A Tale of Two Andreas

Written by Thomas Corriher Saturday, 17 October 2009 13:39

A portion of this article is a true story involving my wife, Andrea.  It is also the tale of two Andreas, because it demonstrates the two dramatically different future health outcomes for Andrea, based on what appeared to be only a minor health decision.  Minor decisions concerning one's health nowadays can produce major long-term repercussions.  It all began with Andrea experiencing chronic headaches that lasted over a week.  She also experienced randomly occurring brief moments of blurred vision. Andrea did what most people would have done in the beginning.  She patiently waited for the headaches to pass.  After a week of suffering, she realized, as did we, that there was an underlying problem causing the headaches beyond mere job stress.  There was nothing obviously wrong with her, and we could not find any aggravating factors.  Even our usual treatments for migraines provided no substantial successes.  It is uncommon for us to get stumped, but all of us were getting whipped by these mysterious headaches.  We then realized that Andrea would inevitably need to visit someone with specialized neurological training, but the question was who?

The Tale of Andrea #1

In version one of our story, Andrea did what most people would have done.  She went to a regular, licensed (allopathic) doctor.  Following an almost robotic adherence to his standard diagnostic procedures, the doctor carefully considered the following diagnoses: chronic migraines, chronic tension-type headaches, daily persistent headaches, sinusitis, and hemicrania continua.  The doctor was at a loss to explain it, but he was not yet ready to pass her onto a neurological specialist.  This is where pride entered the equation.

Continuing to follow established doctrines, the doctor concluded that Andrea might have an emergency medical condition, with a particular concern about a brain tumor.  Andrea had expressed many of the danger signs, including the sudden onset of severe headache, fever, stiff neck, confusion, and impaired vision.  Andrea was required to revisit the doctor on a daily basis for supervision after a battery of blood tests, but in addition to that, she was required to drive to the other side of the State for an advanced M.R.I. brain scan.  The results of this brain scan were enhanced with radioactive barium.

After all this time, pain, and enough expense to buy an island nation, Andrea was still suffering, and the doctor was even more clueless than he was just after his initial examination.  After careful consideration, he decided not to recommend a neurological specialist, because this was just a headache, after all.  Alas, he did what doctors usually do.  He simply disregarded the cause of her affliction, and began contemplating the pharmaceutical treatments for the symptoms only.  Since his scientific methods could not ascertain the cause, Andrea obviously had a genetic disorder, or an auto-immune disorder.  In other words, his incompetence was somehow the patient's fault, and that was important for him to keep in perspective.  The extreme sickness experienced by Andrea immediately after the M.R.I. scan, and the radioactive barium were just coincidental, because F.D.A. science has proven that radiation is safe and effective -- especially when injected directly into the bloodstream.  It must have been an allergic reaction, which is important to remember, for it too proves that it is the patient who is to be blamed.

The doctor began the usual barrage of pharmaceuticals on Andrea.  It went from methysergide maleate, followed by propranolol hydrochloride, ergotamine tartrate, amitriptyline, valproic acid, and verapamil.  In every case, the side effects were severe enough to require additional pharmaceuticals to counteract the effects of the original pharmaceuticals that had been prescribed for the headaches.  Andrea's medicine cabinet was transforming into a mini pharmacy, and her bank account was shrinking in the same proportion.

While all so-called conventional medicine is experimental medicine, the desperate doctor decided to try a new a highly experimental treatment on Andrea.  I wish this were some kind of sick joke, but the following really is the truth.  The newest experimental treatment for chronic headaches is botulism (i.e. Botox) poisoning.

The Centers for Disease Control reports this about botulism:

"Botulism is a rare but serious paralytic illness caused by a nerve toxin that is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.  There are three main kinds of botulism. Foodborne botulism is caused by eating foods that contain the botulism toxin. Wound botulism is caused by toxin produced from a wound infected with Clostridium botulinum.  Infant botulism is caused by consuming the spores of the botulinum bacteria, which then grow in the intestines and release toxin.  All forms of botulism can be fatal and are considered medical emergencies.  Food borne botulism can be especially dangerous because many people can be poisoned by eating a contaminated food."

