It seems to me that the majority of people with CFS (and chronic illness in general) dabble in creative pursuits. I suppose that, in an attempt to feel productive, we must be creative about coming up with things we ARE able to do despite our symptoms and fatigue. That is a challenge. While we may feel unable to contribute anything meaningful that the rest of the world validates as such, following some sort of creative pursuit, no matter how small, can help us feel that we are not just taking up space. And at the same time it nurtures and comforts our souls of course.

Buying something that a CFS sufferer has make or created, is a wonderful way of validating their existence and showing them that what they CAN offer does make a contribution to the world.

Does anyone know of any online markets or communities specifically for CFS artists and crafters? It would be great to have all of them in one place, wouldn’t it?

Svea

Well, I have continued using the Glutathione patches. In fact I wear one almost everyday. And it’s really working well. I have more energy and more even constant energy throughout the day, I don’t need to rest as much, and as for napping, I haven’t had to do that at all. I have more stamina, and if I do something that tires me out, I recover much quicker.

I’m still reluctant to do any exercise. If I go for a very gentle stop and start walk someplace beautiful like a park, then I feel fine, but if I walk down to the shops for some grocery shopping, (a 3 min walk each way) then I do feel that unpleasant exhaustion when I get back, and I need to rest. By rest I mean sit down on the couch for a while. However, while it used to take me 30-60min to recover from such a walk and I’d be flat for the rest of the day, now I recover in 10-20min and then feel fine. So it is a very noticeable difference.

In general I just don’t have that disgusting exhausted sluggish feeling much any more. I do without a doubt attribute this to the Glutathione patches.

If there’s anyone who’d be interested in trying the Glutathione patches, please let me know. I’d really like to follow the progress of anyone that does and report the results here.

To your Health & Happiness,

Svea

My mother has started the Glutathione detox that you should do when you first start using the patches.

It’s not like a normal detox when you have to watch what you eat etc. The starter detox involves using the Y-age patches which include the Glutathione patch for day time and Carnosine for night time. As well as the Energy Enhancer patches also during the day placed on a different specific acupuncture point every day of the 5 day detox cycle. This 5 day cycle is repeated 3 times with two days off in between each cycle. This is to ensure the entire body and every organ and system in the body is detoxed at the start in order for the patches to be more effective.

During this 19 day detox you may not feel the benefits of the patches. In fact you may feel worse, as with any detox. You may also not feel any different at all. This does not mean that the patches are not working. They may just be focusing on an area of the body that is less noticable to you. Having said that, I felt immediate results with the patches when I did the detox (though I cheated and only did two cycles).

My mother too, has been feeling better rather than worse. She is today on her fifth day of the first cycle. She has been feeling more energetic and as I always say, more even constant energy throughout the day.

I will of course continue to track her progress. If there’s anyone who’d be interested in trying the Glutathione patches, please let me know. I’d really like to follow the progress of anyone that does and report the results here.

To your Health & Happiness,

Svea

I mentioned recently that I would focus a little more on the Energy Enhancer patches to see if they would work for me as well as the Glutathione patches.

Well, so far I have to say that they don’t seem to be doing much for me. However, that doesn’t mean they’re not working. What the Energy Enhancer patches do is help the mitochondria with energy production and with things life Chronic Fatigue, Mitochonrial disfunction is quite common. So although I may not feel any different, the patches may still be helping.

At the moment I’ve stopped using them but I will be seeing Dr Kate Perkins soon and will have a chat to her about this to see if there is something I may be doing wrong.

To your Health & Happiness,

Svea

In my last post I promised that I would knuckle down and really give the Glutathione patches a fair go. So I began my renewed efforts yesterday. I got out of bed early enough to feel it worthwhile using a patch and I drank a couple of glasses of water. I decided to try a new position for the patch, so I put it on the sternum, in the center of the chest. I usually always wear it on acupuncture point CV6 which is about 2 inches below the navel.

It was an unusually busy day for me. I did lots. I visited a friend for a couple of hours with my mother, and then we drove to a new shopping centre, where I had been told there was a great butcher that does free range and gluten free sausages. We spent a good couple of hours doing the grocery shopping. When we got home in the late afternoon, I didn’t stop for a rest. Instead I jumped straight onto the computer again for at least a couple of hours, probably more. I still felt great. Then I helped with dinner, and after dinner, sprawled out on the couch in front of the TV around 9.30pm I still felt OK, rather than that sleepy slump you get after the evening meal. I still felt reasonably perky.

The biggest difference I could notice was that my energy levels were definitely higher, although I wasn’t hyperactive at all. My stamina was better, I didn’t tire as quickly, and that is a big deal. And finally, my energy levels were much more even throughout the day, rather than fluctuating up and down constantly.

So there you are, my first day back on the patches was pretty damn good.

Health & Happiness,

Svea

Some people have been asking me about the Glutathione treatment I’ve been testing on myself. So I thought I’d write a bit more about it. Before I begin I must remind you that I am not a qualified health professional or medical doctor. I am speaking about this as someone who is using it.

First of all I’m still testing it on myself. I have not drawn any clear conclusions yet. I really haven’t experimented with it enough yet. You might ask why that is, since it’s supposed to work so marvelously. Well, you need to drink a lot of water for the patches to work. You need 4-6 glasses minimum per day, but 8 would be better. And you shouldn’t apply the patches until you’ve had two glasses of water.

