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When I was 14, I was swimming in a pool at a friend’s house and the dad had had a few drinks and he threw in some cool chemicals. And when I came out, I was covered in rashes all over my body. And from then on, my health got worse and worse. And by the time I was 18, 19, I’d been told I was anaphylactic to chemicals. So that was a really difficult process of ill health. And then I’ve struggled with it ever since. I’ve had some treatment that’s helped, but it’s been a, a big yo-yoing journey. My sensitivities crossed over, so it wasn’t just chemicals, it went into things like pine, wood smoke, citronella oil. It was, it was an ever-growing number of things. I guess at 14 I started with the basic route of going through the gp and that was a disaster.
He referred me to allergists who actually made me worse. And eventually at about the age of 1920, I saw someone who was quite good and diagnosed that it was chemical fme sensitivity, and I sort of stuck with him and, and similar doctors after that. But because of all the associated health stuff I’ve had, I’ve seen specialists for everything. I’ve had, gosh, so many different symptoms, so many different specialists. I also go to an osteopath or I went to an osteopath regularly to try and boost my lymph lymph glands and get my immune system back up. Lots of antibiotics for just things like the herpes virus or urinary tract infections. I went to Mexico about a year and a half ago thinking it would help me get better, and I came back with a parasite and I couldn’t shake it. So that’s been ongoing courses of antibiotics for that, and it’s just felt like anything going.
I would catch it when my health was good, I could deal with little bits of things, but as soon as I got a sort of medium level of exposure, like someone painting a house near me, then all sorts of symptoms would blow up…so I, I could never really get beyond that sort of, I can get up to here, but I can’t get healthier beyond that. Having had quite yo-yo health for a while. Last winter, about October, November, I was in a really bad place. I had moved. I couldn’t be at home in my flat in England because I was building work all around it, and it was making me sick, really sick. So I’d been sleeping in my car and the, it was quite cold in England, around the dark Heaths where I was and no public loos or anything like that.
And it wasn’t a great place. And my fiance got a job in Switzerland and I moved out with him and I must have looked at like 30 flats, 40 flats to find somewhere I thought I’d be healthy. And I found one and I said, this is great. We can move in here. And we moved in. And within days I was so sick, I was anaphylactic, I was on oxygen, I was taking steroids, I was having adrenaline, and I said, I just can’t be here. So I went back to being homeless, which is such a scary, scary place to be. And I started looking, researching on the internet and there’s a group, a sort of support group for people with chemical sensitivities. And I rang a woman who said she offered bed and breakfast accommodation that was chemical free. And she said, I’m really sorry I’m full. But there’s this great program called DNRS Systems. You’ve gotta do it and you don’t have to travel to them, they have DVDs, but just promise me that whatever happens, you’ll try it. I had what you’re going through and now I’m fine. And I sat there in this really bad place and I thought, wow, I’ve gotta try it. I mean, I’ve got nothing to lose. And I ordered the DVDs and as soon as I was slightly more settled, I started doing them and I started seeing big results just from doing the DVDs. I went from no being, I started them in February, I think, yeah, January, February. And I went from being in a place where I was really, really sick and struggling to even deal with kind of walking past people, wearing perfumes, going to the pub with my friends.
I would come back and I’d be exhausted for a couple of days. I went from that to coming here for the program in May where I took a 10 hour flight, and went through airports and everything. And for me, that was a really quick upwards trajectory. I mean, for me to get to that level in the past with other health treatments would’ve taken probably two years just to go from that bad place to that good place, that slightly better place. And for me, we’re talking a few months and I thought, wow, this is really good. And I mean, other stuff. So, before I came out here, I spent the weekend before in Barcelona, seeing friends. And the week before that I flew to Switzerland. The week before that I flew to London. So I’ve already, I’d gone from a place of being really housebound, well homeless, and then housebound to being a lot more normal, able to do stuff.
Coming to do the program is the most wonderful experience. It’s the first time in my life that I’ve been somewhere and felt quite normal anyway, because everyone is so nice and understanding and knows what you’re going through. So it feels like this incredibly supportive, wonderful space to be. And I kind of felt understood without anyone having to say anything, and the irony is you’re not allowed to talk about anyone’s symptoms, but that’s great because it creates this incredibly positive healing place. And what could be, I guess, could have been a depressing place with lots of sick people actually isn’t. It’s incredibly uplifting. Everyone’s on this journey together and it feels amazing. And I mean, coming here where they’re holding the program anyway, it’s a stunning place. So you really feel, I really felt connected with nature and happy and excited about it. And the program is just brilliant. I mean, it starts with, with Candy and Annie explaining the science behind it, and it’s so intelligent and it makes so much sense. And I went from genuinely thinking, even though I’d done the DVDs, even though I’d come a long way with them, there was still a part of me that thought, I’m hypersensitive to chemicals. That’s what I am. And my brain reacts to that. I hadn’t understood that it could be the other way around. And now I’ve come from a, now having done the program, I’m like, okay, there’s something going on in my brain and my body’s reacting to that. It’s my body that’s just doing what my brain tells it to do. And that is a really different understanding. And that’s helped me a lot because that means I have the control to change it. It’s not, my life is out of control. My neighbor lights a fire or paints a house, and my life dissolves. I can fix this. I can take control. And that is amazing and very, very powerful. So it, it feels really powerful. And the difference in the other people in this course is just amazing. I mean, there were people that came here and there were so, I mean, we’re talking about people who could hardly string a sentence together, hardly walk. And yesterday when the course finished, they were dancing and singing and laughing and smiling and chatting.
And it is just incredible, too incredible, to be able to make that transformation in so many people in a few days is just amazing. And it hasn’t even felt like hard work. Doing the DVDs felt like me on my own in a house slogging away at something. Being here has just been really, really fun. And I’ve loved every minute of it, and I haven’t been tired. I’ve just felt full of energy and it’s just been an amazing experience. So one thing I’ve realized since being here really is that I’m not on my own. And to anyone who has suffered with multiple chemical sensitivities or any sensitivities to fumes or smells of any thought or any other health problems that doctors can’t explain, I think that’s the key thing. There are so many stuff out there that doctors just can’t explain. And I would say to those people, you know, don’t feel you’re on your own.
Don’t feel there’s no hope. This, there is this amazing program, candy and Annie who run it are just wonderful. And they’ve been there. And that’s something really rare. Normally you go into a doctor’s waiting room and your doctor tells you what to do, but you have no sense that they really understand what it’s like and how black it can be when you feel hopeless and like no one can help you. And coming here completely threw all of those ideas out for me and made me realize I’m not on my own. There are people that know how to help me. It’s based on science and it works. And it only works when you really get stuck in and do it. You know, you, I could have read 10 books on this. I could have watched loads of stuff on the internet, and nothing would’ve been like actually being here, getting the coaching. You know, you, you watch other people and you see them go through the changes and it’s incredibly encouraging. And I would just say get on a plane if you can. If you can’t get the DVDs, and then when you’ve got a little bit of your health back, get on a plane or find a course in a country near you because it is just, oh, it’s fantastic. Absolutely life changing.