"The classic symptoms of botulism include double vision, blurred vision, drooping eyelids, slurred speech, difficulty swallowing, dry mouth, and muscle weakness. Infants with botulism appear lethargic, feed poorly, are constipated, and have a weak cry and poor muscle tone.  These are all symptoms of the muscle paralysis caused by the bacterial toxin.  If untreated, these symptoms may progress to cause paralysis of the arms, legs, trunk and respiratory muscles.  In food borne botulism, symptoms generally begin 18 to 36 hours after eating a contaminated food, but they can occur as early as 6 hours or as late as 10 days."

As you can see, F.D.A. science has proven it to be "safe and effective" in the same way it did for pharmaceutical companies for the direct injection of radioactive materials, such as barium, into a person's blood.  It leaves little doubt about who they are working for.  As you may have guessed, Andrea's botulism poising (the "medical treatment") did little for her, except absolutely destroy her immune system, to make her deathly ill for weeks.  It was at this point that we began feeling less than grateful for all the doctor's "help", and began considering alternatives.

This was not the end of the adventure, however.  In a last parting insult of blaming the patient, the doctor determined that Andrea's head problem was just in her head.  Instead of admitting his weaknesses or failings, the typically arrogant doctor diagnosed Andrea with a psychosomatic disorder.  Despite all of his health assaults, injuries, and failings, this diagnosis allowed him to be 'right' in the end; regardless of the fact that he had done nothing but harm.  This diagnosis left him with the tough decision of whether to fraudulently continue raiding her bank account by using sugar pill prescriptions, or to prescribe her with S.S.R.I. anti-depressants to make her more happy with her suffering.  He chose the latter, of course, since he's such an honorable professional and all that.  There was the side benefit that he might win the rewards that the pharmaceutical company was offering for doctors who prescribe their patented products.  No consideration was given to the fact that Andrea was never depressed, or to what these pharmaceutical monstrosities do to people when they are improperly prescribed.  Giving Andrea the "happy pill" did, however, make his job easier, and he could pretend that she was being effectively treated.

The malnutrition, toxicity, and acidosis caused by the long term use of the S.S.R.I. anti-depressant pharmaceutical, combined with the radiation they exposed her to will cause Andrea to develop brain cancer in less than 10 years.  The official diagnostic cause will be a "genetic predisposition", based on the fact that cancer has been experienced in her family ― coincidentally with it always appearing after diagnostic radiation exposure from a doctor in every case.

The Tale of Andrea #2

The above story is true for thousands of people, but not for Andrea.  Browsing the Internet forums for stories of people who did use the system for help with their chronic headaches reads chillingly like the fictional story above.  Compared to what some people have experienced, our story actually sugar-coats what often happens.  We're talking about lives being completely destroyed, and in many cases the destruction begins in childhood.  These people will never be the same, and they will never recover ― from modern medicine that is, or the "genetic auto-immune disorders".

In reality, we remembered something that became useful in curing Andrea's headaches.  You may recall the blurred vision that Andrea was transiently experiencing during her headaches.  We remembered that many months ago, Andrea had visited her chiropractor for a stiff back.  Her chiropractor had accidentally misaligned her 2nd and 3rd vertebrae during that visit.  No one realized the mistake until after she had been home for about 15 minutes.  Then, without apparent cause, her vision blurred, and she developed a sudden headache.  She returned to the chiropractor, who apologetically fixed her neck.

The real Andrea visited her chiropractor instead of a pharmaceutical salesman, and was cured in minutes.  Some nerves were being pinched in her neck.  We consider what could have happened if we had done what most people would have done.  It reminds us to thank God that we are no longer brainwashed by the propaganda.  Never in a million years would the regular doctors suggest realigning Andrea's vertebrae, for that's just quackery after all!  For now, we'll gladly pass on their "real" medicine.