Fitness and nutrition have always been important to me. I work out six days a week and take vitamins and supplements. I never really gave much thought as to how what I ate and drank, and even the air I breathed affected my body. That is, not until the day I lost my voice!

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For eight long and crippling years, I suffered with severe shoulder, neck and lower back pain accompanied by persistent joint swelling. In an effort to find relief from the increasing pain, I sought out and was treated by several world-renowned physicians in both Mexico and the United States.

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After two weeks of droopy right eye accompanied by sharp pain, I took myself to an optometrist. A week of appointments brought no information and no relief. I was told to seek the advice of a neurologist. One day after my initial consultation, I was told that I should prepare myself for a life involving Multiple Sclerosis. The neurologist began describing treatments I should be expecting, i.e. steroids.

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My introduction to Sierra Integrative Medical Center (SIMC) started when I accompanied my wife Julie, who was recovering from severe mercury poisoning and suffering from food allergies. The thoroughness of Julie’s exam and the genuine concern and professionalism of the SIMC staff made me ask myself the question, - would I benefit from a more thorough exam?

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I have a similar story to most Lyme sufferers… misdiagnosed, oral/IV antibiotics with some relief, but no cure. Then my immune system broke down and triggered HHV6 and the Epstein Barr viruses. But here’s the good part, I want other Lyme, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, and Lupus sufferers to be aware of, that there is hope!

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I was informed of my health crisis in July 1991, when I had a needle biopsy of a tumor in my right breast. A week later I was told by a California doctor that the lab results of this biopsy showed the tumor to be malignant. This doctor told me that I was in Stage III and that I need to have my breast removed plus the lymph nodes under my arm.

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My name is Robin Dutton and I used to have Multiple Sclerosis. I say used to because I believe wholeheartedly that I am cured or I am well on my way to being cured. Most people get scared and suspicious when you use the word cured, especially when you have been diagnosed with an incurable disease.

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My arrival at the Reno Clinic was preceded by about four years of rapidly declining health. Through the 70s I had been very active in outdoor activities such as skiing, hiking, biking, running, etc. January 1981 I got sick with flu, and over the next four years my health declined to the point that with the help of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Association I consider applying for Social Security disability.

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I am 16 years old and a junior in high school. I have dealt with various health issues since birth. As an infant, I had failure to thrive and was small for my age until the age of five. I saw many specialists during these years and was diagnosed with Russell-Siver Syndrome, a type of dwarfism. However, when I turned five, I began to grow and it became apparent that I would not be short in stature.

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In 1977, Joy awoke with a sudden and blinding headache. Emergency room physicians told her it was probably a migraine. Doubtful, Joy returned home only to find that two days later the pain was localized behind her eyes and she was losing vision, particularly in her left eye. Several specialists later, Joy’s condition was confirmed—multiple sclerosis. Two years later, Joy would be confined to a wheelchair .

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I was bitten by a tick in the spring of 1989 in Columbia, Missouri. At that time I did not make a connection between the bite, the bull’s eye rash, and my ensuing symptoms. As recorded in my journal, I soon developed night sweats, night terrors, irregular heartbeats and blurred vision. These symptoms subsided with time, but then I experienced a slow decline of my health.

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I had been sick for a very long time but by 1991, I was significantly worse. I had been under the care of a physician for what was diagnosed as migraines. These devastating headaches dictated my life—my six weeks of vacation time were scheduled around my headaches. They would last anywhere from 3 to 10 days in duration and I would get them every 3 to 4 weeks.

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I was a sophomore in college, a very active sophomore in college. O.k., I was entirely too active. With that said, when I started feeling extremely tired during the day, I wasn’t completely surprised. I began to get to the point that I was so fatigued I couldn’t study, much less do the things that I enjoyed. I wasn’t depressed. I didn’t lack the desire to accomplish my goals, I just lacked the energy.

