When doctors say, “It’s all in your head,” what they mean is THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT is wrong with you. Their medical training includes a full semester of intensive study in CYA - “Cover Your Ass” to ensure they aren’t sued because they mistreated or misdiagnosed you. Rather than say, “I don’t know what it is, let’s explore,” they refer you to a psychiatrist because (1) they don’t really consider psychiatry “medicine” so they dump you on someone with a profession they learned not to respect while in med school, (2) they don’t want to admit to another practicing specialist or physician that they’re freaking clueless. (3) they interpret the Mind/Body connection to mean that if they can’t find it in the body it must be a mental thing - not realizing that the two (Mind/Body) are interconnected, entwined and bound together like white on rice.

If you have such a doctor realize you are seeing a true moron, or someone who is lazy, disinterested, wants only to push pills at you, or who has no time for you as a person and only wants to separate you from your money. I saw an “alternative practitioner” outside Fredricksburg, VA last year who qualifies in the “I only want your money, but have to put up with you to get it,” category - so don’t think holistic practitioners are any better. There’s simply more money in holistic medicine right now. A N Y W A Y…..

I’ve been trying to find a treatment regime for my Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for YEARS now. I finally, after exhaustive searches on the internet and dozens of clueless, lazy, PIA (pain in the ass) doctors, discovered the book From Fatigued to Fantastic. I was thrilled to find out that the treatments I’d figured out on my own, including Vitamin B12, B6, B3, calcium and L-CARNITINE 500 - 500mg Metabolize Food Into Energy were part of the treatment protocol he suggested. The only thing I wasn’t taking was Corvalen Ribose 280 grams. I ordered the D-Ribose last week and just started taking it and wow. Big difference in my exhaustion levels. It’s not like speed, but in three days of 5-15 grams of Ribose every day I am no longer sleeping 6-8 hours AFTER a one-hour workout!

WHY aren’t more doctors taught about Fibro in school? Because Medical School teaches them, “If we can’t understand it, it doesn’t exist.” Which is crazy. It’s the doctors who need the psychiatrists! Notice I linked to the Mayo clinic definition of these terms….because the Mayo Clinic DOES finally admit that people do seem to have SOMETHING going on and that it does exist even though most doctors don’t believe it does (they admit that). But, now that Dr. Teitlebaum, M.D. has figured out what it is, there MAY be $$$ to be made for the big drug companies - so of course doctors are all over that. Woo hooo….. now all of a sudden they are interested. Some of them anyway. But not the two dozen doctors I saw who said, “It’s stress. It’s all in your head, maybe some therapy or Valium will help.”

Other doctors, and dentists, REALIZE something is going on, but they come up with things that they guess might help - like the $2,500 retainer my dentist gave me. It helped for a week because it increased oxygen flow, but it didn’t address the real problem - that of my body’s failure to rebuild muscle cells and other things. Nice try, but now I’m $2,500 poorer and no healthier because of that. But I am doing the treatment protocol Dr. Teitlebaum advises. (Get your own personalized plan FREE on his site.)

If YOU or someone you love or know or care about is suffering from fatigue, pain and headaches please, please, please check out Dr. Teitlebaum’s website. It may save your/their life. If you want more medical background on Teitlebaum, check out his paper on PubMed.

What To Do When The Doctor Says “It’s stress.”

• Get a second, third and fourth opinion. Read Dr. Teitlebaums “7 tips when getting a second opinion.” Find a doctor who won’t tell you it’s all in your head. I went through 12 doctors before finding a FEMALE gynocologist who told me, “It’s not in your head, it’s endometriosis and oh - by the way, you have PRE-CANCEROUS cells on your uterus.” She saved my life because I INSISTED something was wrong. I kept having dreams about a blackness in my uterus - like something rotting. I had to push her for more tests - but I KNEW something was wrong and my body didn’t lie. Trust your body more than you trust your doctor. Keep looking for a doctor who cares and will take time to listen and to help you. They’re out there, but they’re rare.

• Take to the internet. There are millions of support groups, websites and people who have the same symptoms as you and many of them have been doing the research long before you had a problem. Don’t embrace all information immediately, but learn all you can. Google terms like “medical trial” and your symptoms. Keep looking, keep reading. Print off all the information you find (make sure to note the url or web address so your doctor can refer back to it). Organize the information in a binder with tabs to make it easier to read. No doctor will look at a stack of loose papers with your notes and scribbling on it. You have to present it in an organized manner. They want MEDICAL research, MEDICAL studies - not some website in the Caribbean or some remote part of Arizona where a frizzy-haired shaman who owns a BMW claims to have gotten the answers to your problem from their animal spirit-guides.

• Many times those who have found success are more than willing to give you their doctor’s names. If a doctor and his/her plan have long-term success they’ll be noted in the medical research. Get their name and research them as well. There are quacks who prey on desperate people. Make sure they DID attend the medical school they claim to have attended and check their medical license with the medical board in their state to ensure they are who they claim to be.

• Keep looking. Talk to everyone you know about your symptoms. Inevitably someone will say, “My aunt Jane had that same problem and she finally got some relief by ______.” That’s a lead. Get Aunt Jane’s contact information and call her. You’re not crazy. You want solutions. They’re out there. But you have to be proactive and look every day!

• Learn to love your local bookstore and library. You’d be amazed how much information you can find in a college or university library. Most university libraries are open to the public and are free. You can also search the Library of Congress online.

• Sign up for newsletters and information about Clinical Trials around the country from http://clinicaltrials.gov/ ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and results database of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial’s purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details. This information should be used in conjunction with advice from health care professionals.

• Consider joining Medline/PubMed. MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s® (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains over 18 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®). The great majority of journals are selected for MEDLINE based on the recommendation of the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC), an NIH-chartered advisory committee of external experts analogous to the committees that review NIH grant applications. Some additional journals and newsletters are selected based on NLM-initiated reviews, e.g., history of medicine, health services research, AIDS, toxicology and environmental health, molecular biology, and complementary medicine, that are special priorities for NLM or other NIH components. These reviews generally also involve consultation with an array of NIH and outside experts or, in some cases, external organizations with which NLM has special collaborative arrangements.

• MEDLINE is the primary component of PubMed®, part of the Entrez series of databases provided by the NLM National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). MEDLINE may also be searched via the NLM Gateway. Time coverage: generally 1946 to the present, with some older material.

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Good luck with your search and your health issues! Keep looking! I did - and found answers EVERY time!