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My life has dramatically changed in the past year. I have been severely sick since October 2017. Everyday I wonder why I have become so sick after leading such a seemingly healthy and happy lifestyle. I wake up extremely exhausted and the severe fatigue never leaves. I have intense pain in every muscle in my whole body and I have constant joint pain. In addition, I have constant severe neck and spine pain with pain that wraps around my kidneys. I have had a headache for ten months now in the right front quadrant of my head. I have severe GI problems and constant pain in my entire abdominal area. My eyeballs have hurt for the last four months and it is hard to open them when the pain escalates, especially when the sun is out. Some of my other daily symptoms include severe brain fog and panic episodes from all the pain. The unexplained weight gain of forty pounds this summer and the inability to attend regular school because of this illness brings me down. Every morning I wake up and I don’t want to get out of bed because I am so exhausted and I know that a day of pain and suffering awaits me. All of the regular doctors and specialists that I have seen, don’t know what is wrong with me so they have given me no plan of recovery. I am so thankful for natural medicine and expert naturopathic doctors. This is the only way that we have gotten some direction for recovery. Unfortunately, none of these alternative doctors, treatments, testing, or herbal remedies are covered by our insurance, that is why, as we continue to seek specialists with allopathic medicine, I need your help to continue the protocol that I am on, that is helping. I am recovering, but very, very slowly. The money that you donate will help my parents to be able to afford to continue to help me. Through several mineral tissues analyses, evaluation of all my myriad of blood tests and other alternative diagnostic testing, I have been diagnosed by the naturopathic, integrated medicine specialist with severe copper toxicity (for a 3 minute overview of copper toxicity, please see this link: https://www.samanthagilbert.com/copper/),
adrenal burnout, leaky gut, amenorrhea, candida, dysbiosis, possible Lyme disease, and extreme whiplash symptoms from our car being rear-ended last December. With this doctor’s care, I went from absolutely no motility in my gut last February, which caused me to be hospitalized for six days in the Acute Pediatric Department of UC Davis, to improved motility now. This was after five other ER visits. These hospital visits resulted in no diagnosis at all and no treatment plan, no dietary plan, and just worsening symptoms. And eventually a referral to see a psychiatrist! (He determined my symptoms were not in my head). Now I currently have over 30 severe symptoms but I have improvements in several of them and I am not worse. My extreme insomnia is resolved, my GI motility is improved, my extremely low blood pressure (81/51) is now more normal (112/70). My extreme abdominal bloating episodes are way less frequent and I haven’t been to the ER since May. I am on a very low carb diet that consists of veggie soup, simple protein, and a healthy oil diet with occasional salads (still absolutely no fruit, no dairy, gluten, sugar, complex carbs or grains) My future plan includes getting a second opinion with a Seventh Day Adventist Functional Medicine MD, which is not covered by our insurance. Either Dr. Neil Nedley MD, President of Weimar Center of Health and owner of Nedley Clinic, or Dr. Mark Holthouse MD, FAAFP in El Dorado Hills, California. These are both minimum $2,000 down and then pay for each appointment, treatment and test. I need to continue the chiropractic care, acupuncture (for pain management), and natural supplements (including supervising and modifying them) to continue my slow recovery. This already cost our family over $15,000 in the past year. My parents bought a infared sauna, and I will be using that to continue the heavy medal detox, but if we could purchase a transdermal ozone machine, my heavy medal detox would probably be reduced to one year instead of two to four years. These are around $5-7,000. We will continue the bentonite clay baths and liver/kidney poultices but would like to include a regular SDA 10 day cleansing program which is $2,500-3,000, (not including travel). The supplements that I am taking to reduce inflammation, support and heal my adrenal function, support my liver, heal my digestive system, eliminate candida, heal leaky gut and normalize dysbiosis are unfortunately expensive but effective. My prognosis from the integrated medicine doctor is not fast but recovery should be 100%, so that's bad news and good news. I really miss being normal and pain free! This has changed my parents' lives too as I have been transported to so many appointments, tests, treatments and hospitals, and my mom has spent hours on the phone with doctors and doing research and then the regular doctors have given me no hope at all and no plan at all! Thank you in advance for help with my GoFundMe, please put me on your prayer list and thank you all who have been praying for me already.
One of the many severe GI episodes over the last year.
Admitted to Acute Pediatric Department of UC Davis Sacramento through the ER for 6 days. Upper and lower endoscopies done with biopsies...inconclusive. Discharged with worse symptoms and no diagnosis.
Severe Abdominal episode in the hospital.
One of the many ER visits, pain medicines from morphine to torodol to dilaudid had no effect.
