Monday, May 23, 2005

Never Give Up on Your Health

I had an appointment at Kaiser today for some small skin imperfections I wanted checked out. We only switched to Kaiser in the past few years after my health had improved from adopting many of the diet and exercise changes outlined in my www.ctds.info site. My Kaiser doctor didn't know me at the time I was having severe bleeding issues, fibromyalgia, TMJ and many of the other issues listed in my connective tissue disorder site. She commented today at my appointment on how she rarely saw me and how few Kaiser resources I used compared to most of her other patients. It was pretty cool hearing that.

A few years ago I was going from specialist to specialist for all of my different health issues to hope to get a diagnosis, let alone a cure for everything that was wrong with me. There was actually a time when I was considering using a wheel chair. My husband and I also had been househ unting for a one story home because I was having trouble going up and down stairs in our two story house.

Well, after many hours of reseaching my health issues, a lot of diet changes and many hours of yoga, today I'm in pretty good shape. We ended up staying in the same house. Last year I bought an expensive mountain bike instead of a wheel chair.

So if you have unusual problems, even a supposedly incurable disorder like me, my advice is to never give up trying different doctors and searching for answers on your own. If I had not done my own health research, I might be in that wheel chair today instead of back on a bike.

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Pfizer Suspends Bextra, Agrees to Warning on Celebrex - another drug solution bites the dust. Or as the famous quotes goes, "Some remedies are worse than the disease." ~ Publilius Syrus