18 years ago today I received my first bullshit ME/CFS and fibromyalgia diagnosis to hide my Gardasil 4 HPV vax injury. For years they told me I would recover, but never gave me any guidance, help or tips.
Instead I was left to rot.
What the doctors did give me was a litany of prescription drugs that harmed me further little by little, and year after year.
Please understand in 2008 I was a young adult with no life savings and back then I was left at the mercy of my family. My family did not trust out of network providers or functional medicine at all. They had heard nothing but horror stories. They believed the lie sold to general public.
It took many years and my family seeing minor improvements with more natural items I tried on my own to start to change their minds on the lies they believed. The final straw in changing their opinion was when someone online offered to sponsor/pay for me to see functional medicine provider outside of the system. They even let me research and decide who I wanted to see.
There can be recovery for some, and stabilization of symptoms for others.
The better the odds if caught early.
Please, if you know someone harmed by a vaccination or a viral infection like Covid, please encourage the individual and their families to get help outside of the system as soon as possible. The best weapon they can have in their back pocket is a functional medicine provider who also has traditional medical school training. This will help cut through much red tape, give them access to labs their traditional providers cannot/will not run, and also give them access to a combination of safer prescriptions alternative natural items to help them. If money is a problem for them, and you can afford to help them, please do that. Many patients and their families are broke.
While it is true that I research a lot of my problems on my own, functional assistance has helped me get the information to do that even more accurately. My functional providers listen to what I explain and agree with what I want to try or offer better options.
It has been 18 years, and I just started my journey almost a year ago with functional medicine.
It is never too late to get started.