I still don't know if I have lupus, or some other weird
condition, or if my problems are psychosomatic.  But
I do know I'm not self-destructive.
I haven't posted much over the past couple of months for two

Autoimmune inner ear disease is an uncommon disease with which most
doctors are unfamiliar. It is caused by a malfunction in the body's
immune system, which causes it to attack the structures of the inner
ear as it would a virus or bacteria. It is known to cause only one

How many of you like winter and cold and humidity?
I don't...
May be we can have an 'maginary, going on holiday thread?
The desert sounds good these days, if there's a swimming pool...

I am looking for an affiliation Holistic Centre in your area where I
would then transfer our Asian style of Holistic techniques to our
Associates on how to deal with modern days sicknesses (ie. CFS, ME,
Lupus, Herpes, Aids, Hepatitis, mysterious skin disease that come with

As I stated in former posts, I have a neighbor that is my best friend.
She has Lupus and a major eating disorder. Her weight is 250 to 300 pounds.
She takes about 7 to 9 types of medications each day.
This happened yesterday:

Does anyone have any suggestion on how to deal with stress over the dead
of my Mom?
Mom passed away on Jan 3 and now that everything is over with it
starting to hit me hard.

You know how the world is full of very weird
people who keep getting out in the sun, then run
and hide as soon as it gets dark?  Boy are they
gonna miss something!  If you have a clear western

The porphyrin pathway: the final common pathway?
Downey DC
Med Hypotheses. 2002 Dec ; 59(6): 615-21
When I was learning pathology a wise and knowledgeable mentor described

I *finally* pulled my body out of bed Sunday afternoon.... to find out that
it was acually *Monday* afternoon!  Oh Whoops!  Do you suppose that's why
I've had so many phonecalls.... which I did not pick up, because I put in my
earplugs and tell the world to go away on Sunday.  ...

In his book "Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient," Norman
Cousins used a combination of laughter (Marx brothers' movies, etc.)
and huge doses of vitamin C and claims to have reversed ankylosing
spondylitis, which, like lupus, is autoimmune. Laughter HAS been shown

You can find this in the "Journal of Irreproducible Irrelevancies"
(Volume 156, Issue 49, Set 57, Book 53, pp. 2134-2078) by
Drs. Howard, Howard & Fine under the title "Some Notes on
an Idiopathic Case of Ferric/Ferrous Toxicity Under Hydrolic

I wish everyone a very happy new year filled with lots of love and most of
all good health.
(((HUGS)))
Bev

After I was diagnosed, in 1993, with SLE, I decided to totally change
my lifestyle. In doing this I  changed my eating habits and became, for
5 years A VEGETARIAN!!!
There was no change in the SLE, in fact, it got worse!