Feekle -

"I'm guessing eye strain same thing happened to me, after about 1/2 hour looking at laptop screen, i'll feel pain sensation surrounding my left eye & it will spread behind my head, at first i thought my degree increases then i went to change my lenses ended up the same."


Activexxx -

"Nowadays I easily lost concentration at work. I'm currently working in
the IT industry and need to face the laptop for long hours but I easily
can't concentrate and lost focus followed by headache (left side of the
head) and head become like heavy...maybe this is caused by my
stressful work previously...nowadays, i need to frequently take a break
from my work like every 1 hour coz if I continue to force myself to focus,
I'll become dizzy...

Can anyone here advise what's wrong with me? this prob has been
bugging me for 2 years..."


What the two of you have is Computer Vision Sydrome.

To put very simply, your computer screen is NOT a piece of paper,
but a TV screen, or movie, rolling at a standard 60 frames a second.

Place a table fan between you and the monitor, switch it on, and
you will be able to see the running frames, or flickering.

Your eyes can't really tell the difference, but your brain can.
In extreme cases, such flickering can cause photosensitive epilepsy,
particularly in children.

To lessen this problem, raise your monitor's refresh rate to at least
85 hz, preferably 100 hz. However, I understand that laptops are
preset at 60 hz and can't be adjusted.

Secondly, those who use laptops and LCDs are actually asking
for trouble.


One of the reasons behind your problem
- the flourescent lamp behind your LCD
(and the reason why I always turn the
brightness down to ZERO when using
someone else's computer with an LCD).


" ..... they were going against the expectation
and conventional wisdom that LCD displays
were better than CRTs. "

" A friend of mine develops symptoms similar
to ones I experienced after only about 5
minutes, and he was the one who led me to
the first apparent cause of this: the
fluorescent light used for the backlighting
of the display. "

" ..... many people cannot work continuously
with such a display for as long as they can
with a traditional CRT. Some people feel a
headache after about half an hour of work
in front of an LCD panel, yet they can stay
16 hours in front of a CRT. "

" ..... the same fluorescent light technology
which, I knew, was not recommended for
use as the only light source in offices. "

" Unlike the sun (and other lighting
technologies), fluorescent lights are not
stable, but rather, they are pulsing, i.e.
they go on and off several times per second. "


http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1012657

http://www.cloanto.com/users/mcb/19960719lcd.html
[/quote]






Thirdly, download FLUX and run it.

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

My FLUX is set at 5000 K for night, 5,500 K day.


Fourthly, order this and use anytime when needed. It's the
best I have used, really soothes your eyes .

http://www.iherb.com/product-reviews/Simil...10-ml/5301/?p=1


Fifth, increase the size of your fonts. I used Franklin Gothic Medium,
minimum font size 17. You can't set this minimum size on Internet
Explorer, but I am using Seamonkey, much more versatile.

http://www.oldversion.com/download-SeaMonkey-1.9.0.html


Sixth, you can try Essilor's Anti-Fatigue lenses.

http://www.essilor.co.nz/lens_design/techn...n/anti_fatigue/

" I think this lens is only beneficial to those who read
or are on the computer a lot.

http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread....fatigue-lenses



Check out these similar threads where I have also answered.

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/8146-...dpost__p__81926

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/45018...post__p__442157

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Added on March 23, 2012, 7:23 pmFrom her age and your description, it's likely she has the
beginning stages of osteoarthritis.

The cartilage at her knees is wearing away.

Go to any pharmacy, buy :

Glucosamine sulfate/HCL
Chondroitin sulfate
Cod liver oil.


A good brand which combines glucosamine and chondroitin
is Livewell's Osteosamin. Take two caps twice a day with food.


" I have been taking the brand Live-well Ostesamin plus Chondroitin
for the pain and have been on it for the last 3 months or so. The pain,
I notice has reduced. It's better than before however, I still have slight
difficulties walking down the stairs and my knees are creaky too. "

http://www.natmedtalk.com/showthread.php?t=4382


For cod liver oil, the cheapest is Naturalle by Upha, Two softgels
twice a day for a start.

