Suffered Second Heart Attack - started PT 2 weeks ago
Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 6:20 am
Hi Owen...
My name is [reverend] Cherie' and I generally go by Cherie'...
I will give you a brief background so you can get a handle on who you are communicating with.
I have had 2 heart attacks... one in May of 2013 shortly after finally ending a long battle to get my Mother's body back from Mexico after she was kidnapped/murdered there. I believe STRESS was the trigger for that Heart Attack.
I also have EBV and came down with it in 1987 - I had it in remission for 20 years and it is definitely stress triggered with me. I relapsed with it again in 2010 after my Mother succumbed to violent alzheimers... and tried to kill me and my Dad. Common to violent Alzheimers.
I have owned Wellness/Anti-Aging Clinics for over 2 decades and retired in 2009. I am a Master Herbalist/ C. Nutritionist/ C.Naturopath / Lic. Paramedical Aesthetician... et al.
I read anywhere from 4 to 6 books every 2 weeks... I love research and I had an initial career background in law. Thus I came upon your book.
I have recently undergone EECP treatments but I know I did not get enough of them only 35 and because of a back/spine injury I was unable to endure a full hour treatment - 45 min at a time - I know I probably needed a minimum of 50. But I was lucky to get what I got as I live in Texas - Corpus Christi and it is the "Good Ole' Boys Allopathic Club" here... they just wanted to cut me open and put me on their drugs... I said NO I will go home and just die first! One doctor said to me then I will see you in OR and cut you open as I walked out on them.
I did, however, manage to get a Doppler and Ultra-Sound tests done and they said my heart was not yet damaged in any way... thank God... but that my arteries in the neck were 70% clogged. It was like pulling teeth to get them to tell me that much they were extremely hostile towards me as they knew I was a Naturopath and very much against their allopathic butchery!
Then I found EECP...
After coming home from EECP ... I have regressed already. Also, after the 2nd Heart attack in Feburary of this year...things were much worse than after the first. My eyesight was significantly negatively affected. Anything 6 feet away from me is blurry. I am getting cataract surgery in July to help my eyes... the Opthamalogist examined my eyes and said nothing about the Heart Attack effect. [?] -- I have cataracts starting which were started before either heart attack and I was and still am taking L-Carnosine and the eyesight was improving with it prior to the 2nd Heart Attack. And my short short term memory and immediate decision making abilities were hampered as well after the 2nd Attack. Obviously due to the subclavical L artery and the R being significantly blocked. That did not clear up at all with the EECP.
My subclavical left remained quite swollen and sore to the touch... that did not get better w/ the EECP. Nor did my eyesight... the palpitations significantly improved... I also had peripherial burning and needles in my feet and legs that went away... and the heart pains subsided significantly. Prior to the EECP I was surviving on Chinese Nitro... which is far better than our drug Nitro... it is natural. And on the traditional Chinese and Ayrvedic herbs for the Heart.
I finished the EECP the end of April 35 treatments... and there has been some regression.
However, I have been doing 15,000 mg of the C daily and 3,000 L-Lysine and 3,000 L-Poline since reading your book - started 2 weeks ago...
Eyes are not better still Praying on that... some improvement with the brain but I also added L-Carnitine 3x daily and I know that it does express a significant improvement on the brain... so I think that might be it because the Eyesight has not changed and if the betterment of the brain function was due to the clogged arteries opening up then the eyes would certainly get better at the same time... wouldn't you agree?
One thing that has occurred since starting the C regimen is that within the 1st week the swollen subclavical L artery went down significantly and the tenderness went away!!!! So I know something is happening... it is horrible not to be able to see and it has stopped me from driving... I am also taking care of my 91 year old Dad... and I am the only one to drive us around so we go to the local grocery/Walmart and back... he is my eyes and I drive. God Help Us. We are the only ones left in our family... no one to help us. Any help we get... we have to Hire/Pay for it $$$. Compassion seems to be lost in our society.
I am writing you as I would be ever so deeply grateful for some guidance and I know from your book you have helped and over-seen probably thousands of heart troubled people... I have no help where I live here in the deep south of Corpus Christi Texas... there are only Allopathic doctors here... I had to travel to Austin to get my EECP and there the person who runs the EECP called the doctors here in Corpus the "Good Ole Boys Club" she said they are known for being backwards allopathics who just want to cut and drug.
I am alone ... and desperately need some compassionate guidance... I feel so blessed that I was guided to your book... I pray constantly. I am an Ordained Reverend and was an active Pastor for almost a decade... retired. I was active in this while I was in law as in our Church the Pastors do not get a salary... you earn your own living while helping others and running the Church.
Can you give me some guidance as to when I might expect my eyesight to return... I have read that often with clogged arteries and heart attacks the eyesight is affected as the heart is unable to get enough blood/oxygen to the retina of the eyes and the brain. I am taking every vitamin/herbal supplement I know of to help the eyes no change. I am terrified of going blind.
I am a vegetarian/ I drink a gallon of purified water a day. I just recently added optidoses of Niacin to my regimen as well. I am hoping and praying the C and the Niacin and the rest together will finally get me heart/artieries and most of all my eyesight back.
I also just read about the of Liposome encapsulated C and am going to see if I can find it or do you know where I can obtain it... since it is purported to be even more effective that intravenous C application and safer with not chance of infection.
I would like to say that you are an answer to my Prayers... and I am deeply grateful and appreciative of your help and guidance... and thankful for your Compassion for others... I am the same.
Blessings... Rev. Cherie'
Sorry about your troubles and I do not have a lot of faith the the EECP treatments, but I am willing to learn. (They did not work for my brother who died from heart disease.)
I think you found the answer - the key according to Linus Pauling (and others, including Dr. Levy) is vitamin C. Two weeks given your history isn't a lot of time, and do not forget Vitamin E - 400 to 2000 iu of D-alpha tocopherol. If I were you, I would order the best (Unique-E from A. C. Grace) from LEF.ORG (Life Extension) and work up to 2000 iu in the morning until you are well, and then consider decreasing down to 400-800 iu daily.
I might increase lysine in the beginning to 5000 to 6000 mg daily, and decrease the proline to 1000 to 2000 mg, but otherwise you seem to be on the right track as far as the Pauling therapy.
I think liposomal can help in cases of very low C bowel tolerances - people who can only tolerate a few hundreds of milligrams of ordinary C w/out diarrhea, and it can make a nice add-on, but you should rely on ordinary vitamin C, preferably a powder at these dosages. Ascorbic acid. I think it is okay to add some sodium ascorbate (or baking powder). I think the IV-like, add on effect for liposomal is w/r to infections and perhaps cancer. Heart disease may require one molecule of vitamin C to create one molecule of collagen, so if you only take 1 gram of lyposomal, that is only one grams as far as heart disease is concerned.
Good luck. Please let us know how it goes.