What is fibromyalgia?
Lots of people have fibromyalgia in Kansas City, more so in women than men. Fibromyalgia is a medical condition characterized by chronic widespread pain in the body and a heightened pain response to pressure. It often occurs along with fatigue and insomnia. The pain of fibromyalgia may be a light or severe, and often changes a lot over a day. The pain could be severe in the morning and become light in the evening.
Fibromyalgia patients can also have other symptoms like irritable bowel syndrome, anxiety, restless leg syndrome, headache, hand numbness, and depression, etc. The causes for fibromyalgia are unclear but certain factors can make fibromyalgia worse, such as weather change, stress, overwork and hormone change, etc. Given the poor understanding of the disease, there is no universally accepted treatment or cure for fibromyalgia, and treatment typically consists of symptom management. The current treatments in western medicine include prescription of symptomatic management medication, behavioral intervention, and exercise. In part due to the difficulty to treat fibromyalgia, patients who can’t stand the suffering start to seek for alternative therapies, including traditional Chinese medicine.
Successful treatment of fibromyalgia by Dr. Fung
Kathy was diagnosed with fibromyalgia by western medicine. She has pains all over her body. At the same time, she has hot flash, night sweats, insomnia, high blood pressure, depression and indigestion. Dr. Fung checked her pulse and tongue, then told Kathy that her pain was a result of weak kidney function according to traditional Chinese medicine theory. Dr. Fung treated Kathy with combination of acupuncture, cupping and Chinese herbs. After five sessions, Kathy’s pain reduced and limited to lower back and left side sciatic pain. Kathy therefore continued to take the Traditional Chinese medicine treatment strategy, and she has further improved to only have light lower back pain right now.
Donna also has fibromyalgia. Although she lives in Kansas City, she didn’t know Dr. Fung, nor had she had any idea that traditional Chinese medicine can treat fibromyalgia until a friend of Donna’s, who is a client of Dr. Fung, strongly suggested Donna to try Dr. Fung for Chinese medicine treatment. Donna is thin, and her face was pale. She had indigestion, bloating, loose bowel movement, and sometime with stomach pain. Of course, she had severe pain all over her body. Dr. Fung checked her pulse and tongue, and told Donna that her pain was related to her spleen system, according to traditional Chinese medicine. For Donna’s treatment, Dr. Fung mainly used Chinese herbs. She built up her Qi in the spleen system and warm the spleen system up, and Donna’s pain in the whole body was significantly reduced.
Obviously, fibromyalgia is not easy to be cured. Good habits in the life are very important, such as good and regular diet and eat well to keep their spleen system strong. They need to keep their kidney system strong as well to prevent from getting fibromyalgia should their kidney system becomes weak.
People who has fibromyalgia in Kansas City should try to contact Dr. Fung for Chinese medicine treatment. You may be surprised how greatly Chinese medicine can benefit for fibromyalgia patients.