To vrikam on illness

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vrikam wrote:

I am sorry to hear about your illness, please let me know how i can

help you out, although I am sitting here in bangalore, india Here in

India we rely on alternative medicines like homeopathy, ayurveda in

curing diseases, I myself have undergone lot of suffering due to my

shoulder dislocations and even now my right hand is still giving me

lot of problems, but due to my long illness I got the blessings of

holy men and the divine motherPlease appraoch Swamiji and Shree ma

they can help you and also bless you with peace, whatever practise we

humans do it is not sufficient we need to get the blessings and the

grace of holy men

Dear vrikam ~ thank you so much for your kind offer of help and

suggestions. I too am sorry to hear about your own long illness. What

I have is called Neuroendocrine Immune Disorder. This is a fancy name

that the National Institutes of Health here in the US came up with as

a kind of umbrella for a complex of illnesses and syndromes. They did

it because, for most people, if they have one, they usually have

several. Of the ten under the umbrella, I have six. The worst is

Fibromyalgia, which brings chronic pain.

 

For a long time I thought my pain was the result of an accident where

I was hit by a drunk driver. I was treated for two years, and then

the doctor said he couldn't do anything more for me. I went to

neurologists, and they kept saying, there's no nerve involvement,

there's no nerve involvement. (Actually, I have a funny picture of

these men jumping up and down like little puppets, shouting their no

nerve involvement "mantra.") Yet still I had the pain, and it kept

getting worse, until, eventually I was no longer able to work.

 

There wasn't much known about Fibromyalgia when I first started to go

through all this, and many doctors didn't think it was even disease.

So it was only 4 years ago, after 20 years of living in pain, being

on meds, with my abilities becoming more and more limited, that I

received an actual diagnosis. Unfortunately, because this is such a

newly recognized disease, with multiple triggers, there has been very

little research., and so not much in the way of treatment, except to

medicate.

 

I have tried Oriental Medicine, Accupuncture, Supplements, all of

which did not help me. There is an ayurvedic doctor in Albuquerque,

Dr Vasant Lad, and if I can get someone to, at some point, drive me

there, I will go see him and find out if he can help me.

 

I am interested in what you said about asking Swamiji and Shree Maa

for help. How does one go about asking a Holy Person for help with

something like an illness? And isn't it wonderful, that we have this

internet, cyber satsang, that allows someone in Bangalore to

"converse" with someone in New Mexico? Again, my sincere thanks ~

Linda