Hello everyone,
So, I'm giving an update on my experience so far at the Sponaugle wellness Institute, I'm starting week 12 today, as it stands I'm considerably better, it's hard to put an exact ball park figure on it because of slight fluctuations in symptoms, I would say I'm around 45-60% better at times.
So what symptoms have improved/disappeared during my stay at the Sponaugle wellness centre?
To really answer this I have to do comparisons from 2006-2014 (the years I've been seriously ill at home) to the year 2015 when I started treatment at the Sponaugle wellness centre, so here goes:
2006-2014 - Anxiety: during these years my anxiety was ridiculous, I literally had agoraphobia by 2012, the thought of being away from my bedroom (my safe place) would send me into huge panic attacks. If I had doctor/hospital appointments I would pay for a private ambulance to take me just incase I had a seizure or fainted on the way. At one point I didn't leave my house for 2 years.
2015 - Anxiety: To get on the plane to fly to Florida was an ordeal in itself I probably took enough Clonazepam to kill a horse, after arriving at the condo it was around 3 weeks until I started treatment due to having blood tests and the Christmas break at the Sponaugle centre. Around 5 weeks into treatment It was my brother who mentioned that my anxiety levels were nearly gone, I was driving myself to the clinic, I drove to the beach (very big deal to me) went to a shopping centre (again a huge deal to me) and other things I would have never dreamed of before. Each week the volume of my anxiety is turned down, around once or twice a month I have a 'manageable' panic attack that subsides quicker then ever before.
2006-2014 - Depression: it was around 2009 that it hit me I was seriously depressed, having to be in bed most of the week whilst all of my friends were starting off with their careers, or having fun at the weekends, by 2013 I knew I was seriously in need of some professional help, antidepressants or anything, just to rid me of the horrible thoughts that wouldn't leave my mind, from the moment I woke to the moment I slept I just wanted to end it all, I had thoughts like 'what's the easiest way of ending it' or even trying to think of ways of making it look like an accident so my family didn't feel guilty after I'd gone.
2015 - Depression: Has completely gone and I haven't had a reoccurrence of it since my stay here, Dr Sponaugle did say that depression is usually one of the first symptoms to go and he wasn't wrong, I can't remember the exact scientific reason why but it's something along the lines of when you clear the toxins out of your brain the dopamine and serotonin receptors can be used more effectively. So again as it stands, except for feeling crappy some days from the drips, I have not had and depressed stages or thoughts :)
2006-2014 - Multiple Chemical Sensitivity:
This was one of my worse symptoms which grew over time to such a degree that if someone even wafted past me and they had just smoked a cigarette or had strong aftershave on my head would 'electrify' and i would be on my way to fainting, the same with deodorant, shower gel etc. The last time I drank alcohol was at my house on June the 27th 2010 (i remember it exactly as it was the day Germany beat England 4-1 in the World Cup 😡) that was the last time I drank, I was severely bedridden from a few beers for about
3 weeks with numerous trips to A+E because of the drink. In 2011 i once used mouthwash with alcohol in it and I had to go to hospital an hour later from seizure like episodes.
2015 - Multiple Chemical Sensitivity:
Again I didn't really realise when this symptom dyed down, my brother and I was walking through a shopping centre near to where we are staying over here and we walked past the aftershave and perfume aisle, around a minute later my brother remarked that I handled not reacting to the fragrances very well, it took a couple of seconds for it to sink in, but he was right I couldn't believe it, prior to treatment, that perfume aisle would be the equivalent of a poison factory to me. To further add to my MCS being suppressed, This weekend we went to a sports bar had dinner and were given a jug of Budweiser as part of our dinner package... Okay so nothing to be overly proud of but I shared a jug of beer with my brother with NO ill effects at all (other then feeling tipsy) I woke up in the morning and felt fine. Although I still get light headed and dizzy when I smell cigarette and cigar smoke.
