Modern Medicine Integrated with Healing Wisdom

A primary care medical clinic.

Our Mission:

We balance modern conventional medicine with alternative healing modalities to seek the cause of and treat each symptom of illness and provide individualized care to each patient to achieve wellness.

We provide care and education to patients, industry,
and the community to promote optimum health.

We put the emphasis on preventive and nutritional medicine.
We affirm the importance of conventional approaches and procedures

Fibromyalgia

Is Stress Making My Symptoms Flare?

Q: I have fibromyalgia… and recently, there has been a huge amount of stress in my life. I tried to go back to work. Almost immediately, the pain, headaches, fatigue and "brain-fog" amped up 10 fold. My question is, what can I do about this? I HAVE to go back to work. I need guidance, and I need it fast!

A: It sounds like you have been dealing with a lot of difficult symptoms. Although I cannot definitively say what is physically going on with you, there are some things that you can do to help your situation.

Swollen Joints

Q: My right hand swelled up the size of a boxing glove over night, and was very painful. My doctor said she thought it was gout. I took all the tests for gout and they were all negative… Now I wake up with my hand & arm stiff, painful & swollen. The only thing I can do is put them under very hot water and the pain and swelling go down. If the tests I took were negative for gout, could this be part of my FM?

Dr. Wrightson answers: Although your symptoms are not typical of fibromyalgia, there is not a definitive answer to your questions of whether they are related to the FM. Most likely, though, your pain and swollen joints are related to the gout that your doctor diagnosed. Although your laboratory tests did not show any findings that are indicative of gout, this condition is often diagnosed through clinical symptoms alone.

Gout is an inflammatory arthritis that is characterized by swollen joints due to an increase of uric acid accumulation in the body. This build-up of uric acid can often occur with an excessive intake of food and/or alcohol, after surgery, or during physical or emotional stress.

E. D.

3 Men Fix Problems in the Bedroom

Josh is over 70 and has a wife twenty years younger. He first came in to the office because of diabetes, but after several visits he admitted he could no longer have a sexual relationship with his wife. “I’m impotent,” he stated in his matter-of-fact way. We discussed his problem at length and found that he just couldn’t maintain an erection.

A sexual relationship is more than just for reproduction. It represents and acknowledges the intimacy and commitment between a husband and wife so it is an ongoing part of a healthy relationship. In the past, it was considered “normal” to become impotent (a lot of folks don’t like that word, which means “not powerful,” so the doctors now have a new term: “erectile dysfunction”) with age and nobody thought treatment would be an option. However, since the marketing of the drug Viagra there is a lot more attention paid to this problem.

ME/CFS

What is ME/CFS?

ME/CFS is the acronym for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Myalgic Encephalopathy / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a condition that has never been properly named. The disease has had many names, including: post-viral fatigue syndrome, low natural killer cell disease, chronic Epstein-Barr virus syndrome, chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS), and the insulting Yuppie flu. (To learn more about this history, read "A Disease in Search of a Name: The History of CFS and the Efforts to Change Its Name")

None of these names captures the diverse symptoms that people who suffer from this complex disorder experience. Yes, people with ME/CFS experience fatigue, but they are also prone to memory loss, cognitive functioning problems, sleep disturbances, headaches, depression, muscle and joint pains, low-grade fever and a multitude of other symptoms. Even the word fatigue does not accurately capture the debilitating nature of the exhaustion these people experience. Their fatigue is severe enough to significantly limit their ability to work, go to school, participate in social activities and take care of their personal needs - and is not relieved by bed rest or sleep.

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Is Stress Making My Symptoms Flare?

3 Men Fix Problems in the Bedroom

What is ME/CFS?