May I ask what do you take for your pulmonary fibrosis? My sister n laws mother suffers from this. She is a precious person and is always using oxygen and trying to do so much feeling this may be her last. If you have a natural alternative, I'd love to know. Thank You, Kathy[/quote]
Kathy, I sympathize with your SIL's mother. From what my doctor says, and from the research I've done, PF is a terminal disease with a very bad prognosis. However, I refuse to accept a death sentence - I can't die until I use up all of my fabric, and I have a prodigious amount of it! <G>
As to what I do, and please understand, I am not a doctor. It's just that I know there is no known cure, and there is little a doctor can do but throw treatments and drugs at us, whether they work or not (and they don't, judging from the number of victims not being helped by them). So I decided to take my health into my own hands. The first thing I did was take the diet test Dr. Mercola offers free on his site, to see what kind of diet I need to follow (and by diet, I don't mean weight-loss diet, but healthy-living diet). I found I need to cut out as much sugar, flour, and starch as possible. Then I began researching other things, such as inflammation, Vitamin D3 supplementation, Vitamin B12 supplementation, krill oil, and the use of, as someone mentioned above, helpful herbs, such as feverfew, astragalus, and boswellia (for inflammation). This is a very personalized regimen, and I would suggest that each person consider any treatment only in the light of his or her own individual case - not on my case. I still have to use oxygen at night, but that's better than having to haul around an oxygen tank everywhere I go! Here are some links to resource pages that might be helpful to others:
Nutritional Typing test:
http://www.mercola.com/
Vitamin D resource page:
http://www.mercola.com/article/vitamin-d-resources.htm
Influenza:
http://search.mercola.com/Results.as...za&k=Influenza
Vaccines:
http://search.mercola.com/Results.as...za&k=Influenza
Vitamin B:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...amin-b-12.aspx
http://www.mercola.com/downloads/bon...12/report.aspx (scroll down to bottom and get the free report on Vitamin B12 deficiency)
Inflammation:
http://search.mercola.com/results.aspx?k=Inflammation
There is so much at this site that can help any person who wants to take responsibility for his or her own health, and all well-documented, so you can do your own research easily. Sorry... I didn't mean to write a book! <G>