What Doctors Don't Tell YouWhen I was 18, doctors discovered that I had ankylosing spondylitis, a form of arthritis that destroys the spine and all the major joints of the body. ...
I seem to have contracted polymyalgia rheumatica, a type of arthritis that affects the muscles, but not the bones or joints. It’s causing the muscles in the backs of my legs to ache badly when I walk or sit for more than a few minutes. It also...
Every other popular health book these days seems to contain the world "detoxification". We are urged to change our diet, fast or purge our systems to facilitate internal "cleansing". ...
What could be done for one reader's mother who has been diagnosed with Reynauds syndrome? She also suffers from arthritis, and it's believed there is an association between the two conditions. One reader tells us he developed the condition after...
A 58-year-old active woman has learned that the bone density in her back has slipped to just 87% of normal levels. She takes a wide range of vitamins plus calcium and magnesium and has just started on silica. She would like to avoid taking Fosamax...
Your book The Field proved beyond doubt that all living things can and do communicate by thought with each other no matter where they are in the world.
Next is the reader asking if chamomile tea would help her PR, a type of arthritis that affects the muscle. While there hasn't been any confirmation from other readers as to whether chamomile can offer relief or not, reflexology seems to have helped...
A few weeks ago, we had a query regarding ways of relieving this form of arthritis. One reader suggests taking a psychotherapeutic approach. Apparently, polymyalgia rheumatica is linked to temporal ateritis, an irritation of the temporal artery.
I was diagnosed in April last year with polymyalgia. It came on suddenly overnight; having gone to bed the night before perfectly well, I woke up with severe pain in my head, temples, forehead, neck and the base of my spine.
Mr S.M., a 56-year-old rambler, came to see me with an irritable bowel, stomach pain, loss of sex drive, severe fatigue, joint pain and swelling that kept moving to different joints, stiffness in his hands and bone sensitivity in his ribs
