A few years ago I had a bad injury, falling off my bicycle in Palm Springs. It hurt and I felt miserable but I decided to turn it into a teaching opportunity! I took photos and described my actions to get a quick recovery (Nah, I never went to hospital)!
A dozen years ago, while living in a suburb of Los Angeles, I had a strange attack of memory loss after making passionate love to my wife Vivien. I say that only because passion and excitement during sex or sports is a documented trigger for what is called transient global amnesia (TGA), or total memory loss for a couple of hours. Read about it here if you are curious.
It quite literally “blew my mind”! It also scared the sh*t out of me but I shared that very intimate personal story without reservation, because I knew it would comfort others. The key point is that very few people ever experience it twice and it never leads to later dementia (Phew!)
Well, something happened last night which scared me a lot. As a doctor, I knew it was quite possible I would die and warned Viv. Thankfully I didn’t and I’m still here to share with you how I responded to the emergency. You may learn something useful!
What happened is that my blood pressure shot up astronomically. I felt pressure in the chest, a bumpy heartbeat, a banging headache and at one point I couldn’t even get a proper reading on my sphygmomanometer, it was so high!
Yikes! Where did that come from? So suddenly too.
True I had keenly felt the stress of jet lag, travelling back from France. These days it’s so bad I’ve started referring to it as “travel shock”, not just jet lag. Maybe.
There were no emotional stresses. Viv was her always-lovely self. A lot of worries with catching up with the business but NOTHING TO RAISE MY HEART RATE, NEVER MIND MY BLOOD PRESSURE.
For most of my working life I have known that raised blood pressure is 95% food allergy. It always settles down on an exclusion diet. Eating US food, even lovingly prepared, is quite a bit different from French cuisine (Amen to that!) But still, a food reaction? Like what?
We discussed what I had been eating. By this time I was lying on the sofa, wondering if my affairs were all in order! Haha!
The condition of a sudden and severe jump in blood pressure is called paroxysmal hypertension. It is very dangerous and may move rapidly towards what’s called malignant hypertension: blood pressure so severe it will kill you without urgent IV medical attention.
But you know me and my saying: if you want to stay healthy and live long, KEEP AWAY FROM DOCTORS AND HOSPITALS. I mean it.
Still, the prospect of a stroke or fatal heart attack was uppermost on my mind, bringing incredible stress to add to the difficulties.
What was going on? Well, I knew one possible condition, which is a tumor of the adrenal gland called a pheochromocytoma (faulty American spelling for a phaeochromocytoma, which is after all a Greek word). These tumors are not usually malignant but raise hell because they secrete lots of adrenalin.
This is very rare. Most cases turn out to have no adrenal tumor. That’s been labelled pseudopheochromocytoma (soodo-feeo-cromo-sitoma).¹
OK, enough of the classic Greek. I had no symptoms of adrenalin rush. The main triggers of pseudopheochromocytoma seem to be emotional: panic attacks, hyperventilation and the like. I’ve never had a panic attack in my life and in any case, I described myself as not under emotional stress. Besides, I have never believed that labelling things is anywhere near as important as fixing them!
So What Did I Do?
This is a cardiac emergency, with the electrical signaling system messed up.
Step 1. I walked barefoot out onto the sidewalk. This is grounding and draws off excess or unwanted electrical charge. Our house has tile floors but I was not sure there was no underfloor membrane between me and Mother Earth, which is why I chose to go outside to the sidewalk.
Step 2. I dosed heavily with oral magnesium: 1,000 mg. Plus I rubbed plentiful magnesium oil into my belly and chest. Magnesium is a relaxant, it lowers blood pressure and reduces the risk of sudden cardiac rhythm abnormality. So far so good.
These two steps are probably the most important emergency treatment.
Step 3. I put on (inserted) a VieLight 655 (red laser light) to help lower blood viscosity. OK the main danger here was not clotting but ventricular fibrillation, that sudden loss of heart pumping that is nearly always fatal (sometimes recovered by a defibrillator, which is why you see them everywhere these days).
Step 4. I put on a Kasina relaxing music imagery device, which can be worn at the same time as a VieLight. Nothing was more important in the anxiety than to r-e-l-a-x. Nothing works faster for me than lovely, slow music!
Step 5. Vivien gave me a hands-on healing (she’s a reiki master). I checked first she still remembered how to do CPR! Then let her work her magic.
Quick aside here: I had asked Viv to go learn CPR years ago. Living with an older man, that gave her a bit of assurance she could do SOMETHING in an emergency.
I think it’s an excellent idea for older couples to learn CPR and highly recommend that you do the same. With a cardiac arrest, there is often only minutes to save somebody’s life and you never know when it might strike.
Step 6. Clear the intestines ASAP. This goes back to my wheelhouse—Food Allergies. For many decades I have met with patients who swallowed something that didn’t agree with them and they become violently ill, in a multitude of ways. The “target organ” as we call it can be any part of the body and symptoms will refer to that.
So if the lungs take the brunt, the person will wheeze or be short of breath; if the skin is weakest, there will be a hot rash, such as hives (urticaria); if the gut takes the attack, there can be vomiting, diarrhea or abdominal pain (or all three); if the brain feels the impact, there can literally be ANY symptom, since all symptoms are ultimately felt in the brain: speeding up (mania), slowing down (fatigue, even coma), hallucinations, headache, rage, hyperactivity or violence—as I said, ANYTHING if the brain is stirred up.
(see diagram and read my book ONE DIET FOR LIFE if you want to know more.).
One quick answer to this is take a laxative and dump. Plus, we have always used alkali salts, a mixture of 2/3rds sodium bicarb and 1/3rd potassium bicarb, dissolved in a half glass of warm water.
There are some real suspects among what I ate the day before and the day of the attack. I will figure this out over the next few days.
One other thing I planned next day was use my Avazzia device to do a vagus nerve stimulation. If you don’t know what that is (it’s important) go here and watch a webinar I did.
Meanwhile, I’m still here, ALIVE, and did not end up in hospital pumped full of silly drugs to “save my life”! Phew!
Love to all,
To Your Good Health,
Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby
The Official Alternative Doctor
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