Today’s Oracle takes us to the weekly of May 21, 2004
The word “impending” is all over your charts: a force that is building inside you and that will lead you to one kind of action or another, or shake your world with events beyond your control. I would propose that to the extent you’ve grown weary of living within the limitations that other people so casually laid on you, and which you so naively took on, you are basically about to blow the lid off the roof of your night. By all rights, freedom should be the single most important item on your agenda, and freedom as I define it begins with the freedom to feel. While other people can take that away, only you can claim it back.
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My brother is showing some very positive improvements since beginning D3. He is now able to adjust his legs in bed, where before someone had to move them for him, and he is gaining strength in his right hand, which was numb. My sister in law has been immobile for 20 years, and Steve has been in a wheelchair for about 10 years now. I was checked for MS too at the time of a ‘stroke’ but the neurologist decided it was indeed a stroke. It was still a neurological event. Finding the D-3 coincided with the good wishes and prayers from some people who read this website too! (Thanks Mystes!).
My mother worries that it was the bug spray she used when we were growing up, which was rotenone. Rotenone was considered a safe and organic spray, but it acts by paralyzing the bugs.
We may never know what causes MS, especially it was caused by fertilizers or bug sprays.
You do have to be evaluated by a good neurologist, but I’m all for doing and trying whatever works for other people, with a doctor’s supervision. We’ve tried a number of remedies, but so far D-3 has helped the most. My doctor has told me that her MS patients are responding well to D-3 also.
Prayers and good wishes to all who have this dreaded disease.
Stonetotem – agree, nothing is that simple. It would be so great if we could just say (about any illness cause that eludes us, ‘oh, it’s down to that (whatever it is), no question’ – because people want that all elusive non-existent certainty. And with most things – we can only know what we know up to this moment in time. Facts change in a jif.
One of the reasons for looking at lipids (fats) and their relation to the spectrum of disorders is that possible science underpinning it. It’s a new view point (and in my view should not exclude looking at anything else – for one thing it isn’t proven yet) and has had a great deal of funding thrown at it. However, it is a shift in paradigm that the ‘mainstream’ health profession are not keen to look at.
Interestingly, MS has the highest predominance per population in Scotland, where I live. They are not sure why – genetic? Environment? I lost my lovely cousin Mark to it just before Christmas.
�MS and bipolar disorders have increased rapidly over the last 20 years or so, and I have to believe it is nutritional.’
I disagree. These are both very serious and complicated diseases, and I don’t believe they can easily be explained away by nutrition. Certainly, I believe that everything we take into our body, through all of our senses, affects us deeply – more than we can know – and contributes to our well being or lack thereof. As someone who has MS, who controls most of her physical symptoms with diet and supplements and does not take medication, I know well how essential appropriate nutrition and diet are. But that’s not what has caused the freak-out in my body.
I’m not sure that MS and Bipolar Disorder have increased rapidly, but perhaps the ability to diagnose them has. Over time and through experience, diagnosticians can become more sensitive to and knowledgeable about what they are seeing. My mother had a “neurological event” in 1963 and underwent horrific testing to determine what may have caused it. At the time, even though she went to a major research facility, the diagnosis was shaky. They just didn’t know enough about MS, and still don’t. There isn’t a test for MS, but there are tests that in combination with a neurological exam can give a picture of it.
MS should never be diagnosed by anyone but a neurologist who either is a specialist in MS or has significant experience with it. I have to say that after I was diagnosed with MS I was grilled by every doctor I saw (even my ophthalmologist) about who made the diagnosis and how: I was asked to recite my symptoms over and over. It has been *my* experience that doctors are very, very reluctant to make this diagnosis, and they do not make it lightly, understanding what a devastating illness it can be. Fortunately, mine is not so devastating.
As for Bipolar Disorder (I believe it’s called something else now, isn’t it?), I do have some ancient history experience working with clients diagnosed as such. I have a hard time hearing anyone express what someone else might be thinking or feeling – we just can’t know. I believe mental health is a spectrum, and degrees of difference are more subtle than they appear. I was privileged to work with chronically mentally ill adults and I loved them. At the time I was radically opposed to medication but over the years I have come to understand how even though it is diminishing in some ways, it is saving in others. I don’t believe that it should ever be the sole answer; we are multi-dimensional beings after all.
I am surrounded by doctors in my family, and I have spent years rebelling against that. I prefer natural and alternative treatments, but I no longer dismiss western medicine out of hand. I believe it is just as dangerous to blindly distrust as it is to blindly trust.
For anyone with MS or any autoimmune disorder, I highly recommend the book *The MS Recovery Diet* (You can also google it – there’s a website.) In nonscientific terms (it’s explained quite well in the book, though), my understanding is that it helps calm and rest the immune system so that it can heal and rebuild, by eliminating foods which typically cause an immune system response and by eating foods and supplements which support the immune system. Logical, huh?
Bi-Polar info –
I should have mentioned the omega 3s too, as the new doctor we found is treating MS patients with these supplements too.
