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Fibromyalgia Pain
By Dr. Keith P. Lynch
CharlottesvilleFibroDoc.com
Hello, I am Dr. Keith Lynch and I have been practicing in Charlottesville, Virginia
since 1998. I am one of six board certified Atlas Orthogonal Chiropractors for
Sherman College. What we do is we decompress the brain stem area without any
Discussion Board” where there are over 700 doctors using these exact same
If you have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, you have probably seen over a
dozen doctors and they have ruled out MS. They have ruled out rheumatoid
arthritis. They have ruled out lupus and now you have the diagnosis of
Fibromyalgia. Since you are reading this report, either you or someone you love
have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and what I am here to share with you
today is what makes us different from all those other doctors that you have seen for
this condition.
to go over that for you. What we are going to talk about first is how we test and
identify metabolic problems and how we treat those. When we do our testing we
leave no stone unturned to try to find the cause of your Fibromyalgia. Did you read
If you are like many of the Fibromyalgia patients I’ve treated, you’ve been to dozens
probably taking Ambien or Clonazepam. You have probably taken numerous over
medication. Maybe you are on Lyrica ,an anti-seizure drug, it’s not the Fibromyalgia
cure all. All these drugs are designed to do is stop your brain from feeling the
symptoms that you are receiving from your condition. In other words, we are just
trying to cover up the light on the dash board that is telling us something is wrong.
Nobody’s identified the actual problem that is causing your Fibromyalgia condition.
In our office we are willing to find the cause and we are going to do it through
extensive testing. We are going to start by doing blood tests. These tests are
going to help us find out what’s actually happening in your body. We are going to
your lipid panel and we will also do a CBC with auto differential. In other words, we
are going to find out what your red blood cells and white blood cells are telling us
Now you have probably had numerous blood tests. Let me tell you something,
when you get your results back from Lab Corp or Quest Diagnostics, the reference
ranges that they have are quite wide. Let’s take TSH for example. TSH stands for
Thyroid Stimulating Hormone. The reference range for that is 0.45 to 5.0. That’s a
really wide range. Your optimal range for TSH is 1.8 to 3.0. So I would tell you,
you need to run these tests and you need to know what the optimal levels are.
Because that’s going to tell you what’s actually happening in your body. When you
have a chronic condition like Fibromyalgia it starts to affect all the systems in your
The other tests we are going to run are sensitivity tests. In other words, we need to
find out what you’re actually ingesting that is making your condition worse. You
don’t know unless you test. We test for gluten intolerances. These tests include
gluten, wheat, barley, oats, and rye. We also test for milk sensitivity, eggs, and
soy. You need to know if eating these things contributes to making your condition
worse.
Here are some of the symptoms that are associated with these sensitivities,
Fibromyalgia or think that you have Fibromyalgia, you already have Chronic
Fatigue and you already have Chronic Pain, frequent indigestion, bloating after
eating, constipation, diarrhea, and sores or ulcers in your mouth. Some people
also say they vomit often. We don’t really run into that too much. The only way to
know if these sensitivities are affecting your condition is to test for them.
The next test we would do is adrenal stress index. This is a salivary test similar to
a DNA test. Your adrenals are two small glands that sit right back on top of your
kidneys. Your adrenals and your thyroid are very important to your endocrine
system. Your endocrine system tells your body what type of energy levels you are
going to have. So if you have Chronic Pain and you have Chronic Fatigue and you
have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia you already know that you have an issue
with this. Do you know what is causing it yet? I doubt it. You need to have these
tests run to know what is causing this. If you have issues with your adrenal glands
you are also probably going to have insomnia and blood sugar issues because
these are the types of things that the adrenal hormones cortisol affect. Cortisol
The next thing we will be testing are immune panels, in other words your immune
system. Now you immune system has two parts to it, it’s got your TH1 and your
TH2. Let me make that really simple for us. TH1 are your T cells, these are the
attacker cells or the killer cells, natural killer cells that they are called. These are
like soldiers that go out, find a problem in the body and attack it. Your TH2
dominance is your B cells or your regulatory cells. These are like the sergeants
and generals; these are the ones that tell the attacker cells what to do and when to
stop.
If you are having a problem with your immune system, then it is literally attacking
your body. It could be attacking your brain. It could be attacking your joints like
what we see in rheumatoid arthritis. It could be attacking your thyroid like what we
see in Hashimoto's. Or an auto immune condition where the body actually attacks
the thyroid tissue. These things have to be tested. We’ve got to find out which one
of those if either is a problem. If you’ve got a problem with TH1 that means you
actually be foods that are passing through your intestines. These things have to be
identified and they have to be addressed. If you are having an auto immune
condition that’s the first thing that needs to be addressed, everything else gets put
on the back burner because auto immune conditions trump everything else when
The next thing we do is access the function of your gut. We test for H Pylori.
H Pylori is a bacterium that can live in the gut and when it gets out of balance it
creates all kinds of gut problems. The other thing that we test is intestinal
screen and what that screen does is it only allows small digested particles of food
to enter into the blood stream so that they can be absorbed and utilized by the
what happens is that screen of the intestines inflames, it opens up. Things that
should not be able to pass through start passing through. This can create all kinds
of problems in the body. We need to know if that’s an issue, because that needs to
The next thing we test for are nerve transmitters. If you have a decrease in
these neurotransmitters, it can actually increase the amount of pain that your body
is feeling.
