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Annual Patient Workshop
Save the date:
Sunday
February 17, 2013
Hilton Dallas-Fort Worth Lakes Executive Conference Center | |
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Therapy Tip
Assessing routine lab work is desirable before initiating therapy to establish a baseline before treatment. Throughout therapy, it's important to monitor lab work every six months to make sure none are worrisome (and more often if any cause for concern). Lab results can reveal occult inflammation and help determine the pace of therapy (i.e., the need to slow down the immune response). | |
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Recovery Reports
We are contacted daily by people with chronic illnesses who are looking for an effective treatment. Many ask us to provide evidence of efficacy in the form of statistics or stories. If you have recovered your health or had significant symptom improvement with Inflammation Therapy (or a similar treatment), please help us 'pay it forward' by telling your story. We will post it in the public section of our website to encourage others. Any report, short or long, with or without objective data (e.g., lab results, imaging reports) would be helpful. Please
send your story to
our email .
Thank you!
To see the latest recovery reports,
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CIR Library Access
Access to our free, extensive, easy-to-read Library of Information
(see this sample page)
and Physicians' Reference Library is available to anyone, without enrollment in our counseling program. If you're interested in using this resource, please send a request to our email
address along with your doctor's name and fax number (in the US or Canada) or his/her email address, so we can notify your doctor that you have access to this information.
A list of the articles in our libraries is available at this link.
Physicians may use CIR libraries even if they don't have a patient enrolled in our counseling program. Interested medical practitioners should contact CIR and ask to register. | |
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Survey
Volunteers who have a diagnosis of autoimmune or inflammatory disease or are chronically ill but who are not being treated with Inflammation Therapy, the Marshall Protocol or the Stillpoint Protocol are needed to be in the control group of our clinical study. If you meet these criteria and would like to take part in this project (which will only take a few minutes
each month), please
contact us at our
email address.
"Thanks for the effort to track (data via survey),
it will be the underpinnings of this treatment at some time." ~James Graves | |
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in support of our educational and research efforts.
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We are happy to report that our website has been extended with HONcode another year. The HONcode certification is an ethical standard aimed at offering quality health information. | |
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Greetings!
Spring is in the air here, bringing a feeling of renewal and hope. Recovering from chronic illness requires a firm sense of commitment and we at Chronic Illness Recovery have renewed our determination to help medical practitioners and their patient regain their health with Inflammation Therapy.
Word about CIR is spreading and we're steadily enrolling patients in our counseling program and registering physicians at our website. Our interactive forum is a very effective vehicle for our nurses, patients and their doctors to work together to manage the recovery process.
CIR is reaching out to more medical practitioners to fulfill our mission, so please encourage the clinicians you know to request CIR's professional newsletter. Physicians, nurse practitioners and physicians' assistants need only send an email request for the professional newsletter to: info@chronicillnessrecovery.org.
Happy Spring!
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About Inflammation Therapy |
Kidney Function
Doctors sometimes see elevations of creatinine and potassium in patients on Inflammation Therapy and may wonder if the patient has developed kidney disease or they may be concerned the patient is in chronic kidney failure. This is understandable; it is, after all, their responsibility to ensure a treatment doesn't make a patient's condition worse.
Kidney function lab results that are seriously out of range should not be ignored nor should they be considered a normal part of the healing process. Seriously out of range kidney function tests (KFTs) indicate renal stress that could result in permanent organ damage if waste products are allowed to accumulate.
Doctors should be reassured to know that Benicar (olmesartan medoxomil) doesn't cause kidney disease; it merely reveals it. This may be of small comfort if KFTs continue to worsen with no guarantee of eventual renal function improvement.
If the patient has been taking a relatively high dose (40mg every six hours), CIR recommends gradually reducing the dose of Benicar to 20mg and then retesting KFTs a few weeks later. This dose reduction is usually successful but anecdotal case reports include patients who have had to discontinue Benicar in order to avoid dialysis.
KFTs usually improve with an adjustment in the dose of Benicar. The medical professionals at CIR have learned that reducing immunostimulation (i.e., up-regulation of VDR transcription of antimicrobial peptides) by decreasing the dose of Benicar is an effective strategy to improve worrisome kidney function.
The strategy to increase Benicar to a 'mega-dose' (40mg every four hours) in order to provide an inflammatory "blockade" by partially suppressing the immune system (NF-kappa B pathway) is flawed because this may only further up-regulate the VDR. The cytokine blockade caused by the higher dose must trump the VDR activation and this isn't always the case. For details, please see Benicar Dosing to Prevent Organ/Tissue Damage During Therapy. |
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Please tell your doctor that CIR has established a website with helpful resources for doctors using Inflammation Therapy. Our libraries contain information for the practitioner and their patients. Doctors have shared the documentation they use to help streamline management of this treatment. Our Physicians' Forum is the ideal place for clinicians to ask questions of each other and share what they've learned.
Doctors who authorize our counseling for a patient may choose their level of involvement. At the least, they have access to our website/forum and will receive their patient's report with the nurse's responses so they know what advice is being given and have a hard copy for their clinic record. They can also rely on us to let them know if we think a patient is in trouble.
We encourage experienced doctors to share their expertise with other clinicians by using our secure, private forum for medical practitioners only. Less experienced physicians can ask questions about the science, specific patients or therapy management. The establishment of our specialized clinical network will promote the study and advancement of this effective treatment.
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"I can't imagine continuing IT without the assistance of the CIR Forum. The Forum's nurses (and members) have guided me through some challenging times during my first year of IT and I know - without a doubt - that I will continue to value their counseling in the years ahead." ~Cindra
"On my good days I do feel so much better so I know the plan is working and am very grateful to you all for all you have done. It has been a life saver for me." ~Emmley
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About Kidney Function | |
Kidney Function Video
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