2006-2014 - Seizures & Fainting:
The more the years went on the more I would feel very faint, I would be on the verge of fainting but never did, February 2013 was the first time I fell over and fainted, this happened out of the blue and I had done nothing out of the ordinary to cause this. After this episode I would have frequent seizure like episodes, I say 'seizure like episodes' as I shook violently but was always coherent to what was happening around me and never actually lost consciousness.
2015 - Seizures & Fainting: whilst I was waiting for the Christmas break to finish and to start being treated at Sponaugle I had a 'seizure like episode' on the 29th December 2014 it happened because I stood up to quickly. Touch wood since being treated I haven't even had one tingle in my brain which is usually the indicator that a seizure or fainting spell is due, I've been seizure and fainting free for 15 weeks now :)
Brain fog: this was a symptom that gradually got worse over time and didn't really realise until after my fourth/fifth week of treatment when it felt like a massive cloud had been lifted from my head, the only way I could explain the brain fog prior to treatment was like someone had
opened up my head and emptied sauce inside and sewed me back up! To date the brain fog has nearly gone, I still wake up at times with it or I can been driving and forget things, also during convosations but it has subsided substantially.
Two of my main symptoms that still remain are, fatigue and air hunger/breathlessness the fatigue subsides some days but still lingers and the breathlessness is quite a predominant symptom which occurs after heavy exertion, hopefully this goes soon. This being said on days I feel very well I do try and push myself with light exercise like, squats, push-ups, star jumps and stretches, but still non the less get the breathlessness and fatigue occurring during or very soon after but on a scale much more manageable scale then 2006-2014.
People often message me asking if anyone else has ever made any dramatic changes since I've been here, Ive seen people who've been at the clinic a lot longer then me who have been taken out of their wheelchairs, but never actually been present in their complete journey beginning to end. Last week I witnessed a girl in her teens who started the same time as me, she was so toxic with mould, benzene, lyme and co infections, she was constantly wheeled round by her mother, there is no polite way to put it but this girl was completely disabled, her head slumped to one side with seizures EVERY single day, I genuinely thought she had no hope in hell, on the Monday just gone I was sitting in the IV chair waiting for my drip. Little did anyone know over the weekend, said girl had been practising maneuvering without her wheelchair and WALKED over to the IV chairs followed by a parade of nurses congratulating her and sat down straight next to me and smiled! I could not believe my eyes! She was abit shaky and wobbly when walking which was completely understandable, she had been in that wheelchair for over 36 months, her mother explained to me that her Father had spent $575,000 dollars over 4 states and 30+ doctors with no major success, and within 12 weeks Dr Sponaugle has her walking again, to me that is borderline miracle.
Personally since being at the Sponaugle Wellness centre I've received :-
43 Detox IV drips including added Glutathione
10 Vitamin C 100cc drips
14 Phosphatidylcholine IV drips
10 Alpha Lipoic Acid IV drips
11 Rocephin Pushes
2 Hydrogen peroxide IV drips
7 Glutathione IV drips
Along with a lot of supplements and prescribed meds tailored to my needs which differ depending on my blood results which constantly change each week.
When I first arrived at Sponaugle they have you do what's called a Fry test, this is a sample of your blood zoomed in 400x and is stained with a special dye, it shows the thickness of your biofilm and what is caught up in your biofilm, in mine I have, bartonella, lyme spirochetes, babesia, protomyxzoa (from mosquitos) gut parasites and several different mould spores, my biofilm was VERY thick it looked like a paint brush had dolloped it's paint on the page of the test, 5 weeks later they had me redo the Fry test after several drips to check for improvement, and to my surprise, it had disintegrated significantly, the biofilm was covered it huge holes like a sponge (all the holes is where my immune system can now attack the nasties from what exits the biofilm) there was still bugs and parasites trapped in the biofilm but of a much lower significance. I'm due to have another Fry test next week and can't wait to see the results!
I'm currently on a gluten, dairy, sugar and wheat free diet, but tend to have a 'cheat day' once a week.
If anyone would like to see those fry results email me and ill send them over, or even just general info about
this post I'd be happy to answer any questions :)
Carl
Post Edited (CarlG) : 3/23/2015 1:31:59 PM (GMT-6)