ER visit.
Many Abdominal X-rays preformed. Also many ultrasounds and abdominal CAT scans.
Normal spine vs. my severe inflammation and spine pain.
Natural remedies have included castor oil packs,
And charcoal poultices over the liver and kidneys.
Infared sauna treatment started this summer and continue 4-5 days a week.
Bentonite clay baths to pull poisons out of the skin and reduce toxins from coming out of the overworked liver.
Hyperbaric oxygen chamber treatments for 8 days every six months (our friends have this set up in Washington state where we have traveled twice this year).
How I feel everyday, but most of the time I hide it.
Just over a year ago, I was perfectly normal.
Just hanging out with my brothers, full of joy and excited about my future.
Thank you for reading this much, and praying for me to return to my happy, healthy self. I can't wait, but I know God is teaching me patience and courage and I pray he can use me for His glory.
adrenal burnout, leaky gut, amenorrhea, candida, dysbiosis, possible Lyme disease, and extreme whiplash symptoms from our car being rear-ended last December. With this doctor’s care, I went from absolutely no motility in my gut last February, which caused me to be hospitalized for six days in the Acute Pediatric Department of UC Davis, to improved motility now. This was after five other ER visits. These hospital visits resulted in no diagnosis at all and no treatment plan, no dietary plan, and just worsening symptoms. And eventually a referral to see a psychiatrist! (He determined my symptoms were not in my head). Now I currently have over 30 severe symptoms but I have improvements in several of them and I am not worse. My extreme insomnia is resolved, my GI motility is improved, my extremely low blood pressure (81/51) is now more normal (112/70). My extreme abdominal bloating episodes are way less frequent and I haven’t been to the ER since May. I am on a very low carb diet that consists of veggie soup, simple protein, and a healthy oil diet with occasional salads (still absolutely no fruit, no dairy, gluten, sugar, complex carbs or grains) My future plan includes getting a second opinion with a Seventh Day Adventist Functional Medicine MD, which is not covered by our insurance. Either Dr. Neil Nedley MD, President of Weimar Center of Health and owner of Nedley Clinic, or Dr. Mark Holthouse MD, FAAFP in El Dorado Hills, California. These are both minimum $2,000 down and then pay for each appointment, treatment and test. I need to continue the chiropractic care, acupuncture (for pain management), and natural supplements (including supervising and modifying them) to continue my slow recovery. This already cost our family over $15,000 in the past year. My parents bought a infared sauna, and I will be using that to continue the heavy medal detox, but if we could purchase a transdermal ozone machine, my heavy medal detox would probably be reduced to one year instead of two to four years. These are around $5-7,000. We will continue the bentonite clay baths and liver/kidney poultices but would like to include a regular SDA 10 day cleansing program which is $2,500-3,000, (not including travel). The supplements that I am taking to reduce inflammation, support and heal my adrenal function, support my liver, heal my digestive system, eliminate candida, heal leaky gut and normalize dysbiosis are unfortunately expensive but effective. My prognosis from the integrated medicine doctor is not fast but recovery should be 100%, so that's bad news and good news. I really miss being normal and pain free! This has changed my parents' lives too as I have been transported to so many appointments, tests, treatments and hospitals, and my mom has spent hours on the phone with doctors and doing research and then the regular doctors have given me no hope at all and no plan at all! Thank you in advance for help with my GoFundMe, please put me on your prayer list and thank you all who have been praying for me already.
One of the many severe GI episodes over the last year.
Admitted to Acute Pediatric Department of UC Davis Sacramento through the ER for 6 days. Upper and lower endoscopies done with biopsies...inconclusive. Discharged with worse symptoms and no diagnosis. Severe Abdominal episode in the hospital.One of the many ER visits, pain medicines from morphine to torodol to dilaudid had no effect.ER visit.Many Abdominal X-rays preformed. Also many ultrasounds and abdominal CAT scans. Normal spine vs. my severe inflammation and spine pain. Natural remedies have included castor oil packs, And charcoal poultices over the liver and kidneys.Infared sauna treatment started this summer and continue 4-5 days a week. Bentonite clay baths to pull poisons out of the skin and reduce toxins from coming out of the overworked liver.Hyperbaric oxygen chamber treatments for 8 days every six months (our friends have this set up in Washington state where we have traveled twice this year).How I feel everyday, but most of the time I hide it. Just over a year ago, I was perfectly normal. Just hanging out with my brothers, full of joy and excited about my future.
Thank you for reading this much, and praying for me to return to my happy, healthy self. I can't wait, but I know God is teaching me patience and courage and I pray he can use me for His glory.