New Therapies

12/16/13

A couple weeks after the first appointment with my new doctor Dr. R, I saw his colleague who was a Nurse Practitioner and Certified Nurse Midwife.  Dr. R had trained her in the types of therapies he did in office, and she brought her own knowledge from her own work history.  We shall call her Nurse J.  Nurse J did a lot of muscle testing on me, and found that my body was deficient in vitamin C.  She suggested that I supplement with it regularly and to make sure also that I take vitamin C with either rose hips or bioflavonoids.   She also suggested that I consider doing vitamin C IV therapy.  (Below is a list of things Nurse J recommended I consider and look into.  Interestingly, she is the first in a long list of practitioners that will tell me laughing is good medicine, and I should do it on a regular basis.)

I had considered vitamin C IV thereapy in the past and had looked into it at one point, but I wasn't quite sure where to go for it, and I wasn't sure that it was entirely necessary.  It wouldn't hurt by any means, but I just wasn't sure I needed it to make a full recovery.  I was doing very well.  After some contemplation and consideration, I decided that it wouldn't hurt to go for a consultation.  Nurse J had recommended a place in a town just west of me, so I made an appointment.

The interesting thing about this place is that it was run by a man that is both a chiropractor and a naturopathic doctor.  His wife is a nutritionist, and his business partner is also a chiropractor.  I saw his business partner, and I feel lucky that I did.  We shall call him Dr. T.

The first thing that I did when I got to their office was do the paperwork.  I then started my whole body assessment with live and dry blood analysis.  This was done by the nutritionist.  She noted that there was a fair bit of fungus and yeast seen in the live blood analysis.  With the dry blood analysis, she was able to see quite clearly that I had vitamin C deficiency.  She showed me the vitamin C ring as they called it which was a sign of deficiency.

Next, I was to be assessed by Dr. T.  He went over my history in detail, and then he proceeded to test me for food intolerances.  He stated a big reason for yeast and fungus in the blood was eating food that caused inflammation in my body.  Below is a list of my results...

Some things on this list did not surprise me at all like the gluten/wheat and the soy as they are widely known to cause major issues especially if they have been genetically modified.  (Almost 95% of soy and soy products have been changed to a genetically modified organism or GMO product.)

The big things that surprised me were that I am intolerant to brown rice but not white rice.  I also tested to be intolerant to most coconut products, sweet bell peppers, tomato, and cabbage.  The biggest shock was the intolerance to potatoes though.  This was such a shock because it is such a big part of the Gerson therapy protocol.  I was supposed to eat it twice a day in some form.

With these assessments out of the way, we now come to the recommendations from Dr. T.  Of course he recommended the IV vitamin C therapy due to the ring seen on my dry blood analysis, but with that he also recommended that I consider a treatment called ultraviolet blood irradiation or UBI.

UBI is also called BioPhotonic or Photoluminescence therapy.  UBI is a way to clean the blood.  What they do is take about 50 mL of blood from my body, and then they run it through a machine that can kill harmful bacteria, fungus, yeast, and other inflammatory organisms that can be found in blood.  Once done, the blood is then returned back into your body via an IV.  This allows the body's own immune system to recognize the dead inflammatory products and let your body take over from there.  (This is very basic information, so for more information on UBI, Google it or here is one link I found helpful:  http://www.wycoffwellness.com/treatments/ultraviolet-blood-irradiation.)

So, I had a lot to consider.  I did my research, and I figured both therapies seemed helpful, and even if they weren't overly helpful, they would not harm me in any way.  I was also very interested in boosting my immune system any way possible.  It was recommended that I start with 5 sessions, and then sit down and reassess with the live and dry blood analysis again to see if there were any improvements.

Overall, I felt very comfortable with Dr. T.  He seemed like he genuinely cared about me as a patient.  He was very open with his opinions, but understood that I as a patient had to do what was personally right for me.  I loved his personality and his openness in general.  He was also willing to test the supplements I was using to make sure they were compatible with my body.  I was happy that he was so willing to help, but it also made me want to become a bit more comfortable with all forms of muscle testing in general. I was determined to learn and become more proficient with muscle testing or applied kinesiology rather than rely on others to do it for me.  

My New Doctor

11/15/13

By the end of October I knew that I was in need of some more support from my healthcare professionals in general.  I really was only being followed by my surgeon, and as straightforward and up front as he was (these are some things I really appreciate in a doctor), he was less than supportive of my treatment choices.  In fact, it seemed like every time I saw him I would leave feeling depressed and defeated.  He just seemed so negative even when things were pointing in a positive direction. 

With the help of my mom, I was able to get into one of her doctors as a patient.  He was a general practice doctor, but had lots of experience with practicing in a whole mind, body, spirit mindset.  He was also willing to be a support and an advocate for me.  Still to this day I don't know whether he thinks my choices are right or wrong, but he is able to support my decisions no matter what.  We shall call him Dr. R.

I first saw and consulted with him the first part of November.  It was an amazing visit, and coming from what I was used to feeling from a doctor, his visit was so easy and a huge breath of fresh air.  He understood that I was doing a certain therapy which included diet and other treatments, and he didn't even question it.  He did ask that I look into some other supplemental treatments though.  He gave me some information and asked me to research it and get back to him.

The first thing he recommended was that I look into a Dr. Hamer originally from Germany and his German New Medicine.  Basically this man Ryke Geerd Hamer, MD a head internist in an oncology unit at the University of Muncih made a hypothesis that most cancer (and most disease for that matter) starts from some sort of unexpected shock or trauma.  This hypothesis came after Dr. Hamer's son was tragically killed, and then he soon after developed testicular cancer.

He found that most of the patients he saw also had unexpected events that led up to their diagnosis.  From his studies he was able to correlate the disease with a certain part of the brain and image them it with the help of CT.  He was able to also make a list of common relationships between conflict emotions and target emotions and almost make a map of the body.  Of course this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to German New Medicine and Dr. Hamer.  We will keep it simple here, but there are many sites online you can look to for information if interested.

So my sweet doctor basically wanted me to see that this is most likely not something caused by just genetics or just environment or just stress but a conglomerate of many different things.  Since it most likely is caused by many things, we should treat not just physically, and possibly go deeper to an emotional and spiritual level and take care of that too.

Next Dr. R recommended that I go to a friend of his to help me work out some of my emotional issues.  I was willing to do my work to stay healthy, so I was agreeable.  I would also see Dr. R monthly for his own sessions, and I would see one of his partners at his practice in between his visits to make sure I was really being diligent on working out my issues.  

I was thrilled to have such a caring supportive team member in my corner.  I felt like I could really talk to him and I didn't have to worry about holding back at all.  I had no fear of showing my emotions in front of him or feeling weak.  I would never do that with any of my other doctors.  I felt like I always had to be strong.  Feelings really weren't allowed while at other doctor appointments only logic and reason were.  It felt like they really just didn't know what to do when someone showed they had feelings because in an way they had lost their humanness.

I felt great, and I felt like I was really moving in the right direction.  Yay!