trigger points. You can also get really sore and swollen from doing too much at one time.
Terry
Posts: 6286 | From Oregon | Registered: Jan 2006
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Don, I do believe we need to try some supplements. My daughter just started taking intraMIN from Druckerlabs. After a month we are going to start the Intramax product. Infact, I have the whole family taking it. However, I am going to ask her llmd about Glucosamine and extra magnesium. She has been doing Epsom Salt Baths 4-5 time a weeks and it helps for a few hours.
TerryK..Thank you for the link.. I will check it out and thank you for the other information. I will do some research on Trigger Therapists, maybe this is more suited to her needs.
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