Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/07/2008 - 10:52pm.
I have a client and friend who is suffering with chronic insomnia and severe depression. Her insomnia has been since December, and here it is April. She tells me she cannot sleep at all, and that she feels that she has lost the ability to sleep. I was searching the internet trying to find something to help her. Sleeping pills don't work...nothing seems to give her any sleep...day or night. After reading about FFI, I wondered if possibly this could be what is wrong with her. She seems alert for someone who has not slept in so long. I would be a walking zombie after just a few days without sleep. I am desperate to find help for her. The doctors just keep prescribing narcotics to make her sleep, but they do not help. And she is really scaring me with her talk of not being able to take it any more. I have no idea if there is anyone in her family who has had a similar condition. I will be asking her some questions in this area tomorrow. I do not plan to share anything with her about the FFI until I see if she has this in her family history. And then it would be something that I would have to really put some thought into how to get her the blood tests without telling her about the fatality of this condition.
Today I awoke and she was very much on my heart. I prayed that God would help her, and that if she did have FFI, He would not allow her to suffer a very long, drawn out death. After praying, I layed there a little while. Then the thought came to me that systemic enzymes could be the answer. They help the body to breakdown and utilize proteins....and we loose the ability to manufacture enough of these enzymes as we age. So maybe the reason FFI doesn't strike people till they are around 50 or 60 is because they have enough enzymes in the body most of their lives, and it takes this long for the body to become depleted and the damage to start displaying symptoms. I have no idea if this is totally off the wall. Possibly it is. I am not a medical professional. I am only someone who tries to do things naturally, and I read a lot and try a lot of things to help seemingly hopeless conditions. I just wanted to find someone to tell this to so it could be looked into to see if it made any sense at all. If this could help these people, then I would be so wrong in not sharing this idea.
Hopefully someone who can truly determine if this could be helpful will read this or it can be passed on to someone who can.
I have given this lady some systemic enzymes to take between meals, and am going to monitor her progress.
Sincerely
Jean Terry
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I have a client and friend who is suffering with chronic insomnia and severe depression. Her insomnia has been since December, and here it is April. She tells me she cannot sleep at all, and that she feels that she has lost the ability to sleep. I was searching the internet trying to find something to help her. Sleeping pills don't work...nothing seems to give her any sleep...day or night. After reading about FFI, I wondered if possibly this could be what is wrong with her. She seems alert for someone who has not slept in so long. I would be a walking zombie after just a few days without sleep. I am desperate to find help for her. The doctors just keep prescribing narcotics to make her sleep, but they do not help. And she is really scaring me with her talk of not being able to take it any more. I have no idea if there is anyone in her family who has had a similar condition. I will be asking her some questions in this area tomorrow. I do not plan to share anything with her about the FFI until I see if she has this in her family history. And then it would be something that I would have to really put some thought into how to get her the blood tests without telling her about the fatality of this condition.
Today I awoke and she was very much on my heart. I prayed that God would help her, and that if she did have FFI, He would not allow her to suffer a very long, drawn out death. After praying, I layed there a little while. Then the thought came to me that systemic enzymes could be the answer. They help the body to breakdown and utilize proteins....and we loose the ability to manufacture enough of these enzymes as we age. So maybe the reason FFI doesn't strike people till they are around 50 or 60 is because they have enough enzymes in the body most of their lives, and it takes this long for the body to become depleted and the damage to start displaying symptoms. I have no idea if this is totally off the wall. Possibly it is. I am not a medical professional. I am only someone who tries to do things naturally, and I read a lot and try a lot of things to help seemingly hopeless conditions. I just wanted to find someone to tell this to so it could be looked into to see if it made any sense at all. If this could help these people, then I would be so wrong in not sharing this idea.
Hopefully someone who can truly determine if this could be helpful will read this or it can be passed on to someone who can.
I have given this lady some systemic enzymes to take between meals, and am going to monitor her progress.
Sincerely
Jean Terry