Amanda, a former community midwife with a hectic, on-call schedule, describes years of debilitating chronic fatigue symptoms (extreme tiredness, ‘walking through treacle’, brain fog, anxiety) that followed a back injury and progressive decline. After multiple medical investigations (including adrenal checks) and a period off work of about four months, she consulted a functional therapist who identified nutritional deficiencies and recommended the Gupta Program. Free introductory sessions led to acceptance of her diagnosis and substantial improvement: she reports being about 75% recovered, able to travel without crashing, and feeling optimistic about the future.
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Community midwife.
About four months.
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I'm Amanda and my life before becoming unwell was extremely hectic. I have had a very successful career. However, it's very erratic, the shifts. I was in the community, so called out at night, broken sleep virtually every week because what as community midwife you work all day, have a few hours break and then you're on call at night. And so I just basically get up at 6 o' clock in the morning and I'd eventually, you know, if I wasn't working, fall into bed at about 10 o' clock at night. And I just kept on pushing myself and pushing myself and I suddenly my back went and that was the straw that broke the camels back. I just couldn't carry on anymore. Tiredness was the main thing, like feeling not just tired absolutely to the stage that you can hardly stand up and walking like through treacle, feeling like a very, very, very old person having brain fog, you know, not being able to remember things. You know, I actually got assessed for Alzheimer's because I thought, you know, I've got Alzheimer's or I'm getting Alzheimer's, just the, oh, and anxiety, you know, slightest bit of stress, very reactive, stupid stuff. Getting really, you know, stressed about it. Stupid, absolutely stupid stuff. I can feel myself getting all wound up inside over rubbish. So those are my, those were my, my main symptoms. So I had a long time off, well, had about four months off. And I kept thinking, gosh, you know, I've got to get back, I've got to get back. And I wasn't ready to accept because I'd had lots of investigations by this time. I'd have my adrenals checked, all the normal stuff. And one of the doctors said that I had, after all the investigations, chronic fatigue. But I wasn't ready to accept that. So I went back to work and pushed on. Brain fog, you know, like being like a zombie really, but just pushing on. I just realized that, you know, there's something not, not right and I wasn't getting better. This had been years. So I went to a functional therapist and who looked at my nutrition and I had blood, stern and lots of investigations and was found to have quite a few different deficiencies. But it was she who said about the gumta program and so she suggested I try the gumta program. So I had the free sessions and thought, oh my goodness, makes sense. It's absolutely. It really, it was like. Well, it just blew my mind to be absolutely honest with you, because it just suddenly all made sense. And that's when I had total acceptance of the fact that I had this, this illness and from then on I was able to really work with me and I've just discovered so many things about myself through the Gumtor program. The reason why I am the way I've become and yeah, it was a revelation, to be absolutely honest with you. A revelation. I'm not 100 yet, you know, I. I'm perfectly honest. I'm. I'm 75, I'd say percent there now and looking forward to the future. I mean, I might not get to 100 and, you know, I don't know, but I feel very positive. And now, you know, like, I went on holiday and I was expecting to crash. Didn't crash or dip. I went, you know, I went to London with some friends and I. Expecting, you know, oh, gosh, you know, I'm going to pay for this. Didn't. And I thought, oh, my God, you know, I am, I am. Oh, it's just. Yeah. I mean, what more can I say? It's been amazing, absolutely amazing.
