There’s a common trend with Western medicine… one where patients don’t feel well but are told ‘everything looks fine’ based on their lab work. Or maybe things are a bit off, but not enough to ‘do anything.’ That was the case for Karen, who was dealing with achy joints, back issues, and stubborn weight gain.
“I felt like I was just ‘blowing up’… I had gotten heavy, my face was puffy, my joints hurt, and my back was in bad shape. But my doctors said they couldn’t really do anything because I didn’t have enough markers on my labs to be considered autoimmune; they just recommended some pills. But I wanted to get to the root cause and learn what I could do to help myself get better, especially since I don’t do well with medications,” explains Karen. “It was in January when we were on a family trip to Disney that my son, Bryan, told me I should try coming in to Valeo,” explains Karen.
Karen felt like she had tried everything.
“It was my last resort,” she admits. “I had nothing else to do. I had this chronic pain for over 13 years. I cried every day. On a pain scale of 0-10, I was consistently at a 4 (even on my good days), and it would flare up to an 8 or 9. On those days, I was edgy and would ‘lose it’.”
Despite her pain, Karen lived an active lifestyle, knowing that movement was necessary to keep herself from getting any worse.
“I’d walk a mile to the Y, swim, and walk a mile home,” she shares. But she knew she couldn’t keep it up with the pain she was in.
“When I finally did a phone consultation with Dr. Rob, the very first thing I noticed is that he listens.” Karen knew at that moment that Valeo was different.
Karen’s Valeo Experience
One thing our staff typically gets comments about is our thorough new patient paperwork. It may seem tedious to some, but the depth of information provides our practitioners with pertinent information in discovering patients’ root causes.
Karen took advantage of the paperwork and the opportunity to share her health history.
“I wrote a book,” she laughs. “I told him my whole life story in that paperwork.”
Dr. Rob used Karen’s ‘life story’ along with bioresonance testing to determine the root causes of her pain involved her liver, digestion, Lymes disease, parasites, and some bacteria. From there, he determined a plan of action to help her feel better.
“Within two weeks of implementing Dr. Rob’s recommendations, I noticed that my hands didn’t hurt in the morning! I could bend my fingers. I could move… which was not the norm before,” Karen explains. “My husband and I used to joke about how many steps we needed when we got out of bed before we got the kinks out…but now, it’s zero! I have NO pain.”
New Health Getting Noticed
Karen happily shares that she no longer cries every day, but if she did, it would be tears of joy.
“I am just so happy. My goal was always to be able to continue to move, to be able to do more things and be more social, like playing pickleball, and to play with my grandkids. I couldn’t physically do that before.”
Karen felt like a new woman, and people were noticing!
“So many people have asked me where I’ve gone and what I’ve done! When my family was here from out of town, they could tell so much had changed,” shares Karen.
Not only had Karen’s pain completely vanished, but a lot of weight vanished with it.
“The weight just fell off… which was incredible considering I had seen a dietician and nutritionist who were not able to help me lose weight at all and instead just questioned whether I was being truthful to them about my dietary habits… which I was! All we could say to our family was that this works. It just does… and we are so thankful.”
Karen’s family wasn’t the only group who noticed the change in her.
“When I went in to talk to the doctor I had been seeing for my back, I told him I wanted to push the ablation out (I had been doing ablations routinely for about 6-8 years). He pointed at me and said, ‘you did it! You’ve done something!’ He could tell. He was so ecstatic for me,” says Karen. “The combination of eliminating my inflammation and getting adjusted by Dr. Rob has made a world of difference for my back.”
Enjoying Chronic Happiness
Of course, Karen is now all smiles.
“Valeo has completely changed my life. We tell everyone. Just to be able to pop up out of bed without struggling to get up! I didn’t want to be in a wheelchair and crying all the time… and thanks to Dr. Rob, I’m not! My quality of life has improved so much! I am SO happy. My husband is happy,” Karen exclaims. “I am incredibly thankful to Valeo and Dr. Rob, and the whole Valeo staff is fabulous.”
If you’d like to learn more about scheduling a phone consultation or an appointment, call our office at 952-949-0676.
