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Recovery from
Hypoglycemia, Endometriosis, Thyroid Disease, Chronic Fatigue, Stress and
more...
By my early to
mid 20s, I had so many chronic diseases that while giving my history to my Doctor’s
nurse, she looked at me and said “Wow, most women twice your age don’t have ½
the problems you do!”.
At thirty-three, I have had a total of 8 pelvic surgeries
for endometriosis, chronic ovarian cysts, repeat miscarriages, chronic pelvic
pain, and at 23 the precursor to cervical cancer known as cervical dysplasia.
I first started my studies in Natural Health in my desperation to "do something"
for my chronic pelvic problems. My doctor concluded "you are just going to
have to have surgery about every 18-24 months before it gets so bad we'll have
to clean you out." My ovulation pain would be so bad it would result
in a
trip to the emergency room. I told several of my GYNs and ER Docs "for
some reason I seem to have these ovarian and pelvic pain episodes after eating Chinese
food". Of course they thought I was crazy - I did too but I couldn't
accept it as "coincidence". I had it happen too many times to
ignore this link. I am a person of science and for every action there is a
reaction. I also absolutely believe EVERY thing happens for a
reason. Albert Einstein said it best - "God doesn't play dice with the
Universe".
At that point I made the mistake of letting a doctor talk
me out of natural treatments including supplements and herbs to treat my chronic pelvic problems.
The medical establishment has so ingrained doctors into believing foods,
vitamins and minerals can be harmful since the FDA doesn't regulate them.
This, of course, is utterly ridiculous. In my experience, good ole safe
Tylenol damages more kidneys and livers than any other drug on the market.
While studying, I worked as a controller for a excess risk underwriter.
The only claims we had were catastrophic so we had a fair amount of transplants.
Since most basic transplants run at least $300,000, I was the first notified of the
exceptionally large claims. Liver and Kidney transplants were the most
common. Frequently they had the same thing in common...Daily usage of
Tylenol usually for some type of chronic pain.
Doctors won't or wouldn't say boo to us if we ate that junk the FDA does
approve - That stuff would probably glow in the dark!
Not to mention, the FDA approved the use of the most non-radioactive neurotoxin
on the planet into children's vaccines and RhoGam to be given to prenatal and
postnatal mothers. In addition, when you look at the FDA's track record of
the drugs they are allowing on the market without sufficient study, it is
appalling. So what makes the FDA so important in all this?... Don't
get me started!
Anyway
back to my story.... I thought the diagnosis of autoimmune thyroiditis would be
a turning point in my life and health since it would explain the strange
muscular, joint, bone and sometimes even organ pain I experience. Also, the
doctor told me "your stiffness, muscle weakness, inability to concentrate,
depression, anger and irritability, Fibromyalgia pains, and chronic fatigue
should go away once we put you on hormone replacement and get your levels
stabilized". My Internist changed my thyroid medication when
treatment was unsuccessful for these symptoms.
I later learned through muscle testing, I developed an allergy after a course of
oral antibiotics to the Synthyroid I was taking. This of course
exacerbated my symptoms.
My Hashimoto's (autoimmune) thyroiditis diagnosis became a
nuisance more than a help. Every time I had a new symptom thyroid disease became the
catch all. Although traditional medicine really didn't have a means for
determining what was wrong with me. I had been tested for Lupus,
Rheumatoid Arthritis, Mitral Value Prolapse, Celiac Disease, and I think at some
point Multiple Sclerosis. I've had Upper G-Is, Lower G-Is, more
ultrasounds than you can count, EEG, EKGs, Cat scans and probably a bunch of
other invasive or semi-invasive tests. Nothing significant ever came back
on these tests.
After 3
or 4 years on a “Therapeutic Dose” of my thyroid medication, I was still just as
symptomatic as ever, although now I began to have regular heart palpitations.
This would scare me to death and cause great bouts of insomnia, which would add
to the chronic fatigue and weakness. But my biggest problem was the severe
muscle weakness, stiffness and utter exhaustion upon waking. I told my
Doctor over and over, "The more sleep the worse (more tired, drained and unable
to physically function) I feel!" In addition saying, "I feel even worse in
the fall and winter. I'll be feeling great until the time changes and then
I get so drained - But then the severe insomnia will start". I had no idea
what was going on and Neither did my Doctors. At that point the
conversation would typically go in the direction of "well let's see what your
thyroid is doing and go from there". Of course my thyroid tests would
always come back in normal limits.
I started gaining so much weight for no reason. Even
on a strict "negative calorie diet" I actually stayed the same or possibly
gained a pound. I did Suzanne Sommer's diet with other people who were
dropping a ridiculous amount of weight while I continued to gain. I had
just about lost my appetite completely and barely ate enough to keep a bird
alive.
