Meet Shelly: (Author of Dying To Get Well)

My nightmare began at the end of 1996. At 25 I was what society would consider healthy. I ate what I thought was a well balanced diet and I was fit and very active. I felt good, had a great boyfriend, now husband, and life was good.. How drastically everything would change.

I started to fall ill. Terribly ill. It began with a migraine that came one day and never left. Accompanying the migraine was a pain at the base of my skull and severe muscle tightness, and pain. My muscles in my neck and shoulders became as hard as rocks and nothing would relax them.

Over the next six years I would bounce from various types of doctors and specialists in the allopathic medical community (conventional medicine). No doctor could help me and my list of symptoms kept getting longer. Added to the debilitating migraines and muscle tightness, fatigue and pain was.. 50lb weight gain, extreme excitability/nervousness, panic attacks, shortness of breath, great loss of libido, painful intercourse, fibrocystic breasts, irregular heart beat, chronic sinus infections and yeast infections, lowered immune system and more. My body was falling apart. I felt like a 20-something trapped in the body of an 80 year old.. But not a healthy 80 year old, a dying 80 year old.

In the course of my six years of hell I suffered from the following symptoms...

• Violent headaches (coming from pain at base of skull)
• Extremely sore, stiff, crippled muscles all over body but severely in the neck and shoulders
• Blurry vision - trouble getting my eyes to focus on objects
• Dizziness
• Inability to bend over (feel like I will pass out)
• Jaw pain.. facial pain (like TMJ symptoms)
• Breast Tenderness & Pains - Fibrocystic breasts
• Heart palpitations - irregular heart beat
• Chronic sinus and yeast infections
• Concentration and memory problems
• 50lb weight gain
• Extreme Excitability, Nervousness
• Panic Attacks, Paranoia
• Shortness of Breath
• Great loss of libido
• Painful intercourse
• Severe lack of lubrication
• Lowered immune system
• Loss of hair
• Unwanted hair on breasts, toes, face
• Acne - not (teenager type acne - large boil/cyst like acne)
• Suicidal thoughts because daily debilitating pain was too much

I was taking all of the drugs the doctors were prescribing to me but none of them helped me. In fact, they only made my condition worse. I was suicidal from the pain. I was merely existing, not living.

All the while I was trying to 'pretend' to family and friends that I was 'alright'. I had to go about daily life.. I had to function. No x-ray, mri, ctscan or blood test could find anything wrong with me. Every test said 'you are not sick'... but I was in torturous pain. If I had to go around family and friends I would take Excedrin migraines, make my appearance, and then come home and drop in exhaustion from the pain and pretending. Sometimes pretending to feel 'good' was harder than living in pain.

My husband watched me cry every day from the pain. My muscles were so hard, so sore, he couldn't even touch me to massage me to try and alleviate some of the pain. Thank God for a wonderful man! He stuck by me every step of the way and helped me with everything. Normal every day chores, like washing the dishes caused me terrible pain. I would have to the dishes sitting on a stool because my legs were to sore to hold me up. I could not bend over to tie my shoes without an intense feeling of strangulation. I would start to black out every time I bent over. My husband would tie my shoes for me many days as just tilting my head downward would cause me to feel as if I was going to pass out.

I also started to loss feeling in my face and my extremities. One day it was so bad my mother thought I was having a stroke and rushed me to the doctor. After about 10 minutes in his office the symptoms started to subside. This loss of feeling would come and go over a period of a couple of years but my doctor could never find a 'reason' as to why it was happening.

I was eventually told by a doctor that he thought I had Fibromyalgia and that it was incurable. He said he could give me drugs to make it a little more 'livable', but that it could not be cured. I turned to the Internet to do research on Fibromyalgia and I found a story of a women who had fallen ill after having taken the birth control injections of depo provera. That made a light bulb go off in my head. The doctor who told me he believed I was suffering from Fibromyalgia said: "Shelly you've been coming in her since Jan. 1997 with these exact same symptoms.. Did you have a car accident or a fall, blow to the head, anything around that time." I told him "No". But then it hit me. I had started the injections of birth control around that time. I found out when my first shot was by calling the doctors office who had given them to me years earlier. My first shot was in Nov. of 1996. By January of 1997 I was already at my third doctor with complaints of migraines, pain at the base of my skull and muscle pain and tightness. All three doctors told me it could not be the shots making me sick so I never thought of it again. I should have trusted my instincts.. But hindsight is 20/20.

