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False Claims of Doctor Who 'Can Reverse' Alzheimer's Disease
dailymail.co.uk — A doctor who claimed to be able to reverse the effects of Alzheimer's with an arthritis drug was disciplined last year by US health chiefs for claiming the same drug could halt back pain. He was found guilty of unprofessional conduct and placed on probation for a year. He was banned from practising for 60 days.
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- dougvfr750, on 04/27/2008, -0/+37I was hoping this would actually work. We need to find something.... this is a very sad disease
- cutekelvins, on 04/27/2008, -1/+3I posted the following comment when the story on the treatment of this disease was posted earlier and I was buried badly.
I dont know either it will work or not but it can take the life of your spine.
FTA:
The treatment involves injecting a drug called Enbrel - which is normally used to treat arthritis - into the spine at the neck.
These injections are helpful when a person is suffering from disc-slip. Continuous injections will make the disc liquid to leak and finally the disc would be damaged permanently. There are some *(**tard doctors who make such claims. The pain that you get after the disc is damaged is *(**in' intense. What would you do even if you recover. If you dont believe me then search for spinal disc degeneration on google.
Instead, to keep the brain nerves active do some regular Yoga. It's much better and harmless.- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0It does work, and my mom is proof! I believe that this newspaper in the UK is the equivalent of our National Enquirer in the US. A bunch of crap. But this time, they took something real and turned it the other way...they are wrong. Dr. T was NEVER banned from practice or found guilty of any wrong doing. He is a volunteer instructor at UCLA, and that's all he ever said he was. His back pain injections do work, I saw a man who got the treatment and he was feeling great. This is a huge breakthrough that opposing drug makers don't want us to know about, well too bad. My Mom is more important than their wallets! Please see the youtube videos: http://youtube.com/user/famc17 http://youtube.com/user/tumates http://youtube.com/user/armoandleo11 I don't know how this Digg website works, so please pass this on if you wish to.
- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0Please see this blog: http://alzheimers.infopop.cc/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=38 ... This is a comment from someone who was actually there for the interview. I don't know how this digg website works, but people need to know this is real hope, please pass it on. See my mom's youtube video at: http://youtube.com/user/famc17, and others: http://youtube.com/user/tumates and http://youtube.com/user/armoandleo11 The opposing drug companies don't want us to know about this, and they have been putting up walls for Dr. Tobinick for many years. The treatment is real, and the word is finally getting out slowly but surely. ------------------------
When I read the contents of this daily article, I actually wanted to throw up. I was there that day and was interviewed alone and then with my mother. They shot many pictures of us. I told them how the shots had given me my mother back. I also told them that her physician was talking about getting outside help ready because she was going down quickly,before the shots. We don't talk about that now because she has improved to such a point, we don't need any help, she can pretty much care for herself. She is going out and socializing again, remembering names she was having trouble remembering, and is wanting to start traveling again because she isn't scared to death she might get lost or separated from my father or me. She had lost all of her joy. My mother is fun again. Now she has HOPE. She had not forgotten anyone, but if she hadn't seen someone in a long time, she was having trouble remembering their names. Now she can rattle off every name in her graduating class. Before the shots she could count back by 7's until she got to about 86. Now she has memorized them and can go all the way back every time! She loves crossword puzzles and was starting not to get very far. Now she has started to get more and more words and many times finishes them again. On the test she couldn't make a cube. She couldn't even come close. After a shot, when we got back to our hotel room, I asked her if she wanted to try and make a cube. I showed her one time. She tried twice and they looked sort of funny, but on the third try she looked like a pro drawing them. So, not only can she remember things she knew, she now memorizes things and can again retain the memory. I talked to Leo that same day as the interview. I didn't know his name until I saw his youtube video. I can't believe they would use his picture this way. He should call them and demand they let him tell his story or he should sue. I could not tell the man I was talking to in the office had Alzheimer's. Both him and his wife seemed so completely normal, I didn't know which of them was getting the shot. He has come a long way since that video and then to deceive him and use his picture like that is an inhuman betrayal. My mother told them that she would let them use her name, and photo, because if she could help one person she wanted to do that, because Dr. Tobinick had helped her so much. Where was that in this false claim story? Are they saying my mother is a liar? Or me? Or Leo? They might as well as just said there were a bunch of false claimers there that day. There was another couple, I am not sure who they were, but at first they did not want their photo taken, but said that they could talk to them. Later the nurse knocked on the door and said that they had decided that the "reporter and photographer" could use their names and take their picture. They probably had decided the same thing as my mother. These men deceived us. How dare they use one of the photos taken of people, who all don't claim their symptoms have been reversed, they know know their symptoms have been reversed. If they wanted to use the other stuff in that article that was their perogative, but to interview four families and not print anything we said is incomprehensible to me. I didn't hear the others interviewed, but my mother was able to answer every question the jerk asked her. We would have never talked to them, if we had known that they were not going to tell our side of the story. And, I am sure Leo never would have posed for that picture. He is so very articulate and it just infuriates me that they would use his picture in this article when he just seems amazing. Anyone who looks at his youtube video and talks to him today would not be able to say Dr. Tobinick's claims were false. They betrayed us. They told us they were doing an article on how the shots were helping people and wanted to talk to patients who had had results. Then they write this article and don't talk about any of the patients and then use the photograph of person who is better in an article entitled false claims. How is this a fair article? How can you name it false claims, when you are sitting their talking to the people who know the best whether it has reversed any of their symptoms or not? And, finally how in the world can you use a photo for one purpose, when you were told the person it was for the exact opposite. These people weren't looking for the truth they were looking to discredit Dr. Tobinick. The truth is I have my mom back, thanks to Dr. Edward Tobinick. I was very sick one day and he could tell and he checked me over and helped me. I love the man and so does my mother. He is kind and gentle and answers all my calls if I have any questions, within a very short time. Most of the time if he is available he talks to me right then. How many of people can say that about their own family doctor? My mother's doctor here thinks my mother is doing amazingly better too, by the way. And her insurance, approved her medication after talking with staff, and they sent her a 3 month supply. Medicare won't do it, but some private insurances will. The only people that can know the truth about whether this is working or not are the patients and their families. Yes we all want to see a difference. But after awhile you can tell whether the difference is real or one you just wanted to see. Especially, when they are almost like their old self! And Bob, even though you chose not to go to Dr. Tobinick, you have to at least acknowledge that if it wasn't for Dr. Tobinick starting this all, you probably would have never heard Linda's beautiful voice again. Your youtube video is amazing. I am so happy that you have that result. It may not be as much as you would have liked, but I bet you wouldn't trade it for the world. One other thing I would like to address on here is how some people, to show their disdain for Dr. Tobinick, call him the dermatologist. Well the dermatologist also has a specialty in internal medicine. Now tell me what do you think about a Doctor that goes through medical school and becomes board certified in two different specialties? I think he must be brilliant. I am a college graduate. And, I have a 60 hour Masters degree. I would never take my mother somewhere without doing all kinds of research. I knew all of these claims about Dr. Tobinick and I read testimonies from patients. After much research on the drug,the doctor, and talking to my mom's doctor, I decided that it was worth a try. It was the best decision I ever made. That is the truth! This disease is to horrible for the truth not to be in every article written or every post posted. For that newspaper not to even admit that he had interviewed families in his article that claimed symptom reversal was true, was pathetic and unethical. Why couldn't they print all sides of the story and then let the readers decide what was true? Instead they chose to betray us and the public, who should have had a right to hear the patients stories. And most of all they lost all creditability, when they used Leo's photo in the manner they did.
- RomMaster, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1i know man, it took my best friends grandpa, it just isn't fair.
- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0Please see this blog: http://alzheimers.infopop.cc/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=38 ... This is a comment from someone who was actually there for the interview. I don't know how this digg website works, but people need to know this is real hope, please pass it on. See my mom's youtube video at: http://youtube.com/user/famc17, and others: http://youtube.com/user/tumates and http://youtube.com/user/armoandleo11 The opposing drug companies don't want us to know about this, and they have been putting up walls for Dr. Tobinick for many years. The treatment is real, and the word is finally getting out slowly but surely. ------------------------
When I read the contents of this daily article, I actually wanted to throw up. I was there that day and was interviewed alone and then with my mother. They shot many pictures of us. I told them how the shots had given me my mother back. I also told them that her physician was talking about getting outside help ready because she was going down quickly,before the shots. We don't talk about that now because she has improved to such a point, we don't need any help, she can pretty much care for herself. She is going out and socializing again, remembering names she was having trouble remembering, and is wanting to start traveling again because she isn't scared to death she might get lost or separated from my father or me. She had lost all of her joy. My mother is fun again. Now she has HOPE. She had not forgotten anyone, but if she hadn't seen someone in a long time, she was having trouble remembering their names. Now she can rattle off every name in her graduating class. Before the shots she could count back by 7's until she got to about 86. Now she has memorized them and can go all the way back every time! She loves crossword puzzles and was starting not to get very far. Now she has started to get more and more words and many times finishes them again. On the test she couldn't make a cube. She couldn't even come close. After a shot, when we got back to our hotel room, I asked her if she wanted to try and make a cube. I showed her one time. She tried twice and they looked sort of funny, but on the third try she looked like a pro drawing them. So, not only can she remember things she knew, she now memorizes things and can again retain the memory. I talked to Leo that same day as the interview. I didn't know his name until I saw his youtube video. I can't believe they would use his picture this way. He should call them and demand they let him tell his story or he should sue. I could not tell the man I was talking to in the office had Alzheimer's. Both him and his wife seemed so completely normal, I didn't know which of them was getting the shot. He has come a long way since that video and then to deceive him and use his picture like that is an inhuman betrayal. My mother told them that she would let them use her name, and photo, because if she could help one person she wanted to do that, because Dr. Tobinick had helped her so much. Where was that in this false claim story? Are they saying my mother is a liar? Or me? Or Leo? They might as well as just said there were a bunch of false claimers there that day. There was another couple, I am not sure who they were, but at first they did not want their photo taken, but said that they could talk to them. Later the nurse knocked on the door and said that they had decided that the "reporter and photographer" could use their names and take their picture. They probably had decided the same thing as my mother. These men deceived us. How dare they use one of the photos taken of people, who all don't claim their symptoms have been reversed, they know know their symptoms have been reversed. If they wanted to use the other stuff in that article that was their perogative, but to interview four families and not print anything we said is incomprehensible to me. I didn't hear the others interviewed, but my mother was able to answer every question the jerk asked her. We would have never talked to them, if we had known that they were not going to tell our side of the story. And, I am sure Leo never would have posed for that picture. He is so very articulate and it just infuriates me that they would use his picture in this article when he just seems amazing. Anyone who looks at his youtube video and talks to him today would not be able to say Dr. Tobinick's claims were false. They betrayed us. They told us they were doing an article on how the shots were helping people and wanted to talk to patients who had had results. Then they write this article and don't talk about any of the patients and then use the photograph of person who is better in an article entitled false claims. How is this a fair article? How can you name it false claims, when you are sitting their talking to the people who know the best whether it has reversed any of their symptoms or not? And, finally how in the world can you use a photo for one purpose, when you were told the person it was for the exact opposite. These people weren't looking for the truth they were looking to discredit Dr. Tobinick. The truth is I have my mom back, thanks to Dr. Edward Tobinick. I was very sick one day and he could tell and he checked me over and helped me. I love the man and so does my mother. He is kind and gentle and answers all my calls if I have any questions, within a very short time. Most of the time if he is available he talks to me right then. How many of people can say that about their own family doctor? My mother's doctor here thinks my mother is doing amazingly better too, by the way. And her insurance, approved her medication after talking with staff, and they sent her a 3 month supply. Medicare won't do it, but some private insurances will. The only people that can know the truth about whether this is working or not are the patients and their families. Yes we all want to see a difference. But after awhile you can tell whether the difference is real or one you just wanted to see. Especially, when they are almost like their old self! And Bob, even though you chose not to go to Dr. Tobinick, you have to at least acknowledge that if it wasn't for Dr. Tobinick starting this all, you probably would have never heard Linda's beautiful voice again. Your youtube video is amazing. I am so happy that you have that result. It may not be as much as you would have liked, but I bet you wouldn't trade it for the world. One other thing I would like to address on here is how some people, to show their disdain for Dr. Tobinick, call him the dermatologist. Well the dermatologist also has a specialty in internal medicine. Now tell me what do you think about a Doctor that goes through medical school and becomes board certified in two different specialties? I think he must be brilliant. I am a college graduate. And, I have a 60 hour Masters degree. I would never take my mother somewhere without doing all kinds of research. I knew all of these claims about Dr. Tobinick and I read testimonies from patients. After much research on the drug,the doctor, and talking to my mom's doctor, I decided that it was worth a try. It was the best decision I ever made. That is the truth! This disease is to horrible for the truth not to be in every article written or every post posted. For that newspaper not to even admit that he had interviewed families in his article that claimed symptom reversal was true, was pathetic and unethical. Why couldn't they print all sides of the story and then let the readers decide what was true? Instead they chose to betray us and the public, who should have had a right to hear the patients stories. And most of all they lost all creditability, when they used Leo's photo in the manner they did.
- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0Please see this blog: http://alzheimers.infopop.cc/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=38 ... This is a comment from someone who was actually there for the interview. I don't know how this digg website works, but people need to know this is real hope, please pass it on. See my mom's youtube video at: http://youtube.com/user/famc17, and others: http://youtube.com/user/tumates and http://youtube.com/user/armoandleo11 The opposing drug companies don't want us to know about this, and they have been putting up walls for Dr. Tobinick for many years. The treatment is real, and the word is finally getting out slowly but surely. ------------------------
- bremstrong, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Keep in mind they didn't actually test the drug to see if it helped, they just thought about it and deemed it "implausible". Guess that proves it . The doctor who came up with it thought his results warranted further study, in his view.
It certainly seems unlikely to work, but I wonder if they are dismissing it prematurely. It wouldn't cost much to do a more careful study.- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0It does work, and my mom is proof! I believe that this newspaper in the UK is the equivalent of our National Enquirer in the US. A bunch of crap. But this time, they took something real and turned it the other way...they are wrong. Dr. T was NEVER banned from practice or found guilty of any wrong doing. He is a volunteer instructor at UCLA, and that's all he ever said he was. His back pain injections do work, I saw a man who got the treatment and he was feeling great. This is a huge breakthrough that opposing drug makers don't want us to know about, well too bad. My Mom is more important than their wallets! Please see the youtube videos: http://youtube.com/user/famc17 http://youtube.com/user/tumates http://youtube.com/user/armoandleo11 I don't know how this Digg website works, so please pass this on if you wish to.
- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0It does work, and my mom is proof! I believe that this newspaper in the UK is the equivalent of our National Enquirer in the US. A bunch of crap. But this time, they took something real and turned it the other way...they are wrong. Dr. T was NEVER banned from practice or found guilty of any wrong doing. He is a volunteer instructor at UCLA, and that's all he ever said he was. His back pain injections do work, I saw a man who got the treatment and he was feeling great. This is a huge breakthrough that opposing drug makers don't want us to know about, well too bad. My Mom is more important than their wallets! Please see the youtube videos: http://youtube.com/user/famc17 http://youtube.com/user/tumates http://youtube.com/user/armoandleo11 I don't know how this Digg website works, so please pass this on if you wish to.
- cutekelvins, on 04/27/2008, -1/+3I posted the following comment when the story on the treatment of this disease was posted earlier and I was buried badly.
- Emnsta, on 04/27/2008, -2/+860 days?! That's a lifetime!!
- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0This is a comment from someone who was actually there for the interview. I don't know how this digg website works, but people need to know this is real hope, please pass it on. See my mom's youtube video at: http://youtube.com/user/famc17, and others: http://youtube.com/user/tumates and
http://youtube.com/user/armoandleo11
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When I read the contents of this daily article, I actually wanted to throw up. I was there that day and was interviewed alone and then with my mother. They shot many pictures of us. I told them how the shots had given me my mother back. I also told them that her physician was talking about getting outside help ready because she was going down quickly,before the shots. We don't talk about that now because she has improved to such a point, we don't need any help, she can pretty much care for herself. She is going out and socializing again, remembering names she was having trouble remembering, and is wanting to start traveling again because she isn't scared to death she might get lost or separated from my father or me. She had lost all of her joy. My mother is fun again. Now she has HOPE.
She had not forgotten anyone, but if she hadn't seen someone in a long time, she was having trouble remembering their names. Now she can rattle off every name in her graduating class. Before the shots she could count back by 7's until she got to about 86. Now she has memorized them and can go all the way back every time! She loves crossword puzzles and was starting not to get very far. Now she has started to get more and more words and many times finishes them again.
On the test she couldn't make a cube. She couldn't even come close. After a shot, when we got back to our hotel room, I aksed her if she wanted to try and make a cube. I showed her one time. She tried twice and they looked sort of funny, but on the third try she looked like a pro drawing them. So, not only can she remember things she knew, she now memorizes things and can again
retain the memory.
I talked to Leo that same day as the interview. I didn't know his name until I saw his youtube video. I can't believe they would use his picture this way. He should call them and demand they let him tell his story or he should sue. I could not tell the man I was talking to in the office had alzheimer's. Both him and his wife seemed so completely normal, I didn't know which of them was getting the shot. He has come a long way since that video and then to deceive him and use his picture like that is an inhuman betrayal.
My mother told them that she would let them use her name, and photo, because if she could help one person she wanted to do that, because Dr. Tobinick had helped her so much. Where was that in this false claim story? Are they saying my mother is a liar? Or me? Or Leo? They might as well as just said there were a bunch of false claimers there that day.
There was another couple, I am not sure who they were, but at first they did not want their photo taken, but said that they could talk to them. Later the nurse knocked on the door and said that they had decided that the "reporter and photographer" could use their names and take their picture. They probably had decided the same thing as my mother.
These men deceived us. How dare they use one of the photos taken of people, who all don't claim their symptoms have been reversed, they know know their symptoms have been reversed.
If they wanted to use the other stuff in that article that was their perogative, but to interview four families and not print anything we said is incomprehensible to me. I didn't hear the others interviewed, but my mother was able to answer every question the jerk asked her.
We would have never talked to them, if we had known that they were not going to tell our side of the story. And, I am sure Leo never would have posed for that picture. He is so very articulate and it just infuriates me that they would use his picture in this article when he just seems amazing. Anyone who looks at his youtube video and talks to him today would not be able to say Dr. Tobinick's claims were false.
They betrayed us. They told us they were doing an article on how the shots were helping people and wanted to talk to patients who had had results. Then they write this article and don't talk about any of the patients and then use the photograph of person who is better in an article entitled false claims. How is this a fair article? How can you name it false claims, when you are sitting their talking to the people who know the best whether it has reversed any of their symptoms or not? And, finally how in the world can you use a photo for one purpose, when you were told the person it was for the exact opposite.
These people weren't looking for the truth they were looking to discredit Dr. Tobinick. The truth is I have my mom back, thanks to Dr. Edward Tobinick.
I was very sick one day and he could tell and he checked me over and helped me. I love the man and so does my mother. He is kind and gentle and answers all my calls if I have any questions, within a very short time. Most of the time if he is available he talks to me right then. How many of people can say that about their own family doctor?
My mother's doctor here thinks my mother is doing amazingly better too, by the way. And her insurance, approved her medication after talking with staff, and they sent her a 3 month supply. Medicare won't do it, but some private insurances will.
The only people that can know the truth about whether this is working or not are the patients and their families. Yes we all want to see a difference. But after awhile you can tell whether the difference is real or one you just wanted to see. Especially, when they are almost like their old self!
And Bob, even though you chose not to go to Dr. Tobinick, you have to at least acknowledge that if it wasn't for Dr. Tobinick starting this all, you probably would have never heard Linda's beautiful voice again. Your youtube video is amazing. I am so happy that you have that result. It may not be as much as you would have liked, but I bet you wouldn't trade it for the world.
One other thing I would like to address on here is how some people, to show their disdain for Dr. Tobinick, call him the dermatologist. Well the dermatologist also has a specialty in internal medicine. Now tell me what do you think about a Doctor that goes through medical school and becomes board certified in two different specialties? I think he must be brilliant.