I have found this to be the hardest part, as I don’t necessarily feel like drinking that much in the morning. Hence, I only use the patches on days when I am hydrated enough.

I definitely think I feel better on days I wear the patch, and it helped me to not catch the flu of my mother and brother whom I was looking after when they were ill. I will continue to update my own progress with the patches, but keep in mind that my friends including doctors I know and respect here in Adelaide, have had great results with the patches.

So, as you may already know Glutathione is one of the most important antioxidants. In fact it functions in our body as the master antioxidant. It’s often low in people with Chronic Fatigue and chronic illness in general, and certainly decreases with age. It has been advertised as an anti-ageing supplement and for youthful looking skin, but it is in fact turning out to be quite a miracle worker. Many scientists now believe that how long we live is directly proportional to how high our Glutathione levels are. Some of the actions of Glutathione include supporting the immune system, improving overall health, neutralizing free radicals which case cell damage, promoting the release of stored toxins ie a detoxifying action, protecting your vision, and helping turn carbohydrates into energy, just to mention a few. It’s also useful for a long list of serious and common diseases. I use them as they are supposed to make you feel mroe energetic and just better. I will not go into this in any more detail as there are endless websites and about 80,000 research studies describing its wide benefits. Just type Glutathione and whatever problem you’re having into google and you should find something. A good place to start for general information re Glutathione is http://www.glutathionediseasecure.com/

So Glutathione is crucial for optimum health, and many people are deficient in it. What can we do? You’ll find a number of different suggestions online as to how you can best boost Glutathione levels, including various supplements. The problem is that oral Glutathione supplements don’t work well enough to significantly increase your levels. Why? Because it is just not able to be absorbed by the body.

Some health professionals know this, and therefore advocate boosting your levels by taking its building blocks Glutamate, Glycine, and L-Cysteine, and eating foods that are naturally rich in these. But trying to boost levels orally is always going to be a bit of a problem as we simply do not absorb things that well through our digestive systems, especially those of us who have a digestive problem such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome etc.

Well there is a new way to boost Glutathione levels, and it works amazingly well. It is by using a Glutathione patch. Research done on this patch has shown that it can increase Glutathione levels in the body by 300% in 24 hours. Now, there is absolutely nothing else out there that will do this. Oral supplements will only boost your levels by something like 25% over a 3 week period, and even that is debatable.

How does this patch work I hear you ask. It uses advanced nano-technology to stimulate acupuncture points in the body. A photon of light stimulates the acupuncture point and the body’s own resources achieve the effect. It’s not a transdermal patch, so nothing enters the body. There are no drugs involved. It can even be used on animals. Many clinical studies have been done to ascertain the effectiveness of these patches.

If you want to find out more about these patches please visit www.lifewave.com/oliviasadry

When you’re at this site click on “Products” down the bottom and you’ll get a menu on the left side which will give you more info including research. If you want to try the patches for yourself go to “Buy Now”. There are a couple of different ways of getting a better price for the products. “Preferred Customer” will get you $10 off which is really good, but if you want $20 off you better ask me to show you as I’ll need to explain a few things to you.

They also have 5 other patches that are equally fantastic. One is for Carnosine, one is the Energy Enhancer used by 300 Olympic athletes from 11 countries in the Beijing Olympics. Then there is IceWave which is amazing for pain relief. And a few more. Visit the site to get the info, or ask me a question.

If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to ask. I’ll be happy to help. And if you do try the patches please let me know how you go. I may be able to help you with some tips on getting the best use out of them.

Health & Happiness,

Svea

I’m “reading” (that is, listening to audio of) a book by Paulo Coelho at the moment. Thank goodness for the audiobook. As a Chronic Fatigue experiencer, it can be near impossible to get any sort of actual reading done, despite the desire for it being there. I have piles of books at home I fully intend to read, but just don’t have the energy for. I wish there was some way I could just suck up theknowledge from them with a straw.

So I am listening to it on audio. Even that does require energy.

Anyway, teh book is called “Brida”, and as I said it is by Paulo Coelho. I love The Alchemist, which I actually read myself several years ago. But wow, Brida is so much more to me. It won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but if your are a young person especially a woman/girl who is searching for answers to the greater mysteries of life you might just see yourself in Brida. I did. Brida is the main character, a 21 year old girl (I think), who is interested in “magic” as Coelho calls it. Not magic like pulling rabbits out of a hat. More like the things you cannot see, like spirits and witches and the occult. But really it’s about finding your own direction in your spiritual search for answers. It’s really a great inspirational story, as it tends to be with Coelho I suppose.

I highly recommend it.

Svea

Well, I haven’t really been sticking to the patches, however there’s no strict rules about how you should use them. It’s fine to only use them when you need a lift.

I’m not really getting much of a boost fromteh Energy Enhancer patch, though I haven’t played around with patch placement much so far.

The Glutathione patch seems better but again I still can’t give you any conclusive results.

If you are interested in finding out more, let me know. I do know a bit about them, so could probably answer some of your questions.

As I’ve mentioned before, I know several people including two good doctors who rave about these patches working for them personally including for other people they know. And just because I haven’t had amazing conclusive results yet, it doesn’t mean they won’t work for you.

Health & Happiness,
Svea