pseudogout/ calcium deposition disease - anyone with experience?

[LCBMAX]

I had a mad crazy painful flare of this in Aug, with no prior diagnosis. It was so bad I got an MRI, and was diagnosed from there. For me it hit the first joint of a finger.

I'm using homeopathy, acupuncture, and increasing my magnesium and cod liver oil intake. Simultaneously increasing my Vit D too, so that may offset the benefit of the mag.

I wonder if anyone else has had this diagnosis and what your experience has been. I'm especially interested in what you did for healing - any approaches at all, from surgery to shamanism and everything in between.

I also wonder what other conditions you have, if any. This year has been my first for eczema and tonsillar stones too, so I'm curious about correlations.

Thank you!

[JaneS]

Have you had your parathyroid checked?

Do you have any hypothyroid symptoms?
http://thyroid.about.com/cs/basics_s...ochecklist.htm

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/long-and-pathetic/


I've been reading a lot lately about the thyroid (by the hormone calcitonin it produces) and the parathyroid's control of calcium in the body.

[Panserbjorne]

not in myself, but in others. I use homeopathy/cell salts effectively (to be honest, usually it's combo remedies for this particular issue.)

I'd second the thyroid connection, though I tend to look at the hypothalamus/pituitary first.

[Panserbjorne]

here are the two:
http://www.bestmade.us/product-detai...eumatism-.html
http://www.bestmade.us/product-detai...Uric-Acid.html

Beyond that I do individualize treatment, but for something quick and easy this is the first place I turn and rarely do I need to go beyond that.

[JaneS]

How do you test the HPA axis PB?

[Panserbjorne]

so far as I've seen there are no tests that are terribly accurate. I tend to (as in most things!) look at symptoms. If there's a reason to treat that overrides any testing-which is only (and can only ever be) a snapshot. If the pituitary/hypothalamus/adrenal axis needs steadying, you just do it. I use homeopathy and nutrition, but there are people that do it with hormones.

I've also used structural work-but I'm no expert there. When *I* needed the support I had intense and targeted CST which opened things up immensely. I then changed my diet and supported with homeopathy (along with sarcodes and hormones specifically) and it turned everything around. I still have to keep up with it. If I skip days I can tell. But in the past I've treated for thyroid insufficiency and it didn't do much...er, anything. I had to go higher up the cascade. Though iodine made a big difference for myself.

[LCBMAX]

Well, I do need to get the parathyroid testing done, as well as serum calcium levels, but all thyroid levels (thorough testing) are always very much within normal, even by a Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome scale. Symptomatically, I could convince myself of either hypo or hyper, but again, it really doesn't test out. If anything, I sometimes test closer to the hyperthyroid end of the normal range.

But anyway, I still haven't quite recovered from the 2 years of ridiculous amounts of night nursing, though we've been nightweaned for almost 6 months now. My gut feeling is that any thyroid-like symptoms are really about adrenal fatigue from the sleeplessness, and I'm on track with healing that.

Panserbjorne - what other conditions have your pseudogout patients had, if you recall?

[Panserbjorne]

there have been thyroid imbalances in several as well as other endocrine issues. Allergies, bleeding disorders, skin issues etc. I've never seen anyone where there was only ONE complaint so it's hard for me to ever say anything exists on it's own, you know?

[LCBMAX]

Gotcha. And, that's a good reminder to be grateful for my relative lack of complaints.
Thank you.

[Panserbjorne]

not at all! your paradigm is your paradigm and the way to heal things easily is to pay attention to them BEFORE you have extreme pathology. Never hurts to count your blessings, but that wasn't in any way said to minimize your experience.

You do have more than one thing going on and that's your body attempting to communicate with you. Good for you for listening.