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Why Do I Feel So Terrible?
Fibromyalgia is a neurological and metabolic condition. When your body is not functioning properly neurologically and metabolically, do you know what happens?
Pain When the upper brainstem is over-firing, it drives down an area of the spinal cord called the IML (inter-medio-iateral cell nucleus), which causes the adrenal gland to release chemicals that cause pain.
Insomnia When the upper brainstem is over-firing, you are not sleeping. When it is firing at its normal rate, because the lower brainstem is slowing down the upper brainstem, you are sleeping soundly.
Metabolically, your adrenal glands are not functioning. When the adrenal glands are not functioning, you are not sleeping.
IBS (or irritable bowel syndrome) Neurologically, in the lower brainstem there is an area called the NTS (nucleus tractus solitarious). Inside the NTS is the origin of the Vagus nerve, which goes to the abdominal area.
Headaches You have headaches because the brain is not firing impulses to the lower brainstem, and the lower brainstem is thus not slowing down the upper brainstem .
“Fibro fog” and loss of memory may be caused by decreased firing of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
“Broca's speech area” is located in the left frontal lobe of the brain, and when this area has a decrease in impulses you will have difficulty expressing what you would like to say.
Remember when the IML over-fires, the upper brainstem over-fires. The IML drives down the spinal cord and causes the electrical nodes to misfire. This will cause you to experience an increased heart rate, an irregular heart rate, or both.
Near the back of the brain is an area called the cerebellum, which controls all of your spinal muscles, your balance, and your coordinated movement. When fibromyalgia patients are dizzy or lightheaded, their cerebellum has decreased its firing.
But what causes your body to stop functioning neurologically and metabolically? Stress in the form of physical, emotional, and/or chemical stress.
Stress causes the brain to lose impulses, or decrease its frequency of firing. Stress can cause your internal organs to not function properly and, stress can cause your immune system to start attacking different parts of your body causing various autoimmune conditions.
When you are stressed, cortisol is released into the bloodstream, which causes a decreased firing of impulses and it can cause havoc with your immune system.
The real answer is to not treat fibromyalgia with drugs, but to treat the underlying root problem, which is the brain, nervous system, immune system, and the adrenal glands.