I am a college graduate. And, I have a 60 hour Masters degree. I would never take my mother somwhere without doing all kinds of research. I knew all of these claims about Dr. Tobinick and I read testimonies from patients. After much research on the drug,the doctor, and talking to my mom's doctor, I decided that it was worth a try. It was the best decision I ever made. That is the truth!
This disease is to horrible for the truth not to be in every article written or every post posted. For that newspaper not to even admit that he had interviewed families in his article that claimed symptom reversal was true, was pathetic and unethical. Why couldn't they print all sides of the story and then let the readers decide what was true? Instead they chose to betray us and the public, who should have had a right to hear the patients stories. And most of all they lost all creditability, when they used Leo's photo in the manner they did.
- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0This is a comment from someone who was actually there for the interview. I don't know how this digg website works, but people need to know this is real hope, please pass it on. See my mom's youtube video at: http://youtube.com/user/famc17, and others: http://youtube.com/user/tumates and
- devaka, on 04/27/2008, -19/+7traditional medicine is just commerce... we should go closer to nature
- sovereign3, on 04/27/2008, -4/+2Ironically, many of the illnesses commercial medicines seek to cure are caused by commerce as well.
- Motocompo, on 04/27/2008, -1/+6Yes and No to that statement. I believe that traditional medicine needs to focus more on improving natural approaches. Sure we should continue researching and curing cancer and AIDs but why can't we also find a way to make the best bowl of chicken Noodle soup for the flu as well?
- unpolloloco, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3because Cancer causes the side effect of death more often..................
Anyway, the best bowl of chicken noodle soup for the flu is one laced with Tamiflu
- unpolloloco, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3because Cancer causes the side effect of death more often..................
- unpolloloco, on 04/27/2008, -0/+13Like we did in the Dark Ages? Average lifespans of 30 years don't seem very appealing to me..........
- RobotBuddha, on 04/27/2008, -0/+12I've "gone back to nature". I've found that primarily, nature worship occurs in cityfolk who've only actually seen the wild from insular parks and documentaries. Nature wants you dead. It wants you to breed, and then quickly die off so it can eat your rotting corpse. Nature wants you limping around in agony, starving to death, or dying of infections that a simple antibiotic could take care of. ***** nature. Science may make mistakes, but at least there's 'potential' there for compassion on an individual level, and a cherishing of life.
- akkibaba, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2It's true, Mother Nature is a bloodthirsty cadaver junkie.
- notregistering, on 04/27/2008, -0/+164Doctor Who can do anything! Except fix the damn TARDIS camouflaging device.
- Loxias, on 04/27/2008, -1/+23So, if Doctor Who lies to me, then I won't have Alzheimer's?
- delvach, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Not unless Captain Jack then gives you an amnesia pill.
- sap959, on 04/27/2008, -0/+28yeah but if he fixed it... it wouldn't look bad ass... or bigger on the inside :P also its called a 'Chameleon Circuit'
- sap959, on 04/27/2008, -2/+23its called a Chameleon Circuit ... and i love the TARDIS exactly the way it is :)
- banmaster, on 04/27/2008, -0/+11I dunno. I'm not at all taken with the Coral Desktop Theme. I preferred the Edwardian Wood Theme personally.
- Lynxpro, on 04/27/2008, -1/+3The Console Room never looked better than it did in the 1996 TV Movie.
- sap959, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2oh god yeah! loved that!
- Ramble, on 04/27/2008, -0/+21It's been noted he didn't want to fix it.
- bobbob1016, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2I thought he did manage to fix it at one point, but left the TARDIS the way it was, since it was already well known, or something.
- OneLess, on 04/27/2008, -0/+12I totally read the title as a Dr. Who reference too lol
- Loxias, on 04/27/2008, -1/+23So, if Doctor Who lies to me, then I won't have Alzheimer's?
- dynelol, on 04/27/2008, -10/+2I'm getting tired of these ugly Busted Tees girls. Didn't Snorg Tees used to be what we saw? Those girls looked better.
- RomMaster, on 04/27/2008, -2/+1wtf does that have to do with Alzheimer's
- dynelol, on 04/27/2008, -1/+3Everything.
- elizabethb221, on 04/27/2008, -1/+4He obviously forgot what he was supposed to comment about.
- RomMaster, on 04/27/2008, -2/+1wtf does that have to do with Alzheimer's
- Novamaster0, on 04/27/2008, -0/+128Cookie for anyone who thought this was a Doctor Who reference.
- synergye, on 04/27/2008, -1/+5Thank you
- Novamaster0, on 04/27/2008, -1/+3You're welcome
- MrCrispyChicken, on 04/27/2008, -0/+6yummy
- PabloIV, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3Yeah, and we're all supposed to believe that the capitalized W was just a typo.
- ricree, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Not a typo, just consistent with the capitalization in the rest of the title.
- moronicbajebus, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3I had to read it twice myself to realize it wasn't Doctor Who.
- synergye, on 04/27/2008, -1/+5Thank you
- bjornski, on 04/27/2008, -1/+72Dr Who made false claims? And he can "reverse Alzheimer's" with them?
I wish I was a timelord.- TheHappyRobot, on 04/27/2008, -1/+5*Doctor* Who.
- floorman56, on 04/27/2008, -4/+1I wish I was a timelord.
Then you would be dead because all the timelords are dead but for the Dr- theviceroy, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4dugg down for forgetting about the Master.
- clyde2801, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Not to mention possibly the Rani.
- theviceroy, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4dugg down for forgetting about the Master.
- o0Taggart0o, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Sad news for all... Let's hope the day the real cure comes soon.
- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0This is a comment from someone who was actually there for the interview. I don't know how this digg website works, but people need to know this is real hope, please pass it on. See my mom's youtube video at: http://youtube.com/user/famc17, and others: http://youtube.com/user/tumates and
http://youtube.com/user/armoandleo11
------------------------
When I read the contents of this daily article, I actually wanted to throw up. I was there that day and was interviewed alone and then with my mother. They shot many pictures of us. I told them how the shots had given me my mother back. I also told them that her physician was talking about getting outside help ready because she was going down quickly,before the shots. We don't talk about that now because she has improved to such a point, we don't need any help, she can pretty much care for herself. She is going out and socializing again, remembering names she was having trouble remembering, and is wanting to start traveling again because she isn't scared to death she might get lost or separated from my father or me. She had lost all of her joy. My mother is fun again. Now she has HOPE.
She had not forgotten anyone, but if she hadn't seen someone in a long time, she was having trouble remembering their names. Now she can rattle off every name in her graduating class. Before the shots she could count back by 7's until she got to about 86. Now she has memorized them and can go all the way back every time! She loves crossword puzzles and was starting not to get very far. Now she has started to get more and more words and many times finishes them again.
On the test she couldn't make a cube. She couldn't even come close. After a shot, when we got back to our hotel room, I aksed her if she wanted to try and make a cube. I showed her one time. She tried twice and they looked sort of funny, but on the third try she looked like a pro drawing them. So, not only can she remember things she knew, she now memorizes things and can again
retain the memory.
I talked to Leo that same day as the interview. I didn't know his name until I saw his youtube video. I can't believe they would use his picture this way. He should call them and demand they let him tell his story or he should sue. I could not tell the man I was talking to in the office had alzheimer's. Both him and his wife seemed so completely normal, I didn't know which of them was getting the shot. He has come a long way since that video and then to deceive him and use his picture like that is an inhuman betrayal.
My mother told them that she would let them use her name, and photo, because if she could help one person she wanted to do that, because Dr. Tobinick had helped her so much. Where was that in this false claim story? Are they saying my mother is a liar? Or me? Or Leo? They might as well as just said there were a bunch of false claimers there that day.
There was another couple, I am not sure who they were, but at first they did not want their photo taken, but said that they could talk to them. Later the nurse knocked on the door and said that they had decided that the "reporter and photographer" could use their names and take their picture. They probably had decided the same thing as my mother.
These men deceived us. How dare they use one of the photos taken of people, who all don't claim their symptoms have been reversed, they know know their symptoms have been reversed.
If they wanted to use the other stuff in that article that was their perogative, but to interview four families and not print anything we said is incomprehensible to me. I didn't hear the others interviewed, but my mother was able to answer every question the jerk asked her.
We would have never talked to them, if we had known that they were not going to tell our side of the story. And, I am sure Leo never would have posed for that picture. He is so very articulate and it just infuriates me that they would use his picture in this article when he just seems amazing. Anyone who looks at his youtube video and talks to him today would not be able to say Dr. Tobinick's claims were false.
They betrayed us. They told us they were doing an article on how the shots were helping people and wanted to talk to patients who had had results. Then they write this article and don't talk about any of the patients and then use the photograph of person who is better in an article entitled false claims. How is this a fair article? How can you name it false claims, when you are sitting their talking to the people who know the best whether it has reversed any of their symptoms or not? And, finally how in the world can you use a photo for one purpose, when you were told the person it was for the exact opposite.
These people weren't looking for the truth they were looking to discredit Dr. Tobinick. The truth is I have my mom back, thanks to Dr. Edward Tobinick.
I was very sick one day and he could tell and he checked me over and helped me. I love the man and so does my mother. He is kind and gentle and answers all my calls if I have any questions, within a very short time. Most of the time if he is available he talks to me right then. How many of people can say that about their own family doctor?
My mother's doctor here thinks my mother is doing amazingly better too, by the way. And her insurance, approved her medication after talking with staff, and they sent her a 3 month supply. Medicare won't do it, but some private insurances will.
The only people that can know the truth about whether this is working or not are the patients and their families. Yes we all want to see a difference. But after awhile you can tell whether the difference is real or one you just wanted to see. Especially, when they are almost like their old self!
And Bob, even though you chose not to go to Dr. Tobinick, you have to at least acknowledge that if it wasn't for Dr. Tobinick starting this all, you probably would have never heard Linda's beautiful voice again. Your youtube video is amazing. I am so happy that you have that result. It may not be as much as you would have liked, but I bet you wouldn't trade it for the world.
One other thing I would like to address on here is how some people, to show their disdain for Dr. Tobinick, call him the dermatologist. Well the dermatologist also has a specialty in internal medicine. Now tell me what do you think about a Doctor that goes through medical school and becomes board certified in two different specialties? I think he must be brilliant.