In addition to what I’ve previously mentioned, I also had
irritated bowel syndrome, sciatica, chronic bacterial infections and severe
hypoglycemia to the point of having seizures when I was younger. Because of the
hypoglycemia, I was used to a very restrictive diet. If I even eat fruit or
refined carbs, I would have terrible mood swings, anger, irritability, and as my
blood sugar levels were to drop off drastically I would have fatigue, weakness,
dizziness, and depression.
Since I
knew if I were ever going to have a successful pregnancy, I would have to watch
everything I put into my body. I continued my education and research of
natural health, nutrition, and preventative medicine extensively. Despite
my best efforts of a very restrictive diet and supplements, I had a very
difficult pregnancy with 11 weeks on total bed rest carrying twin girls.
My team
of prenatal doctors included a Reproductive Endocrinologist, Maternal Fetal
Specialist, and a high risk OB/GYN. I read a book by a high risk OB/GYN
who specialized in multiples. She had successfully brought 2 sets of quads
to 32 and 33 weeks and consistently brought twins full term. This is
absolutely unheard of. This Doctor's book had cited study after study on
the nutritional differences in American women who have an extremely high rate of
premature babies vs. European women who have very little. In her protocol
she used high levels of magnesium and cod liver oil. Eating fish was one
of the largest nutritional differences in these studies. Since I eat very
little sea food, I started bringing up natural health to my doctors (who are
touted as some of the best Doctors in Atlanta and surrounding areas). Again, my
doctors told me supplementing with higher levels of magnesium weren't needed and
not to use cod liver oil. Then as soon as they couldn't keep the
contractions at bay, what do you think was the first thing they prescribed?
Magnesium sulfate which is a rather nasty drug, anyone who has ever been on it
will tell you..
Within a week or two of receiving my first RhoGam injection
(which would have contained mercury at the time), I developed preterm labor and
had to start uterine monitoring. Within a matter of days following my
second dose of mercury in my second RhoGam injection, I had to be hospitalized
for pre-term labor. Ultimately my body couldn't handle the mercury and
developed severe pre-eclampsia. I had to deliver them 9 ½ weeks early by
c-section to save my life and theirs.
Then when my daughter, Hannah, was diagnosed with autism in
June of 2003, my life’s passion or mission really, was to find a natural cure for
her. All the while, her doctors were telling me it is hopeless and there is no
cure for autism. I could not and would not accept this. I thank God every day
that I couldn’t because after becoming obsessed with diet and supplementation
and implementing what I had learned she no longer fits on the Autism spectrum.
Then I too had an absolute turning point in my healing
journey.
It came a few months after I started fighting for my daughter Hannah's mind.
As usual upon waking my legs were very weak. Sarah (Hannah's normal twin)
begged me to carry her down the stairs. I did but my legs were still too
weak. They gave way and I fell down the stairs with daughter in hand.
Sarah was fine because my Mommy instinct kicked in. I thought I had
broke my ankle but she was absolutely fine - Thank you God!
Scared but physically ok.
I decided right then and there I would no longer accept... "that is common". "It is probably just"...
"Your probably under stress"... "Your thyroid medication may need
adjusting"... Blah, Blah, Blah... I would fight for
my health with the same gumption as I did Hannah's! After having some success, bucking the medical establishment (if you will) with treating my
daughter’s autism, I decided not to accept my “hopeless medical prognosis”
either.
One
night I had watched a special on Nova about Quantum Mechanics and string theory
(which I believe is right on the verge of being proven). I must say I was
absolutely intrigued. A lot of it went over my head but I had learned
enough to find it fascinating. Then someone whom I have a great deal of
respect for, sent me a link for a series of lessons from Dr. Robert Anthony
titled
"Know how to be rich". It was
all about using the law of Quantum Mechanics to attract whatever you desire.
My only desire was to heal Hannah and myself and to somehow receive enough money
to do so.
I still
use Dr. Anthony's techniques regularly - Which I find absolutely invaluable and
probably the best money I have ever spent. Every time I use them I am
amazed at how whatever I set my intentions on just seems to come to me most
unexpectedly. My intentions just put me into "right places at the right
times and meeting the right people". These experiences have lead me (more
like pulled me) down a path I wasn't looking to take. It is hard to try to
explain these events. Also, Dr. Anthony's program was the first mention I
had ever heard about verbal muscle testing. He uses verbal muscle testing
to evaluate psychological reversal. Wanting/thinking something with your
conscious mind and holding a conflicting subconscious view or belief. I
have incorporated some popular psychological reversals in the universal vial.
Upon correction, it won't "reprogram" your subconscious but it will take away
the stress that conflict causes. I have developed some entrained audio
programs for subconscious reprogramming. They are affirmations that good
for attracting those things which you want but usually have psychological
reversals.
