I’m so exhausted! What can I do?
I have Multiple Sclerosis and fatigue is a huge problem for me. My insurance company won’t cover any medication to help me with this. Provigil, which works, runs 0/ month, they have refused since Medicare part D started. Methylphenidate is only / month so I paid for it and tried it, but it makes me jittery, nauseous and only slightly less fatigued. I’ve done B12 complex and many multivitamin combos. My insurance company has no suggestions. My doctor has tried several others that they won’t cover, but I don’t know the names. Suggestions?
Dr. Bluto- aren’t u a sarcastic axxhole!? I’m interested in what others have found to work. oh, and I don’t walk well enough to go around the block.
Belfus- I have done so much prednisone that I’ve developed osteopinot (a prescursor to osteoporosis) and broke my foot stepping lightly on carpeting once. Ur right tho, I feel great when I’m on them!
Jynn,
First of all I must agree with you regarding the Dick H+++, Bluto. I am sorry some people can be such insensitive jerks!
I don’t know where you live, but obviously it is in the U.S. I had a simular situtation with my health, though it was not MS, it was an immune disregulation problem from a chemical exposure. I live near (90 miles) San Francisco so I finally went to the city to an immunologist who hooked me up with a pharmasuitical company that gave me meds free. There are many that are required to do gratis perscriptions because of grant money’s they recieve.
I do know many women and a few men that have suffered from MS and the one best thing that has worked for all of them in various degrees is juice fasting, along with other things I wont mention here and vitiman B-12 injections. Vit B 12 is distroyed in the stomach acid and the best results with this supplement is injection. They are very easy to give to your self and relativel painless. You use an insulin syringe, it has a very tiny needle (30 gauge I think). One cc every 4 to 7 days works great. It also comes in sublingual form but the assimulation into the body isn’t as great as injection.
When I was at my worst, I was sleeping 22 to 23 hours per day unable to move in my bed without assistance. This went on for 3 years. The doctors had me on 23 different oral meds and 5 to 6 shots per week 4 were 10 cc’s of gamma globulin in each hip twice per week and one to two shots of B12 per week. The B 12 helped with the stamina but I wanted my immune system repaired. I knew that I was only getting worse by the day and that if it continued I would die before I saw my 35 birthday.
If you are intrested in healing and even reveresing the effects and the progression, I will gladly share with you what Dr. Bernard Jensen ( World renouned for healing people of deseases that are incurable, such as many forms of Cancer, MS, TB, Lupus, Sarcoidosis,and much more) shared with me. He use to have a health ranch in Escondido Ca. where people who were terminaly ill would go to heal their body’s through nutrition and detoxification. He was right on with me and I have shared it with many others who have had great results. If you want to know more e-mail me at rtkaren@sbcglobal.net, I dont want to make this any lengthier than it already is. Good luck my heart goes out to you!
deepest sympathies- ms is a terrible disease, and unfortunately there sometimes just aren’t very good therapeutic options for some patients. have you tried steroids like prednisone?
Maybe try herbal energy boosters?
Herbs have been the main source of medicine throughout human history. That they are still widely used today is not a throwback to the Dark Ages but an indication that herbs are a growing part of modern, high-tech medicine: about 25-30 percent of today’s prescription drugs contain chemicals derived from plants. Some 119 chemical substances from 91 plants are now used in Western medicine. Of these, 74 percent were folk medicines brought to our pharmacies through scientific research. Researchers today examine folk or historical uses of plants to find new drugs for cancer, AIDS, and even the common cold.
Consult a traditional Chinese herbalist. Their prescription for fatigue is astounding. Start ginseng tea immediately. Do Qi-gong immediately. There are books on the subject.