Treatment #3 Aug. 20th, 2010

Today we have to stop at my brother’s house to pick up his SUV. I will be driving it back and forth to my treatments and wanted a test run while I have Bill with me. I had a horrible accident December 24th, 2009 where we were saved by the grace of God and our guardian angels. Unfortunately, the experience left me with serious PTSD! Every time I even consider driving I have anxiety attacks and believe I am not capable of driving any longer. Now, I am forced to confront my fear in a very populated area with someone else’s car and insurance.

I survived! I confronted my fear, took my time and did just fine. Dr. Robins is pleased with my sleep and explains that he believes that the added nerve pain and headaches are temporary. O3 is a very strong and powerful, it removes metals and toxins from the body and my body is just reacting to that process. We all know (those that have RSD) that RSD does not like change and revolts whenever something new is introduced. I expect this is no different and I will just have to wait and see.

Wow, almost a full vile of ozone today. Dr. Robins also informs me that I get a shot in my arm today and will continue to every 5 days. What? Wait? What is it? He replies, “goat urine”! Huh? Goat urine, what the heck does that do? I rant on and ask a million questions in one long sentence and I look and everyone else is laughing……. Dr. Robins looks at me smirking and says “Denise, I am kidding, it is just a B12 shot”. I immediately commented (so as to not feel stupid) that if they use lizard spit for diabetes and leeches for infections, is it so far fetched that goat urine serves some purpose?


The good things today are that I don’t smell or taste the ozone like I was and the chest pressure, burning and cough have diminished. I do notice I am extremely thirsty, all the time, even though I am drinking a lot of water. Dr. Robins urges anyone doing this to drink at least 1 gallon of purified water/fluids a day……no caffeine, no alcohol, and no soda. I am about ½ way there and the dry mouth is awful, odd considering I am taking less pain medication! I get nauseous from plain water in the AM normally so it has been an adjustment and I am doing much better.

Home now and I feel so tired but not sleepy. Bill and I decide to eat something and take the dogs for a quiet, peaceful walk around the duck pond. It is our last day to spend some time together since he goes home tomorrow morning.

The walk was just what we needed. I can report that the nerve pain that was shooting down my legs from my spine stayed concentrated in the low back and feet. Last week I was in tears during any walk, sleep, sitting and standing. Getting comfortable was almost impossible and I was considering a double lumbar epidural just for some relief.

My pain levels were down 2 whole points (yup, those darn pain scales I hate so much because they are relative to your pain experiences) for a few hours and went right back up to normal levels for me, but we are expecting rain Sunday and for the next 3 days following so the barometric pressure change is probably not helping the situation.