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| When intolerable symptoms are not managed by a
change in Benicar, a skillful adjustment of antibiotics should be tried before discontinuing
antibiotics.
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Every patient enrolled in CIR's nurse counseling service has access to our extensive library about inflammation therapy.
Anyone wishing to access our library without enrolling in our nurse counseling should email us. We will require your physician's contact information. A donation of $25 annually is suggested.
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Greetings!
Word about Chronic Illness Recovery is spreading and we've been busy this past
month enrolling patients in our counseling program and registering physicians
at our website. Our interactive Forum is proving to be a very effective vehicle
for our Nurses, patients and their doctors to work together to manage the
recovery process. We're pleased to see that clinicians experienced with
inflammation therapy are using the Physicians' Forum to offer assistance
to less experienced prescribers.
We're also excited about several new projects to
further our mission that are in active development and we'll be revealing
those
in the coming months. Thanks to all of you who've contacted us to
offer your support. We hope you'll enjoy this month's newsletter.
Warm regards,
Meg Mangin and Belinda Fenter
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Getting to Know You
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 Meet PB, Registered Nurse
Seeing PB for the first time, one immediately notices his height. It's easy to imagine patients nicknamed him PBear simply because of his size. PBear stands out in other ways, though. He quickly puts people at ease with his good-natured jokes and hearty laugh. He is all business when he works, whether methodically assessing a situation or evaluating the latest scientific papers.
PB loves the outdoors and he makes his home in a rural area on Missouri's Ozark border. He recently returned from a trip for camping and canyoneering (exploring canyons) in southern Utah.
Asked what motivated him to work with Chronic Illness Recovery patients, he said, "This therapy is tremendously groundbreaking. Since this treatment has helped me in ways that I never expected, I feel strongly that it can help many more people at least have some measure of recovery, knowing full well it will not work for everyone who is seriously ill.
I realized long ago that many of the people who embarked on this course of treatment would be very ill and would need to be closely followed by their medical providers as well as by experienced nurses, and that lay individuals could not hope to have the clinical experience to safely guide treatment. Focusing on helping expand the number of experienced physicians and nurse practitioners -- while helping patients -- seemed to be the only reasonable course of action to see this approach expand."
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About Inflammation Therapy
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Question: How do I know if inflammation therapy is right for me?
A. Many chronic diseases are caused by systemic inflammation and inflammation therapy has been used successfully to treat a wide variety of illnesses. When a physician determines that chronic disease or symptoms may be related to chronic inflammation, he or she may decide to utilize inflammation therapy.
Some signs of systemic inflammation are unexplained symptoms and abnormal:
- blood pressure
- pulse or heart rhythm
- lab work such as D-metabolites, hemoglobin, creatinine, C-reactive protein, thyroid stimulating hormone or SED rate
- tests such as pulmonary function or bone scan
- imaging such as X-rays, MRI or CT.
To determine if signs or symptoms are due to chronic inflammation, doctors should assess BOTH of the most common forms of vitamin D, which is a secosteroid hormone that modulates the immune system.
1,25-dihydroxyvitamin-D (the active form) is elevated by systemic inflammation. 25-hydroxyvitamin-D (the form usually measured to assess vitamin deficiency) may be low, depending on the amount of vitamin D supplementation.
If results of these D-metabolite tests are inconclusive, the physician may institute inflammation therapy as a therapeutic probe to determine whether it will be effective.
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New Journal Article
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Olmesartan Delays Occurrence of Microalbuminuria in Type 2 Diabetes
In trial results presented this month at the Renal Week
2009 meeting of the American Society of Nephrology, it was reported that olmesartan provided vascular protection by delaying the occurrence of micro-albuminuria and controlling blood pressure in Type 2 diabetes patients. See the full story in Doctor's Guide.
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Quotable Quotes
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"We are all indebted to you - for launching
this attentive, caring and friendly place where we can receive the best advice
possible for these life altering illnesses." ~ Jim |
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About Chronic Illness Recovery
Chronic Illness Recovery operates through financial gifts from those who believe in our mission to assist physicians and their patients in learning more about inflammation therapy. We are a nonprofit organization with federal tax exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue code. If you are interested in our services or would like to make a donation, please consult our website or call our toll free number: 1-888-846-2474.
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