Other natural supplements which can also help are hydrolyzed
collagen, cetyl myristoleate (CMO) and MSM.

http://www.iherb.com/Twinlab-LPP-Hydrolyze...74-ml/8314?at=0

http://www.iherb.com/Twinlab-Joint-Fuel-Jo...0-ml/31406?at=0

http://www.iherb.com/Nature-s-Bounty-Colla...lets/32248?at=0

http://www.iherb.com/Naka-Herbs-Vitamins-L...0-ml/40785?at=0


http://www.iherb.com/Natrol-Cetyl-Pure-Joi...sules/5568?at=0

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Added on March 23, 2012, 7:31 pmYou've spelt "penis" with a "3" for the "e" as if it is such an
embarrassing thing to describle.

You may have phimosis.

See a urologist.

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/phimosis.htm

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Added on March 23, 2012, 7:43 pmThat may put you at risk of vitamin D3 deficiency, which in turn
weakens your macrophages, thus placing yourself at high risk of
developing TB.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P...00313-0111b.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/15907552





This post has been edited by Tham: Mar 23 2012, 07:53 PM

Your cold intolerance and your mention of subclinical hypothyroidism
automatically makes me think of Wilson's Syndrome, not to be confused
with Wilson's Disease.

Wilson's Syndrome is not officially recognized by most doctors, nor
would they have heard of it.

Try contacting them for more info.



http://www.wilsonssyndrome.com/how-are-bod...tures-measured/

http://www.wilsonssyndrome.com/wilsons-tem...drome-symptoms/


http://www.drrickmarschall.com/Wilson_s_Syndrome.html

http://www.mall-net.com/cathcart/wilsons.html






This post has been edited by Tham: Mar 24 2012, 01:57 AM

Definitely not your diet nor nutrition.

" ..... except low neutrophil count. "

" Besides that I get sick a lot. Around October to December last year, I
got sore throat multiple times and during that duration my fatigue got worse.
Now I still get the occasional sickness but not as bad as last time but the
fatigue is terrible. "


Based on this this and your description of your symptoms,
CFS immediately comes to mind, with the possible cause being
infection with EBV, CMV, HHV-6 (all herpes family) or Coxsackie.

What is your ESR and eosinophil count ?

The causes of CFS are multiple and controversial, but the herpes
family, typically EBV and CMV, are long suspected culprits.

Read my posts here :

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/51493...post__p__494131


XMRV (xenotrophic murine leukemia virus) has also been implicated, but
it appears to be due to lab contamination.

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/33585...post__p__445863



Go to any Chinese medicine store, and buy a few packets of
this 800-year old classical herbal formula, Bu Zhong Yi Qi Wan
( 补中益气丸) . This should improve the symptoms.

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/33585...post__p__445703


To knock out the virus, try a good olive leaf extract, particularly
Oliceutic-20 by Nature's Plus.

http://www.iherb.com/Herbal-Actives-ARA-La...Caps/21530?at=0


More on CFS.

http://www.longevityhealthcenter.com/chron...ibromyalgia.php


As lauric acid, which is converted to monolaurin, has antiviral properties,
take two tablespoonfuls of virgin coconut oil a day as well.
I am taking it to fight TB, as well for general health support.

http://www.examiner.com/nutrition-in-sacra...IxdDwB3BxN3L7Ig

http://www.helpofchinesemedicine.com/tcmfo...hongYiQiWan.htm

http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/chronic_f...e_syndrome.html

http://www.coconutdiet.com/cfsfibro.htm

http://www.digitalnaturopath.com/treat/T22089.html





This post has been edited by Tham: Mar 28 2012, 10:21 PM

Your neutrophils are marginally low, but your eosinophils
and ESR are normal.

You could still try the Bu Zhong Yi Qi Wan, coconut oil and
olive extract for a few months.

This post has been edited by Tham: Mar 29 2012, 03:02 AM

X-rays are part of healthcare as a diagnostic tool. Almost everyone
has had an x-ray at some point in their lives.

This "tidakapa" young female radiographer, Jessica, in Tung Shin Hospital
last week was practically "screwed" left and right by me in front of the whole
department, when she didn't bother to listen to my request to lower
the power to the minimum dose possible, and just fired away.

I told her that she was playing around with my life, as even a single
exposure of gamma rays puts one at risk of lung cancer, and if I were to
contract small cell lung cancer, even suing her would be pointless since
that carries a prognosis of one month without treatment, or 10 months with
chemo.

