Comments on: Dr. Larry Rose’s Crucial Report on LBAM Spray Toxicity http://www.veganreader.com/2008/04/21/dr-larry-roses-crucial-report-on-lbam-spray-toxicity/ Thoughtful Reading For A Compassionate Planet Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:47:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: admin http://www.veganreader.com/2008/04/21/dr-larry-roses-crucial-report-on-lbam-spray-toxicity/comment-page-1/#comment-4847 admin Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:33:20 +0000 http://www.veganreader.com/?p=81#comment-4847 Welcome Diane, I am terribly sorry to hear of the illness you have been suffering since the 2007 LBAM spray. I think one of the most egregious things about what happened is that Santa Cruz is a place known for a people who make efforts to lead a healthy lifestyle, like yourself. What I know is this - after the illegal spraying of these chemicals over Central California, the EPA banned two of them. See: http://www.veganreader.com/2009/05/25/2-lbam-pesticide-sprays-banned-by-epa-after-lawsuit/ Unfortunately, I am deeply sorry not to be able to offer you any solutions to harms that were caused by the spray. I'm a writer - not a medical expert. But as you have found, even medical experts are not typically able to do much about the possible effects of pesticide exposure. Like most pesticides, there is not sufficient data as to the long term effects of exposure to the LBAM spray chemicals and I don't know where you should turn next for advice. You sound like a very educated person in regards to alternative medicine. Likely the only thing to do is to keep trying different non-western doctors to see if anyone can help you. I know there were several in your area who were very active in the anti-spray campaign. Perhaps this could be your criteria for finding one? If they were highly visible during the disaster, they might have ended up with a lot of patients suffering effects of the spray and therefor might have the most data about illnesses stemming from it. Does this sound like a good suggestion? I can relate to your frustration and fear with this. My very healthy husband now suffers from pleurisy on and off after being exposed to pesticides/herbicides sprayed in a vineyard. It's painful and awful and, apparently, there's nothing we can do about it. I wish you better luck finding something to help your breathing and lower your blood pressure, Diane. Please know, I've said a prayer for you and am sincerely wishing you some sort of new knowledge and comfort in 2012 to help with your ailments. Please, come again. Mim Welcome Diane,
I am terribly sorry to hear of the illness you have been suffering since the 2007 LBAM spray. I think one of the most egregious things about what happened is that Santa Cruz is a place known for a people who make efforts to lead a healthy lifestyle, like yourself. What I know is this – after the illegal spraying of these chemicals over Central California, the EPA banned two of them. See:

http://www.veganreader.com/2009/05/25/2-lbam-pesticide-sprays-banned-by-epa-after-lawsuit/

Unfortunately, I am deeply sorry not to be able to offer you any solutions to harms that were caused by the spray. I’m a writer – not a medical expert. But as you have found, even medical experts are not typically able to do much about the possible effects of pesticide exposure. Like most pesticides, there is not sufficient data as to the long term effects of exposure to the LBAM spray chemicals and I don’t know where you should turn next for advice. You sound like a very educated person in regards to alternative medicine. Likely the only thing to do is to keep trying different non-western doctors to see if anyone can help you. I know there were several in your area who were very active in the anti-spray campaign. Perhaps this could be your criteria for finding one? If they were highly visible during the disaster, they might have ended up with a lot of patients suffering effects of the spray and therefor might have the most data about illnesses stemming from it. Does this sound like a good suggestion?

I can relate to your frustration and fear with this. My very healthy husband now suffers from pleurisy on and off after being exposed to pesticides/herbicides sprayed in a vineyard. It’s painful and awful and, apparently, there’s nothing we can do about it. I wish you better luck finding something to help your breathing and lower your blood pressure, Diane. Please know, I’ve said a prayer for you and am sincerely wishing you some sort of new knowledge and comfort in 2012 to help with your ailments. Please, come again.
Mim

]]> By: Diane See http://www.veganreader.com/2008/04/21/dr-larry-roses-crucial-report-on-lbam-spray-toxicity/comment-page-1/#comment-4837 Diane See Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:00:36 +0000 http://www.veganreader.com/?p=81#comment-4837 I was exposed to the LBAM spray in 2007 here in Santa Cruz. Since then I've been struggling with shortness of breath and high blood pressure. No help from acupuncture or western medicine. Lungs are fine, heart is fine, no blocked coronary artery. Alternative healing is my subject. I'm 78, teach t'ai chi, and am in good health other than these problems, which are debilitating because they limit my ability to exercise. After over a year of acupuncture, and exhausting medical testing abilities, I'm tracking down the LBAM spray as a cause of my problems. Your article confirmed my beliefs. Do you have solutions? I was exposed to the LBAM spray in 2007 here in Santa Cruz. Since then I’ve been struggling with shortness of breath and high blood pressure. No help from acupuncture or western medicine. Lungs are fine, heart is fine, no blocked coronary artery.

Alternative healing is my subject. I’m 78, teach t’ai chi, and am in good health other than these problems, which are debilitating because they limit my ability to exercise. After over a year of acupuncture, and exhausting medical testing abilities, I’m tracking down the LBAM spray as a cause of my problems. Your article confirmed my beliefs. Do you have solutions?

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