My medical condition

Haha, I actually don't know. They tried a whole host of things the last time around. I'm a medical term dummy, so I don't remember any of those things. I just went along with whatever the hell they gave me.

So if your immune system is giving you a problem then wreck it get aids, jump in a nuclear reactor pit for a few seconds ................, If you have the luxury to live in America sue god for giving you this desiese if the guy who dint get talent to play a guitar won so can you.Kidding,Hope you get better.

Oh man, Taz, that sucks.How long do these episodes last? Not more than 15 minutes I hope.You seem to have kept your sense of humor so, good show. Get over it quick.And try chicken soup. Jewish pennicillin. The best thing for all what ails ya no matter what.

Are you kidding? Each episode lasts for weeks.

Is this anything like sarcoidosis?I have been afflicted with it in the past. Noting as severe as you, but it was a living hell for a couple months.

I'm tellin' you, man. Not enough chicken soup!Get better soon.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

Nope, although sometimes the symptoms are similar. What I have the symptoms are very erratic. It's basically just the immune system overreacting at random things. In this particular case, the cut on my wrist has caused my immune system to attack my entire epidermis layer. I'm not exaggerating. Don't imagine a few hives here and there. Imagine someone that was put out in the desert naked for a whole day. I am covered from head to toe what looks like severe sunburn. In this particular case, the immune system is treating like my entire epidermis layer is having an infection even though it's only my left wrist. Boils are starting to develop on my legs. This is why I hesitate to go anywhere. People usually mistake me for some kind of skin diseased person.In previous cases, what started out as simple sneezing reaction to pollen caused a severe respiratory response. In just a few minutes, my airway was completely blocked due to over swelling of my respiratory system.It's auto-immunity disorder on steroids. What's weird about it is it comes and goes randomly. Each cycle lasts for about a month to 3 months.Edit.Funny story. Couple days ago, in law saw me. She's a nurse and she's seen some bad cases of burn victims. According to her, I look like someone that's been grilled, especially my left arm. We jokingly told her I had a grilling accident, and for a minute she believed us. Edited by Taz, : No reason given.

I have no insights to offer but I just hope and pray that it goes well for you.Cheers
Greg

Hi Taz. Thank God, you're alive! What an ordeal! I am not a doctor but wifie doctored our two boys all of their home lives. We've doctored ourselves for 50 years. We don't have a doctor and haven't needed one except for her pregnancy and a boy's broken bone once.We do the diet, herbs, minerals, poultices, etc wholistic natural way. The science on it has increased big time in the last decades.I'll tell you what I'd do if I were in your miserable shoes. The first thing is diet. For healing you want a slightly alkaline s showing in your urine. We use strips we get to test ourselves. For healing holistically (whole body) we avoid all pastries except frozen sprouted whole grain bread which has little gluten. They must keep it frozen to keep it nutritious and from spoiling.For healing, lots of raw salads with greens in it like cilantro, etc using no cheesy dressing and not a lot of dressing. She makes it using some cider vinegar and herbs etc. Not too much vinegar.No cheeses or dairy products except maybe a little swiss cheese on occasion and organic plain low fat yogurt with no sweetener or fruits etc in it. Fish is good and some poultry but avoid red meats and pork etc. No prepared meats like lunch meat, ham, sausage etc.Avocado is a good protein. Some fruit like blueberries, mangoes banana, oranges ok but these have quite a lot of sugar so not too much fruit. Melon not eaten with meals is a good detoxified.Believe it or not, honey is a good healer applied to open sores. Bacteria can't survive in it. We have a comfrey patch (the herb the FDA outlawed over the counter because some idiot consumed too much root and croaked. We use the leaves which we dry. I pack them beside any tooth that bothers and they draw infections out as a poultice. Comfrey is very healing as a poultice etc. We use it as a tea also.Taz, all I'm telling you is what works for us. I'm no way claiming it's going to cure anything.I know you're not churchy, but on Sabbath our church class will be praying for your healing. Here's how that worked for me. When in the Air Force I hitch hiked a lot. I wasn't very healthy. I was to hitch hike from NY state to Wyoming to see the family on one occasion. Though my church there didn't practice it, having read James 5 where it says if any are sick, call the elders of the church to anoint with oil and pray. They prayer of faith will heal the sick, according to James. I had a bad persistent cough for weeks so one Sunday evening at church I asked the elders to do this for me. I had been coughing persistently that evening. They did it before the service. I went back to my seat and never coughed once the rest of the evening or thereafter, even hitching all the way to Wyoming. It's never come back.I've said that to say that God is not stupid. He knows that if he heals and the sick keep on eating the same, etc the sickness will come back. God began showing me via a friend how to change my diet and add some supplements, etc to keep well. That was in the 1950s when the technology on wholistic was nothing like what it has become today.So Taz, I hope some of this may help your awful dilemma. There's a lot on the www about this stuff. I suggest you begin researching for yourself and learning all you can about how to fix your body.Americans put the best stuff in the autos, etc and the worst in their bodies. We are the richest but, alas, one of the sickest cultures globally.I believe that if you put your mind to it, you can overcome this thing and regain your health, in spite of your genes etc.Our prayers a with you and God helps those who do the best to help themselves. God bless. Buz

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There are a lot of immune system supplements which you should be taking like pro-biotics. Check them out on the www.

So, Taz has a serious medical condition....and you're telling him to eat healthier.....?

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"Why don't you call upon your God to strike me? Oh, I forgot it's because he's fake like Thor, so bite me" -Greydon Square

His Immune system is wrecking his body, and he wants to make his immune system stronger so..... it can do more damage ?????Wouldn't that be like a kid paying his bully to go to the gym so he can beat him up harder ???? Edited by frako, : No reason given.

Not really what I was getting at, but good point nonetheless. What I was getting at was that sure, eating healthy is good and all, but it's not really an answer to what ails Taz. It really won't help his condition. It would be like telling a cancer patient to drink some OJ because it's good for you. Sure, OJ is good for you and isn't necassarily bad advice, but it doesn't do shit for the cancer....

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"Why don't you call upon your God to strike me? Oh, I forgot it's because he's fake like Thor, so bite me" -Greydon Square

I thought the same thing as Frako, I have a friend who is on immune suppressing drugs due to a kidney transplant and I thought that would be a better option maybe?? I am no doctor but it seems that the last thing you want is to increase the response of the immune system.Hope you get well soon Taz

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"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten."
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Always remember - it doesn't matter how bad it seems - there's always someone worse off.