The reason is I have to have a chest x-ray every two to three months
as part of the doctor's monitoring of my TB treatment, for a total of
6 exposures. That's a lot of radiation, at about 10 millirads an exposure.

I found out later from another more responsible radiographer there,
Mubarak, who had shot the last film for me two months ago, that she
had shot at 100 kv for 2 milliseconds. Isn't that high ?

I remember my father's chest x-ray done at the same hospital over a
decade ago was done at only 40 kv.

Thanks for the info. Might the newer or latest machines improve the picture
clarity with lower voltage/time levels, and thus reduced radiation exposures ?

Damai Service Hospital seems to have installed a new machine last month,
so I might be going there for my next chest x-ray.

By the way, which hospital are you working at ?

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Added on April 4, 2012, 2:34 amDepends on what type of lung cancer you have.

If you get SCLC (small cell lung cancer), the most aggressive,
your life is measured in weeks (usually one month) without treatment,
and about 10 months with standard chemo of cisplatin plus etoposide.

Add in the monoclonal antibody, bevacizumab (Avastin), perhaps one
and a half years. Horrendous side effects - bleeding in the brain, stomach.

SCLC tends to happen mostly in smokers, but the majority of those who
get SCLC here are Chinese.







This post has been edited by Tham: Apr 4 2012, 02:34 AM

SCLC more commonly occurs in smokers according to the literature,
but the majority of cases here are Chinese, while the Malays are the
far heavier smokers.

Thus as I have postulated and posted in the thread below some time
ago, there is very likely some genetic deletion or mutation which is the
major etiology behind SCLC.

Without treatment, you die in ONE MONTH from diagnosis with SCLC.
Median survival is typically 10 months with first line chemo with
cistplatin plus etoposide. The 15-20 month prognosis is more with
NSCLC, as in the case of this lady from one of our Ipoh offices
with adenocarcinoma in 1996.

In my friend's case in this thread, Bill O'Rights ("TheFirstImmortal),
who had SCLC over three years ago, we managed to take him to
nearly two years with heavy supplementation of the latest cutting
edge supplements, which included high-dose resveratrol.

This was his 3,000 post, 100-odd page thread. He passed away
on May 10, 2009.


http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/23038.../page__st__2421



And wouldn't you slam that brainless woman too, if she acted as if
she was playing Star Wars with YOUR LIFE ? I lost my cool when
she reacted, right after shooting away gleefully without any regard
to my request " .... and how do you know that I didn't lower the
dosage ? "

Easy for you to say that " I don't see the point .... " . It's not YOUR LIFE.
Put your body in front of the beam then (or even just stand outside the door,
as I challenged). It's just Star Wars.

A couple of milliseconds of gamma rays, isn't it ?

This post has been edited by Tham: Apr 8 2012, 07:57 AM

The human being is a very complex organism, and you are a very
individualistic one too. Your body, or cells rather, are not going to listen
to, or abide by, the statistics and say, "oh, I will only mutate after 15 years
of, or 1,000, chest x-ray exposures".

If you are a bit unlucky, all it takes is a SINGLE shot to cause mutations
of p53, p21 and RAS in a SINGLE cell, override its Hayflick limit, and
start the ball rolling. That's it.

All the talk or literature in the world is not going to make a difference
when that happens.

Cancer is just basically cell immortality.

I am well aware of the predisposition to lung cancer from TB.


A search of p21 and cancer turns up 13,780 studies.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=p21+cancer


p53, cancer, 46,109 studies.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=p53%2C+cancer


ras, cancer, 22,709 studies.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=ras%2C+cancer



p21, lung cancer, 1,048 studies.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term...%2C+lung+cancer


p53, lung cancer, 4,108 studies.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term...%2C+lung+cancer


ras, lung cancer, 2,659 studies.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term...%2C+lung+cancer



p21, SCLC, 35 studies.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=p21%2C+sclc


p53, SCLC, 148 studies.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=p53%2C+sclc


ras, SCLC, 73 studies.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=ras%2C+sclc



" p53 mutations are common in lung cancer and range from 33% in adenocarcinomas
to 70% in small cell lung cancers. "

http://p53.free.fr/Database/p53_cancer/p53_Lung.html





p53 accumulation in the organs of low-dose X-ray-irradiated mice.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/8640750/



Occurrence of mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor gene
in X-ray-induced rat lung tumors.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/18271921





SCLC is actually a neuroendocrine cancer. In my American friend Bill's case,
there was some discussion of its hedgehog signalling pathway, and supplements
or herbs to inhibit it, in his thread at that time.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21983857



Here is a very lucky long-term survivor, party attributed to topotecan.

" Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) results in death within 1-2 months if left untreated. "


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/18787355/



In most patients however, resistance rapidly sets in after a typically initial good
response to chemotherapy, and the disease relapses in less than two months.

The newer chemo drugs have made hardly any difference to survival.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/14512193

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/16488055/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21918390

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17285598

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/20871263/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/20559150


An exception might be the Japanese topoisomerase 2 inhibitor, amrubicin,
which I had urged Bill to get himself enrolled in a Phase 2 trial at that time.

However, his oncologist there turned a blind eye, despite the fact his hospital in Maine
was actually one of those involved in the trial at that time, and chose to treat
him with the 30-year old hopelessly outdated first-line regimen of cisplatin and
etoposide.

Amrubicin had already been used extensively in Japan for years before that.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17135647

Four. At least two more to go. I never knew that Tung Shin's Shimadzu
machine was firing at 100 kilovolts, even if for just 2 milliseconds. . That's
quite a shot of gamma rays.

I think I'll go over to Damai Service Hospital next round.




Yes, I know those are blind searches. They were meant to be, largely
to show the countless studies showing the association between tumor
suppressor/oncogenes and cancer, particularly p21, since Tjinn maintained
that there was no link whatsoever between this gene and cancer.


The searches were than progressively narrowed down from "cancer" to "lung cancer"
and finally "SCLC", to show the association between these genes and SCLC. Maybe
I should have searched with them in parathenses, since that would reduce the number
of hits further.

The final two studies and the French p53 site were meant to show the possibility
of low-dose x-rays causing mutations in these genes, particularly p53, thus
predisposing us to cancer, including that of the lung, since Tjinn noted that the "patient's
fate has already been determined from birth".

http://p53.free.fr/Database/p53_cancer/p53_Lung.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/8640750/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/18271921


I am familiar with p53, p21 and ras - I come from this site and their forum below.

http://www.imminst.org

http://www.longecity.org/forum/


Around half of the posts so far in these two threads are mine.
(I am not in the medical field, not do I even have any degree. I'm
just an ordinarly lowly-paid penpushing layman.)

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/25952-cancer-knowledge/

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/23093...imers-research/


I joined Bill's extensively long thread a bit late in his advanced SCLC, though.

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/23038...ighting-cancer/


SCLC is a very complex cancer with many genetic deletions/mutations (the Immortality
Institute's members are far more familiar with this than me) as the disease progresses,
which is why it relapses so rapidly after an initial good response to chemo.


I am also familiar with some of the other genetic/signalling pathways in cancer -
Bax, Bcl2, caspase 3, PKA, PKC, AKT, PI3K, PPAR gamma, CXCR4, CCR5, etc.


This was the main reason why Bill took high dose resveratrol. Unfortunately, we
didn't realize at that time that resveratrol's bioavailability, at least in humans, is
very poor and disappointing against cancer in vivo (seems to work very well in
dog cancer).

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/23038.../page__st__2580

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/23038...230#entry283230


I mentioned the Chinese herbs, Scutellaria baicalensis and barbata, to him right from
the start when I joined his thread, but somehow it didn't really get thru him, I guess
mainly because he was unfamiliar with Chinese cancer-fighting herbs.



I believe that one of the main reasons why cancer patients deteriorate rapidly
when the cancer relapses, with the cancer refractory to second or third-line
chemotherapy regimens, is because the first-line chemo has cleaved their
p53 beyond repair, leaving the patient virtually defenceless. The cancer comes
back and "steamrolls" over them. Our first-line genetic defence against cancer
is, I believe, p53.

