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My wife, who has rheumatoid arthritis, was convinced by a friend to try sleeping on a mattress pad and pillow filled with magnets. It was supposed to alleviate symptoms. It was also part of a multi-level marketing scheme. But my wife is open to trying lots of different things to treat her condition, so she tried the magnets. The first night she didn't sleep at all and woke up stiff and sore. The second night she got up at 2:00 a.m. and threw up. That was the end of her magnetic stimulation experience. She tore the mattress pad off the bed and told her friend to come and pick it up. Anybody want to guess what the friend said when told of my wife's experience? "That's good! Your body really reacted. That means it's working." Sheesh. Rick >Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 14:21:06 +0200 >From: Gil Lieberman <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Magnetic Stimulation > >Hi, >Our PD support group in Jerusalem had a salesman talk last night about >magnetic stimulation using a German system called the Bemer 3000 that they >sell here in Israel for $2075. > >I have been following your CSR indexes since 3/98 and noticed several >references there to this approach which is unfamiliar to me. >What do you know about this approach?The salesman emphasized that this is a >mainstream medical approach >and not to be classified as untested alternative medicine. >He cited a paper by R.Sandyk of the NeuroCommunication Research >Labs.,Danbury,CT 06811 entitled "Treatment of Parkinson's Disease with >magnetic fields reduces the requirement for antiparkinsonian medications," >Int. J Neurosci,74(1-4): 191-201 Jan-Feb 1994.There,the use of extracranial >treatment with extremely weak magnetic fields showed significant improvement >in motor performance including levodopa-induced motor complications.This >therapy is suggested as a substitute for drug therapy.Nonmotor improvements >noticed included mood,cognitive functions,sleep,pain,appetite,autonomic >functions and sexual functions. results are cited for a 69 year old PWP. >However results were not available for a large sample of PWPs. >Sounds too good to be true. >Warm regards. >Gil Lieberman,CG for Aliza,dx PD 2/95,dx MSA 10/97