I am a college graduate. And, I have a 60 hour Masters degree. I would never take my mother somwhere without doing all kinds of research. I knew all of these claims about Dr. Tobinick and I read testimonies from patients. After much research on the drug,the doctor, and talking to my mom's doctor, I decided that it was worth a try. It was the best decision I ever made. That is the truth!
This disease is to horrible for the truth not to be in every article written or every post posted. For that newspaper not to even admit that he had interviewed families in his article that claimed symptom reversal was true, was pathetic and unethical. Why couldn't they print all sides of the story and then let the readers decide what was true? Instead they chose to betray us and the public, who should have had a right to hear the patients stories. And most of all they lost all creditability, when they used Leo's photo in the manner they did.
- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0This is a comment from someone who was actually there for the interview. I don't know how this digg website works, but people need to know this is real hope, please pass it on. See my mom's youtube video at: http://youtube.com/user/famc17, and others: http://youtube.com/user/tumates and
- chrissku, on 04/27/2008, -16/+2Here are a few more of his false claims.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KANI2dpXLw- Asdfglpwglion, on 04/27/2008, -1/+3Heh. Muppets Rickroll. Dugg for muppets, which were enough to make me watch this all the way through.
- mmcwhorter, on 04/27/2008, -0/+38Does he use his sonic-screwdriver in this procedure, because it can do just about anything?
- TheHappyRobot, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3it can make several tiles fall over.
See episode 3 of the new series. - Whip, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2It doesn't work because the disease is dead lock sealed.
- kotn2012, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1Or Time Locked?
- TheHappyRobot, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3it can make several tiles fall over.
- Alreadyinuse99, on 04/27/2008, -1/+37EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE
- tylerni7, on 04/27/2008, -1/+87Buried for Inaccurate, this has nothing to do with Doctor Who.
- Musicmonkey34, on 04/27/2008, -1/+8what a jerk. I got excited that this could help someone in my family. false hope sucks.
- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0This is a comment from someone who was actually there for the interview. I don't know how this digg website works, but people need to know this is real hope, please pass it on. See my mom's youtube video at: http://youtube.com/user/famc17, and others: http://youtube.com/user/tumates and
http://youtube.com/user/armoandleo11
------------------------
When I read the contents of this daily article, I actually wanted to throw up. I was there that day and was interviewed alone and then with my mother. They shot many pictures of us. I told them how the shots had given me my mother back. I also told them that her physician was talking about getting outside help ready because she was going down quickly,before the shots. We don't talk about that now because she has improved to such a point, we don't need any help, she can pretty much care for herself. She is going out and socializing again, remembering names she was having trouble remembering, and is wanting to start traveling again because she isn't scared to death she might get lost or separated from my father or me. She had lost all of her joy. My mother is fun again. Now she has HOPE.
She had not forgotten anyone, but if she hadn't seen someone in a long time, she was having trouble remembering their names. Now she can rattle off every name in her graduating class. Before the shots she could count back by 7's until she got to about 86. Now she has memorized them and can go all the way back every time! She loves crossword puzzles and was starting not to get very far. Now she has started to get more and more words and many times finishes them again.
On the test she couldn't make a cube. She couldn't even come close. After a shot, when we got back to our hotel room, I aksed her if she wanted to try and make a cube. I showed her one time. She tried twice and they looked sort of funny, but on the third try she looked like a pro drawing them. So, not only can she remember things she knew, she now memorizes things and can again
retain the memory.
I talked to Leo that same day as the interview. I didn't know his name until I saw his youtube video. I can't believe they would use his picture this way. He should call them and demand they let him tell his story or he should sue. I could not tell the man I was talking to in the office had alzheimer's. Both him and his wife seemed so completely normal, I didn't know which of them was getting the shot. He has come a long way since that video and then to deceive him and use his picture like that is an inhuman betrayal.
My mother told them that she would let them use her name, and photo, because if she could help one person she wanted to do that, because Dr. Tobinick had helped her so much. Where was that in this false claim story? Are they saying my mother is a liar? Or me? Or Leo? They might as well as just said there were a bunch of false claimers there that day.
There was another couple, I am not sure who they were, but at first they did not want their photo taken, but said that they could talk to them. Later the nurse knocked on the door and said that they had decided that the "reporter and photographer" could use their names and take their picture. They probably had decided the same thing as my mother.
These men deceived us. How dare they use one of the photos taken of people, who all don't claim their symptoms have been reversed, they know know their symptoms have been reversed.
If they wanted to use the other stuff in that article that was their perogative, but to interview four families and not print anything we said is incomprehensible to me. I didn't hear the others interviewed, but my mother was able to answer every question the jerk asked her.
We would have never talked to them, if we had known that they were not going to tell our side of the story. And, I am sure Leo never would have posed for that picture. He is so very articulate and it just infuriates me that they would use his picture in this article when he just seems amazing. Anyone who looks at his youtube video and talks to him today would not be able to say Dr. Tobinick's claims were false.
They betrayed us. They told us they were doing an article on how the shots were helping people and wanted to talk to patients who had had results. Then they write this article and don't talk about any of the patients and then use the photograph of person who is better in an article entitled false claims. How is this a fair article? How can you name it false claims, when you are sitting their talking to the people who know the best whether it has reversed any of their symptoms or not? And, finally how in the world can you use a photo for one purpose, when you were told the person it was for the exact opposite.
These people weren't looking for the truth they were looking to discredit Dr. Tobinick. The truth is I have my mom back, thanks to Dr. Edward Tobinick.
I was very sick one day and he could tell and he checked me over and helped me. I love the man and so does my mother. He is kind and gentle and answers all my calls if I have any questions, within a very short time. Most of the time if he is available he talks to me right then. How many of people can say that about their own family doctor?
My mother's doctor here thinks my mother is doing amazingly better too, by the way. And her insurance, approved her medication after talking with staff, and they sent her a 3 month supply. Medicare won't do it, but some private insurances will.
The only people that can know the truth about whether this is working or not are the patients and their families. Yes we all want to see a difference. But after awhile you can tell whether the difference is real or one you just wanted to see. Especially, when they are almost like their old self!
And Bob, even though you chose not to go to Dr. Tobinick, you have to at least acknowledge that if it wasn't for Dr. Tobinick starting this all, you probably would have never heard Linda's beautiful voice again. Your youtube video is amazing. I am so happy that you have that result. It may not be as much as you would have liked, but I bet you wouldn't trade it for the world.
One other thing I would like to address on here is how some people, to show their disdain for Dr. Tobinick, call him the dermatologist. Well the dermatologist also has a specialty in internal medicine. Now tell me what do you think about a Doctor that goes through medical school and becomes board certified in two different specialties? I think he must be brilliant.
I am a college graduate. And, I have a 60 hour Masters degree. I would never take my mother somwhere without doing all kinds of research. I knew all of these claims about Dr. Tobinick and I read testimonies from patients. After much research on the drug,the doctor, and talking to my mom's doctor, I decided that it was worth a try. It was the best decision I ever made. That is the truth!
This disease is to horrible for the truth not to be in every article written or every post posted. For that newspaper not to even admit that he had interviewed families in his article that claimed symptom reversal was true, was pathetic and unethical. Why couldn't they print all sides of the story and then let the readers decide what was true? Instead they chose to betray us and the public, who should have had a right to hear the patients stories. And most of all they lost all creditability, when they used Leo's photo in the manner they did.
- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0This is a comment from someone who was actually there for the interview. I don't know how this digg website works, but people need to know this is real hope, please pass it on. See my mom's youtube video at: http://youtube.com/user/famc17, and others: http://youtube.com/user/tumates and
- billllyboobs34, on 04/27/2008, -0/+44Now the Doctor Who theme song will be stuck in my head all day.
- spudnic, on 04/27/2008, -0/+20awoooOOOOooooOOOOOooo!
- sap959, on 04/27/2008, -0/+7woooOOOOOoooooo!
- kotn2012, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1du nu nu nu. du nu nu nu. du nu nu nu.
- EricAnderton, on 04/27/2008, -0/+6Here we go - performed by none other than Orbital:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7RlIZywxNQ (beat drops at about 3:00)
And for grins, the good-'ol KLF with their brilliant rendition of the theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_-rOZfJjY0 - DeFex, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1wow that orbital on sounded like it was going to be cool than the crappy beat loop came in.
KLF wins
- spudnic, on 04/27/2008, -0/+20awoooOOOOooooOOOOOooo!
- alanr19, on 04/27/2008, -2/+34+1 for the Dr. Who mistake.
Buried accordingly.
.- TheHappyRobot, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2*Doctor* Who
- scaaven2, on 04/27/2008, -1/+7consistent capitalization for the win.
- Ramble, on 04/27/2008, -0/+21I'm willing to try anything, as long as it doesn't involve a Dalek.
- sigafoo, on 04/27/2008, -2/+22Buried for me having to re-read this, because you tried to trick us into thinking it was about doctor who...
- koob, on 04/27/2008, -0/+5Wow just the other day I saw a Digg story of a guy who could cure Alzheimers! Wait . . .
- diggum85, on 04/27/2008, -0/+8he was researching Alzheimers, of course he forgot...
- someidiotinnj, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Memento?
- unpolloloco, on 04/27/2008, -0/+8Moral of this story: anyone claiming a new miracle cure to anything - be it cancer or the environment - should be heavily scrutinized. Doesn't mean that it won't work, but people shouldn't get their hopes up until it has been scientifically tested.
- Metasquares, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1OTOH, it should always be scientifically tested and not dismissed out of hand.
- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0This is a comment from someone who was actually there for the interview. I don't know how this digg website works, but people need to know this is real hope, please pass it on. See my mom's youtube video at: http://youtube.com/user/famc17, and others: http://youtube.com/user/tumates and
http://youtube.com/user/armoandleo11
------------------------
When I read the contents of this daily article, I actually wanted to throw up. I was there that day and was interviewed alone and then with my mother. They shot many pictures of us. I told them how the shots had given me my mother back. I also told them that her physician was talking about getting outside help ready because she was going down quickly,before the shots. We don't talk about that now because she has improved to such a point, we don't need any help, she can pretty much care for herself. She is going out and socializing again, remembering names she was having trouble remembering, and is wanting to start traveling again because she isn't scared to death she might get lost or separated from my father or me. She had lost all of her joy. My mother is fun again. Now she has HOPE.
