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call me stupid...or, maybe not...long

Posted by former couch crasher on January 07, 2002 at 04:03:35:
For almost 2 years now, I have posted here regarding my own condition of IH, a totally bogus diagnosis, which I USED to have but has been gone since that time. In that time, many have scoffed at my results, 0r found it hard to believe...an isolated case.
I think one of the biggest problems is that after people go in to the sleep specialist, and are handed the diagnosis of IH, many are satisfied that they know what they have and are given the drugs necessary to treat it. But, in the case of IH, we don't know what we have. We've been handed an empty diagnosis. We've been told exactly what we knew before we went in -- that we're excessively sleepy but for an unknown reason. Is this logical? Is it logical to shell out a few thousand dollars for a test which comes back and tells us what we already knew? Is it logical to take a drug for something which has no known cause?
Perhaps the answer lies within the medical community itself. Maybe if more sleep specialists, upon finding no underlying causes for a disorder, would refer their patients to those who specialize in other areas, like vitamins and minerals and the testing thereof; maybe then some people could get the same kind of results which I have had.
I owe a great debt to the centers for disease control who led me to the finding of the underlying causes of my condition. While they did not provide me with the diagnosis of my problems, they did lead me down the right path as to what the problem may be. Through their assumption that I had something similar to hyperkalemia based on my problems with fluoride, rather than an alergic reaction to fluoride itself (which can happen too in some people,) I was able to research into different areas to determine that the true underlying cause was not hyperkalemia, rather hypomagnesemia, or a deficiency of magnesium in my blood serum. This disorder is not commonly checked for, and is not done by simply drawing blood. There is strong evidence to show that through the neglect of myself through diet, along with trauma to my body caused by, of all things, wisdom tooth surgery many years ago, that I caused myself to have this problem.
Today, I am quite well. I haven't been to the doctor in quite a while. I take no stimulant prescription drugs, and sleep 6 or 7 hours a day to feel refreshed. I do take 2 magnesium supplements with zinc (it is true what they say about zinc :-) )each day and carefully watch my diet to cut down or counter on the magnesium depleting components of it.
I hope others can benefit from this as I have, for I find it a far better way to live. Good Luck

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Re: call me stupid...or, maybe not...long Mary 05:21 1/19/02 (0)

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