Alternative modalities

[Drjoysan]

Hi everyone. I am new to posting but have been reading these posts for a month or so. I’m probably older than most of you at 81 but no matter. Pain is pain. As someone who has always believed that I am in control of my own life, this recent diagnosis has really thrown me. I have been teaching a mind-body connection class for years and a lot of the class material is not traditional. Here’s what I have found helpful in no particular order. Listening to 174hz frequency music 3 or more times a day for 15-20 minutes each time while visualizing myself doing the things I’ve always loved doing. YouTube has a bunch. Using a grounding or earthing sheet on my bed. Amazon has these. Watching documentaries like Heal and others. Maintaining a gratitude list every night. Not resisting how I feel as that only puts more emotional strain on me. Watching what I eat..no gluten, meat, dairy, sugar, nightshade veggies. This may or may not be universal but it helps me. I’ll stop here as I don’t want to sound preachy. I am definitely feeling better but I keep looking for more ideas to try. You all have my prayers and best wishes.

 

[sunkacola]

Hi @Drjoysan . Thanks for telling us what is working for you.

It's different for everyone, and what works for one won't necessarily work for others, but the more we tell each other our own ways of coping and our strategies the better, because it lets people know of things they may want to try.

While we don't want people to be pushy here about their own agendas, you don't sound preachy, just informative, and people will appreciate that even if they differ from you in their philosophy or methods.
Welcome to the forum.

 

[Radmun]

@Drjoysan, hello. Your post intrigues me and will definitely look into listening to 174 hz, which I have never heard of, and watching documentaries about healing. Thank you for sharing!

 

[Drjoysan]

Thanks for the reply. I know for myself that I like knowing what others are doing. Aside from eliminating certain food, I wouldn’t advise anyone to ingest or inject anything. However I have been using frankincense oils on my most painful areas and noticed some improvement. I’m really happy and grateful to see all your dedication to helping people deal with this.

 

[sunkacola]

Thanks for the reply. I know for myself that I like knowing what others are doing. Aside from eliminating certain food, I wouldn’t advise anyone to ingest or inject anything. However I have been using frankincense oils on my most painful areas and noticed some improvement. I’m really happy and grateful to see all your dedication to helping people deal with this.

I always recommend that people experiment with their diet.
the best way to do that is to cut out one thing completely for a month or so and see if there's any change.

Sugar is the first one I recommend, and people need to read all ingredient labels (and probably not eat anywhere but at home) during that time, because sugar is hidden in just about everything that you can buy to eat. Cutting it out 100% is the only way to truly find out if that will help. Many people only cut down on their sugar intake, and report it makes no difference.....and generally it won't if you only cut down. Same thing with alcohol.

Now, some people will do better on a vegetarian or even vegan or raw foods diet. But others, not.
I, for instance, simply cannot survive, let alone thrive, on a diet that doesn't include meat, and believe me I have tried, on more than one occasion. My body type just needs meat and/or fish protein. But I can't eat gluten. Others aren't bothered a bit by gluten and do far better if they don't eat meat, or if they only eat fish.

It's so highly individual.

That's why I always tell people that we cannot tell them what will help them for sure.
I really wish that there were one thing, one diet, one exercise or even medication that would help everyone with fibromyalgia, because I'd love to be able to tell everyone new who comes here what they could do that would definitely help. But no one can do that, unfortunately. I wrote that post about things to try, things that will increase any individual's overall health (which of course is highly beneficial in any case), but it's no guarantee that it will ease the fibro symptoms.

I think this contributes to the feeling so many fibro people have of being alone.
I always hope that this forum can help people not to feel so alone, because at least everyone here understands what it's like.

 

[Drjoysan]

I totally agree. Every body responds differently. It’s a wonderful thing to have a place to exchange ideas. I’m very impressed and want to acknowledge all the participants who may not even realize how important and impactful what they say is.