List: I found the following email on the Health Fraud Forum. I believe it's legitimate. Can anyone offer any advice or help? If you think you can be of service, email her directly so we won't tie up this forum with non-CS issues any more than necessary. Roger
<< Stopping in at this guy's office (Bodies in Balance) this morning to get some further information I also browsed through his emporium of questionable products. >> This is my first time replying....I just thought I would add a bit to the "Questionable" practices and local quacks conversation: Imagine this....a 27-year-old woman is in a minor rear-end car accident and receives the typical soft tissue injuries to her spine. After a couple months' worth of pain meds, muscle relaxants, massage therapy, physical therapy and hundreds of dollars spent on trying to rid herself of pain, her family physician sends her to the local "Pain Clinic" at the regional medical center (note: the dr's husband works there). During the first visit, this woman receives a quick survey of where her pain is, then the anesthesiologist brings out syringes filled with some sort of clear liquid which he promises will take away all her pain...afterall, he gets them himself due to a skiing accident. With tears pouring down her cheeks, she tries desperately to withstand the pain of the approximate 35 injections of this medication throughout her head, neck, shoulders and back. She walks out of the pain clinic a zombie. The next visit, scheduled just three days later, is basically the same routine. A couple dozen injections and again she is a zombie as she leaves the pain clinic. The only thing different is now there is a strange lump in the lower right quadrant of her back. "Oh, it's nothing to worry about," says the anesthesiologist as he injects the lump numerous times. Then the one lump turns into two, which are injected several times. Then there are three lumps, four...five...her whole lower back is full of these lumps and he keeps injecting them over and over! This goes on for a total of 17 visits...and more than 400 trigger point injections during a six-month period before the woman realizes that she is in more pain than ever and something is terribly wrong. This woman goes to a neurologist, who orders an MRI. "All I can see is a narrowing where the nerves come in in the lower spine...nothing I can do," the neurosurgeon replies as the woman leaves his office in tears, desperate to find an answer to why she is in so much pain. Finally, this woman has to quit her profession - a fourteen year career in the media sent down the drain because of a minor car accident? No, something else is wrong. Could it be all of the injections? What exactly was injected? Celestone - a corticosteroid mixed with an anesthetic!! My God! Why wasn't she informed of the side effects? She searches the region for a doctor who will find an answer...one after another they tell her she has fibromyalgia...no, she has MS...or myofascial pain syndrome, or "something from your past is making you think you're in more pain than you really are." Psychological tests are ordered and she is just fine mentally...but why isn't she more angry at the doctors? Because, it doesn't do any good. She just wants to find a doctor who will stop the degeneration in her back so she can save her marriage and be the best mother possible to her two young daughters. None of the doctors will step forward to put the blame on the injections, although "off the record" they tell this woman that yes, all of the injections are to blame. A protective society? What about the promise to "do no harm?" Years go by...messages sent via the internet, letters sent to doctors and researchers - no one will help her find an end to the pain...medical bills piling up...her marriage is over and they have to file bankruptcy. And now she has osteoarthritis, two bad disks, osteoporosis, her gallbladder was taken out due to over 50 (!) gallstones, her thyroid and ovaries have quit working, and there is more pain than ever before. All the doctors are doing now is covering up the pain with over a thousand dollars worth of pain meds every month (which she can't afford because she is on Social Security disability and now without her life partner). In the meantime, the major medical center builds the pain clinic a huge, beautiful new site and there are more patients than ever before....none of whom this woman has talked to has had the benefit of informed consent. One woman was getting over 18 epidurals of Depo-Medrol a year for four years! Three offices of the FDA say to "get the guy out of business - he's killing people," yet no one steps forward to stop this from happening to someone else. There has to be someone out there in this world who can help this woman. Researchers at major medical centers are always studying the effects of drugs on the human body...so there has to be some studies available on the effects of 6mg Celestone (betamethasone) on the human structure...especially when given over 400 times in a six-month period back in 1993! PLEASE...if you know of anyone who can help this woman, I would be eternally grateful...because this woman is me, and I sincerely need your help. I apologize for the length of this e-mail and for the intrusion, but I have become desperate in finding some relief for the sake of my two young daughters. Thank you for your time and consideration. miacarl...@aol.com<< -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. 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