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Fibromyalgia and bad teeth: Is there a connection? (part two)

© Barb Briley

If you are new to the column let me catch you up easily. I am a Fibromyalgia patient who also has severe dental problems. To further your under stand my point of view Please read “Fibromyalgia and bad teeth? (part one)” For those of you who have read part one, let me explain that I feel there was something more going on than a few missed brushings. I was suspicious as too how my family and myself could all have bad teeth if we brushed them regularly. For myself I knew antibiotics were an issue; I had also taken phenobarbital for years as a child for a seizure disorder. None of these are good news for anyone’s teeth.

What causes good teeth? We all know that we have to have plenty of calcium, good brushing and less sweets.

This is not a hard principal to follow, brush, eat healthy, and you have good teeth. Right? Wrong! At least for me. So what did I do wrong? I decided to check out one of my life’s greatest influences, Fibromyalgia.

Now there is no literature directly involving Fibromyalgia and dental complications so I figured out of all the women I have talked to our club would be a good pool for information.

What I found was that many members had major dental problems. Not all mind you, but many. Nutritionally we must all consider that good teeth demand good calcium intake. In addition to finding that many of us have bad teeth I am aware that many of us have calcium deposits in some unusual places, these can include many of the major organs like, heart, lungs, kidneys, and places such as the bladder.

In conjunction, bladder and kidney stones are not unusual either. My mother actually suffers from the fact that they found her calcium pouring out in her urine.

This has caused her to have severe osteoporosis and she does have a calcium deposit on her lung.

Sure there are many causes for calcium deposits but, could it be that the simple fact our bodies cells are not moving nutrients correctly through the body be the cause of all these long-term calcium deficiency symptoms?

Every day I wonder, have our doctors become overwhelmed by the pain symptoms? Are they missing these other symptoms because the primary focus is currently on pain? I think so. (Or we are just in generally a sickly group.) Either way, all our ailments need to be addressed, overall not as a single primary symptom. We must attempt to relieve everything we can so we are more comfortable while the experts figure out what is wrong. We are not curing our Fibromyalgia, at least not yet, but we can, and many of us are, regaining parts and pieces of our lives. Once you begin salvaging parts of your life you can then build a new life with interests, activities and loved ones all included. All at just at a slightly slower pace.

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