If you have chronic pain or illness, wouldn't you try anything if there was a chance it could help in any way?
I have been suffering with a serious chronic illness for three years now. I recently started using a treatment that was presented to me by my doctor. I didn't even read it at first and kind of nodded my head when she talked about it.... While she talked, I was thinking "Yeah, right... Yeah, right... Bulls**t!" I stuffed the info in my purse and went on my miserable way after making a promise that I meant to keep but I reluctantly kept it. I didn't want to get my hopes up just to be disappointed and become more depressed over this illness and what it has done to me and my family....
I got it on Thursday and didn't open it up right away because I was already feeling stressed and like usual a lot of pain so I didn't want to be disappointed right then when I imagined, it wouldn't work. At night I used it and immediately felt it was doing something. It is called "Earthing" ... It is affective! www.earthing.com
9 Answers to "If you have chronic pain or illness, wouldn't you try anything if there was a chance it could help in any way?"
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Has anyone tried essential oils? If they are theraputic grade I hear they can be helpful.
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this is an ad
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No it isn't.. LOL... I am a real person.... You can tell if something is an ad if you go to the profile and there is nothing there... No stories, no history, no experiences, no blogs, etc.
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Are you my savior ? Earthing is something I havn't heard of. I've been dealing with chronic arthritic pain for more than ten years. In that time I've seen Orthopitists,Neurologists and many Pain Specialists. The orthopitist and the neurologist said, after reading my MRA, " Sorry, there's nothing I can do to help you." So I said "What should I do"? "See a Pain Specialist" ! That was one of the worst mistakes of my life. The (first) PS gave me epiduerals,which I thought were the answer to my pain problems because the pain almost immediately went away. But,two weeks later I was right back where I started. The pain returned. After trying ep's again and again with the same result, it became obvious that continued use of them was not practical. So, we tried steroid injections,with the same results of two weeks of relief,then back to the pain. Steroid shots weren't the answer either beccause I could only have a shot every 4 months and they only provided relief for two weeks. The "solution" was to have pain medication administered continuously. Sounded like a winner to me so I had a morphine infusion pump installed in my body. You guessed right if you guessed that it didn't provide pain relief, even after changing the morphine for dilaudid and jacking up the dosage to , what the next Pain Specialist said was "alarming" levels. He suggested that I try a relatively new pain drug, the name of which escapes me but,which was made from snail venom. It was very expensive by comparison with morphine or dilaudid but I was willing to pay for it if it would provide some pain relief. Another good thing about this new drug is that it is not an opiate, so no constipation side effects, which I've learned to live with since getting the pump. Of course,the new stuff didn't work any more than the old stuff so I had the pump refilled with dilauded again just to have the illusion that I was doing all I could for myself. Oh yeah, I was also taking oral pain meds like,you name them,I took them. So,here I am ten years later, still suffering from arthritic pain of the joints,including my spine,and putting up with the pain because nothing has worked for me.To answer your question,I have and would try anything to find some relief.And,that is why,after writing this post,I'm going to the site you suggest and renew my hope that this may be the med that "could help in any way." Thanks for the info. Hope it works ! I'll be sure to let you know,one way or the other.
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PS: Just came from earthing.com and was struck by how similar the adds for their products sound so similer to those of the "Majic of Magnets" which were all the rave a number of years ago. I forgot to mention that I tried magnets too with the same negative results of everything else I tried. I will try going barefoot however because it's something I can try for free during our summer months,which in Florida, means March to December. I should know by then whether I get any pain relief from the experience.
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I am hoping this works for you. I honestly was going down hill and I think I might have arrived down hill with hope that I could get pain levels in control. Right before I started using Earthing my pain levels in my leg was actually going up and my back pain never was in control at all even though I am on 5 different meds for pain. So I was very surprised when I had the pain relief in my back. There is a story in the Earthing book which told of a man who was crippled by arthritis and was bedridden. He was given 6 months and hospice had stepped in. Someone who knew this man also knew the man who was doing research on grounding. He gave the man the prototype of what would become Earthing. The developer, Ober, went back to see the man after a year and wasn't expecting to find the man. He found the man actually standing on the porch... The man had continuously used the grounding pad and experienced a turn around in his health. This gave me hope hearing about that story and the MS stories which closely related to my illness. Good luck!
