[Shelley54]

Hello. My name is Shelley, and I've been lurking here on this forum for quite awhile now. I thought my first post would be about our upcoming Lifestyle visit in October, but I felt I had to respond to this post.

My husband was a general surgeon for 20 years. About 15 years ago he developed a keen interest in integrative medicine and found himself frustrated with only being able to spend 10 minutes with a patient before having to dash off to another surgery, or another patient. He wanted to practice a different kind of medicine based on truly listening to, and hearing his patients in order to diagnose them properly. Long story short, he left surgery, became board certified in integrative medicine and acupuncture, and now is the medical director of the Integrative Medicine department here, and has treated hundreds of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients.

I've always been very proud of him, but I'm really only telling you his credentials so you'll hopefully be open to a "forum newbie's" recommendation to get Jacob Teitelbaum's book called, From Fatigued to Fantastic. My husband recommends it with great success to all of his Fibro and CS patients, and follows Dr. Teitelbaum's protocol to treat them. You can read many great recommendations for it on Amazon.

I hope this helps some, and I hope you get to feeling better.

Also, I'd like to thank all of you for your wonderful and helpful posts about TV. I've been reading them for weeks now, and I feel like I know TV and its citizens quite well. Looking forward to our visit.