From reading other people’s health testimonials, and from my own personal experience, I have found that our symptoms are what get the real attention and treatment from the secular medical field. Might sound great, but is that really the way to help a person get well when it comes to more serious diseases and symptoms?
Now I’m not talking about your basic cold, flu or virus where you are basically told you have to “wait it out and it takes 5-7 days” and it’s best to take OTC meds to help with your cough and congestion and fever. What I am talking about are illnesses that leave you incapacitated, that interrupts your way of life, that not only “breaks” your body, but also your mental health.
For these instances, it is important to find the right doctor that acts as a detective; pieces all the clues (symptoms) together, requests the right tests (physical evidence) and gets to the root of the issue (the whodunit). Unfortunately, the doctors I saw didn’t know what was going on with me and eventually told me to see a psychologist. When I went to the ER the 2nd time and had a CT scan, they told me there was some backed up stool in my colon so that my symptoms could just be from constipation and they recommended a laxative. I was so devastated as I knew deep in my heart, something bad was going on and no one could help me. I felt like my life was over and I was going to remain a lump on my couch for the rest of my life. When you feel that way, thoughts of all kinds start to creep in making you wonder if it was worth to live at all?
Then comes that naturopathic doctor that saved my life! Now at this point, I could barely drive with all the physical symptoms going on plus my anxiety was through the roof to the point I was having panic attacks, but God put His hands on me and I managed to drive to see this doctor. I had a two hour consultation with him and he listened intently to my whole history. I felt as if he truly listened to my each and every word. I was in tears telling him my story. He told me he gets a lot of patients like me who are at the end of their rope. He emphasized that I was not crazy and based on my symptoms, it sounded like my body was giving off all these red flags because something PHYSICAL was going on. He requested a whole host of tests including blood, urine and stool. Right away, gave me some supplements that would boost my immune system, supplements to help me sleep (I was only getting 1 hour of sleep at this point) and supplements to flush out toxins.
I went ahead and did all the tests he requested and began taking his supplements. It seemed like forever waiting for all the results. My standard blood test came back and showed that my cortisol levels, histamine count, sulfates and T3 were through the roof. The doctor told me my body was trying to fight something it couldn’t and it was important that I was taking the immune system boosting supplements.
Finally, after feeling like it was years when it was only a mere few months, the blood test I had done for infectious diseases came back. I had an answer as to what was making me so ill: I had two tick infections called Babesia and Bartonella.
I am not much of an outdoor person but when the doctor told me what was going on, I thought back and remembered chaperoning my daughter for a field trip that was at a nature reserve. We did go walking through high grasses and woods and I never thought to use bug spray. That indeed was “ground zero” and shortly after that day at the reserve, my symptoms started.
I was so relieved, things were finally making sense! After the doctor confirmed my results, I felt as if a 500 pound weight was lifted off of me. Now knowing I was battling duel tick infections, the doctor gave me lots of herbal tinctures and other tick-fighting supplements to take daily, in addition to the immune system supplements and vitamins.
After taking all of those supplements, I would say in a week I felt my symptoms diminishing slowly. And then the next week was a little better. And then the next week a little better. It was an incredible transformation! I was slowly but surely getting my life back to normal.
The most important step in this whole process was finding the right doctor. Sometimes you have to go through the motions to find that right doctor but when you do, it will change your life. With my experience, I read more on holistic healing and getting back to natural remedies that God already created for us and is already present here on Earth, not in the form of a pill or tablet processed in a lab.
Because of this, I wanted to reach out and help people who may have endured something similar to this. I want to provide the information I was provided and spread the word that not all hope is lost. With becoming more educated, we can keep our bodies and minds healthy.
Have you been through something similar? Please comment below!
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