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Before seeing Dr. LaValle, I had a host of health problems and complaints. My primary problem was that I had become what my medical doctor called “an incipient diabetic.” I had severe carbohydrate cravings and had gained a lot of weight. I had other problems such as sleep disturbances, fungal infections on my toes and feet,low energy, and blemishes on my face. I could not exercise because I would get a painful itching in my legs when I did. |
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I was forty-nine years old and rarely perspired. I had been to many doctors, but none could diagnose my problem. Because my body retained so much water, I needed to take diuretics (water pills), and had been taking them for thirty years. It was not unusual for me to retain twenty to sixty pounds of water weight. I was always uncomfortably hot and my whole body was achy. I felt like I was sick with the flu all of the time. Because of the variation in my water weight, I had to keep five different sizes of clothing in my closet. If we were having hot weather, I’d wear the largest size because I knew I’d “grow” into it in several hours. The problem progressively worsened as I got older. I couldn’t sleep at night because my body heat was unbearable. I slept with the window opened all winter and the heat turned off. I couldn’t go outside during hot days except for short amounts of time. I was miserable. I could honestly say, “No sweat.” |
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I am a twenty-eight-year-old professional woman. For as long as I can remember, I have suffered from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). As a child, no one had a name for my symptoms, but I had frequent and severe painful constipation. Most of the time the pain was so severe I would just lay in a fetal position until I became so sick I would vomit. I went to a gastroenterologist who recommended Metamucil, but it didn’t help. I also had a colonoscopy, but it showed nothing. So I just had to live with the constant pain. Eventually, I noticed if I ate greasy food, it would make me go to the bathroom. I knew this wasn’t a healthy solution, but no one else had any solutions. |
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After a referral by my family physician to James LaValle, my overall health has improved noticeably. Before seeing Jim LaValle, I had no energy, I was depressed, I had constant lower back pain, and I was twenty-five pounds overweight. Everything was getting worse.
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When I was twenty-three, I underwent my first surgery for female-related problems. Between 1993 and 1998, I had five surgeries: one for a dermoid cyst, two for endometriosis, and two for miscarriages. With each surgery I endured came a myriad number of prescription drugs to take. Synarel or Lupron were prescribed before I underwent surgery for endometriosis, followed by a contraceptive. Propoxyphene and Naproxen were prescribed for pain before and after my surgery. I was prescribed Prozac when I miscarried the second time and my doctor felt I was slipping into depression. Still feeling unhappy and emotionally drained, my doctor referred me to a fertility specialist.
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In November 2000, our eleven-year-old son Ryan was diagnosed with osteosarcoma,a type of bone cancer. During the next twelve months, Ryan received eighteen chemotherapy treatments and a femur resection along with several other surgeries and numerous tests. The hard work Ryan had done mentally and the tremendous physical abuse he endured during this time seemed to have paid off when he was pronounced cancer-free after the treatments.
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A few years ago I was experiencing many unusual symptoms, which my medical doctor diagnosed as hypothyroidism. I was always tired even after eight to nine hours of sleep. I had a difficult time getting out of bed in the morning—a crane couldn’t have helped! I didn’t have the energy to do anything. I didn’t have an appetite, so I ate very little. Yet I had gained more than twenty pounds and had gone up three sizes. I had been on the thyroid medication Synthroid for several months, but noticed no difference in my symptoms. In fact, I kept feeling worse.
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