HELP FOR FIBROMYALGIA?

I should have read these articles sooner, but I had read Dr. Teitelbaum before and he hadn't told me anything that new. But something sent me to his web site today. I don't know that I know what... something I read on the Real Age web site sent me looking for information on D-Ribose. The name rang a very distant bell, but it really didn't mean that much to me. 


What I learned is that D-Ribose is a natural sugar that the body produces. The body then uses this to create adenosine triphosphat, ATP, which in turn creates energy for every part of the body: muscles and brain. If the body fails to produce Ribose, then the body experiences fatigue and the brain doesn't always function the way it once did. Now, all that I had known for years is that energy was produced by B vitamins and sugar. I had tried all the B vitamins one could take with no result. I had simply given up, assuming that the Fibro had taken away all of the energy the B's could give. Now, I was reading about the real source of energy in the body.


B vitamins are a key component of this energy, but Dr Teitelbaum felt that a key component was missing. When he studied the biochemistry of energy molecules, he saw that they are also made of 2 other key components — adenine and Ribose. Adenine is plentiful in the body and supplementing with adenine had not helped CFS. And so he and his research team turned to Ribose. Ribose is made in the body in a slow, laborious process and cannot be found in food. He knew that CFS/FMS causes the body to dump other key energy molecules like Acetyl-L-Carnitine. And then he found that the body did the same with Ribose, making it hard to get the furnaces working again even after the other problems were treated. Without Ribose, the fire was out.


The more Dr. Teitelbaum had researched, the more he had become convinced that D-Ribose could make a difference in the lives of patients with CFS and FMS, Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia. And it did. Reading this, I got excited. What if there were something else to try, something that might actually work? After all, I am 71 (Real Age 65). How much energy am I looking for? I continued to read.


Dr. Teitelbaum's experiments with real patients showed that 2/3 of his patients experienced increased energy, well being, and/or decreased pain with regular use. Decreased pain? Increased energy? Why had I not heard about this? Why hadn't I read this article months before when I had been to this website.  A recently concluded study showed a 59% increase in energy for the participants who used Ribose.


That was it. That was his conclusion. He is now using this product in clinics all over the United States, one of which is right here in Fort Worth. I had known about it, but ... Well, they do not file insurance. I have no idea whether Medicare would pay any of it; and if they did, Medicare wouldn't pay what the doctors in that clinic wanted to charge. Dr. Larry Sharpe here uses it; but I would have to pay him up front also, and then wait to be reimbursed. He had told me that I would need $2000 to start the program in his clinic. I didn't go to his clinic either.


Now, I might possibly be able to do it by myself ... with the help of my current doctor and the expense of a great deal of money to purchase the products, none of them covered by insurance. None of them needs a prescription for which insurance would reimburse. All can be purchased at the different health food stores. And Dr. Teitelbaum has posted his program on his web site for anyone to follow. There is a support group for his program here in Fort Worth ... in MY zip code.


And so, because I never give up, I am going to try one more time to find something that might make a major difference in my life, something that promises to give me more energy and less pain. First, I have to purchase the big product, D-Ribose $45.00 and the other vitamins that will complete it, another $40.00. But his website returned the information that they are OUT of product.


I had made up my mind. I was ready to try something. It felt like NOW or never. I did a search and found  the right product, Corvalens, at Amazon.  And Amazon was OUT. Finally, I went to the manufacturer's site and ordered the product I decided that I was going to try. As I paid for it, I thought of all the new products I had decided to try this month: a vitamin D drink, an antioxidant product, a multi-vitamin and mineral, and now, this. 


But if all this works, if adding this to the work at Carter Fitness Center and the recumbent bike at home, and the air stepper at home, and the so carefully prepared meals, and to the Probiotic and to the glucose control products, and the real attempt to sleep 7 or 8 hours every night no matter what else I really want to do, if any or if all of this works, I shall be a new woman, free of the pain and fatigue of Fibromyalgia. And you ALL will hear about it, probably every day for the rest of my life.