Trying to help others

[maylon]

How sad it is for me to sit here and read posting from people crying, knowing what they are going through. Knowing I can tell them how to help themselves, yet also knowing that if I try I most likely will get kicked off this site as well as others I have tried to help people. I have had fibro for 15 yrs now and I am 95% medication free, I am in the process of writing books on self therapy and also setting up self therapy classes in a karate studio. I have medical endorsements for my therapy techniques. I only wish I could be with each person with fibromyalgia for two weeks, that is how long it would take a person to get their life back in order, for that is about how long it takes to rehydrate the fascia tissue. GOD bless each of you with this problem, I know the pains of fibro, Maylon.

[Scooby]

I have tried nontraditional treatments and they have not worked for me.....lets see there were herbs, vitamins, extracts, messages, diets excluding acids, sugars, proteins, oh yes and the cold tablets(guafenessin).......if you have something new please share.....

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~Luv, Scoobs~

[maylon]

Scooby I use exercises to relieve the pains, no special diets or anything. Learning of the fascia tissues would be your beginning. A good book on that is Job'S Body written by Deane Juhan, I was introduced to it by a massage therapist several months ago, I have been preaching fascia for over ten years. People must learn the difference between the fms & mps of fibromyalgia. Each needs to be treated differently, fms being the superficial fascia and the mps being the myofascial fascia. For the superficial fascia, stretches seem to be the answer, the myofascial tissue responds to pressure. Fibromyalgia is a result of the fascia tissue being damaged and dehydrating. When the dehydration sets in the fascia shrinks, welds and becomes harden. The first thing on the outside of a nerve is fascia tissue, so when the fascia tightens on a nerve you have pain, no nerves, no pain. When the fascia tissue is rehydrated whether it be by stretching or pressure, when the process is stopped it will continue rehydrating for about twenty minutes. After that time it will start to contract, depending on how much it has been rehydrated as how far it has to dehydrate to get back to the level it was before you started the rehydrating process. The dehydrating time is very painful as the fascia contracts around the nerves. This is why people with fibro hurt after they try exercising, also the reason a person must continue to exercise when this process starts. You cannot give the fascia tissue time to dehydrate, if you do you will have suffered for nothing. As you continue to rehydrate the fasica you will have longer periods of low pain periods, however exercising will become a large part of life for a person with fibro. If you have a particular problem, ask! I may be able to help you. However let it be known to all who read or ask, I have no medical background or knowledge of the anatomy other than what I have learned since the onslaught of fibromyalgia.

[maylon]

Scooby I use exercises to relieve the pains, no special diets or anything. Learning of the fascia tissues would be your beginning. A good book on that is Job'S Body written by Deane Juhan, I was introduced to it by a massage therapist several months ago, I have been preaching fascia for over ten years. People must learn the difference between the fms & mps of fibromyalgia. Each needs to be treated differently, fms being the superficial fascia and the mps being the myofascial fascia. For the superficial fascia, stretches seem to be the answer, the myofascial tissue responds to pressure. Fibromyalgia is a result of the fascia tissue being damaged and dehydrating. When the dehydration sets in the fascia shrinks, welds and becomes harden. The first thing on the outside of a nerve is fascia tissue, so when the fascia tightens on a nerve you have pain, no nerves, no pain. When the fascia tissue is rehydrated whether it be by stretching or pressure, when the process is stopped it will continue rehydrating for about twenty minutes. After that time it will start to contract, depending on how much it has been rehydrated as how far it has to dehydrate to get back to the level it was before you started the rehydrating process. The dehydrating time is very painful as the fascia contracts around the nerves. This is why people with fibro hurt after they try exercising, also the reason a person must continue to exercise when this process starts. You cannot give the fascia tissue time to dehydrate, if you do you will have suffered for nothing. As you continue to rehydrate the fasica you will have longer periods of low pain periods, however exercising will become a large part of life for a person with fibro. If you have a particular problem, ask! I may be able to help you. However let it be known to all who read or ask, I have no medical background or knowledge of the anatomy other than what I have learned since the onslaught of fibromyalgia, Maylon.

[Elaine from Kentucky]

(1) What is the basis for this info? What type of research? Medical background? (2) I wish I could afford a massage.