I put my story online and almost instantly women all over the world started emailing me to tell me their own horror stories about what happened to them as a result of the birth control injections depo provera. At that point I turned my back on conventional medicine. I refused to believe Fibromyalgia was incurable. I couldn't continue with life if it meant dealing with this severe pain on a daily basis.

I did leave conventional medicine, but very unfortunately, I jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire. I decided to try alternative therapies. But there too I was lost. Nothing was working. I was lost in the maze of alternative healing. I spent thousands of dollars but I never got well. I tried homeopathic remedies, whole system health scan, cranio sacral therapy, deep tissue massage, eft, etc., etc., but nothing worked. The pain was still there and on the homeopathic drops I was once again getting worse. I told myself at that point.. 'You have two choices.. 1) get well or 2) die'. Again I was suicidal from the pain and the frustration that nothing I did would alleviate the pain.

God answered my prayers and got me in the hands of a 'homeopathic' doctor that recommended I read some books on fasting. While his treatments and homeopathic drops themselves failed me.. his book recommendations got me on the road to recovery. Eventually he also suggested I have a colonic, and I ended up in the hands of a nutritionist who helped me detox my body. While finally on the right path I started devouring books on 'natural' healing and I learned something amazing... there is ONE cause of disease, and there is one cure to disease. I didn't believe it at first.. I thought it was impossible... then I experienced it for myself. It isn't impossible.. it is very possible. I'm living proof!

But it isn't just me who has been CURED!! OH NO! There are countless individuals who have cured their serious, even terminal illnesses with the exact same methods I used to cure my disease. THIS IS THE INFORMATION THE DOCTORS DO NOT WANT YOU TO SEE!!! When you learn the truth about symptoms, when you learn the truth about disease, when you learn the truth about the miraculous healing powers of your own body YOU will be in charge of your health.. and you will stop going to the doctors. It really is that cut and dry.

While depo provera was by far the worst thing that has ever happened to me in life, it was also the best thing to have ever happened to me too! Had I not fallen so desperately ill I do not know if I would have ever made a change to this new lifestyle of natural hygiene (plant-based vegan diet,raw food, exercise, physical and mental rest, sunshine, pure water, fresh air). I believe everything that happens to us in life happens to us for a specific reason. I wholeheartedly believe that God intended for me to learn the lessons of natural hygiene and that is why I had to take the journey I did. Whether it was just to help myself, or whether it was for the purpose of being able to share my information with others.. I'll never know. One thing is for certain, I'm thankful for it.

I am now feeling better than I was even before my nightmare began, and there is no way I'm going back. Once again I LOVE LIFE! I want others who are suffering to know that they too can once again love life! You don't have to live in pain. You don't have to live doped up on doctor's drugs. You can be well.. You can enjoy OPTIMUM HEALTH.. I'm living proof!!

I won't lie to you.. curing your disease is not super easy, and it WILL NOT happen overnight. It takes dedication, determination, and a strong stick-to-it-ivness. Just look at my before picture! Can you identify with that? Look at the color of my skin in those pictures! Those pictures are both taken in winter time.. neither picture has been edited EXCEPT to add text to it. I was very near death's door.. I was slowly dying. I was in continually pain and doped up on doctor's drugs that were only compounding my serious health problems. Look at my skin color in the after picture... I have COLOR to my skin now. I don't look gray.. I don't look ghostly white.. I have COLOR. You too can do this. There is nothing that I did that you CAN'T do. To get well you will need to make serious dietary and lifestyle changes. I wanted to get well more than anything on earth. I was sick of life passing me by. I was saddened by watching everyone else have fun while I just tried to hold the tears back from my debilitating pain. Getting well is up to you. I can only give you the information. What YOU do with the information is up to YOU!!!

IT'S YOUR HEALTH.. IT'S YOUR DECISION!!!

For more information on my book Dying To Get Well, the detailed, step-by-step account of the steps I took to CURE my so-called, 'incurable' disease, click here. No matter what disease or illness you are fighting, these principles that helped me CURE my disease can help reverse most diseases.. or in the worst case scenario greatly improve one's condition.