Post-Polio Syndrome

Posted on: Thu, Aug 28 2008 2:12 PM

Posted by: gallowaygal Posts: 8

Becky,

My doctor is no help either. I also take high blood pressure medicine. The L-Carnitine seems to help with blood pressure. L-Carnitine is stored in the muscle, your heart is a muscle. If we don't have enough L-Carnitine to begin with, why would adding it to our system hurt us. Once, when I was purchasing L-Carnitine from my local GNC Store, the clerk asked me if it was working. I said, "As a polio survivor, I didn't have enough, so I had to purchase it, and take it, to get enough." I asked him, what the product was for, if they didn't have my problems. He said, that, when working out, and individual looses L-Carnitine, and also, some take it to loose weight, which I haven't found to be the case for me.

My daughter has taken in a foster child, which is very active, and my daughter was feeling very "foggy brained", from being over tired. Since, I was older when I had her, I thought maybe I gave her even less L-Carnitine than my older children, when she was conceived. I told her, maybe she should take L-Carnitine (since I didn't give her enough) to help with her energy level, and she became more clear headed - the brain being a muscle, also.

I have had blood work before taking L-Carnitine and after L-Carnitine, and everything is fine. I like to keep my body working as normal as possible.

Good luck,

Holly

Posted on: Thu, Aug 28 2008 2:49 PM

Posted by: rainey826 Posts: 3,990

 thank you for sharing that link i will bookmark it ! i was stricken in 1954 and just started with pps ....... i am reading the polio paradox by dr richard bruno and i asm scared to death of what can happen ! would love to chat with you one on one about this subject !!!!   rainey xo