Karen

I used to really like the Oprah show and had to watch it daily, as both the elderly people that I have tried to help out in their home's, happened to be Oprah fans.

As I layed in my saltz bath this afternoon, I happened to ponder Oprahs good will to others and how she gains a great deal of love and support from her viewers.

Oprah is a shrewd and very successful buissness woman.  She obviously does not beleive that FM/CFs are truely illnesses, she had a show and mentioned FM to placate her audience and all the people who have apperently written her.  and then tried to sell her audience on the fact that all of us FM/CFS people must be stupid, as all we have to do is change our diets to be healed.

We all know that Oprah and her staff are great advocates of good and healthy diets, but what she does not tell us, is how expensive it is to buy all our groceries at high end grocers, how she has her own personal dietician and cook and never has to lift a finger to shop, purchase and even chop up and cook this great diet that she's on.  She's one of the wealthiest woman in the world, so her grocery bill does not matter at all.  Does everyone understand how we could all really go all out and have great diets if we had our own cook, made, dietician, etc. 

She does not seem concerned with us little people, how much pain we endure on a daily basis and is comepletely uninterested in finding out how we feel. 

So she has a program and mentions diet for the FM crowd and acts like we are all a bunch of idiots.

Dr. Oz is only tring to sell a book as usual.  He makes a statement that he know understands FM, as he has learned from a collegue how it effects people.  He's never treated anyone to my knowledge and the one he chooses for the program apparently has been cured.  I can see how many people could self diagnose FM or CFE.

Don't get me wrong, I have changed my own diet alot, I try to buy some products from one of those hi-end natural grocers and we try to encorperate a few meals every month that are all natural, but shopping exclusivly at one of these stores is just not an option, I no longer can work, my husband works his fingers to the bone, we're paying for our son to attend a university, he had several scholerships and we have used the government grant and student loans process, but we make about 200.00 too much per year to receive the full benefits for our son, so that means we have to pay for most of his tuition, living expenses, car, gas, etc.  WE just cannot afford to eat every meal on some expensive diet.

it truely irritates me to no end, that her response to the FM community was to treat us like idiots and act like it's been cured.  She did more damage to all of our credibility and the understanding of our families and friends in a matter of a few viewing seconds than any other tv program on the networks.

She also in the past has shown her typical concern & support for the medications we all have to fight to receive and also work hard to fight the public ignorance and poor exceptance of us.  She just has another one of her shows that she invites a Hollywood celebrity thats over indulged in pain killers and had to go to rehab, so then again, she enforces the poor public opinion of us all.

Oprah is not our friend and she will never have a program that shows support and a willingness to help the pain community.

I'll never watch her program again!

Sorry, Frustrated with her

Betty