Your hormone levels will also be checked. Hormone levels can become out of
balance due to a lot of these chronic conditions and that makes your condition
worse. Women often times have estrogen and progesterone ratios that get out of
balance creating polycystic ovarian disease or PCOS. These are the types of
things that make you more susceptible to cancers and tumors. They make you
more susceptible to heart disease. All this needs to be assessed to find out what’s
addressed to get these things cleared out. Did you know that if you have a problem
with your intestines it may not be clearing excess estrogen from your body, creating
imbalances between estrogen and progesterone? Do you see how all these
systems are intertwined? If you don’t look at everything you don’t know what you
are dealing with; often times that’s what we see with our Fibromyalgia patients. We
check for inflammation with our tests. Inflammation is often found by finding high
We also look for homocysteine levels to be raised in the body. When there is a
chronic condition and chronic pain like what we see in Fibromyalgia, inflammation is
almost always up, we need to find out why. These other tests I mentioned, these
are the things that are going to tell us what is causing inflammation and the location
of the inflammation.
two compounds that if measured they can tell us exactly what your cellular health
is. Your body’s health is dependent on every cell's health. So the barriers or the
lining of the blood brain barrier level in your lungs and in your intestines, if you have
low levels of glutathione you are going to have permeability. You are going to have
increased inflammation. You are going to have chronic pain. This is one of the first
things that we may use as a natural treatment modality to start bringing things
under control, putting out the fires of inflammation in your body that are causing
that’s done. We do extensive neurological testing to find out which parts of the
brain may be under firing or over firing. In other words, there’s an actual speed or
rate of frequency of firing for each part of the brain and we will be testing for which
areas have a decreased frequency of firing. Once we know that,we can actually
get these areas to start working properly. How do we do that? We may use
vibration therapy. Vibration is taken in from the body, brought up the back part of
the brain into the central part of the brain and then back down to the cerebellum. If
you have a problem with one of those feedback loops, if there is a decrease in
frequency of firing, that’s not going to happen. It is going to cause the postural
muscles in the spine and around the joints to lock up causing you joint pain. We
and caloric stimulation. All of this is designed to increase the frequency of firing of
the brain because when the brain starts working right everything else in the body
We also use laser therapy in our office. The laser system that we use is the
Erchonia Cold Laser. The Erchonia Cold Laser is used by professional athletes like
Lance Armstrong, the New York Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, even the US
government; the Army uses the Erchonia Cold Laser. Why? Because it decreases
therapy in our office. We use the EB Pro. You have probably heard about it, it
sounds like a foot bath. There is an actual water bath that you put your feet in. By
putting your feet in the water, it creates your connection to an ionic field. That ionic
field increases the amount of ATP available to your body so that it can flush out
toxins and inflammation. This makes a huge difference for your treatment. I know
Once we have run the necessary tests to find out what is happening in your case. it
is like taking a puzzle out and putting all the pieces on the floor in front of you. You
start seeing which things are priorities and we start treating the highest priority first.
Remember when I said earlier if you have an auto immune condition that’s one of
our major priorities? We have got to take care of that ASAP. As we start to make
those changes in your body what are we going to do with the testing that we’ve
done? We are going to re-test. We are going to treat, test and re-test so that we
know what’s happening and how quickly your body is going to heal. These are all
very important things to know. What you need to do now is you need to ask yourself
certain questions.
Most people when I sit down with them and they have Fibromyalgia tell me how it
all started. Everything was fine until a certain point and then they start telling me
about when these symptoms started. Then the symptoms got worse and then the
symptoms spread and now more issues are appearing. They go to their doctor,
Mary says, “Oh I got this going on and this is new and this is new”, and they look
back through the chart and they go, “Oh, you’ve got Fibromyalgia don’t you? I bet
this is a flair-up of that Fibromyalgia”. And you never have these tests run. You
need to have these tests run because you have think about, where is your life going
three years? How is that going to impact you? What is it worth to you if we could
If you are serious about exploring these effective alternative methods and getting
your condition cleared,I want you to call our office (434-245-8456). I am offering
you two free visits to come in and consult with me to see if you are even a
candidate.
You see, I don’t accept every single person that walks through the door. There are
some ground rules that need to be understood before we work together. First of all
if you are eating gluten and you’re sensitive to gluten from your testing you have
got to stop. There are going to be dietary changes that you will to need to make,
What are dietary and life style changes? There are going to be things that you
can’t eat, there are going to be things that you should eat, exercise, sleep, all these
things are going to be taken into account and that’s going to be your responsibility.
Many of these tests aren’t covered by your insurance company and your doctor.
Your insurance company and all these outside factors are not responsible for your
health. They are not and they will tell you that. They will say although that may help
You have got to make a decision whether or not your health is necessary to you
because you are going to be the one that has to make these changes. I will work
with you if you are a candidate for this care. So come on in. Give us a call and
come in and make an appointment for this. I’ll sit down with you and review any
blood tests that you have already had run. I’ll look at any MRI’s, X-rays and any
diagnostic testing that you have that is going to help us identify what’s happening in
On your second visit I’ll actually sit down with you, tell you whether or not you are a
candidate for care. I will tell you what tests would need to be run and what
treatments would need to be performed and we will go over everything at that time
regarding fees, insurance, scheduling, and how often you need to be here. All of
that will be gone over. You’ll have a complete plan on how to tackle this problem
before we ever even get started. If you are serious about ending this condition, we
will put together a Fibromyalgia program for you and we will work with you on that.
Only you can make this decision to take responsibility for the quality of your life.
434-245-8456