When I
first learned about Kinesiology and Muscle Testing. I couldn't understand
it. I kept trying to make it so complicated. I'm not entirely sure
the book (The
Natural Medicine Guide to Autism)
I
was reading explained it clearly. Although it is definitely
something you need demonstrated. I had no idea where to get this
demonstration or find a practitioner so I just filed it away in my brain for
later. I planned on looking for a practitioner if after reading all the
treatment options in this book, if it was still something I wished to explore
further.
Then in
one of those bizarre series of events that had to go exactly a certain way to
reach the outcome... I stumbled on an advertisement while packing dishes
(the only ad my eye saw or was attracted too) in a newspaper I NEVER read that
said something like "Is your thyroid making you fat? How your thyroid
tests can be in "normal" ranges but you still have symptoms... Come to our
free seminar etc." I went and the rest is, as they say, history...
The
seminar was all about endocrine disruptors (chemicals or foods that mimic and
thus treated as hormones) plugging up the cell receptor sites to block a
hormone's ability to communicate with that cell. Meanwhile, blood test
only measure the amount of hormones in the body. They can't tell the body
can't use the hormones. The only way to treat such issues is with energy
work by retraining or re-identifying these harmful chemicals. This
particular clinic used a method called Body Restoration Technique and this
method can be found on my
Acupressure Comparison Grid. At
the end of the seminar he briefly went into muscle testing and asked for a
volunteer. I jumped out of my seat before anyone else could even process
what he was saying.
I was
absolutely shocked that muscle testing actually worked. I must admit I was
so negative on the subject that I had made comments prior to experiencing it
that it sounded like "Californian New Age Crap". Then I would back peddle
my comments because I would realize others have said that about a gluten (wheat,
barely, rye and oats) free and casein (dairy) free diet which was a big piece of
my daughter's healing and full recovery.
Almost
right away, I started my program using BRT and my daughters started with NAET.
Over the course of five months we spent around $6,000 with absolutely no end in
sight. While we had seen some improvement, the expense was too much to
just continue on indefinitely. I decided to learn how to do corrections
myself. However, NAET, BRT and BioSet (which I was unfamiliar when I first
started looking) were only available to Doctors. I was considering
studying to become a Naturopathic Doctor but didn't want to wait. Anyone,
who has a young child with autism knows... That clock is ticking!!! Also, at that time I was really
getting concerned with NAET as a long term solution anyway. I had heard of
too many people redeveloping their allergies. I brought up these concerns
to an acquaintance of mine and he sent me the link for Health Kinesiology.
There
were several things that really intrigued me about Health Kinesiology (HK) the
first being the use of verbal muscle testing. The second was the body
determining the order of the correction. Also, it is more holistic than
other approaches because the body may prefer to deal with a psychological factor
before a endocrine disruptor or a food allergy or a pathogenic organism etc.
Plus it was open to anyone to study and practice. However, there are only a
handful of practitioners in this country.
I
decided right then and there I would go and study HK. I flew across the
country and studied it sight unseen. I had never even seen a
demonstration. What I had read gave me the very basics but I decided to go
and see. It proved to be another stepping stone.
There
were times when I didn't have enough hands to practice HK the way taught.
This was especially true when I was self treating as a surrogate for my
daughters. I had no choice but to kind of morph the techniques to practice
on my daughters without a 3rd person. It worked well except my daughter's
could only have 2 maybe 3 sessions a week if they weren't sick. I could do
them about every day on myself. Usually I could do about 4 corrections on
myself per session. After about 400 corrections on myself using HK's
allergy and tolerance taps, I realized I had only scratched the surface.
My daughters only had a fraction of the corrections I did due to the fact they
were only doing 2 or 3 corrections at a time and only 2 or 3 sessions a week.
I
knew there must be a way of clearing up lots of disruptions, allergies,
blockages, and psychological stresses at the same time without causing more
detox and die-off than the body could handle. It was by pondering these
thoughts that the BioEnergetic Identification Reset TechniqueTM
(BIRT) was born.
Using
systematic verbal muscle testing, I learned some of the most amazing things!
I finally discovered what my problem with Chinese food was... I learned I
was disrupted to Sesame. My body thought sesame was a hormone. Every
time I would eat sesame I would ovulate. This explained why I had ovarian
pain after eating it. Also, it may explain why I had twins. I am now
able to eat some of my favorite foods again without any consequence. It
also gave me a feeling of validation. See I'm not crazy! I still
don't know exactly how or why my body got confused but it wasn't necessary to
successfully treat.
A huge
Ah-Ha came after I had a stool that smelled a strange kind of metallic.