Be sure to go through a physician (search for one who considers nutrition), because D3 can be overdosed, and Niacin works a lot like statin drugs. I’d suggest this treatment plan for my cousin but her daughter keeps her drugged up in the nursing home. She is a nurse with numerous advanced degrees and thinks she knows everything. The truth is she has her mother right where she wants her. It’s her karma.
‘MS and bipolar disorders have increased rapidly over the last 20 years or so, and I have to believe it is nutritional.’
Very likely, especially when you consider the incidences of these illnesses in other non-western cultures where the diet is so different. But it doesn’t rule out nurture or genes either.
I’m sure you know already, but check out deficiencies in omega 3 and 6 fats and their possible role in some of these disorders.
awordedgewiseon 22 Feb 2009 at 10:22 pm
I’m curious to know what sign this weekly was originally written for. Always interesting to see that – and how it feels on the daily blog when it reappears.
xo
Linda
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Hi Linda,
Sorry for the omission in the above Oracle. It was the Cancer weekly of May 21, 2004. The clue was in the tags. Thanks for noticing and sounding the alert to be dilligent.
Jude
Bkoehler,
Niacin is supposed to help bi-polar disorders too, but niacin therapy needs to be monitored by blood testing to be sure that the liver is processing it ok.
My husband was having a lot of problems and sleeping all day and night, and the doctor ordered the standard test to analyze the blood chemistry. He was almost completely deficient in niacin and D3. The results were immediate! He no longer sleeps all day and he has regained much of his former strength. If he was depressed, it showed up in his wanting to sleep all the time.
MS and bipolar disorders have increased rapidly over the last 20 years or so, and I have to believe it is nutritional. We use a lot of sun block, or stay out of the sun completely. Humans were meant to be out in the sun naked!
Good luck with your search for a cure. by the way, D3 will help prevent tooth decay and osteoporosis too, so most women should be taking at least 1000 units a day, in my opinion. My husband was prescribed 2000 units a day. Wish I’d known about it 15 years ago, but better late than never.
I’m curious to know what sign this weekly was originally written for. Always interesting to see that – and how it feels on the daily blog when it reappears.
xo
Linda
Bk
Don’t know about that pill – sounds bad. My motto is, don’t take any kind of pill except birth control pills and vitamin pills. There is good help available for people with manic depression, ausberger and schizophrenia.
Read up on vitamin D-3 too.. That is the newest miracle drug. My doctor told me that they are seeing rickets in this country from lack of vitamin D-3. Milk is supplemented with D-2, but D-3 comes from the sun. It is working wonders on schizophrenia patients. Check the website www dot earthclinic dot com too. You can overdose on D3, so read the precautions and have the patient’s blood tested for vitamin deficiencies.
Patty,
So sorry I didn’t get your drift…so you know a hell of a lot more than I do about this stuff! And for that matter, your family sounds a lot like most of the families I’m aware of.
Have you or anybody out there heard or read the story about a pill that can make you forget bad memories? I got it as an email newsletter (astrology) that had an article about it. I’ll get the address if anybody’s interested.
I think I would like to be my first name too. Thanks Patty, and victoria.
Hey Bk and Paletiger,
It was sort of tongue in cheek about ‘what is manic depressive’ because unfortunately mine is one of the families that has manic depression, schizo, dyslexia, and autism/ausberger syndrome, so I’m quite sympathetic most of the time. Manic depression is the worst, but I always felt like my cousin had a built in excuse for saying outrageous things. She delights in it. The people in my family with these mental problems are really quite brilliant. It’s unnerving to try to be normal in a crazy family.
I changed my name so I would be called my real first name.
St Brigit – I love Peter Gabriel and have that album!! Yes, there is something triumphant about the day…thanks so much for your thoughts. PT
Paletiger—As I read your post, I had the clearest sensation of you walking up ” Solsbury Hill “, the wind in your hair–triumphant—-having transcended a great burden of some kind. I can almost hear Peter Gabriel singing in the background…..!!!
ahh – you know when I’m tired I make lots of grammatical mistakes. I meant to say,…’on my return felt full of clarity…’ Not the bollocks I actually wrote. tsk.
”I would propose that to the extent you’ve grown weary of living within the limitations that other people so casually laid on you, and which you so naively took on, you are basically about to blow the lid off the roof of your night. By all rights, freedom should be the single most important item on your agenda…”
I won’t bore you with the details, but let it be said, this is relevant . I made a huge error a couple of years ago, (actually, it was a large error sat right on top of another gi-normous one), which still has a grip on me. Enough to halt progress on some fronts. I’ve been working my way through it over this last while – facing a few fears and nameless dreads on the way. But it’s not done with, oh no. And after a week laid low with an infection, I’ve had some strange, yet helpful dreams. Suffice to say, this morning I awoke out of a deep sleep, feeling on the mend at last. Trotted off into the forest for an invigorating walk with the hound, and on my return felt full of both clarity, which turned into tears and resolution. The tears are out of the way now, and the determination is now in charge. Good. Then I read this and thought, well bugger me…!