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lower back pain relief

17 years ago

You can substantially reduce or even completely eliminate many kinds of chronic pain with a special diet that's rich in certain carbohydrates, and low in fats, protein and sugar.

Substantially increase your consumption of complex carbohydrates, these include foods such as wholegrains, ( with the exclusion of corn), beans vegetables and fruits, so these make up 70-80% of your food intake.

Avoid refined carbohydrates, such as sugar, honey, and syrups, and cut your total sugar intake by at least 40%.

Avoid all fats and oils including butter, margarine, meat fats and lard, as much as possible. Also avoid fatty meats, whole milk, cheese with more than 1% fat content, and egg yolks.

Give both caffeine and alcohol a miss.

Take an amino acid supplement called tryptophan, this is converted by the body into serotonin, a pain relieving chemical.

The combination of the special diet and the tryptophan should dramatically elevates your pain tolerance.

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littleonefb
17 years ago
The best thing you can do is stop advising people to use your suggestions of herbal treatments for all kinds of medical problems and preventing medical problems.
You are not a doctor, nor do you have any understanding of the risks involved in people taking your advise, using herbal supplements in combination with prescription meds or not seeking medical advise for a problem.

Recently you where seeking advise for yourself on medical problems that probably have occured from taking all these herbal supplements that you are posting about. Wasn't it something about black vomit?

The best thing anyone can do that sees and reads your posts is to ignore any and all advise.

By the way, chronic back pain can be the symptom of very serious medical conditions that your advise, if it where followed, could lead to even further serious medical conditions and even death.

I hope everyone just ignores your continued posts and the dangers that they pose.
littleonefb
17 years ago
Just checked your member page and see that you have a website for alternative medicine.

Now I see why you post the way you do. Must be your attempt to get around the GW rules of advertising your website and selling your product.

SCAM POSTING IS WHAT YOU DO. SUGGEST YOUR POSTS BE IGNORED FOR GOOD.
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firemanswife--- OH BOY! It caught my eye whe I read you are going to see someone in Vegas. I had back surgery in July. I couldn't even get out of bed to go pee the pain was so excrutiating. I'm from NC and was stuck in a Vegas hospital for 5 days before I had a nerve block so I could fly home. Who is your MD that you will be seeing? I had 2 top-notch ones see me at the hospital. I loved them. I will try to find their names in my paperwork from last summer (still getting bills, ya know!). Anyway, if they'd have been here in NC, I would not have hesitated to have had either of them perform my surgery. Let me say, you need to see a neurologist if you haven't already and have MRI's taken. The x-rays are fine but you need to see more of the affected area and an x-ray doesn't cut it. You definitely have a pinched nerve (sciatica). That is why you have pain radiating to your hip(s). I ended up having damage to my sciatic nerve and my left leg is still numb all the way down to my toes. All I feel is my big toe but it's slowly returning. OK, Vegas MD's I absolutely recommend: Abdul Sami Siddiqui, MD Satish Sharma, MD (did my nerve block- I was wide awake and there was instant relief. Felt very little. Awesome hands!) Aurangzeb N. Nagy, neurologist at Las Vegas Neurosurgery and Spine (I would have had him do my surgery if I could not have traveled home). I wish you luck. Have been there. Get to a neurologist quickly if you have not done so, and even for a 2nd and 3rd opinion! They will recommend an MRI and then go from there. Pills are ok if needed but they are a bandage. Let me know if I can help you in answering any questions. Orie
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mike2305
Original Author
17 years ago
The advice for pain relief, is not an article that I have invented. It is actually expert advice from Dr Samuel Seltzer, a noted pain control expert at Temple University, in Philadelphia. My own complaint, for which i thank you for your comments, was I understand coursed by stress, and not by any herbal medication, i have always checked with my gp first before taking any remedy, and would always advise others to do so.

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