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At my worst I could hardly get out of bed long enough to eat and digest my food. I had debilitating allergic reactions (thousands of them – up to 8 times a day) which caused inflammation in my head and throat, with swelling and pain that was unbearable. It felt as if my head would explode.

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After being in good health, I was told on July 2, of 1997, that I had kidney cancer. Just like everybody else that gets that kind of news, I was shocked. My left kidney was removed on July 7th. After the biopsy came back two days later, I was given the news by the doctor that I had 6-24 months to live. I had Renal Cell carcinoma, Stage 4 Kidney Cancer, with metastatic to the lymph nodes. I did a lot of calling to find hope.

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Hi my name is Jaclyn Phelps and I am 13 years of age. When I was 9, I was really short for my age because the doctors said my bones were two years younger than my age. That kept getting worse and worse so the doctors eventually wanted to make me get growth hormones Then I developed chronic Kidney infections because of a Kidney reflux and so I needed antibiotics everyday.

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When I was sixteen, I was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma, which is a type of bone cancer. The cancer was located in my lower left leg, and extended from my ankle up to my knee. My conventional treatment consisted of surgery to remove the tumor, as well as aggressive chemotherapy.

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I couldn’t move my hands when I tried pushing myself off the couch. The rest of my body was moveable. At first, I figured they were numb from sleeping on them. When after awhile, I still couldn’t move them, I started panicking and got scared. We called our son, he carried me to the car, since I couldn’t stand or walk by myself. And they took me to the emergency.

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Sheila had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1980 and her health had been gradually deteriorating until she finally became bedridden in 1985. The trip to Reno was the last resort for us. In June of 1996, I carried her in my arms through the front doors of the clinic.

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Most of my symptoms were somewhat fleeting and waxing and waning. All of this was punctuated by the intermittent taking of a series of antibiotics, some of which would seemingly work for a while, but less so with each renewed need and application. I turned to increasingly potent anti-inflammatories, including Prednisone.

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I had little indication that there was a health problem until the day I collapsed with chest pain, palpitation, numbness in both arms, inability to move. My physician subsequently diagnosed me as having mitral valve prolapse and arrhythmia even though my Electrocardiogram is normal and there was no history of heart problems on either side of my family for 3 generations.

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The diagnosis is confirmed by Mayo Clinic Laboratory – severe mercury poisoning! Mercury amalgams were replaced, mercury was chelated from my tissues and blood system, two root canals were extracted, and I had been on an antifungal program for two years.

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I had fibroid tumors and cysts on my ovaries one the size of a nerf football. My thyroid was starting to fail. The Doctors diagnosis was “nothing can be done. Just take these pills and inhalers”. We finally had had enough.

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In 2004, I started noticing a decline in my health. I would come down with a cold, and it seemed to never completely go away, which lead to one antibiotic after another.  I developed sporadic rashes, but the cause was never determined. Sleeping patterns changed and I would start feeling overwhelmed by everyday tasks.

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I was only 38 years old, and it didn’t matter what medications I was on for asthma, there is no way that all of these pains were normal. As an endurance athlete we learn to suffer and push through pain.  This is most likely why I went so long just adapting to such painful symptoms that would have debilitated others much earlier.  However, the human body is not supposed to be in daily pain and the presence of such pain is evidence of infection or virus.

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Name: Don O'Gorman
Subject: Lyme Disease, Chronic Fatigue, Eye Vision Problem, Ear and Hearing Disorders, Skin Disease, Thyroid Problems and Vasculitis
I was experiencing Memory Loss, Insomnia, Anxiety, Vertigo, Urologic Disorder and Joint and Back Pains so I returned to the Sierra Integrative Medical Center. They use special lab equipment to diagnose patients on an individual basis and this time I was diagnosed with Lyme disease.

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Name: Scott Hughes
Subject: Lyme Disease

In 2004 I suffered from three bouts of bronchitis which two of them became pneumonia. I never fully recovered from that year. After that about every six months I would feel a general malaise which was always met with take a week worth of antibiotics and some steroids and be ok for a few more months and then crash again.

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