Barbara Arnold estimates she has been stung by bees at least
24,000 times.
She did so willingly.
Article Tab: Christie Clingenpeel applies 30 bee stings on
Barbara Arnold's back. For the past 12 years Barbara Arnold uses bee venom to
treat her multiple sclerosis. Her treatment consists of 30 bee stings twice a
week, and about 2,880 bee stings for the year. Arnold says she doesn't feel the
bee stings on her back.
Arnold lives with multiple sclerosis, or MS as it is
commonly called, a debilitating and incurable disease that affects a person's
central nervous system.
The bee stings, she believes, slow the progress of her
disease.
The 73-year-old Irvine resident is among a small number of
patients living with MS or other ailments who practice bee venom therapy, a
controversial alternative treatment that is dismissed by mainstream doctors…
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