In this personal testimonial, the speaker recounts their father's five-year decline marked by multiple medications, dizziness, frequent falls, a 2018 neck fracture, low energy, and a Parkinson's diagnosis that the speaker doubts. The father, a long‑term lithium user for bipolar disorder, may have suffered metal toxicity, a hypothesis the speaker formed after independent research. After the father was taken off a dizziness‑inducing medication, his energy and motivation improved, prompting interest in topical therapeutic patches recommended by Nikki. The first application of these patches halted his tremors within about a minute, and continued use has kept tremors significantly reduced. He also began using "Silent Nights" patches, which have markedly improved his sleep. The speaker expresses deep gratitude for the medication change and the patch regimen, noting ongoing benefits despite occasional tremor recurrence.
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One of the first people that came to mind was my dad, and he has had a lot of health problems over the last, like, 5 years for sure. He had— he's, he's on a lot of medications, and one of those medications was making him very dizzy, and he was falling a lot, and they could not figure out what it was. And so he kept falling, and in 2018 he broke his neck. And so after rehabbing from that, he was just not doing well. He had a— he was just had no energy, no, no motivation. Um, he was still falling a lot. He was not getting around very well. And by about a year ago, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's. Um, he was having tremors in one of his hands. He since then has decided it's probably not Parkinson's, and I, I tend to agree. Because he also, um, he, he has bipolar disorder and was on lithium for 33 years. And I just really started doing research and thought maybe he's got some metal toxicity that is causing these tremors. Um, I don't know, I'm not a doctor. I have very little, very little experience and knowledge, but I did some research and that seemed like a very strong possibility. So I just started talking to Nikki about what could we do to help with his tremors, help with his energy and all of that. And around the time that she and I started talking about it, he actually got to the doctor and got taken off one of his medications. And this was a few months ago. And it was apparently that was the medication that was causing the dizziness because now he's not dizzy and he has energy and he's so excited to do things and he's calling me and saying, hey, let's do this. And, and he hadn't done that in years. And so I'm super, super thankful that he got off that medication. And then as he had the motivation and started thinking about his health, he was interested in getting on the patches. And so he has started patching. And the first time we patched him, his tremors stopped. Like within, I don't know, Nikki, how fast was it? Like a minute? Like, yeah, a minute. So fast. Yeah. Yes. And so he has continued patching. He's, he says that it's not 100% all the time, but they are significantly decreased. And so he continues to patch for that mainly. And then he also started taking the Silent Nights patches because, or not taking them, using them because he was having some trouble sleeping. And day— night one, he was, he was great. And he's really thankful to be continuing to use those patches and getting good sleep.