She had not forgotten anyone, but if she hadn't seen someone in a long time, she was having trouble remembering their names. Now she can rattle off every name in her graduating class. Before the shots she could count back by 7's until she got to about 86. Now she has memorized them and can go all the way back every time! She loves crossword puzzles and was starting not to get very far. Now she has started to get more and more words and many times finishes them again.
On the test she couldn't make a cube. She couldn't even come close. After a shot, when we got back to our hotel room, I aksed her if she wanted to try and make a cube. I showed her one time. She tried twice and they looked sort of funny, but on the third try she looked like a pro drawing them. So, not only can she remember things she knew, she now memorizes things and can again
retain the memory.
I talked to Leo that same day as the interview. I didn't know his name until I saw his youtube video. I can't believe they would use his picture this way. He should call them and demand they let him tell his story or he should sue. I could not tell the man I was talking to in the office had alzheimer's. Both him and his wife seemed so completely normal, I didn't know which of them was getting the shot. He has come a long way since that video and then to deceive him and use his picture like that is an inhuman betrayal.
My mother told them that she would let them use her name, and photo, because if she could help one person she wanted to do that, because Dr. Tobinick had helped her so much. Where was that in this false claim story? Are they saying my mother is a liar? Or me? Or Leo? They might as well as just said there were a bunch of false claimers there that day.
There was another couple, I am not sure who they were, but at first they did not want their photo taken, but said that they could talk to them. Later the nurse knocked on the door and said that they had decided that the "reporter and photographer" could use their names and take their picture. They probably had decided the same thing as my mother.
These men deceived us. How dare they use one of the photos taken of people, who all don't claim their symptoms have been reversed, they know know their symptoms have been reversed.
If they wanted to use the other stuff in that article that was their perogative, but to interview four families and not print anything we said is incomprehensible to me. I didn't hear the others interviewed, but my mother was able to answer every question the jerk asked her.
We would have never talked to them, if we had known that they were not going to tell our side of the story. And, I am sure Leo never would have posed for that picture. He is so very articulate and it just infuriates me that they would use his picture in this article when he just seems amazing. Anyone who looks at his youtube video and talks to him today would not be able to say Dr. Tobinick's claims were false.
They betrayed us. They told us they were doing an article on how the shots were helping people and wanted to talk to patients who had had results. Then they write this article and don't talk about any of the patients and then use the photograph of person who is better in an article entitled false claims. How is this a fair article? How can you name it false claims, when you are sitting their talking to the people who know the best whether it has reversed any of their symptoms or not? And, finally how in the world can you use a photo for one purpose, when you were told the person it was for the exact opposite.
These people weren't looking for the truth they were looking to discredit Dr. Tobinick. The truth is I have my mom back, thanks to Dr. Edward Tobinick.
I was very sick one day and he could tell and he checked me over and helped me. I love the man and so does my mother. He is kind and gentle and answers all my calls if I have any questions, within a very short time. Most of the time if he is available he talks to me right then. How many of people can say that about their own family doctor?
My mother's doctor here thinks my mother is doing amazingly better too, by the way. And her insurance, approved her medication after talking with staff, and they sent her a 3 month supply. Medicare won't do it, but some private insurances will.
The only people that can know the truth about whether this is working or not are the patients and their families. Yes we all want to see a difference. But after awhile you can tell whether the difference is real or one you just wanted to see. Especially, when they are almost like their old self!
And Bob, even though you chose not to go to Dr. Tobinick, you have to at least acknowledge that if it wasn't for Dr. Tobinick starting this all, you probably would have never heard Linda's beautiful voice again. Your youtube video is amazing. I am so happy that you have that result. It may not be as much as you would have liked, but I bet you wouldn't trade it for the world.
One other thing I would like to address on here is how some people, to show their disdain for Dr. Tobinick, call him the dermatologist. Well the dermatologist also has a specialty in internal medicine. Now tell me what do you think about a Doctor that goes through medical school and becomes board certified in two different specialties? I think he must be brilliant.
I am a college graduate. And, I have a 60 hour Masters degree. I would never take my mother somwhere without doing all kinds of research. I knew all of these claims about Dr. Tobinick and I read testimonies from patients. After much research on the drug,the doctor, and talking to my mom's doctor, I decided that it was worth a try. It was the best decision I ever made. That is the truth!
This disease is to horrible for the truth not to be in every article written or every post posted. For that newspaper not to even admit that he had interviewed families in his article that claimed symptom reversal was true, was pathetic and unethical. Why couldn't they print all sides of the story and then let the readers decide what was true? Instead they chose to betray us and the public, who should have had a right to hear the patients stories. And most of all they lost all creditability, when they used Leo's photo in the manner they did.
- jeweledmagic, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3I don't understand what he would gain by lying, shame on him for giving false hope. This is a merciless disease that affects both the patient, family and caregivers.
- JulyZerg, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2He gains money - just like faith healers. He'd most likely say something like... "We have an experimental drug that can cure your Alzheimer's. However, it's going to cost you twenty grand."
- ricree, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2From the article:
"He also has a financial interest in the success of the drug because he owns shares in its manufacturer, Amgen."- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0Wrong! Amgen is not backing this because they have a new drug they want to promote. Amgen's patent on Enbrel runs out in four years, which is how long a clinical trial will take. They will not make any money on it when it becomes generic. Dr. T bought the stock when he saw it work, not the other way around.
Please see this blog: http://alzheimers.infopop.cc/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=38 ... This is a comment from someone who was actually there for the interview. I don't know how this digg website works, but people need to know this is real hope, please pass it on. See my mom's youtube video at: http://youtube.com/user/famc17, and others: http://youtube.com/user/tumates and http://youtube.com/user/armoandleo11 The opposing drug companies don't want us to know about this, and they have been putting up walls for Dr. Tobinick for many years. The treatment is real, and the word is finally getting out slowly but surely. ------------------------
When I read the contents of this daily article, I actually wanted to throw up. I was there that day and was interviewed alone and then with my mother. They shot many pictures of us. I told them how the shots had given me my mother back. I also told them that her physician was talking about getting outside help ready because she was going down quickly,before the shots. We don't talk about that now because she has improved to such a point, we don't need any help, she can pretty much care for herself. She is going out and socializing again, remembering names she was having trouble remembering, and is wanting to start traveling again because she isn't scared to death she might get lost or separated from my father or me. She had lost all of her joy. My mother is fun again. Now she has HOPE. She had not forgotten anyone, but if she hadn't seen someone in a long time, she was having trouble remembering their names. Now she can rattle off every name in her graduating class. Before the shots she could count back by 7's until she got to about 86. Now she has memorized them and can go all the way back every time! She loves crossword puzzles and was starting not to get very far. Now she has started to get more and more words and many times finishes them again. On the test she couldn't make a cube. She couldn't even come close. After a shot, when we got back to our hotel room, I asked her if she wanted to try and make a cube. I showed her one time. She tried twice and they looked sort of funny, but on the third try she looked like a pro drawing them. So, not only can she remember things she knew, she now memorizes things and can again retain the memory. I talked to Leo that same day as the interview. I didn't know his name until I saw his youtube video. I can't believe they would use his picture this way. He should call them and demand they let him tell his story or he should sue. I could not tell the man I was talking to in the office had Alzheimer's. Both him and his wife seemed so completely normal, I didn't know which of them was getting the shot. He has come a long way since that video and then to deceive him and use his picture like that is an inhuman betrayal. My mother told them that she would let them use her name, and photo, because if she could help one person she wanted to do that, because Dr. Tobinick had helped her so much. Where was that in this false claim story? Are they saying my mother is a liar? Or me? Or Leo? They might as well as just said there were a bunch of false claimers there that day. There was another couple, I am not sure who they were, but at first they did not want their photo taken, but said that they could talk to them. Later the nurse knocked on the door and said that they had decided that the "reporter and photographer" could use their names and take their picture. They probably had decided the same thing as my mother. These men deceived us. How dare they use one of the photos taken of people, who all don't claim their symptoms have been reversed, they know know their symptoms have been reversed. If they wanted to use the other stuff in that article that was their perogative, but to interview four families and not print anything we said is incomprehensible to me. I didn't hear the others interviewed, but my mother was able to answer every question the jerk asked her. We would have never talked to them, if we had known that they were not going to tell our side of the story. And, I am sure Leo never would have posed for that picture. He is so very articulate and it just infuriates me that they would use his picture in this article when he just seems amazing. Anyone who looks at his youtube video and talks to him today would not be able to say Dr. Tobinick's claims were false. They betrayed us. They told us they were doing an article on how the shots were helping people and wanted to talk to patients who had had results. Then they write this article and don't talk about any of the patients and then use the photograph of person who is better in an article entitled false claims. How is this a fair article? How can you name it false claims, when you are sitting their talking to the people who know the best whether it has reversed any of their symptoms or not? And, finally how in the world can you use a photo for one purpose, when you were told the person it was for the exact opposite. These people weren't looking for the truth they were looking to discredit Dr. Tobinick. The truth is I have my mom back, thanks to Dr. Edward Tobinick. I was very sick one day and he could tell and he checked me over and helped me. I love the man and so does my mother. He is kind and gentle and answers all my calls if I have any questions, within a very short time. Most of the time if he is available he talks to me right then. How many of people can say that about their own family doctor? My mother's doctor here thinks my mother is doing amazingly better too, by the way. And her insurance, approved her medication after talking with staff, and they sent her a 3 month supply. Medicare won't do it, but some private insurances will. The only people that can know the truth about whether this is working or not are the patients and their families. Yes we all want to see a difference. But after awhile you can tell whether the difference is real or one you just wanted to see. Especially, when they are almost like their old self! And Bob, even though you chose not to go to Dr. Tobinick, you have to at least acknowledge that if it wasn't for Dr. Tobinick starting this all, you probably would have never heard Linda's beautiful voice again. Your youtube video is amazing. I am so happy that you have that result. It may not be as much as you would have liked, but I bet you wouldn't trade it for the world. One other thing I would like to address on here is how some people, to show their disdain for Dr. Tobinick, call him the dermatologist. Well the dermatologist also has a specialty in internal medicine. Now tell me what do you think about a Doctor that goes through medical school and becomes board certified in two different specialties? I think he must be brilliant. I am a college graduate. And, I have a 60 hour Masters degree. I would never take my mother somewhere without doing all kinds of research. I knew all of these claims about Dr. Tobinick and I read testimonies from patients. After much research on the drug,the doctor, and talking to my mom's doctor, I decided that it was worth a try. It was the best decision I ever made. That is the truth! This disease is to horrible for the truth not to be in every article written or every post posted. For that newspaper not to even admit that he had interviewed families in his article that claimed symptom reversal was true, was pathetic and unethical. Why couldn't they print all sides of the story and then let the readers decide what was true? Instead they chose to betray us and the public, who should have had a right to hear the patients stories. And most of all they lost all creditability, when they used Leo's photo in the manner they did.
- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0Wrong! Amgen is not backing this because they have a new drug they want to promote. Amgen's patent on Enbrel runs out in four years, which is how long a clinical trial will take. They will not make any money on it when it becomes generic. Dr. T bought the stock when he saw it work, not the other way around.
- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0Please see this blog: http://alzheimers.infopop.cc/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=38 ... This is a comment from someone who was actually there for the interview. I don't know how this digg website works, but people need to know this is real hope, please pass it on. See my mom's youtube video at: http://youtube.com/user/famc17, and others: http://youtube.com/user/tumates and http://youtube.com/user/armoandleo11 The opposing drug companies don't want us to know about this, and they have been putting up walls for Dr. Tobinick for many years. The treatment is real, and the word is finally getting out slowly but surely. ------------------------
When I read the contents of this daily article, I actually wanted to throw up. I was there that day and was interviewed alone and then with my mother. They shot many pictures of us. I told them how the shots had given me my mother back. I also told them that her physician was talking about getting outside help ready because she was going down quickly,before the shots. We don't talk about that now because she has improved to such a point, we don't need any help, she can pretty much care for herself. She is going out and socializing again, remembering names she was having trouble remembering, and is wanting to start traveling again because she isn't scared to death she might get lost or separated from my father or me. She had lost all of her joy. My mother is fun again. Now she has HOPE. She had not forgotten anyone, but if she hadn't seen someone in a long time, she was having trouble remembering their names. Now she can rattle off every name in her graduating class. Before the shots she could count back by 7's until she got to about 86. Now she has memorized them and can go all the way back every time! She loves crossword puzzles and was starting not to get very far. Now she has started to get more and more words and many times finishes them again. On the test she couldn't make a cube. She couldn't even come close. After a shot, when we got back to our hotel room, I asked her if she wanted to try and make a cube. I showed her one time. She tried twice and they looked sort of funny, but on the third try she looked like a pro drawing them. So, not only can she remember things she knew, she now memorizes things and can again retain the memory. I talked to Leo that same day as the interview. I didn't know his name until I saw his youtube video. I can't believe they would use his picture this way. He should call them and demand they let him tell his story or he should sue. I could not tell the man I was talking to in the office had Alzheimer's. Both him and his wife seemed so completely normal, I didn't know which of them was getting the shot. He has come a long way since that video and then to deceive him and use his picture like that is an inhuman betrayal. My mother told them that she would let them use her name, and photo, because if she could help one person she wanted to do that, because Dr. Tobinick had helped her so much. Where was that in this false claim story? Are they saying my mother is a liar? Or me? Or Leo? They might as well as just said there were a bunch of false claimers there that day. There was another couple, I am not sure who they were, but at first they did not want their photo taken, but said that they could talk to them. Later the nurse knocked on the door and said that they had decided that the "reporter and photographer" could use their names and take their picture. They probably had decided the same thing as my mother. These men deceived us. How dare they use one of the photos taken of people, who all don't claim their symptoms have been reversed, they know know their symptoms have been reversed. If they wanted to use the other stuff in that article that was their perogative, but to interview four families and not print anything we said is incomprehensible to me. I didn't hear the others interviewed, but my mother was able to answer every question the jerk asked her. We would have never talked to them, if we had known that they were not going to tell our side of the story. And, I am sure Leo never would have posed for that picture. He is so very articulate and it just infuriates me that they would use his picture in this article when he just seems amazing. Anyone who looks at his youtube video and talks to him today would not be able to say Dr. Tobinick's claims were false. They betrayed us. They told us they were doing an article on how the shots were helping people and wanted to talk to patients who had had results. Then they write this article and don't talk about any of the patients and then use the photograph of person who is better in an article entitled false claims. How is this a fair article? How can you name it false claims, when you are sitting their talking to the people who know the best whether it has reversed any of their symptoms or not? And, finally how in the world can you use a photo for one purpose, when you were told the person it was for the exact opposite. These people weren't looking for the truth they were looking to discredit Dr. Tobinick. The truth is I have my mom back, thanks to Dr. Edward Tobinick. I was very sick one day and he could tell and he checked me over and helped me. I love the man and so does my mother. He is kind and gentle and answers all my calls if I have any questions, within a very short time. Most of the time if he is available he talks to me right then. How many of people can say that about their own family doctor? My mother's doctor here thinks my mother is doing amazingly better too, by the way. And her insurance, approved her medication after talking with staff, and they sent her a 3 month supply. Medicare won't do it, but some private insurances will. The only people that can know the truth about whether this is working or not are the patients and their families. Yes we all want to see a difference. But after awhile you can tell whether the difference is real or one you just wanted to see. Especially, when they are almost like their old self! And Bob, even though you chose not to go to Dr. Tobinick, you have to at least acknowledge that if it wasn't for Dr. Tobinick starting this all, you probably would have never heard Linda's beautiful voice again. Your youtube video is amazing. I am so happy that you have that result. It may not be as much as you would have liked, but I bet you wouldn't trade it for the world. One other thing I would like to address on here is how some people, to show their disdain for Dr. Tobinick, call him the dermatologist. Well the dermatologist also has a specialty in internal medicine. Now tell me what do you think about a Doctor that goes through medical school and becomes board certified in two different specialties? I think he must be brilliant. I am a college graduate. And, I have a 60 hour Masters degree. I would never take my mother somewhere without doing all kinds of research. I knew all of these claims about Dr. Tobinick and I read testimonies from patients. After much research on the drug,the doctor, and talking to my mom's doctor, I decided that it was worth a try. It was the best decision I ever made. That is the truth! This disease is to horrible for the truth not to be in every article written or every post posted. For that newspaper not to even admit that he had interviewed families in his article that claimed symptom reversal was true, was pathetic and unethical. Why couldn't they print all sides of the story and then let the readers decide what was true? Instead they chose to betray us and the public, who should have had a right to hear the patients stories. And most of all they lost all creditability, when they used Leo's photo in the manner they did.
- siktath, on 04/27/2008, -6/+1So much for Freedom of Speech.
- jimbobjounes, on 04/27/2008, -8/+0docter who is never wrong ask his TARDIS
- melak, on 04/27/2008, -1/+9Real moral of this story - The words doctor and who cannot be put side by side without anyone thinking of a blue police box that is bigger on the inside and a time lord who uses a sonic screwdriver that can fix or break damn near anything - except the chameleon circuit on his big blue box which is only because he doesn't want to fix it.
- theviceroy, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Same thing for referring to things that are "seeds of doom"
- mrzack, on 04/27/2008, -9/+2Doctors don't know *****. Any nutritionist would've advised omega 3 DHA EPA Fish oil and numerous other brain supplements for Alzheimer's.
- banmaster, on 04/27/2008, -0/+7Yeah, and sun shinings out of my ***** would work as well.
- mrzack, on 04/27/2008, -2/+2I dare you to investigate nutrition. 90% of all natural alternative health books are written by M.D.s and Ph.D.s. Go research it yourself.
- hadessniper, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Yes but natural alternative health books don't have to be tested or have any base in reality, any M.D. or Ph.D. that is unscrupulous and greedy can produce one with out all the tests, results, and peer review that normal medicine gets. Most of the stuff in those books are exaggerated or just plane wrong, and most of the beneficial effects are placebo. And if the books did do what they say they do then they wouldn't be alternative medicine they would be medicine.
- mrzack, on 04/28/2008, -2/+1YOu fool, it's the pharmaceutical company that are unscrupulous and greedy. These natural health doctors are REAL healers because they produce RESULTS. You make an ASS out of yourself with your ignorance on this subject.
- Mothrog, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1"These natural health doctors are REAL healers because they produce RESULTS."
LOL. Sure they do. You really have the market on stupid cornered, don't you? Troof movement, natural health, PETA propoganda... All that nice happy *****.
"You make an ASS out of yourself with your ignorance on this subject."
Says Captain Gullible himself. Did you know gullible isn't actually in the dictionary? - mrzack, on 04/28/2008, -2/+1Hippocrates: Let food be our medicine, and our medicine be our food.
Linus Pauling: Nutrition and natural health is the future of medicine.
Thomas Edison: The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. - spectecjr, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2MrZack: They're both real healers. The pharmaceutical industry could do with getting back to its roots - healing people - a bit, but they're not doing it just to fleece you. We need people with a more holistic (as in, looking at the whole picture) view of medicine - it's a complex system, and attacking just one part of it (and doing it blindly) is not going to give as good results as a more targetted approach that takes into account why things happen, not just how.
Natural healers - for the most part - are in it for your money too. The supplement industry is HUGE. Some of it works - this should come as no surprise to you, as most drugs start out life as natural compounds. Look at aspirin - that's just a modified version of willow bark, changed so that the body more readily absorbs the active chemical.
The problem with natural healers is similar to the one with pharmaceuticals, but in reverse. The pharma guys look at one tiny piece of the machine, and attack that. The naturopath guys look at the whole machine, but it's in really broad strokes - they never get down to the biochem part.
And never underestimate the power of placebos.
- hadessniper, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Yes but natural alternative health books don't have to be tested or have any base in reality, any M.D. or Ph.D. that is unscrupulous and greedy can produce one with out all the tests, results, and peer review that normal medicine gets. Most of the stuff in those books are exaggerated or just plane wrong, and most of the beneficial effects are placebo. And if the books did do what they say they do then they wouldn't be alternative medicine they would be medicine.
- mrzack, on 04/27/2008, -2/+2I dare you to investigate nutrition. 90% of all natural alternative health books are written by M.D.s and Ph.D.s. Go research it yourself.
