I'll be anxiously awaiting your experience.

Where do u buy Olive leaf extract? At a health food store? I would like to try other alternatives.

Hi, i've been taking olive leaf extract for the past 3 months and whether its that or the fact that i have stopped gluten and milk after finding out i was celiac...but i have been almost pain free for the past 2 months or so. I definately think its worth reading about...i bought mine from a health shop....quite expensive but worth every penny if it keeps me at this level of wellness. Also i have been entertaining four guests for the past 6 days, and thought i would crash...but didnt. I still have days when i dont feel so great, but i have noticed a big difference. I also have Lupus.
Good luck to everyone who tries it. i hope it works as well for all of you.
Love and hugs x

jaquelin121 - your pain freeness is probably due to your gluten-free status. Congratulations! That's not the easiest thing to do at first but the results would be immediately dramatic, as you've described. I think the feel good makes the diet much easier to keep, eh?

I've taken olive leaf extract for a few years but now I'm looking at my dosage. I started using it because it's also an anti-fungal and my toenails were turning colors. Olive leaf extract and tea tree oil seem to have taken care of that nicely.

I usually buy mine at Swansonsvitamins.com. That way I get what I want and I don't have to go shop for it. Young people bring it in boxes right to my door. The online stores usually have deals, too. I think I save money ordering online. PuritansPride.com is pretty reasonable, too.

I would like to know if this helps you. I am so tired of taking pills and would love to take something natural. I usually wait until a couple of people try it before investing. You can sink a lot of money trying to find relief. Good luck

It's great to get feedback from others who've tried it. I mentioned to my dad that I was looking into it and he reminded me that he had told me that he takes it. Sigh... fibrofog.

I use the site Luckyvitamin.com There are some things that I look for and find only on there and they always have discounts.

after comparing what luckyvitamin offers, this is the one I will probably order and start:

http://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-3532-planetary-herbals-full-spectrum-olive-leaf-extract-825-mg-60-tablets-formerly-planetary-formulas?redirect=1

Speaking of viruses: Get on the FDA web page today and read about the study that has found the presence of Murine Leukemia Virus related gene sequences found in the blood of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers. 87% of those tested had this virus in their blood. It's a retrovirus found to cause cancer in mice. It supports a previous study done in 2009 that showed XMRV, a genetic variant of MLV-like virus infections in a high percentage of the blood of CFS sufferers.

mizroze, great minds think alike. I posted on that news and then bumped up the other two posts on the topic so that folks would catch on! I think it's very huge news and another step closer to ... more research. lol

Hi unduki, thanks for that information....yes probably stopping gluten has made a big difference, i am starting to wonder if i really do have fibro or was it intolerances. I did seem to go down hill some when i ran out out of the olive leaf extract for a couple of weeks, which prompted me to buy some more. Have you noticed any difference in your fibro symptoms since taking it? Last year i read a book called "The new arthritis breakthrough"..sorry i can't remember the author, but the theory was that RA, Lupus, Fibro etc was caused by microplasma and a certain kind of antiobiotic was used in a low dose over a period of years sometimes and people would either fully recover or at least improve a lot...depending on how long they had the illness, how severe etc.
After reading the book i got in touch with a doctor who treats with antibiotics...but he is such a long way from where i live, and i would have to go quite often, so i decided to research natural antibiotics and thats when i came across olive leaf extract.
I found some reviews and experiences of others who tried it and it convinced me to at least try.
Thanks again and hoping we all find some relief somehow to these dreaded diseases.
Love and peace x

wow, my dad just called me to tell me to go check 2 emails he sent me. He came upon something, while looking up the olive leaf extract for me. I haven't even read his email yet, but he spoke about microplasms and a woman who got better when a doc started her on the olive leaf treatment. I'll report back here when I read up.

BUT , I would keep away from antibiotics myself. I am engrossed in a book that's got me scared outta my skin. I'd rather have fibro than MRSA or the next wave of resistant bugs. ugh. Scary stuff!! It's called Superbug, and booklist says:

Via several real-life firsthand accounts, public-health journalist McKenna lays bare, often all too graphically, the ravages of a disease with the potential to do grievous international harm because there is virtually no known treatment for it. Although humans and staphylococci have been close travelling companions virtually forever, and those pesky germs occasionally make our travels difficult, once upon a time scientists believed they had discovered the key to stifling staph infections forever: antibiotics. Case closed. But not so fast. There is a particularly feisty, methicillin-resistant strain, staphylococcus aureus, aka MRSA, that apparently has plans to outlast and outlive by outsmarting just about every known antibiotic thrown at it. First thought to reside solely within the walls of hospitals and to affect those with severely compromised immune systems, MRSA surreptitiously evolved a street persona. With the bacterias quick-changing, deadly brothers lurking in hospitals, gyms, and locker rooms, experts at the epicenter of research report that the hunt for a vaccine may be a last-ditch strategy to fend off a wily predator. --Donna Chavez

ok, I have not even finished reading it yet, but have to share:

http://www.seagateproducts.com/ss-images/townsend-letter-may.pdf

check it out!

Hi,
Olive leaf is a great anti-viral. But if you really the big guns: Oregano Oil is the powerhouse. Super anti-viral, anti-fungal.

I take "Wellness Formula" by Source Naturals. It has every anti-viral, anti-fungal, and all of the super immuno-boosters too that folks llike us should have. Another nice benefit is that many of the ingredients also help with energy. So I take it every day as a preventative measure, and more when something hits.

And if you really want to give it all you've got--try "Host Defense" by Fungi Perfecti. This mycomedicinal formula is so powerful that many take it to stay in remission from cancer. And it works too. My mother-in-law is celebrating her sixth year in remission from advanced stage four cancer.

There's lots of research to be found, and being continued, with these sorts of natural powerhouses. It'll be great to see how it effects the now known viral components of FM and CFS.

Check it out...

right now I'm kinda sold on this Seagate company. Their capsules have NO fillers, nothing but the plant itself. They explain how other companies sometimes process the good stuff right out, and how multiple particles work synergistically, whereas the single particle separated out does not do the job. I'll probably get the Seagate.

Hi, just another thought...another good antiviral and antifungal is coconut oil....i try to include it in my diet....great for the skin also x