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Added on April 10, 2012, 4:22 am

" For B-cell ALL, even one X-ray was enough to moderately increase the risk. "

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/10/04/x-ray/


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-...isk-cancer.html

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles...y-part-one.aspx




X-Rays, Cancer and Heart Disease


" The inability of human cells, to repair correctly every type of radiation-induced
chromosomal damage, has been demonstrated in nuclear workers (who received
their extra low-dose radiation at minimal dose-rates) and in numerous studies of
x-ray-irradiated human cells at low doses. "

" Besides demonstrating non-repair or imperfect repair, such studies have established
that x-rays have an extremely low doubling-dose for structural chromosomal mutations. "

" X-rays are capable of causing virtually every known kind of mutation — from the
very common types to the very complex types, from deletions of single nucleotides, to
chromosomal deletions of every size and position, and chromosomal rearrangements
of every type. When such mutations are not cell-lethal, they endure and accumulate
with each additional exposure to x-rays or other ionizing radiation. "



\
" Ionizing radiation is firmly established by epidemiologic evidence as a
proven cause of almost every major type of human cancer. Some of the
strongest evidence comes from the study of medical patients exposed to
x-rays — even at minimal dose-levels per exposure. "



http://www.drheise.com/xrays.htm




John Gofman's book -

Radiation from Medical Procedures in the Pathogenesis of
Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease :
Dose-Response Studies with Physicians per 100,000 Population

http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/RMP/index.html

http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/RMP/chp1F.html





This post has been edited by Tham: Apr 10 2012, 05:28 AM

Taking 200 to 400 mcg of selenium a day will drastically
reduce a woman's risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

Increased rates of chromosome breakage in BRCA1 carriers
are normalized by oral selenium supplementation.

http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/cgi/pmidlooku...g&pmid=15894690



BRCA1 is apparently also vital to heart function and remodelling.
Thus selenium should also cut down the chances of heart failure with age.

" BRCA1 mutation carriers, in addition to risk of breast and ovarian cancer,
may be at a previously unrecognized risk of cardiac failure. "

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3247816/

I believe your family member is an example that Barry Sears, Loren Cordain and
on the more extreme side, Robert Atkins and Michael/Mary Eades, are correct.

This is because he is following a high carbohydrate, low protein, low fat diet.

(All the following ratios are in the format carbohydrates:protein:fats.)

Such a diet is probably quite close to that recommended by the American Heart
Association in a 55:30:15 ratio, disastrous for diabetics.

To lower his blood sugar and cholesterol, he should start on Sear's Zone Diet,which
is basically a lower carbohydrate, moderate protein and higher fat in a 40:30:30 ratio,
or Cordain's Paleo Diet - low carbohydrate, moderate protein, high fat, typcally as 15:30:55.

Robert Atkins doesn't specifyl ratios for his diet, but his followers go on very low
carbohydrate, moderate protein, very high fat (typically 5:25:70) diet, while Michael
and Mary Eades' proponents go for very low carbohydrate, very high protein and
medium fat. Atkins' and Eades' diets are actually a weight loss diets.

Loren Cordain's hunter-gatherer Paleo Diet is also more moderate, feasible and
safer than Atkin's. He doesn't specifiy fixed ratios, but followers typically apportion
15:30:55 for carbs, protein and fats.



" A very low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet was the standard treatment for diabetes
throughout the 19th century. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-carbohydrate_diet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet



http://thepaleodiet.com

http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=54614



https://www.zonediet.com/


http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=374787


http://www.eatprotein.com/

http://www.proteinpower.com


Read their books -

Barry Sears - The Zone: A Dietary Road Map
Robert Atkins - Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution
Michael and Mary Eades - Protein Power



The Atkins Diet is actually quite close to the ketogenic diet for controlling epilepsy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenic_diet#Modified_Atkins


Here's your proof. The diet closest to the one in this study (20:30:50)
would be Cordain's Paleo.

Effect of a High-Protein, Low-Carbohydrate Diet on Blood Glucose Control
in People With Type 2 Diabetes.

http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/53/9/2375.full



Very low carbohydrate, very high protein diet (8:69:23) prevents/fights cancer.
That closest to this would be Eades' Protein Power diet.

A Low Carbohydrate, High Protein Diet Slows Tumor Growth and
Prevents Cancer Initiation.

http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/71/13/4484.full