- spectecjr, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2You do know that the reason fish oil is supposed to help for Alzheimer's is the same reason that Etanercept is supposed to help, right? They're both anti-inflammatory compounds.
- mrzack, on 04/28/2008, -2/+1yeah, but Fish oil doesn't destroy your LIVER like synthetic pharmaceuticals does.
- theviceroy, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1I would much rather have cirrhosis than Alzheimer's... jus' sayin' (plus fish oil doesn't do *****).
- spectecjr, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1It does actually; it changes the constitution of the lipid rafts on the surface of the cell cytosome making it more difficult for viruses to pass through (in either direction). Its antiinflammatory actions are probably just consequences of this; it prevents viruses that live inside cells (herpesviridae) from replicating.
It has been shown that Alzheimer's beta amyloid plaque tangles are rife with HSV1 (cold sore herpes) which actually makes the action of etanercept make sense - TNF-alpha (the cytokine that etanercept targets) is used as a trigger by HSV1 to tell it to come out and replicate. Etanercept in this study probably just reduces the replication of the virus to the point where the body can keep it in check.
HSV1 lives in nerve cells, which makes it a very good candidate for being the cause of Alzheimer's - and many other diseases.
More here: http://www.accidentalscientist.com/2008/01/amazing ...
- spectecjr, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1It does actually; it changes the constitution of the lipid rafts on the surface of the cell cytosome making it more difficult for viruses to pass through (in either direction). Its antiinflammatory actions are probably just consequences of this; it prevents viruses that live inside cells (herpesviridae) from replicating.
- theviceroy, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1I would much rather have cirrhosis than Alzheimer's... jus' sayin' (plus fish oil doesn't do *****).
- mrzack, on 04/28/2008, -2/+1yeah, but Fish oil doesn't destroy your LIVER like synthetic pharmaceuticals does.
- banmaster, on 04/27/2008, -0/+7Yeah, and sun shinings out of my ***** would work as well.
- jimmytree, on 04/27/2008, -1/+9EX-TER-MI-NATE THE DOC-TOR!
- manova, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1While I'm not saying that this will work, the article has some mistakes. For one, one his publication of this, he claimed USC as his affiliation, not UCLA. On the other hand, he does have a ucla email address listed on his paper. Finally, it was a published case report in the Journal of Neuroinflamation. I think it is more of the case that the media made more of this in the beginning.
- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0This is a comment from someone who was actually there for the interview. I don't know how this digg website works, but people need to know this is real hope, please pass it on. See my mom's youtube video at: http://youtube.com/user/famc17, and others: http://youtube.com/user/tumates and
http://youtube.com/user/armoandleo11
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When I read the contents of this daily article, I actually wanted to throw up. I was there that day and was interviewed alone and then with my mother. They shot many pictures of us. I told them how the shots had given me my mother back. I also told them that her physician was talking about getting outside help ready because she was going down quickly,before the shots. We don't talk about that now because she has improved to such a point, we don't need any help, she can pretty much care for herself. She is going out and socializing again, remembering names she was having trouble remembering, and is wanting to start traveling again because she isn't scared to death she might get lost or separated from my father or me. She had lost all of her joy. My mother is fun again. Now she has HOPE.
She had not forgotten anyone, but if she hadn't seen someone in a long time, she was having trouble remembering their names. Now she can rattle off every name in her graduating class. Before the shots she could count back by 7's until she got to about 86. Now she has memorized them and can go all the way back every time! She loves crossword puzzles and was starting not to get very far. Now she has started to get more and more words and many times finishes them again.
On the test she couldn't make a cube. She couldn't even come close. After a shot, when we got back to our hotel room, I aksed her if she wanted to try and make a cube. I showed her one time. She tried twice and they looked sort of funny, but on the third try she looked like a pro drawing them. So, not only can she remember things she knew, she now memorizes things and can again
retain the memory.
I talked to Leo that same day as the interview. I didn't know his name until I saw his youtube video. I can't believe they would use his picture this way. He should call them and demand they let him tell his story or he should sue. I could not tell the man I was talking to in the office had alzheimer's. Both him and his wife seemed so completely normal, I didn't know which of them was getting the shot. He has come a long way since that video and then to deceive him and use his picture like that is an inhuman betrayal.
My mother told them that she would let them use her name, and photo, because if she could help one person she wanted to do that, because Dr. Tobinick had helped her so much. Where was that in this false claim story? Are they saying my mother is a liar? Or me? Or Leo? They might as well as just said there were a bunch of false claimers there that day.
There was another couple, I am not sure who they were, but at first they did not want their photo taken, but said that they could talk to them. Later the nurse knocked on the door and said that they had decided that the "reporter and photographer" could use their names and take their picture. They probably had decided the same thing as my mother.
These men deceived us. How dare they use one of the photos taken of people, who all don't claim their symptoms have been reversed, they know know their symptoms have been reversed.
If they wanted to use the other stuff in that article that was their perogative, but to interview four families and not print anything we said is incomprehensible to me. I didn't hear the others interviewed, but my mother was able to answer every question the jerk asked her.
We would have never talked to them, if we had known that they were not going to tell our side of the story. And, I am sure Leo never would have posed for that picture. He is so very articulate and it just infuriates me that they would use his picture in this article when he just seems amazing. Anyone who looks at his youtube video and talks to him today would not be able to say Dr. Tobinick's claims were false.
They betrayed us. They told us they were doing an article on how the shots were helping people and wanted to talk to patients who had had results. Then they write this article and don't talk about any of the patients and then use the photograph of person who is better in an article entitled false claims. How is this a fair article? How can you name it false claims, when you are sitting their talking to the people who know the best whether it has reversed any of their symptoms or not? And, finally how in the world can you use a photo for one purpose, when you were told the person it was for the exact opposite.
These people weren't looking for the truth they were looking to discredit Dr. Tobinick. The truth is I have my mom back, thanks to Dr. Edward Tobinick.
I was very sick one day and he could tell and he checked me over and helped me. I love the man and so does my mother. He is kind and gentle and answers all my calls if I have any questions, within a very short time. Most of the time if he is available he talks to me right then. How many of people can say that about their own family doctor?
My mother's doctor here thinks my mother is doing amazingly better too, by the way. And her insurance, approved her medication after talking with staff, and they sent her a 3 month supply. Medicare won't do it, but some private insurances will.
The only people that can know the truth about whether this is working or not are the patients and their families. Yes we all want to see a difference. But after awhile you can tell whether the difference is real or one you just wanted to see. Especially, when they are almost like their old self!
And Bob, even though you chose not to go to Dr. Tobinick, you have to at least acknowledge that if it wasn't for Dr. Tobinick starting this all, you probably would have never heard Linda's beautiful voice again. Your youtube video is amazing. I am so happy that you have that result. It may not be as much as you would have liked, but I bet you wouldn't trade it for the world.
One other thing I would like to address on here is how some people, to show their disdain for Dr. Tobinick, call him the dermatologist. Well the dermatologist also has a specialty in internal medicine. Now tell me what do you think about a Doctor that goes through medical school and becomes board certified in two different specialties? I think he must be brilliant.
I am a college graduate. And, I have a 60 hour Masters degree. I would never take my mother somwhere without doing all kinds of research. I knew all of these claims about Dr. Tobinick and I read testimonies from patients. After much research on the drug,the doctor, and talking to my mom's doctor, I decided that it was worth a try. It was the best decision I ever made. That is the truth!
This disease is to horrible for the truth not to be in every article written or every post posted. For that newspaper not to even admit that he had interviewed families in his article that claimed symptom reversal was true, was pathetic and unethical. Why couldn't they print all sides of the story and then let the readers decide what was true? Instead they chose to betray us and the public, who should have had a right to hear the patients stories. And most of all they lost all creditability, when they used Leo's photo in the manner they did
- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0This is a comment from someone who was actually there for the interview. I don't know how this digg website works, but people need to know this is real hope, please pass it on. See my mom's youtube video at: http://youtube.com/user/famc17, and others: http://youtube.com/user/tumates and
- kmotiv1, on 04/27/2008, -3/+6Inaccurate. 'Doctor Who' can do anything.
- Pixelante, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3It's only reasonable to think that a Gallifreyan's medical knowledge would be far superior to anything 21st Century has to offer.
- kotn2012, on 04/27/2008, -1/+7I thought it said "Doctor Who" could cure alzheimers. ): Misleading title.
- lolbotomy, on 04/27/2008, -0/+24This is sad news, I read about this treatment a while back and it gave me hope. We tried all the available drugs we could for treating Alzheimer's on grandma and none of them really worked, they just cost a lot of money while putting her into different levels of drooling slow-motion-ness, which doesn't help because it just made everything take longer.
My grandmother died of Alzheimer's about a year ago, she lived with us for about 6 months total before she passed. It's a horrifying disease, especially when you think of how it robs you of yourself, but also for any that have to provide supervision.
They end-up asking the same few questions over and over all day long, day after day. It may not sound that bad but it can drive you bat-***** crazy. For example she always asked where her husband was who has been dead for years, and then 5 minutes later would ask again. She would go looking for him everywhere in the house banging on doors calling to him. If you tried to remind her she would just get angry and more determined to find him.
We would help feed her a meal and then before she's even left the table she would start saying stuff like "when are we going to eat?", "I'm hungry and I get nothing", "no one gives me anything". Show her the empty plate you haven't even finished washing yet and she starts an argument with you saying you're wrong and then starts yelling and banging her fists on the table.
You get asked "Where's the bathroom" probably a hundred times a day, we tried putting a giant bright colored "bathroom" sign on the door but she never even noticed it, would walk right by it while muttering "bathroom??". She ended up going to the bathroom in places she shouldn't pretty often, we tried adult diapers but she would just remove them and hide them.
Give her a drink and as soon as she finishes it and sets it down she's asking for another. Do you just give-in and let her drink as much as she wants, ensuring she bugs you about the bathroom an extra 100 times that day, or do you tell her no and then deal with the screaming hissy-fit that ensues? It's no win.
She would wonder around all night through the AM hours. We ended up having to put a lock on her bedroom door to keep her in at night for her own safety because she would explore the house rearranging stuff, turning on all the lights, trying to consume things you shouldn't consume, such as the stuff under the sink. So we also had to put little child-proof latches on all the cabinets and drawers with anything that could harm her.
