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Your Inner GPS: The Best Treatment for Your MS

December 2, 2012
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Your Inner GPS: The Best Treatment for Your MS

I have a friend who has ulcerative colitis – an inflammatory bowel disease that affects the lining of the large intestine and rectum. When she was 20, she read about the disease and felt very strongly that this was what she had. Her entire being resonated as she read the description. She knew. She told her doctor. He said, “You don’t have that.” Since she was very young and still of the mind that doctors know everything and should not be questioned, she didn’t question it. She took his statement as fact. Twelve years...

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Doctors, Not Gods: The Danger of Medical Dogma

August 26, 2012
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Doctors. Not Gods.

A couple days ago, I received an email from a woman who had just been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She had seen two neurologists and both declared with extreme urgency that she needed to begin treatment with one of the Disease Modifying Therapies (DMTs) immediately. She doesn’t want to take a pharmaceutical drug and believes in alternative treatments. But she’s devastated, worried, confused, and unsure what to do and she wrote me to ask my perspective. This scenario happens every day, all throughout the country and the world. People are being diagnosed with MS...

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9 Steps to Building Your Rock Star Medical Team & Healing Your Multiple Sclerosis

July 31, 2012
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9 Steps to Building Your Rock Star Medical Team & Healing Your Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis is no joke. It’s not the common cold that’ll just go away on its own or a sore throat that you can take some antibiotics for and be done with it. Nope. MS is a game changer, and as such, it requires a game plan. MS is still a mystery to conventional medicine. They don’t know what causes it and they don’t know how to cure it. The best they can offer is to carefully track the progress of the disease with MRIs and physical exams, and to manage the symptoms and...

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MS Voices (or, I’m Mad as Hell)

September 1, 2010
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MS Voices (or, I’m Mad as Hell)

I’m mad as hell. Usually I go easy on doctors, because I truly believe they mean well. But this time, I need to rage. At least for the duration of this post. A member of my extended family was just diagnosed with MS. His sister reached out to me, asking if I could speak with him. I wrote back and said of course and gave her my number so that he could call me. She replied, saying that he decided he didn’t want to call because he doesn’t think talking to anyone with MS...

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The MS Symptom Nobody Told You About

January 16, 2010
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The MS Symptom Nobody Told You About

It was July of 2007 and I was waiting for the most important results of my life. I had had my first MRI two days before I was scheduled to leave town for a training in California with Dr. Joseph Riggio. The results I was awaiting  would either confirm or not that I had Multiple Sclerosis, as my neurologist at the time suspected. As you can imagine, I was anxious to hear from her. I called before I left for my trip, but the results weren’t in yet. So I called the following day,...

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The Physician's Role

November 22, 2009
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The Physician's Role

From the book Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing by Barbara Ann Brennan: An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient. If given as a statement about the patient’s condition, it puts patients at a distinct disadvantage in their healing process. It leaves little if any room for the creative process of healing to come forth from the patient. It leaves no room for alternative care systems. It is far better when a physician says “I have done all I can for you. I am, at this time,...

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