A first-person patient testimonial from Karla describing severe fatigue and muscle pain she experienced four months prior and significant recovery following treatment with Sayana Medical. She attributes improvement to functional medicine assessment by Dr. Sayana, highlights lifestyle and dietary changes, and recommends the practice for thorough, personalized care.
Hi, my name is Karla. I'm shooting this video because four months ago I felt and I experienced a lot of physical exhaustion and muscle pain. And right now after my treatment with Sayana Medical, I feel I am recovering my health and I know why I was feeling that and what I need to do avoid this to happen again. I highly recommend Sayana Medical because you can find the answers you need to the symptoms that that you are experiencing every day and you don't find any solutions through them with a traditional doctor. Before working with Sayana Medical, my life was pretty hectic. I work with kids, life in Los Angeles can get stressful and I wasn't paying very much attention to my overall well being. I was more like trying to go day by day and at some point I felt I needed to stop and listen to my body because it was giving me signals that something wasn't very good. I am a middle aged woman and I am overall healthy. So I knew there was something that I had to pay attention to and find out because something wasn't very well. The breaking point that made me look for help was when I realized that very basic exercises, very basic activities were taking a lot of effort on my part. So I have heard about functional medicine, but I didn't know very much about it. And I started looking on forums and on the Internet and someone recommended Sayana Medical. I just went on her website and checked out her videos and I felt she was speaking to me. She said so many symptoms that I was going through. And she said many people don't find responses because they don't have the information to look for answers that are going to be helpful for them. And he sounded so honest, straightforward, caring and she sounded like a person that I could go speak to her, tell her all of my symptoms and she was going to be actually helping me. Not saying you're overall very well, which is what mostly all of the doctors say. If there was something that might have me been hesitant, it could have been the money that you need to pay up front. I felt it was going to be good for me because the way she explained to me all of the meaning of my symptoms and how she was going to do all of the testings necessary to find out what was wrong with me. When I had the initial appointment that lasts like around one hour and a half on video chat, I felt she was so knowledgeable and she knew so well how all of my symptoms were connecting to each other for different reasons. What I am doing differently now that I wasn't for is paying much more attention to the food I consume, the way I consume it, the times of the day. Also how important is to slow down, take it easy, take charge of all of the things you need to do throughout the day and take time for resting and realizing how sometimes the inner engine that we have inside, like go, go, go, go, go, is actually not good for our health. And also I have learned that many things in my lifestyle were hurting me on a physical level. So I'm making those changes now with the consciousness that they are good for my future. I would recommend Sayana Medical to friends or family or relatives because health is not something you can compartmentalize. But what I'm saying is functional medicine can help you a lot to connect the dots from the different symptoms that you have. And Dr. Sayana particularly is very, very, very thorough and very thoughtful. So that's why I would recommend her.
