I traveled on Thursday last week with Dr. Simons to the 50th year anniversary celebration of his Man High high altitude balloon flight. He had a rash on his head diagnosed as actinic keratosis by his dermatologist. By the time we got to the Myopain meeting in Washington, DC on Sunday the rash was redder and very painful. Actinic keratosis doesn’t hurt. 

The rash was in the distribution of the opthalmic branch of the 5th cranial nerve. It seemed as if it had to be shingles especially when we used the frequency for reducing inflammation in the skin on Monday and it made the pain worse. The frequency to eliminate shingles reduced his pain from 6/10 to 0/10 and after a total of four hours treatment over three days the redness and pain were both gone.

I put one glove on the back of his neck and one glove on the top of his head wrapped in a wet wash cloth over the rash. He sat at our FSM booth at Myopain for 90 minutes, treated for an hour at night for two nights and spent the next two days telling anyone who would listen (and some who would have preferred not to listen) that his wife had cured his shingles. I just LOVE being able to do that.

If you have shingles or know anyone who does, FSM is your friend. Cheers - Dr. Carol

HI - I have finally been dragged into the 21st century and compelled to learn how to do a blog. The last few months have been whirlwind of travel and and networking. Jessica Morea helped collect data on successful treatment of neuropathic pain in our clinic. 20 patients with 6.7 years chronic nerve pain came in with an average pain of  6.8/10 and left at an average of 4.8/10.  (P<.001) They came in on the second visit with pain of 4.8 / 10 and left at the end of the treatment with pain of .97/10.  (P<.001) 65% (13) recovered after an average of 4.6 treatments.25% (5) terminated care prior to recovery although every patient experiences similar levels of pain relief. One person was referred for an epidural and one patient uses an FSM HomeCare for pain relief at home. We’ll be submitting this paper for publication in the next few months.

 I am not actually sure what you are supposed to put in a blog but this is the most exciting new thing in FSM I know about to share with you - or for those from the south - all y’all (as my friend Shannon says). Now that I know how to do this I’ll blog more often. Is that a verb or a noun or both?? Love and blessings, Dr.Carol