For Fibromyalgia / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Sufferers

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*** DOMINIE'S NEWSLETTER ***
NOVEMBER 2004
DISCLAIMER: I am not a medical doctor. I am a fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue syndrome survivor. The purpose of this newsletter is not to diagnose or cure any disease or malady, but is presented as food for thought. This information cannot take the place of professional medical advice. Any attempt to diagnose and treat an illness should come under the direction of a physician. No guarantees are made regarding any of the information in this newsletter.

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To read Topics 1-14, click on http://www.fms-help.com/November2004.htm

1. LETTERS FROM READERS
2. FMS/CFIDS MILLION LETTER CAMPAIGN UPDATE PLUS
T-SHIRT AND SWEATSHIRT INFORMATION
3. FOOD ALLERGIES AND FMS
4. DOCTOR SAYS VIRUSES CAUSE FMS
5. TREATING AND BEATING FMS AND CFS
6. MASSACHUSETTS NEUROLOGIST
7. RELIEF FROM FIBRO BY AVOIDING EXCITOTOXINS
8. NATURAL VIOXX ALTERNATIVES
9. SLEEP PATTERNS
10. VAGUS NERVE AND STRESS
11. A HUSBAND WITH FMS
12. STOPPING ASPARTAME HELPED READER'S FMS
13. THE 10 MOST DANGEROUS TOXINS IN YOUR HOUSE
14. VITAMIN C

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To read Topics 15-37, click on http://www.fms-help.com/November2004Page2.htm

15. MEMORY FOAM MATTRESS
16. FLU SHOT?
17. COLD SORES
18. FIBROFIX.COM
19. MONOLAURIN
20. TV SHOW ABOUT FMS
21. HOW BOB CURED HIMSELF OF CFS AND IBS
22. ANESTHESIAS TO AVOID IF YOU HAVE CFIDS
23. A.D.D. AND FIBROMYALGIA
24. BOOK WRITTEN BY HUSBAND OF A FIBRO SUFFERER
25. ESSIAC TEA
26. GETTING DISABILITY FOR FMS/CFIDS
27. NAC FOR IMMUNE SYSTEM
28. HOW TO FIND A GOOD DOCTOR
29. CYMBALTA FOR FIBRO PAIN
30. MOLD AND FMS/CFIDS
31. VACCINATIONS AND CFIDS
32. FACES OF FIBRO - YOUR STORY IS REQUESTED
33. DESK YOGA
34. CF ALLIANCE ESSAY CONTEST
35. GRADUATE STUDENT NEEDS HELP BY NOV. 24
36. SPIRITUAL UPLIFT CORNER
37. DOMINIE'S PERSONAL UPDATE

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1. LETTERS FROM READERS

"I love your site http://www.fms-help.com By far the best from a sufferer's perspective."

"I stumbled on your site by accident tonight and found it very good, I added you to my favorites. I was dx with fibro 15+ years ago, they didn't call it fibromyalgia back then. I really think I have had many of the symptoms back to childhood and through my teens. I am retired on SSD due to Fibromyalgia. I was [in a highly stressful professional job] and the stress was taking over my life. So was the fibro...I had no choice after 20+ years and total fatigue, depression, chronic pain...you name it!"

"So happy to come across your site and know there is someone else out
there that is battling this demon besides me. I am 57 yrs old and was
diagnosed about 2 yrs ago...I know there is alot
of info on the internet about fibro but sure is different when its more
personal....I am reading all your site...very helpful, especially the natural
approach tips http://www.fms-help.com/tips.htm"

"Thanks again for helping me see the light at the end of the tunnel, and
helping me believe that if we make a few changes in our life, believing and
following God, getting back to the basics of life, and taking time for
ourselves, makes all the difference in the world."

"I have found many things on your site to help me understand this illness. I subscribe to many newsletters which repeat the same info, but your newsletter seems to have additional info I haven't seen elsewhere. Let's hope there will be a better understanding and acceptance for FMS/CFS/ME so we don't have to keep validating our illness to all the different doctors we continue to seek."

"There is so much to read on your webpage http://www.fms-help.com/ I think its about the best I've seen. You certainly have run the gamut of treatments and meds! Thank you for all the work and research you have put into this."

"I have been feeling alot better in the last three months. I have made so many changes in my life style lately. I have followed alot of your tips http://www.fms-help.com/tips.htm and I want to THANK YOU!!!!! so much for giving me back my life, and help me realize how sick my body and mind really was."

[ABOUT MY HUSBAND'S ARTICLE IN THE OCTOBER ISSUE http://www.fms-help.com/October2004.htm]-- "I was going through my emails and when I saw that Don wrote....that was the first thing I went to. I was curious!!!! He is a wonderful and insightful man. I am so glad that you have him in your life! I think that it was great that he wrote and he should continue so that newsletter readers can take that portion to share with their significant other. It is one thing to read about FMS/CFS when you have it but to read about it from his perspective is a way of reaching out to those who feel helpless to the ones they love. Thank you, Don."


"I'd like to thank you for posting such a wonderful and supportive website. Your 100 list is great http://www.fms-help.com/tips.htm I'm printing it out so I can go over it each time I need a pick-me-up."


"I apologize for the delay in my response to your email. It is difficult somedays to get it all done. I have visited your links and am very happy to be a part of this plan to write the million letters campaign http://www.fms-help.com/letter.htm Our first support group meeting is this Saturday. I am excited and will share all of the information I have been collecting with the group. I was only diagnosed a couple of months ago with FM, CFS & OA all the same day. It has changed my life more than anything I have ever encountered."

"I was diagnosed years ago and told nothing can be done. So I have lived with it. Got to the point recently that "living with it" was no longer reasonable or do-able. This evening I came across your website accidentally. God bless you for what you have suffered, and what you are doing to help everyone else."

"I call your newsletter 'my fibro guardian angel.' It has helped me so very much."

"I found your site by accident several weeks ago and put it in my favorites. I came across it again today and have spent most of the day reading it. It is truly wonderful! I especially wanted to thank you for your Marital Harmony section http://www.fms-help.com/marriage1.htm. Every point you made rang true. I will read and re-read those words many times. You may have saved my marriage!"

"I read your story http://www.fms-help.com/fibro.htm with much interest. I could identify with many, many
things."

"I e-mailed my husband the poem from your website "My Name is Fibromyalgia" [by Terri Been] http://www.fms-help.com/mnif.htm I know that this will give him perspective from a voice other than my own. Your site has lifted and encouraged me...strengthened me and held me steady. Mostly, it's given me a place to rest when I'm tired and misunderstood. Thank you for providing a home for all of us FMers to meet in."

Continue reading the November newsletter at http://www.fms-help.com/November2004.htm

Faithfully yours,

Dominie Bush
http://www.fms-help.com/

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[AmyMCGS]

Great site~ I'll pass it on to my close friend who has fibro. Thanks!