Through testing I determined it was cadmium. Then realized yeah it kind of
smells like corroded batteries. This really wasn't surprising since years
before, I had smoked for many years. Cigarette smoke contains significant
amounts of cadmium. However, this had me perplexed since I hadn't done any
corrections with cadmium. Then I was looking through my chart to see if I
had done an amino acid correction... No. Using systematic verbal
testing I determined the day the correction was done. Finally I determined
the only 2 elements contained in corrections on that day was either silver or
manganese. Finally I discovered it was manganese. Again this was
bizarre because I have never heard of manganese as a chelator. So I asked
if manganese was a chelator... Nope. I stopped testing that day because I
was just too mystified. The next day my stools had an even stronger smell
of cadmium. Then eureka, it occurred to me the only way that a correction
for manganese would make me dump cadmium is that my body "thought" that
manganese was cadmium. This was confirmed with testing. Once my body
was retrained and shown what manganese looked like for real it was able to
say...wait a minute - What is this stuff then?! Lets get rid of it
resulting in detoxing the cadmium.
I also
learned what the mysterious "disease" to my right ovary was. The 3 Doctors
who preformed diagnostic laparoscopies were unable to define the "disease" but
they all mentioned it. It looked kind of wrinkly, lumpy and grayish green
. One stated it seemed necrotic (dead) but it should have actually
atrophied (shriveled or smaller) when in fact it was actually bigger but not
really inflamed or swollen. During one laparoscopy the tube of the "diseased ovary"
was completely blocked. I was later able to determine (again with
systematic verbal muscle testing) it was fungi actually growing on the inside of
the ovary and tube.
The only
pelvic pain I have had after doing BIRT treatments was with
the "Universal" vial (which contains many strains of fungus) and the
"# 7 - Reproductive Circuit Repair" vial. The pain was significant. To the
point where if I didn't know or was able to find out what was going on I may
have made a trip to the emergency room. Again with systematic verbal
muscle testing, I found out it was the inflammation caused by my immune system
finally attacking the fungi in my ovary and tube. The following day, I
could actually see what I could only describe as strands and flakes of grayish green tissue
in my urine. It had an earthy and moldy smell. This continued for several days and then went away, along
with the pain. I haven't had any further pelvic issues since.
This
wasn't even my most significant find. I discovered I had a disruption to
the dark and pretty much any electromagnetic energy (which included the alarm
clock right next to my head and the electric outlet I am almost laying on top
of). As soon as I discovered these I recorded the energy and added it to
the universal vial. After my very next BIRT correction for the first time
ever in the history of the world I actually wake up feeling rested (assuming I
get a full night sleep.) I don't wake feeling drained of energy, stiff and
weak. Also, my severe addiction to T.V. and the internet are just about
gone. I find myself asking is this really worth watching?... and
ultimately deciding not.
I've
have uncovered so many reasons behind my symptoms both past and present.
For example, the reason I used to come home so absolutely exhausted every night
and with frequent headaches was a disruption to fluorescent lights. Also,
fluorescent lighting is what made me need to take a nap after going grocery
shopping. In addition, going from fluorescent lighting to natural lights
would give me the sensation of shards of glass in my eyes.
I used
to have huge swings in mood and energy level at certain parts of the day.
With my Meridian balancing and exercising techniques, I was able to solve that
problem too.
I have
been able to accomplish more with BIRT in just a few months than I was in
several years using other methods. In addition, many other methods just
teach you to avoid certain things. Call me selfish but I don't want to
live that way. We were designed to be resilient not riddled with
disruption, allergies and stress.
My life has forever changed from using these
methods. I have over come heart palpitations, chronic pelvic pains, scary
menstruation, food allergies, constant
bacterial infections, hypoglycemia, insomnia, swelling, ridiculously slow
metabolism, and chronic joint and muscle pains. The most life altering change has been my
consistent energy level and blood sugar stabilizing. I can’t begin to tell you
what a difference having stable blood sugars have done for my energy and mood –
For the first time in my life, I actually FEEL my age and like I have achieved
good health!
The biggest shock comes when I get my periods – I don’t even
know I start. As a matter of fact, the first time this happened I thought I was going to have to take a
home pregnancy test because I didn’t even feel like I was about to start.
Usually I know a day or 2 in advance that it is coming. I didn’t have any of
the excruciating pain; in fact I barely had any discomfort and had forgotten it
entirely at some points. It now actually looks like blood (clean and
thin). I have never in my life experienced this! I knew
this is what it means to have a “normal menstrual cycle” and here I thought that
was just a figment of the imagination.
I will forever be grateful
in finding energy healing and verbal muscle testing. More importantly, I
am grateful for the opportunity to witness and participate in the healing of
others. Especially when I know, personally, what a huge difference it can make
in the lives of those with chronic and debilitating diseases. I look forward to
hearing your personal stories of improved health!
Best Health to You and Yours
Darla
M. Birchall
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