Health Information on the Web

Whether you’re searching for information and answers on Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or other chronic health problems, often you can find good health information on the web, if you know where to look and who to pay attention to. That can be a significant fact in your search for meaningful answers.

At the Health Matters Show I try very hard to provide you with great sources of health information to help you re-make yourself into being all that you can be– healthwise and on a mind/body/spirit basis. I believe I’ve demonstrated the “health information” facts this week alone. (Feel free to review the timely announcements about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, if you missed them. See the blog post references that follow and the comments to those posts:

(Today’s Health Matters Show audio podcast is 8 minutes 27 seconds.)

• Failure to Duplicate XMRV Results
• UK News on XMRV from the ME Association and Co-Cure
• XMRV and CFS Controversy: Part 1 -and-
• XMRV and CFS Controversy: Part 2.

What traditional medical science is not telling you (or cannot tell you) and what you’re not hearing is the rest of the story… such as… What’s really wrong with you? What “contagion” (if any) is driving your illness? Who is coming up with answers that you can use? What health information and findings can help you figure out how to get well NOW!?

Also, critically important, what’s not being said at all is exactly what you yourself can do today to begin getting well.

The lack of significant progress by the mostly private-funded research projects creates a huge need within the Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome communities. Even so they seem to accomplish more than public entities like the Center for Disease Control or CDC. It has produced little more than stagnant inertia! (If you haven’t done so yet, please review the reference posts listed above. A new research project by the Department of Health and Human Services has recently started.)

So I ask, why should you continue to wait on answers from medical science? Why are you waiting?

Why can’t and don’t you begin to act NOW?

You might be one of the people to get ahead of the curve. Let’s face it… there is an incredible volume of people who are depending on medical science to come up a cure for what ails them!

You have to wonder if they really will find “the” cause and “the” cure for CFS. It’s been over 20 years since the newest recognition of the illness that we now know as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. As it stands now, we’re not much closer to producing a medical cure that helps the scores of people who suffer with it. Yes, we have better questions, but the answers to these questions are a ways down the road.

Did you know that to date only a few methodologies are accepted and proven to help you get on with your life and stop suffering so much? For the most part, they’ve come from the alternative medical field.

Thank goodness “medicine” can now recognize the symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia, except for the doctors who still choose not to acknowledge that the illnesses exist. (I wonder how they help their patients when they have such an attitude? Do they continue to spout the old platitudes, “Go home and learn to live with your symptoms?” -or- “It’s all in your head!”

OH! NO! Say it ain’t so!

Thank goodness “medicine” now has a few tested and accepted practices that they can rely on, like the 18-point trigger point examination for a patient suffering with Fibromyalgia. Along with a few other criteria, this test alone can be used to definitively diagnose the illness.

Thank goodness “medicine” and the big pharma (the huge, multi-billion-dollar drug industry) have found a few drugs to help the symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. Not all, but some of your symptoms can be relieved somewhat through use of pharmaceutical drugs. The thing to keep in mind is constantly taking drugs is no healthy, long term solution.

I encourage you to sign up for the RSS feed or get on the email mailing list of the Health Matters Show. Within a few weeks, I will provide you with more information about how to feel better, how to improve your life and how to heal. I plan to make it easy for even the most cognitively challenged brains and for people who are more physically challenged, too. I truly believe that very often in life the best learning comes for the teacher who’s been there and done that. Folks, I’m one of those teachers, me, Cinda Crawford!

Thanks for your time and attention today. Please visit this website, blog and podcast often. Also, please comment and leave your thoughts about the events of this week. Your opinion and input are invaluable.

Cinda Crawford, host of the Health Matters Show

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