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I was diagnosed in the summer of 1999 with osteoarthritis, RA, and Fibromyalgia after a first time procedure on my left knee in 1997. The knee surgery was to correct my knee cap because it was to low and not tracking correctly. The surgeons removed my knee cap and the groove it tracks in was cut deeper, a ligament shortened and one lengthened, a tendon cut out and lastly I had my tibia cut and moved over so it was inline with my knee. There was no protocol for the therapy and the therapist started me out on aggressive exercises. This aggravated the arthritis the doctor had found under the knee cap but didn’t remove because he was afraid it would interfere with my recovery. This surgery started my health on a downward spiral.
I went back into surgery on the same knee in February of 1998 to have the scare tissue cut out that had developed because I was not able to move my leg for six weeks while the bone healed. Then again in December of 1998 for arthoscopic to correct some of the surgery done in 1997 (I can’t remember exactly what it was that needed correcting). After this surgery I was prescribed Tramadol for the pain.
I started having pain in my knee as well as swelling and this prompted me to go to an established arthritis doctor. He did his test to see if I had Fibromyalgia instead of addressing the arthritis in my knee. After all of this he came to conclusion that I had osteoarthritis and RA of the hands and that I had Fibromyalgia, nothing was said about my knee. He didn’t prescribe anything but instead choose to just wait and see.
It got to the point that my doctor was no longer listening to me when I tried to tell him what was going on and I was having to wait in his office for more than 2 hours on my appointment days. This was when I decided to try another, alternative approach. My new doctor claimed to be a holistic doctor but she prescribed more drugs than my other doctor. She had put me on Paxil and testing of my liver enzymes was required every month because Paxil can cause problems for the liver. Well, one day I went into the doctor’s office and she told me that my liver enzymes were up and that it showed I had HepC. When I asked her what that meant and what my prognosis was she told me that I had five years to live and that it would be a very slow and painful death. I was devastated and cried all the way home. I made an appointment with the doctor from the Center for Contagious Diseases and we discussed my options. He had the attitude of wait and see and I didn’t want to wait and see.
I heard about some clinical trials that another doctor who specializes in the liver was performing. I started the clinical trial in October of 2000. I had Interferon shots once a week and I took Rybofirin pills every day, it was like keemo therapy for the liver. Before I started my treatment they did blood work to find what kind of genotype it was, mine was a 3, the curable type. I also had a liver biopsy to find how much damage my liver had suffered, I had very little ciroses of the liver. For the first couple of months I had blood drawn three times a week during my treatments and then it was twice a week over the remaining 16 months. The HepC was gone after six months but I had missed the cut off date and had to continue the treatments for the entire 18 months. I have now been HepC free for over 11 years but I still have my liver enzymes checked every three months as a precaution. I never take medications that will affect my liver or go through it and if I can’t get around it, I take the smallest dose.
In August of 2007 I had to have total knee replacement done on my left knee. The arthritis that was found under my knee cap in 1997 and that my first arthritis doctor failed to keep an eye on, had eaten all the cartridge on the left side of my knee. I have still some pain but not anything like it was.
In 2010 I found Brain Wave Entertainment to control my pain, depression and sleep problems and I’ve gone from taking nine medications to three. Brain Wave Entertainment uses tones and frequencies that mimics the brains natural frequencies. I listen to these tones through headphones on my computer and you can download them for free from www.mentallion.com I started them in May of 2010 and I listened to them for three days, three times a day, for 30 min. each time. I had been pain-free until October when I had to do them again. The research shows that when you use Brain Wave Entertainment regularly the chances of your brain repairing itself is pretty good and it will take a year or so of regular use. All I know is that I am able to do almost everything I could do before I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and arthritis.
Over the years I have tried just about everything that has come down the pipe, I have done research on every diagnosis I was given and I can honestly say that I am in control of my health now. I have also found a doctor who listens to me and who treats the body not the symptoms. I never have to wait more than 10 min. to see the doctor either. We use both conventional and alternative therapies to combat any problems that may come up. In 2010 I was also diagnosed with Sjogren’s Syndorme which is the drying out of the eyes and throat and can go to the organs, and Gout. I have no problems with either because I have done my research and have taken the measures to control them.
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