Tissues

[weredIgo]

Hi,
Does anyone else get these things in their tissues? Every time Iopen a new box of tissues, not right at first but usually after they have sat out over night. The next day when I pull the tissue out, out comes all these clumpy pieces of tissues. I buy Kleenex brand, the pop-up kind of box so they stay mostly covered. The morgs seem to love them.
I tried to start over in this little place behind my sons house, out with 99% of my things. I'm not able to stay ahead of this so it is slowly taking over. Drs say this is imaginary so at times I try to roll that idea around in my mind. Maybe we've had a form of this all along and just never noticed. Somehow go on and pay no attention to it. Convince myself this does not exist. Does'nt work, wishing hoping and mind games don't work. Wish they did. If a big fat elephant is in the room, then he is in the room. He is either there or he is not. So I often wonder how this all will end. I feel this condition has stayed under the radar a long time. Will this be the era that it is finally revealed. This is slowly spreading and will continue to touch more and more lives. Why now is different I don't know other than everyone being able to talk on computers. Or global warming ect, ect. What set this off or like I said maybe its always been here. I just wonder how this all ends cause you can't kill it.
If it gets in the tissues this fast then it is in everything. I wish I could go back to the time where I was not aware of what was happening to me.



Claudia

[dizzy dame]

Claudia, I hear what you are saying! My tissues don't do that, but I have seen where the paint on my walls will look eaten in places, the tile has a place missing and it is not old. the front of the dresser looks like the paint has rubbed off, also the front of the cabinet in the bathroom. What is this stuff that can eat ceramic tile? This all happened before I started treating myself and the house. I don't see any new issues lately, but I know it is still here.

At least once a month I sweep my ceilings and treat the whole house with a spray of tweet mixed in the sprayer. I am constantly vacuuming and washing things. I have a very large house and sometimes I think to myself that I can't keep this up forever, and I think forever is how long we will be fighting this. I hope I am wrong. XO DD

[weredIgo]

Hi Dizzy,
Yes, yes what kind of THING can eat through everything, and I mean everything. I have new cabinetts and they have eatten the finish off of one drawer. Seems everything that comes in here they get into and leave their mark. I too vacuum and some cleaning as best I can. I'm very emaciated with this disease and am unable to keep up with things as I should. Before all this I was disabled with my back, which I now think morgs had something to do with. I'm living a life of solitary confinement pretty much of the time and am constantly trying to put the pieces of this horrid puzzle together. It sucks! Thank you for answering my post. I have to get my son to get me on a site where people just talk to you. I'm so computer stupid.


Claudia

[dizzy dame]

Hi Claudia, I too have the back problems, what a pain! It sure makes doing things hard. I have said on here before that my problems started with mobility problems. It was sudden and completely unexpected and to this day unexplained. I had MRIs and scans and nothing showed up, natch, it was the morgs I guess, but I didn't start having the creepy crawlies for years after that, in fact just this last Feb. There are times I have to use a wheelchair in order to go out. It seems so crazy because I had always been active and ran my own busibness for years. It sure does suck the life right out of you. DD

[tcmgpt13]

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Back Pain
(edited due to space issues)
Laurie Morse, LAc, MTOM
Acupuncturist
Holistic Health Services
San Diego, CA
Ward Gypson, M.D.
Associate Professor,
University of California
San Francisco, California

Reviewed by Ward Gypson, M.D. Why do so many suffer from pain, specifically low back pain? This is a question that patients and doctors ask with varying degrees of frustration. I’d like to provide an alternative angle of understanding low back pain through the model of Chinese medicine.

The Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine
When an individual is diagnosed with a “back problem” in Western medicine be it spondylosis, spinal osteoarthritis, prolapsed lumbar disc or muscular/ligamentous lumbar strain the focus is primarily on the lower back region and within the Western medical model the options become therapies like spinal surgery, physical therapy, pharmaceutical intervention and cortisone or epidural type injections. These are perfectly acceptable modalities but what if they don’t alleviate the pain? And, what about the underlying cause for the back weakness in the first place? Can that underlying weakness be strengthened? Let us consider this possibility via Chinese medicine.
Though the system of TCM is logical and scientific in it’s own way, it is a separate system from modern Western medicine and can’t always be explained via Western medical logic. To include the successful system of TCM within our minds, we need to expand the way we think and consider both systems as valid while learning how to accept the similarities and differences within the two systems.
One could say that Chinese medicine was born out of the theory of Yin and Yang. As well as describing that which exists in nature, Yin and Yang perfectly describes all the parts and functions of the body. Yin and Yang are in a constant state of dynamic balance, when this balance is threatened disease is possible. An example in nature of this dynamic balance is the rhythm of the sun (yang) and moon (yin). In a 24-hour period each is unique, change over to the other and require each other for overall balance (from the perspective of earth that is). Yin and Yang each have an individual expression in the body and yet requires the other to exist, for example Yin represents stillness, form and blood whereas, Yang represents activity, function and Qi. Qi needs blood to nourish it and blood needs Qi to move it.
Qi can be described as energy, material force, electromagnetic current, matter, ether, vital force, or life force. Qi travels throughout our entire body in channels or meridians reaching every aspect of our body. These channels are understood to be separate from the pathways of the nervous, vascular and lymph systems in Western medicine. Loosely, when we are born we begin with a gas tank of Qi and when the tank of Qi is empty our life force is gone or in other words, we die. This tank of gas is rooted in the organ system of the Kidneys according to Chinese medicine theory and is distributed throughout our organs, glands and channels in a very systematic way. Because of this intricate channel system within our body when we refer to an organ such as the Kidneys, that includes much more than the organ alone according to anatomy. Each organ system has representations of Yin and Yang, hormone balance as well as specific Qi and blood functions which plays a vital role in connecting, via the channels, with other organ systems and the entire body to render the body a holistic system. In other words, it isn’t possible, within TCM, to deem an organ or body part as an isolated problem without considering the whole body system. So, you say, what might this have to do with low back pain?
The Relation of the Kidney System in TCM and Low Back Pain
The low back is the “mansion of the Kidneys” meaning that the low back is most closely related, but not limited to, the health of the Kidney system. It is without question, in low back pain, that the Kidney system be treated in Chinese medicine.
Back on the subject of Qi, it is said in Chinese Medicine:

If there is free flow, there is no pain;
If there is no free flow, there is pain.

Basically, what this means is if the Qi and/or blood stagnate in the channel(s), specifically through the region of the low back, there will be pain. Imagine a river flowing unimpeded and suddenly a tree falls across the river, we see in our imagination the water no longer flowing freely, but getting blocked by the log, pushing into the banks of the river. The basic concept of acupuncture is to re-open the river, create a circulation so that the log lifts and normal flow is restored.
How does the free flow of Qi and blood in the body become impeded, so as to cause pain?
1. An external invasion of wind, cold, dampness, or heat may invade the lower back region causing pain. If our defensive Qi or immune system is weak we become more susceptible to external invasions through the pores of our skin.
2. The Qi and blood can stagnate due to trauma (i.e. lifting, repetitive strain over time, an accident or similar sprain).
3. There may be an insufficiency of Qi or blood creating a sluggishness or stagnation of flow throughout the channel(s). This is an internal cause or weakness with a number of possible etiologies such as:

• Poor diet, insufficient rest coupled with too much activity or overwork (i.e. busy lives, excessive sex*), overuse of drugs, chronic illness, heredity weakness, an excess of the emotions fear and anxiety, and general aging as our Qi is naturally declining.
• The Chinese believe that a healthy, moderate amount of sex supports a good flow of Qi and too much sex (specifically ejaculation for men and childbirth for women), depletes the Qi, blood and essence of the Kidneys.

Cupping (by TCM Practitioner) can sometimes help resolve back issues too (stagnant blood, blocked Qi):

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