Then it just got better, and by better I mean worse, she would start banging on the bedroom door and screaming all through the night, calling to her husband who's been dead for years, you would go tell her it's the middle of the night go to sleep and not even a few minutes later it repeats. She would rearrange her bedroom all night long moving furniture around making alot of noise and changing her cloths and spreading all her others clothes all over her bed, which of course made it so she had no place to rest and she would just cause more of a fuss. It's impossible to get a good nights sleep in this situation, and with each passing day it just gets more aggravating because you're already exhausted from the days before and lack of sleep just keeps adding up every day until you feel like a zombie.
Whenever we tried to go out with her it was a total nightmare, she would forget we were her relatives and try to get others to help her. She didn't like being told what to do so we would become her enemy very quickly just for trying to help her move along, she would complain to passers by that "these people give me nothing" even if we had a big meal right before we went out, or even if we went to a restaurant with her she would start yelling at us and complaining to the waitresses that passed by because the food didn't magically appear instantaneously.
I could go on and on and write a novels length here, but I think I've shared enough. Anyone that ends up having to care for someone with this disease will have their lives completely consumed by it. We kind of joked when she was around how this disease is highly contagious, it completely destroys not only her mind but your mind as-well. When you get little or no sleep and have to deal with the same questions and situations over and over and over day after day you end up feeling like you're living in a horror version of Groundhog Day. But it must have been nothing compared to the horror she went through, never knowing the answers to the questions that would pop up in her mind.- Ramble, on 04/27/2008, -12/+2Try putting her in a home.
Problem solved.- lolbotomy, on 04/27/2008, -0/+12She was in a home before she came to live with us. We didn't want her to die alone in an institution-like facility. She was put there by other relatives who were not supposed to have any say in it but they lived nearest to her. They were caught stealing money from her bank account. Stuff was stolen from in there and her home as well. When we finally got her out of their care she had only the wedding ring on her hand that couldn't be removed due to swollen knuckles, a broken lamp, one funky dresser, a few robes and a box of letters. Where-as when she was put in the home she had a house full of things she acquired in her and her husbands life, two cars, and an ungodly amount of jewelry. All of which magically vanished in a few years.
And before anyone says "why didn't you give her sleeping pills to help her and everyone else sleep at night?" We did. They didn't work because her brain was so damaged they had little or no effect.- thehurricaneuk, on 04/27/2008, -1/+4sorry for your loss
- lolbotomy, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2thanks, but there's no need to say that. If there's anyone to feel sorry for it's all the current and future Alzheimer's patients who have just now lost some hope of reversing this disease in the near future.
I only lost a small chunk of time, I still have my whole life ahead of me, etc etc. Compared to the lifetime of memories erased and the deaths of all Alzheimer's victims, it's nothing.
I wanted to vent a little and share my personal experiences on it, while maybe helping others who haven't had the bad-luck of having to deal with Alzheimer's themselves better understand how strongly this disease effects the victim's mind and those of others near to them.
- lolbotomy, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2thanks, but there's no need to say that. If there's anyone to feel sorry for it's all the current and future Alzheimer's patients who have just now lost some hope of reversing this disease in the near future.
- thehurricaneuk, on 04/27/2008, -1/+4sorry for your loss
- lolbotomy, on 04/27/2008, -0/+12She was in a home before she came to live with us. We didn't want her to die alone in an institution-like facility. She was put there by other relatives who were not supposed to have any say in it but they lived nearest to her. They were caught stealing money from her bank account. Stuff was stolen from in there and her home as well. When we finally got her out of their care she had only the wedding ring on her hand that couldn't be removed due to swollen knuckles, a broken lamp, one funky dresser, a few robes and a box of letters. Where-as when she was put in the home she had a house full of things she acquired in her and her husbands life, two cars, and an ungodly amount of jewelry. All of which magically vanished in a few years.
- famc17, on 04/29/2008, -0/+0This is a comment from someone who was actually there for the interview. I don't know how this digg website works, but people need to know this is real hope, please pass it on. See my mom's youtube video at: http://youtube.com/user/famc17, and others: http://youtube.com/user/tumates and
http://youtube.com/user/armoandleo11
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When I read the contents of this daily article, I actually wanted to throw up. I was there that day and was interviewed alone and then with my mother. They shot many pictures of us. I told them how the shots had given me my mother back. I also told them that her physician was talking about getting outside help ready because she was going down quickly,before the shots. We don't talk about that now because she has improved to such a point, we don't need any help, she can pretty much care for herself. She is going out and socializing again, remembering names she was having trouble remembering, and is wanting to start traveling again because she isn't scared to death she might get lost or separated from my father or me. She had lost all of her joy. My mother is fun again. Now she has HOPE.
She had not forgotten anyone, but if she hadn't seen someone in a long time, she was having trouble remembering their names. Now she can rattle off every name in her graduating class. Before the shots she could count back by 7's until she got to about 86. Now she has memorized them and can go all the way back every time! She loves crossword puzzles and was starting not to get very far. Now she has started to get more and more words and many times finishes them again.
On the test she couldn't make a cube. She couldn't even come close. After a shot, when we got back to our hotel room, I aksed her if she wanted to try and make a cube. I showed her one time. She tried twice and they looked sort of funny, but on the third try she looked like a pro drawing them. So, not only can she remember things she knew, she now memorizes things and can again
retain the memory.
I talked to Leo that same day as the interview. I didn't know his name until I saw his youtube video. I can't believe they would use his picture this way. He should call them and demand they let him tell his story or he should sue. I could not tell the man I was talking to in the office had alzheimer's. Both him and his wife seemed so completely normal, I didn't know which of them was getting the shot. He has come a long way since that video and then to deceive him and use his picture like that is an inhuman betrayal.
My mother told them that she would let them use her name, and photo, because if she could help one person she wanted to do that, because Dr. Tobinick had helped her so much. Where was that in this false claim story? Are they saying my mother is a liar? Or me? Or Leo? They might as well as just said there were a bunch of false claimers there that day.
There was another couple, I am not sure who they were, but at first they did not want their photo taken, but said that they could talk to them. Later the nurse knocked on the door and said that they had decided that the "reporter and photographer" could use their names and take their picture. They probably had decided the same thing as my mother.
These men deceived us. How dare they use one of the photos taken of people, who all don't claim their symptoms have been reversed, they know know their symptoms have been reversed.
If they wanted to use the other stuff in that article that was their perogative, but to interview four families and not print anything we said is incomprehensible to me. I didn't hear the others interviewed, but my mother was able to answer every question the jerk asked her.
We would have never talked to them, if we had known that they were not going to tell our side of the story. And, I am sure Leo never would have posed for that picture. He is so very articulate and it just infuriates me that they would use his picture in this article when he just seems amazing. Anyone who looks at his youtube video and talks to him today would not be able to say Dr. Tobinick's claims were false.
They betrayed us. They told us they were doing an article on how the shots were helping people and wanted to talk to patients who had had results. Then they write this article and don't talk about any of the patients and then use the photograph of person who is better in an article entitled false claims. How is this a fair article? How can you name it false claims, when you are sitting their talking to the people who know the best whether it has reversed any of their symptoms or not? And, finally how in the world can you use a photo for one purpose, when you were told the person it was for the exact opposite.
These people weren't looking for the truth they were looking to discredit Dr. Tobinick. The truth is I have my mom back, thanks to Dr. Edward Tobinick.
I was very sick one day and he could tell and he checked me over and helped me. I love the man and so does my mother. He is kind and gentle and answers all my calls if I have any questions, within a very short time. Most of the time if he is available he talks to me right then. How many of people can say that about their own family doctor?
My mother's doctor here thinks my mother is doing amazingly better too, by the way. And her insurance, approved her medication after talking with staff, and they sent her a 3 month supply. Medicare won't do it, but some private insurances will.
The only people that can know the truth about whether this is working or not are the patients and their families. Yes we all want to see a difference. But after awhile you can tell whether the difference is real or one you just wanted to see. Especially, when they are almost like their old self!
And Bob, even though you chose not to go to Dr. Tobinick, you have to at least acknowledge that if it wasn't for Dr. Tobinick starting this all, you probably would have never heard Linda's beautiful voice again. Your youtube video is amazing. I am so happy that you have that result. It may not be as much as you would have liked, but I bet you wouldn't trade it for the world.
One other thing I would like to address on here is how some people, to show their disdain for Dr. Tobinick, call him the dermatologist. Well the dermatologist also has a specialty in internal medicine. Now tell me what do you think about a Doctor that goes through medical school and becomes board certified in two different specialties? I think he must be brilliant.
I am a college graduate. And, I have a 60 hour Masters degree. I would never take my mother somwhere without doing all kinds of research. I knew all of these claims about Dr. Tobinick and I read testimonies from patients. After much research on the drug,the doctor, and talking to my mom's doctor, I decided that it was worth a try. It was the best decision I ever made. That is the truth!
This disease is to horrible for the truth not to be in every article written or every post posted. For that newspaper not to even admit that he had interviewed families in his article that claimed symptom reversal was true, was pathetic and unethical. Why couldn't they print all sides of the story and then let the readers decide what was true? Instead they chose to betray us and the public, who should have had a right to hear the patients stories. And most of all they lost all creditability, when they used Leo's photo in the manner they did.
- Ramble, on 04/27/2008, -12/+2Try putting her in a home.
- RoninKengo, on 04/27/2008, -0/+8needs more Rose.
- Lynxpro, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Needs more Peri! Rose is weak sauce but at least not as lame as Mel was. Or Ace.
- kitsune616, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Needs more Leela! Or Romana, tho after the Time War I'm guessing that isn't likely to happen. :(
- Rapter09, on 04/27/2008, -1/+7Dear God,
If I get Alzheimers, you're a dead man.
Thanks
My heart goes out to all those effected. It's terrifying, and I hope I never have to see it happen to anyone I love, because the thought of it is bad enough.- modix, on 04/28/2008, -0/+0Your odds increase exponentially as you age. It approaches near 100% as you make 100. It just something that happens as our brains age. Some people get it earlier than others, some hardly at all. The plaques form as the body can no longer repair its