YouTube Video and a Fibromyalgia Case History

After two months of working and reworking the script, I finally recorded and posted a YouTube video where I give a brief overview of SET-DB. I wanted to record it with my MacBook Pro so I could use a "green screen" and replace the background with something more attractive than a wall in my house. But I wasn't satisfied with the results (I lack the proper lighting to make a good green screen) so I recorded it with my Nikon D3300. 

Am I happy with the video? No. Like most people, I don't like to look at pictures or video of myself. Bruce Willis is attributed as saying everyone thinks of themselves as being 22–24 years old. Whether he said that or not I think it's close to the truth. It's hard to believe that's what I look like now. I thought I had more hair.

Anyway, writing the script, which meant revisiting the memories of my early years in allergy elimination treatment (AET), was a pleasant nostalgic experience. I recall the first treatment I gave. Will this really work? Will my patient think I'm crazy? i was just as happy and surprised that the treatment worked as my patients were back then.

Flash forward many years and my practice is full of fibromyalgia (FM) patients who are so sick and tired (no pun intended) of being given drug after drug, most of which make them feel worse, in the long run, and of being told there's really nothing wrong with them ("Then why do I feel so bad?").

One such patient, a young woman about 30, had been diagnosed with FM that affected "only" the left side of her neck, elbow, and wrist. The pain was so bad her doctors operated on her wrist (and did what I don't know), only to make the situation worse. Her other symptoms included what many call "fibro fog." I recall her telling me she often got lost driving home, that she'd drive around for an hour or so until she could remember where she lived.

The first treatment in our FM treatment program was for amino acids, the second for phenolics. After her second treatment, she said that on the way home she could feel the pain leave her neck, elbow, and wrist. That evening, her FM pain completely disappeared.

To her that was truly a miracle. To me? Meh. I'd seen the treatment work so many times that nothing surprised me anymore. Oh, I was happy for her, and happy to have another raving patient in my corner (one of many, I'm happy to say), but my reaction to what happened to her was so different than it would've been years earlier.

Incidentally, she went on to cross off some of her "bucket list" items, one of which was learn how to kick-box.