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i got hurt eight years ago working at a mortuary moving dead people around. spent the next 7 yrs dependant, not addicted to pain meds. i took 450 methadone a month. i changed doctors and he sent me to a detox/health program. it saved my life. it wasnt fun, its wasn;t easy, but i haven't taken a pain pill in eight months. my pain still exists some, but it was the drugs that ruin your tolerance and make your pain actually SEEM/FEEL worse. its not your body, its not in your head, it in those little nerve endings. before my life was 85% consume by pain, now its like 15% If you have good insurance or workers comp, contact me and I can tell you about the place i went to. saved my life. let me live again and hope it for all of you too!!!
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I am being taken care of by a neurologist. I am not sure why you are offering to give info on a detox/program. Everyone has pain for different biological reasons and have different diseases and illnesses which differ from your experience. Pain medicine also affects people differently. I have nerve pain which is the worst God awful pain anyone could experience chronically. Pain in my lower back has never been controlled. TM made the pain worse for me. I will have this illness for awhile but I have hope that this Earthing product might speed up any healing processes naturally occurring in my body. I am glad you found relief however it is not for everyone to stop their pain management.
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All I was saying is that sometimes the pain you FEEL is worse than the actual injury or disease. i had given up on life. I hurt 85% of the time and was all but bedridden for two years. the pains meds are necessary, but the longer and more you take them, they make you hurt worse.. Your initial injury or disease may seem to get worse, but its SO likely its because of all that crappy, drug-pushing doctors. i started on norco, then my doctor insisted i go to morphine, then to methadone, and then when depression/anxiety hit, take these new meds, and then I couldn't sleep, so try these, as so on for many years. So eventally I couldn't even decipher, why i hurt and why i was so miserable-all the side effects and trying to cure them with other meds that caused new side effects. I'm not some naturualist-I believe meds are necessary. I had tried injections, chiropractor, TENS units, PT, acupuncture, anything and everything. i admit I had good results at this program, but so did all the other pain affected disabled people there too. A huge part of it is accepting it as it is. You will likely never be free of pain. No matter what science can/may offer. But once a bit of acceptance finally kicks in, it alot easier to understand it and just acknowledge this is the new you, for better or worse. You sounded p!ssed at me, you asked for advice, and thats what i offered, something that a virtual, pain-consumed, overly-medicated gal/zombie (for eight years) had to offer.
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I have both and yes I would as long as it was feasible. I have depression big time and I refused ECT because it makes no sense and hurts people.
Earthing? Be real. Your first thoughts were correct. It's just another bullshit fad. What's new? How much do they want from you?Like (1)
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Read research. It doesn't hurt. It is scientific and a doctor is involved with its development and also implementation. So if he advocated for a "fad", he would be putting his reputation on the line and most docs would not do that. I would say that most docs would dismiss things even before knowing the research. Anyway, I want something to change and I promised my doc I would try Earthing. The results I have had this far which is reported to be typical made me wish someone had told me about Earthing earlier and saved me from suffering. I only mentioned it because of that. The info is out there about it. I will honestly tell people my experience along the way. I only want to help people.... I am not selling anything.
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It's bullshit. Enough selling thank you.
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I'll have to check it out. I have pain from injury and would love to find something other than pain pills.
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Sorry you have chronic pain and can understand you did not want to get your hopes up. Seems legit, glad it has helped you, but not heard of it as such before. Really interesting.
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thats horrible..but good you found something that works...i was sick with something for 6 months...havnt found anything to help though..good luck.. :3
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Best Answer (Chosen by Voting):
Posted by Serenitree 1 May 6th, 2012 at 6:21PM
I'm happy for you.
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