I always believed in the importance of the mind in shape. Everyone knows and knows how far and when it has exceeded certain limits, there were those who said that the best doctor is yourself. I firmly believe that the serenity helps you feel good, hence you have to find the tranquility, the balance.
Anyway, I recently read an interview I was very pleased. It was published in the newspaper Vanguard the 20th of September and the respondent is M. Angels Mestre, a fibromyalgia patient has continued to suffer symptoms. I especially like the part that affects the emotional distress physical. It is also interesting as it relates to food, which of course has to be balanced, but in my case I have not ventured much like her oriental food. I might add, to everything said by her, although the context is understood, the importance of rest, sleep. The blog
http://fibromialgia-noticias.blogspot.com/ have had the courtesy to transcribe the interview despite disagreeing with its contents, hence I take it.
M. MESTRE · EX fibromyalgia ÀNGELS
"The body screams that you have to change something"
VICTOR-M. AMELA - 20/09/2007
I have 59 years: I am very happy with my age! I was born and live in Barcelona. I was an architect, but now teaches workshops in practical philosophy. I am married and I have two children, Anna (33) and Ferran (31), and a granddaughter, Maria (3). I'm apolitical. God? All of us: with self, you find out. I have fibromyalgia and have been healed
What is fibromyalgia?
A disease with symptoms such as aching muscles, joints and spine, headaches, irritable bowel, insomnia, anxiety, tachycardia.
Ghastly.
- I had all those! And chronic fatigue, which is usually the first step for many women.
Do not you men?
92% of patients are women. And there are relief anywhere, and on top are called neurasthenic, hysterical, exaggerated ... Desperate, many fall into depression. And there are many suicides ...
What does the medicine to this hell? Diagnostica
fibromyalgia as chronic illness.
is, that will not heal.
That I told myself several doctors. And I prescribe pills to relieve the symptom. I came to take me twenty pills a day ...
What about? So many synthetic chemicals
me worse, with side effects.
What did you do?
I was a year when I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia pain, at the end of 2000. And he began a history of medical and pharmacological ...
With what results?
A year and a half was so bad I stopped going to work at the office. At home I continued to work, and bringing home.
Does that relieved?
No. One morning I could not get up: paralysis gripped both my legs! For three days I could not move. It was so scary ... that saved me.
What do you mean?
I decided I did not want continue.
Ya, but what could I do? I
Take the reins. Stop expecting other remedy. Stop being a patient: I started directing my healing. And today I say that I consider myself cured.
Did not hurt at all?
Nothing. And do not take any drug. The doctors say that I am a fibromyalgia "asymptomatic" without symptoms. Refuse to accept that you are healed ... Other doctors I speak of "spontaneous remission" as synonymous with "miracle." Miracle? Ja!
"Ja?
No wonder: I have worked hard to learn about my disease and understand it ... and change myself, my old address psychic structure, which was harmful to me.
should be explained ...
Yes, I want to help other sick.
Doctors are angry with you ...
'm a doctor's daughter, niece and sister medical doctor! And they have seen me suffer so much, so ... Have felt so powerless, and listen to me now not only angry, they are happy for me!
What is the first thing you should know a fibromyalgia?
That your body is screaming that aspects of your life that should change.
What aspects?
All my life I had done things (and stopped making others) to please, to fit in, to be recognized ... And acting on hold for external approval is to despise your essence.
What has to do with fibromyalgia?
This disease stems from a holding action, to do what you feel, to repress emotions. Not loving: the body somatizes the conflict, and complains.
If so, what should be done? "Align
thoughts, emotions and actions. Cuesta, and you have to get to it. First tip: if you think something, do it! And if you see you're not going to do, stop thinking about it! Other: Strive to say" no " without guilt.
Is this something that costs more to women than to men?
Yes, because women today autoexigen more, to gain recognition of a world male ... And so I was a perfectionist, self-demanding, rigid, proud.
And now?
I understood and began to break free, and today I am condescending to others and consistent with me (I think, feel, act).
How are supported for this road?
In psicoemocionales treatments, homeopathy, acupuncture, Bach flower ... In acupressure (shiatsu). In breathing and guided meditation. In the display. And in a careful diet.
What kind of food? I deleted
foods with preservatives, dyes, thickeners and, above all, monosodium glutamate, an enhancer the taste very toxic to me. We should always read the labels ...
Did you eat anything else?
gradually reduced dairy, saturated fats, refined flours, sugar, coffee ...
What do you eat?
Organic food and macrobiotic cooking. Flours and grains. Legumes. Sesame seeds, sunflower and pumpkin. Rice milk. Whitefish. Salt. Vegetables, but the root, and the white and round ... I cured my demise colon soups, brown rice and sesame, which gives you twice as much calcium as milk!
What foods help more against fibromyalgia? - Miso and tofu, highly digestible protein. Umeboshi plum, antioxidant and antiseptic. The shiitake mushroom, an energy reservoir. The kudzu, white starch relieves fatigue. The seaweed kombu, wakame, and Hizikia arame, which provide the minerals of vegetables and tones the nerves
...
And recommends some exercise?
walk and breathe.
