Suspension

Hi all, happy new year :). Below are photos of the Foggy friends atc (artist trading card) swap specimens I received before Christmas

The above six are my favourite. Stupidly I forgot to take any photos of my own atc. My Grandma got me a load of card making stuff for my birthday, which is why I entered it, to use some of my stuff up.  

A model areoplane my brother got for Christmas

I received a letter in the post the other day saying Dr Wight has mysteriously suspended his clinic for the forseeable future. Nobody has a clue why. Lots of people on Foggy friends are grumbling about it, many people rely on him a great deal. Hopefully the reason isn't too serious though so he'll be able to start practising again soon.

In the meantime we will just have to continue with the treatments alone. Its a shame from the tests point of view as I'll be unable to have those now. I probably won't even be able to find a Dr to retest my Mitochondria function to see if the Infra-red has improved it

However there are ME sufferers who take Naltrexone without a Drs supervision so at least I shall probably be able to carry on accessing it.

He has recommended Zolperdem Tartrate for my sleep problems which started again in early Nov and leave me feel really rubbish (shattered, sore eyes, painful fuzzy head). It is addictive though so I can only take it occasionally. My sleep has improved the last couple of weeks though. On Sunday night I tried cutting down to 3 Melatonin tablets rather than four but slept badly again, felt very yucky, so have gone back to the original doseage. Its a pity that sleeping pills are the only thing that makes a significant difference to my sleep. I've tried cutting down on rests in case I'm underdoing it, getting fresh air and practising yoga every day but nothing like that works.

I managed to have a lovely Christmas and New year despite everything. On New years day we went out to lunch at Ickwork house, which as you can guess from the pic was delightful;

    

Dr Wight

It would take a very long time to explain every detail of the journey
which led me to becomeing one of Dr Wights patients so I shall
probably explain more as we go along. I'll just say for now that we
first heard of him when he was reccomended to us by a man who goes to
Dads Yoga Nidra class. We pressuried my Dad into going, in spite of
his aversion to anything vaugely 'hippyish', to try and releive his
stress. As it turns out its just as well we did or we'd never have
heard about Dr Wight. The man who reccomended him actually suffers
from lyme disease, not ME, but he'd been misdiagnosed with ME to start
with which is how he ended up at Dr Wights clinic.
He first tested me for Mitochondria disorders because, though ME is
generally regarded by enlightend clinicians as a neroulogical
disorder, many ME sufferers have Mitochondria problems and all forms
of treatment will prove pointless if your Mitochondria isn't working
properly.
I'v suffered from many, varied neroulogical symptoms over the years
ranging from cocentration and memory problems, hypersensitivity and
IBS to name but a few. However as I haven't got anything wrong with my
actual Mitichondria cells (apart from this glycolic acid which ison my
translocating proteins, not affecting the cell itself) the other
likely cause of my neroulogical symptoms is a persistent virus.
Probably an Enterovirus (virus of the gut). I haven't actually been
tested for any Enteroviruses as it would involve a stomach biopsy and
Dr Wight didn't want to do one of those on me. It was a virus which
gave me a very high temperature and made me so sick I couldn't keep
even water down (symptoms suggestive of a virus of the gut) that
seemed to cause my ME, 10 years ago, though.
To help fight a potential persistent virus Dr Wight has given me low
dose Naltrexone to take. I'v been taking a 1ml dose for a week now. I
haven't experienced the miracle cure I half dreamed of yet, actually
all I'v really had are a few side affects (headache, sore throat), but
nothing too bad. Overall, along with my new diet, sleep meds and
infra-red, I'm feeling brighter and optimistic