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I was diagnosed with the first autoimmune disorder in my mid twenties, which was a, with autoimmune thyroid disease. And after that, the diagnoses just kept coming. Um, finally about 10 years ago, I started to experience severe and recurrent infections and it didn’t make sense and they wouldn’t respond to antibiotics. And so about two and a half years ago, I was diagnosed with a primary immune deficiency, and was experiencing food sensitivities to gluten and other foods. And as well as cognitive issues, extreme brain fog. I wasn’t even able to drive for months on end cook. I was actually harming myself in the kitchen, burning myself and, and different things because I cognitively couldn’t process what was needed in order to just kind of do basic things and take care of my family. I had severe pain in my arms and legs, bone pain.
Um, and I have seven years ago was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia, which is a nerve disorder in my face. And so it’s considered to be the suicide disease. It’s so painful that people commit suicide rather than continue to suffer. And the medications that were treating that condition and keeping it under control, were no longer working. And so I was having to take so much anti-seizure medication just to keep that nerve disorder under control that I was not able to function cognitively… and so, about two years ago, I had to quit my job that I loved and basically spent about eight months in bed looking out the window, unable to watch television or read for several months at a time or take care of myself or my children at all. And after a lot of rest and extreme amounts of medication and hundreds and hundreds of doctor visits and hospitalizations, I was able to semi function for about the last year.
But things have over the last several months have started to take a turn again, since, since the last six or seven months, I’ve really began to decline back into that position where I couldn’t drive, take care of myself, and last fall I was hospitalized again, and really began to question my ability to, to, to just function in, in the world and, and also felt like a huge burden to my family, and wondered if it was even worth the burden. So I was diagnosed two and a half years ago by a clinical immunologist and began to tra to take infusions of the blood product. I also saw rheumatologists and neurologist. Obviously I had a highly skilled internal med doctor as my primary care, and I saw him almost every other week, sometimes more frequently. I used a chiropractor several times a week to work on adhesions in the fascia that he felt were causing me pain. I saw a naturopath for acupuncture, read every book I could get my hands on. Did thousands and thousands of hours of research. Talked to hundreds of people and a few weeks ago saw an another clinical immunologist who practices at the Mayo Clinic to confirm my diagnoses and make sure I was getting the right treatments. And he basically said this was a lifelong condition and that I could not expect, much improvement, if any, and that it was progressive. And so the decline would continue and that that was something I needed to define as my new normal.
So rock bottom for me really looked like, I could not tolerate the noise in my home with my children and my family, and so I needed to go away. And so I went to a friend’s home and required around the clock treatment. And I was really entertaining suicidal thoughts because I could not live in that kind of pain and that kind of agony anymore. It was not, it wasn’t worth it. And so I stayed over a week, um, away from my family understanding the pain this was causing to my young children, but I could not face them. I couldn’t see the looks on their faces and the pain it caused them to see their mom this way. A medical doctor friend of mine who was my boss at one time, I’ve worked nationally in the area of children’s advocacy and mental health and juvenile justice reform, um, been really successful in that field for 20 years.
Um, and I just texted her out of the blue because I knew that she had some sort of chemical problem. And so I texted her out of the blue a few months ago and she said, Dina, I healed myself with the DNRS. And she said, you have to do this. And so that moment I went to the website and I trusted this friend so much, not only as a friend and colleague, but also as a medical professional. And I thought, well, if it worked for her, then, I mean, why not? It’s my last resort. It’s my last hope to have any kind of normalcy and have any kind of an opportunity to take care of my children and reclaim my life and be productive in my work, which is my passion. And I’ve always really focused on my work as a coping mechanism.
And so when it got to the point that I couldn’t even work, I, I knew that I was at my, my rock bottom and my end. And so I went on the website and had the interview with Candy, and, and I still had a, an element of disbelief when I arrived at the program. And I was really nervous, unable to travel alone, required the assistance of a friend to get me here. And, definitely without a doubt, the best thing I’ve ever done for myself in 41 years was coming to this program, being a research based person. I really enjoyed all of the, the videos with the science behind the method. But stepping away from that kind of analytical approach that I tend to take, um, and just immersing myself into the method, um, I began to experience immediately this kind of release from the anxiety, um, the anxiety that comes with just living with chronic illness and not being able to predict day to day what, what you’re gonna feel like.
I began to feel control for the first time in many years about my own ability to affect my outcome of my life. The first day I did not even take my afternoon pain medication, anti-inflammatory because I never thought about it. And that never happens. I mean, I take that thing three times a day like clockwork. And so, the next morning, on the second day, I noticed that my digestion had improved. And I, and I have to worry about that constantly. And I, I wasn’t even thinking about it. Um, my energy was good. I felt happy and hopeful for the first time. And then by the third day, the reduction in pain in my arms and legs that I, I mean, I couldn’t even carry my own backpack because of the pain in my arms. I couldn’t unload groceries. I couldn’t, I mean, I, I, I was disabled.
I, walking through the grocery store was an impossibility most days. And so I was able to spend quality time after the program. So we’ve participated all day in the program with intensity, and then after the program, go out and enjoy the evening and take a two mile, almost a two mile walk, and then do my practice and have the cognitive ability to, to do all of that. So I started to believe that I am getting back to the 25-year-old enthusiastic person that I was 16 years ago before all of this started. And not only that, but the 25-year-old enthusiastic person with the wisdom and the experience that I’ve had since then. Uh, and, and this is the first day of my new life. This is the first day of Dina 3.0. So part of my coping mechanism has been that my story can be useful for other people, and it always has been. Both of my children have special needs, so special needs, parenting, advocacy. I, I understand the power of helping other people through your own experience. And that’s exactly what I plan to do. So I already have a list of people in my mind that I wanna speak to about this, and I would tell them, get Annie’s book, listen to my experience and the experience of others on the website, go to the website and do this for yourself. Either go to the program in person, which is absolutely the best thing you can do. And if that’s not possible, get the DVDs (updated: online course). This is without a doubt the most powerful thing that a person can do to reset this faulty wiring and have freedom. Freedom from pain and exhaustion and anxiety, and a new freedom, freedom in a new life.
