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jegol71
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 Posted - 06/01/2013 : 11:39:13
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Abundance-
My wish is for the grace of your TMShelp signature to pierce your mother from every angle during whichever treatments she chooses, and know that you both are in my thoughts.
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chickenbone
Panama
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Posted - 06/01/2013 : 13:17:31
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Sylvia, so sorry about your husband's diagnosis.
My husband spent most of his career operating on cancers of the kidneys, bladder, prostate, etc. He agrees with Ace that it is often a combination of genetic predisposition and psychological factors. However, he thinks that it is just about as likely for TMS to follow a cancer diagnosis as it is to proceed it. He believes wholeheartedly in TMS, but does not think that TMS causes cancer. However, existing TMS can make recovery from cancer more complicated.
He also agrees with Ace that, while everyone should eat a well balanced diet, that diet is not a biggie when it comes to cancer recovery. He thinks that it is sad that so many people with cancer give their money to so many charlatans, when this so-called alternative medicine almost never makes a difference.
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Ace1
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2013 : 13:42:28
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| Abundance none of those things you mention would be of help. Only the things I mentioned to Sylvia. The work is no overnight thing, it is a dedicated process that usually takes years of practice. |
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tennis tom
USA
4749 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2013 : 17:06:59
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Originally posted by pspa123
Tom you have often debunked mainstream medicine. Sites such as quackwatch are quite mainstream, rejecting anything not proven in a randomized controlled trial.
Interestingly, quackwatch includes a TMS questionnaire on its list of dubious diagnostic tests, but does not elaborate.
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Tests/tests.html
You believe the lies you want to believe, I'm eclectic, Quackwatch does an excellent job at what they do. I have no problem with much or most of medicine except that due to it's economics there is no time for the patient who is treated with less respect and consideration for it's humanity then a car by a mechanic.
I looked up the TMS questionaire you mentioned and I don't understand what you are talking about, please explain what it was that I was supposed to see.
I took time to do some research to answer the questions and give some solid helpful references. You are using my help to now criticize me, and make me out to be a hypocrite or stupid--but let no good deed go unpunished. Instead of using me as your gang's favorite whipping boy, why don't you give some helpful suggestions to the posters here as I have tried to do. I've given you some good advice in the past on prostratitis I believe, but I guess you've forgotten that. If you can't say anything positive why don't you just lay off. I don't get paid for this, if you found something wrong with the links I provided please point them out but don't use my trying to help as a source to attack me.
Cheers,
tt/lsmft
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pspa123
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Posted - 06/01/2013 : 17:31:00
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Sorry if I wasn't clear. Quackwatch lists the following on the page identifying what it (Stephen Barrett, in other words) views as dubious diagnostic tests: "Tension myositis syndrome (TMS) questionnaire." My point was, and is, that in my opinion one should be wary of a site that thinks TMS is dubious.
I am sure there is valuable information to be found on quackwatch and so-called skeptic websites, but it is very easy for the establishment to play the "lack of evidence" angle when there are many potential treatments for which RCTs are not practical or it would be impossible for their proponents to get funding. The same sites often endorse the use of the most toxic prescription drugs, whose safety and efficacy allegedly have been proven in their beloved RCTs. I by no means endorse all or even any alternative treatments, but I don't think the RCT/evidence/skeptic approach is necessarily intellectually honest or unbiased.
I don't have any prostate issues; you may be confusing me with someone else.
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tennis tom
USA
4749 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2013 : 17:57:30
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Thanks for the clarification, one should be dubious of everything until they acquire enough personal or professional knowledge to make good choices for themselves or to advise and help others. In the end you are responsible for your own health care and the decisions you make. No one comes here first, it's after a long and futile pain path.
Sorry if I confused your prostrate with someone else's--but there's so many dicks on this forum it's hard to keep them straight. If you ever have any prostrate issues, do a search for my past posts on the topic, key words: "URINARY URGENCY" and "FLOMAX". Urinary urgency can well be TMS . I've "cured" mine, got my brother over his TMS/PROSTRATE/OCD, going and going and going, to a urologist making him rich, (the urologist not my brother, although my recent tips, speaking of tips, to my bro, on FNM & FMAC haven't hurt his portfolio). There's a good recent article debunking the need to have invasive surgical procedures to prevent prostrate cancer, that may actually increase the chances of getting prostrate cancer.
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DR. SARNO'S 12 DAILY REMINDERS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8D7w0IUIPU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0dKBFwGR0g
TAKE THE HOLMES-RAHE STRESS TEST
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_and_Rahe_stress_scale
Some of my favorite excerpts from _THE DIVIDED MIND_ :
http://www.tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2605
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional." Author Unknown
"Happy People Are Happy Putters." Frank Nobilo, Golf Analyst
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." Mark Twain and Balto
"The hot-dog is the noblest of dogs; it feeds the hand that bites it." Dr. Laurence Johnston Peter
"...the human emotional system was not designed to endure the mental rigors of a tennis match." Dr. Allen Fox
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"If it ends with "itis" or "algia" or "syndrome" and doctors can't figure out what causes it, then it might be TMS." Dave the Mod =================================================
TMS PRACTITIONERS:
John Sarno, MD
400 E 34th St, New York, NY 10016
(212) 263-6035
Dr. Sarno is now retired, if you call this number you will be referred to his associate Dr. Rashbaum.
"...there are so many things little and big that are tms, I wouldn't have time to write about all of them": Told to icelikeaninja by Dr. Sarno
Here's the TMS practitioners list from the TMS Help Forum:
http://www.tmshelp.com/links.htm
Here's a list of TMS practitioners from the TMS Wiki:
http://tmswiki.org/ppd/Find_a_TMS_Doctor_or_Therapist
Here's a map of TMS practitioners from the old Tarpit Yoga site, (click on the map by state for listings).:
http://www.tarpityoga.com/2007_08_01_archive.html |
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pspa123
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Posted - 06/01/2013 : 18:10:50
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"one should be dubious of everything until they acquire enough personal of professional knowledge to make good choices for themselves or others"
I agree. For me anyhow, the notion of blindly following medical advice is a thing of the past. |
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tennis tom
USA
4749 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2013 : 18:36:30
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Originally posted by pspa123
"one should be dubious of everything until they acquire enough personal or professional knowledge to make good choices for themselves or others"
I agree. For me anyhow, the notion of blindly following medical advice is a thing of the past.
No **** Sherlock, me too! |
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Sylvia
199 Posts |
Posted - 10/09/2013 : 09:38:32
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Ace, I hope you still come around the forum and will still help me.
It has been a challenging 5 months. He went through the full on treatments. The main tumor is still there and growing. There is next looking for someone who can do the surgery on this tumor, that is now nowhere near as extensive as before. But obviously after the heavy radiation, perhaps the surgery will not heal.
So now, dear Ace, please give me a sense of his odds now surviving out the "2-5" years. At the start of this inoperable stage IV metastisized cancer you said odds where 40%.
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Ace1
USA
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Posted - 10/09/2013 : 19:40:34
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| Sylvia, that rate I gave you was if the chemo/radiation worked in the first place alone. The fact that there is still active cancer lowers the cure rate. That doesn't mean he can't be cured, but the chances are less and I can't tell you that number bc its not well documented. He should still proceed with the surgery, if possible, if they can remove all of the remaining tumor. I would still encourage TMS treatment as an adjunct. I wish the best to you and your family Sylvia. |
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Sylvia
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Posted - 10/10/2013 : 04:48:36
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Thank you Ace.
You have given me hope. He can still be cured.
I thought this was end game.
Thank you once again Ace.
God Bless |
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Ace, help me with your expertise please
