[Note: This post may be updated in the future if more information is available.]
March 2022:
We showed up to our first appointment (on a Wednesday) with my new team of doctors (chiropractor and functional medical doctor). We had no idea what to expect since the chiropractor needed to better understand my body before he could talk about treatment. He first did acupuncture and some energy healing work. He then told us that my body was going to need treatment at least 3x per week for now. He didn’t say much more, but we scheduled our next appointment for 2 days later (Friday) and then 2 days after that (Sunday).
We kept up with our appointments with my team as they were scheduled. The chiropractor would use a combination of chiropractic adjustments, acupuncture, energy healing, and a difficult-to-explain type of biofeedback/muscle testing to support physical healing and to target pathogens. I had tried acupuncture previously, and I was definitely willing to do it again. We had not yet tried energy healing or this specific type of biofeedback/muscle testing, but we were open to both. It was definitely not conventional medicine, and I was sure if we told anyone else about these treatments that they would think we had lost our minds. So, we decided not to really say much to anyone until we had a better understanding of what we were doing.
About 2-3 weeks after starting treatment, the chiropractor said to me, “When I first met you, you were very close to dying. I didn’t want to tell you at the time, but you need to know how close you really were. Your body is a little better off now, but we have a long way to go. Don’t worry, though. You are going to be okay now.”
I responded by saying, “Yes, I know I was close to dying. I have been telling my husband, therapist, and a few others in my life for 6 months now that I knew I was dying. What you are saying makes sense compared to the sensations I have been experiencing in my body.”
At some point, he also said to us, “You asked for help from your angels, and here I am. We’ve crossed paths for a reason.”
We had not told him about the previous series of possibly connected events, so we were more than a little surprised by this comment. We weren’t sure if we aligned with his spiritual beliefs, but we have always been open to a variety of spiritual beliefs, and we will always be ready to receive whatever positivity and/or reassurance comes our way.
Around this same time, my dad called my husband to see if he had a subscription to Men’s Health magazine. My husband did not have a subscription, so my dad told my husband about an article that he just read in Men’s Health magazine. I was in the restroom when my dad called, but when I walked back into our living room, I overheard parts of the conversation. My dad was explaining that there was a man who had written an article that seemed to match some of my health situation. He was explaining that this man had become sensitive to almost everything in his life, and that he had other unusual symptoms as well. At this point, my dad didn’t know that we had just retested for Lyme and EBV, or that we had recently learned about MCAS, but he knew that the general theme of the article sounded familiar.
After overhearing parts of the conversation between my dad and my husband, I had my husband mute the call and told him that we should inform my parents about my new team of doctors. Based on the conversation, they seemed open and ready to hear about the next unconventional treatment plan we were trying, and they also seemed like they were a good practice run of trying to explain it to others. We tried our best to catch them up on the new treatment program, and we informed them that we weren’t ready to share with others since it was difficult to explain and it might seem like we had lost our minds. Regardless, we all agreed that it was important to try any type of treatment at this point. My life depended on it.
The very next morning, a person in one of the online SIBO communities we had joined to try to figure out our next steps had shared the link to the same exact Men’s Health article. Due to the knowledge I had recently gained from the online SIBO communities and the holistic health practitioner, I had previously discussed these topics with my new team of doctors, but I went ahead and sent the article to the chiropractor anyway. He told me that this article was a reminder that we were on the right path, and we needed to stay the course.
[In case you are interested, the link below is to the above-mentioned article in Men’s Health magazine. There are some key differences between our situations (e.g. I don’t have panic attacks or high levels of anxiety as this person described), but some of the other parts of the article sounded familiar: Men’s Health article link]
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