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Living with Fibromyalgia for Nearly a Decade

Hey, so I'm Gaurav. I'm from, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and, I'm just here to talk about the ANS REWIRE program and my experience with it. It, it came into my life, last year. Today it's 2020 right now, and I found the program in June of 2019. But prior to that, I have been struggling, had been struggling with fibromyalgia for the better part of about 10 years, largely undiagnosed when I got started because I didn't know what it was.

When Fatigue, Pain and Brain Fog Became Harder to Ignore

But, as things went on, I found myself getting more and more fatigued and, the sudden bouts of pain and things like that happening. But I was a bit young, so I didn't really pay much attention to it. I just kind of, you know, sloughed it off and kept going on with life.

And eventually the symptoms kind of ramped up as you, as it were. And I realized around 2014, 2015, that I was having these bouts of really, really real fatigue. I mean, we're talking about sometimes days, sometimes weeks on end, just exhausted, unable to move. I was talking about brain fog. I was talking about pain and, just things happening that I couldn't quite explain.

I was relatively fit, you know, I went to the gym and martial arts classes and swimming, but it was getting tougher and tougher. Yet, you know, there was no real basis for it. We thought maybe it's dietary. Maybe it's I'm overworking myself. I'm not sleeping. So I had a number of diagnoses done. You know, we thought maybe sleep apnea or something.

It wasn't that. We thought maybe it's diet,  but it just kept going. And it wasn't until, but you know, I kind of ignored it again, as, as I, as you do when you're young and a little bit stupid. But, you, I, the, the following year is when I think it was my wife who just said, you know, maybe it's something else, you know, my, my, it just felt like, you know, everything in my body started to just kind of, catch fire for lack of a better term.

And,  it was getting worse. I couldn't really go on vacation. We had these things planned and it was just painful. And so I started getting,  more symptoms. So I started getting brain fog more and more. So memory loss, , stiffness, , walking was becoming a little bit more difficult. I would be bedridden.

And then, doctors thought maybe it's,  oddly enough, they thought it was,  ADD, ADHD, which is an odd diagnosis, but I mean, I guess they're trying. So, , you know,  that wasn't it. And, uh, they put me on a couple of medications, which I immediately got off of because that wasn't it. And it kind of got worse and progressed from there.

The Difficulty of Getting a Fibromyalgia Diagnosis

And then, it just got really, really bad around 2017, 2018, to the point where I knew that this had to be something else, and I started Googling my symptoms and really diving deep, and I, and I, and I came across fibromyalgia. Honestly, I didn't want to think it was that. I had come across the term a few times, but in my head, fibromyalgia was kind of like MS.

I didn't know any better. I was like, well, that just means I'm going to be in a wheelchair or something like that forever. But as it turns out that through research, I found out, well, it's stabilizing pain and, you know,  the cause is unknown as, as, you know, uh, as, as the common literature says, So eventually I started to,  seek a diagnosis, uh, in 2018 and,  you know, went to various experts and, ,  they, they taught it was ADHD,  they prescribed medications for that, but it wasn't.

And, so I went and started to really get deep into it. And then, we did finally come across a specialist who kind of,  was purported to know what she was doing in the field. And, she did eventually diagnosed me with fibromyalgia because she said, well, it's not your iron. It's not this. It's not that it's you know , it's got to be fibromyalgia, which she just said is a catch all term for you have undiagnosed pain I said that's very useful.

Not really It is what it is.

Searching for a Way to Recover

And, I just figured well, do I have to live with this thing? How do you get around it? So I've been very solution focused my whole life. At least I had a label to work off of. So as such, I figured, well, if it's fibromyalgia, what can I do to get over it? Because I always look at things as, if you got it, you can kind of unget it.

If you got sick, you can treat it like anything else, like a cold. Right? So I started looking into it and, and most of the causes out there that, that are accepted, or at least were at the time were it's diet, it's,  overworked. It's stress, it's obviously unknowns, neuropathy, it's in your head,  so I was recommended everything, anything you can imagine.

So I did diet change, I went on low carb for about a year, maybe more than that, probably more than that, about a year and a half,  which was fine, like,  it had its own side benefits, but it didn't really do much for pain. I did flotation tanks, which again, temporarily I felt better, more supplements that I could possibly imagine.

Every multivitamin, every, every, uh, there, there was a stuff called, collagen, uh, was a big one that people kept prescribing to me. So collagen powder, , Then I was like, well do some heat. So I bought a sauna and I sat in that for ages. Then if somebody's like, well, maybe you gotta do cold therapy. So I started doing cold therapy, then, and I alternating cold and heat and then massage therapy and I was prescribed painkillers.

Not a fan of them. I mean, yeah, I was tempered early. Okay. But I knew that numbing the pain wasn't the answer. There had to be something beyond it. . CBD THC, which again was probably the best painkiller at the end of the day. But I mean, who wants to do that every day if you don't have to? So,  that at least got me through the worst of it.

And then honestly, I almost went for stem cell treatment at one point. Somebody said, well, you know, someone so did stem cell treatment and they're fine. And so I started saving up for that.

Finding ANS REWIRE After a Temporary Remission

And, I almost committed to that, and then I finally ran into Dan's course, it would have been June of 2019, just randomly surfing the internet, and then there was Dan, and I looked at the course, and I said, this guy's theory makes sense, because I actually had experienced a period of spontaneous recovery in July of 2018.

I went to Kelowna and then I just somehow, I don't know how I did it, but I got it out of my mind. I don't know how I did it. But for a week I was pain free. I went hiking and it was amazing, but because I didn't know how I did it or why it worked, it inevitably came back because I didn't trust what I had done.

But I knew what Dan was talking about was true. So I did the course,  on and off initially for multiple reasons for the first two or three months.

From Partial Recovery to Being “Fibro Free”

But once I really pursued it, at that point, I'd say I maybe become, I think I talked to Dan, I think I said I was about 40 or 50 percent recovered. So I went from 40 to 50 percent to about, well, not about 800 percent recovered.

Returning to the Gym, Guitar and Everyday Life

It was a phenomenal experience. But yes, I was officially fibro free and since then life has been phenomenal. I mean, I've been back at the gym. It was pretty scary. Honestly the first week going back because I’m like, oh, well, you know What if this what if that, but, it was phenomenal, I was back to doing what I used to do, back to my classes, back to guitar, which is a passion of mine, playing with my nieces and nephews, because I remember the pain of not being able to spend time with them, and being exhausted and falling asleep, and they wanted to go to the park, it was no fun, but now, hey, I run around with them every weekend, that's phenomenal, I can work out, I can travel, walk, play, Just enjoy life.

Gaurav’s Advice to Others

So, what I recommend to anybody, realistically, is if you've got CFS, , fibromyalgia, ME, any of these symptoms, Dan's really nailed it. I mean, he's gone through the process himself. He's, he's cured himself. He's done the research. He's got so much to back him up. And as far as I'm concerned, it's practically saved my life.

I mean, it's given me my life back, really. Like, it's pretty cool. There's no, it might be hyperbolic, but it's giving my life back. So I would recommend checking it out. It's a phenomenal program. And, yeah, that's, that's what I have to say about it.

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