Frequency Specific Microcurrent To Treat Ptsd

[KarenR]

I have suffered from PTSD for 34 years due to a motorcycle accident when I was 15 years old. I am finally getting help, from Frequency Specific Microcurrent. The very very tiny currents that FSM puts into your body (it runs on a 9 volt battery) makes your cells feel safe, on a cellular level, and your brain begins to open back up. Your body then begins to make new neural connections through every part of your brain that has shut down due to the PTSD. I was so, SO trapped, and now I am finally healing. I have been using my portable FSM machine for 7 months now and am still healing. (My case was severe.) My doctor said that people heal from PTSD, with the use of FSM, isn 6 weeks, to 1.5 years. My PTSD has affected the nerves in my legs, as well as the left side of my body, and my left eye/left brain. I am now able to freely cry (I am experiencing emotion!), and am starting to process more with the left side of my brain. I had suicidal thoughts during high school, and felt that if I would have committed suicide, that the left side of my body/brain would not have even known what I was doing. I was that dissociated... PTSD is devastating, but now there is finally help for it. Not sure how long the FSM has been around--maybe for 5 years????

 

[amethist]

Hi Karen

I have read you post with interest, then I did a search. I was very curious how this could work, but on further reading found that it is not a cure as such, (Still no absolute cure found as yet).

What it could do, if the reports are accurate, is help reduce the symptoms to level where the sufferer can life a more functional and fulfilling life, but more than anything, reducing the severity of dissociation.

It is more effective in dealing with pain issues though, and this has been used for a long time now.

As with all new treatments for PTSD, some will succeed some will fail. We all look for that one treatment that will work, but this will probably take as many years to find, as it has for PTSD to be excepted as a genuine illness.

This is actually a pain management system for various illnesses, very similar to the TENS machine. Or Transcutaneous (Meaning through the skin) Electrical Nerve Stimulator.

 

[KarenR]

No, you are wrong. This is a much more subtle energy than a tens unit. It runs on a 9 volt battery. These are the same subtle little signals that your body uses to heal itself (Read Cross Currents, by Robert O Becker). I tell you, I am HEALING. I have been very, very broken for 34 years.

 

[cherryblossom]

Hi Karen, Welcome to the forum :D

I'm interested in your reports of a cure for PTSD. Did you receive a brain injury in your RTC? I don't think I've heard of people suffering from nerve damage, and affecting the left side of their brain in such a debilitating way from PTSD alone, being that it is a psychological, not physical injury.

Just questioning to learn more, not criticising. :)

 

[KarenR]

No, I did not recieve an impact brain injury. PTSD causes PHYSICAL changes in your brain and nervous system. For example, after I had been using the FSM for 2or 3 months, I started having severe hot flashes. I asked my doctor about it, and he said that my hypothalamus, which is an emotional relay center between your brain and your body, also controls your hormone production in your body. He said that the hot flashes will quit after your hypothalamus regains control of the hormone production...too much going on in there with the hypothalamus opening up (and experiencing emotion again), and putting new neural connections in the area. My hot flashes did quit, probably after about 6 weeks of severe hot flashes.

 

[amethist]

This is not an absolute cure, but it can bring relief from some PTSD issues.

I did say TENS was very similar, not the same.

 

[KarenR]

Well, I can tell you that it is healing me. Continue on in your suffering if you would like, but I was desperately looking for answers and I found them. I run several programs every day: PTSD, forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain, general inflammation, and occasionally some others (nerve health, concussion, etc).

 

[cherryblossom]

My PTSD has affected the nerves in my legs, as well as the left side of my body, and my left eye/left brain.

I'm not disputing, but asking genuine questions. How did PTSD affect the nerves in your legs, and the left side of your body and brain? What were the symptoms of this? Did any MRI / CT scans ever show physical changes in these areas?

 

[KarenR]

The nerve stuff in my legs did not start until probably 15 years after the original motorcycle event which caused the PTSD. It was like my brain was getting worse and worse. I can tell that the back of my brain is affected, sending out funny signals that have impacted the nerves in my legs. But, I am now healing, finally! :)

 

[KarenR]

How did PTSD affect the nerves in your legs, and the left side of your body and brain? What were the symptoms of this?

The left sided symptoms were immediate, after the accident. I remember sitting in my bedroom, looking in the mirror, and trying to comfort the left side of my body, (and wondering what was wrong with me). I felt like I could not think anymore, and started falling asleep in school. I felt a split in my mind, like the left half of my mind had closed down. Some time later, the "split" dropped down into my body so that my body felt split. I did not have an MRI then. During the motorcycle accident, I was wearing shorts and a tank top, and no shoes, and of course no helmet. I landed on the grass and rolled, but was not physically hurt from the motorcycle accident (although my mind/psyche was greatly damaged). I did not connect the motorcycle accident with my symptoms. The motorcycle accident was gone out of my mind. 4 years after the motorcycle accident, at the age of 19, I had a mental breakdown due to trying to deal with life and an attempt at college, with such a messed up brain.

When my legs started acting up, I for many years did not realize that it had anything to do with my "PTSD, mental breakdown" brain. Now I can feel that it does. The nerves in the back of my brain, and running down my spinal cord send out crazy signals. It's like my brain was getting worse and worse, and starting to shut down. I really do not know what would have happened to me if I had not found help when I did. I may have ended up in a mental institution.

 

[Nicolette]

sending out funny signals that have impacted the nerves in my legs. But, I am now healing, finally! :)

I would like to know who told you that your nerve leg symptoms are PTSD related - especially 15 years after the accident? I have these symptoms, called sciatica and they are from spinal injury and not brain injury. I also have left sided body pain, specifically shoulder, arm and neck but they are all related to my back injury. Has you body been properly examined and have you undergone extensive testing? Has anyone checked out your back properly

Source Wikipedia:

Sciatica is generally caused by the compression of lumbar nerves L4 or L5 or sacral nerves S1, S2 or S3, or by compression of the sciatic nerve itself. When sciatica is caused by compression of a dorsal nerve root (radix) it is considered a lumbar radiculopathy (or radiculitis when accompanied with an inflammatory response). This can occur as a result of a spinal disk bulge or spinal disc herniation (a herniated intervertebral disc, from roughening, enlarging, and/or misalignment (spondylolisthesis) of the vertebrae, or as a result of degenerated discs that can reduce the diameter of the lateral foramen where nerves exit the spine. The intervertebral discs consist of an annulus fibrosus which forms a ring surrounding the inner nucleus pulposus. When there is a tear in the annulus fibrosis, the nucleus pulposus (pulp) may protrude through and push against spinal nerves within the spinal cord or those exiting, causing numbness or excruciating pain. Sciatica due to compression of a nerve root is one of the most common forms of radiculopathy.

Karen, I get the impression that you are attributing any medical condition or symptom since your motorcycle accident to it and also to PTSD. Have you obtained second opinions etc? For example when I injured my back one doctor told me I need my lower back fused. 15 years later I have had no fusion, was great for about 7 years when I consistently went to gym and have now been advised I have to get up and exercise regularly or I will be a mess and in constant pain again.

 

[Nicolette]

My hot flashes did quit, probably after about 6 weeks of severe hot flashes.

May I ask at what point did this occur as could it have been an early onset on menopause?