In 1989, I was diagnosed with cancer. Went through chemotherapy, multiple surgeries, including many reconstructions. My condition went from already bad, to much worse. By 1991, I was being diagnosed with all types of auto immune disorders: lupus, interstitial cystitis, Sjogren’s Syndrome, every month it was a different diagnosis. Every week brought a new disease and new drugs with terrible side effects that the physician group wanted me to take. Every medication that they suggested, had side effects worse than the diseases themselves.
I was living with horrendous migraines, swollen and inflamed joints, so many ulcers in my mouth that I could rarely eat properly and constant depression. Life was not good.
Eventually, their definitive diagnosis became Behcets disease/syndrome…and the future became really dark and scary. I was told that with Behcets, patients lived for another three years after diagnosis, and that no one with Behcets lived to see his or her 60th birthday.
A friend of mine, who was one of Dr. Roby’s nurses, had been urging me to see him because of the wonderful success that he has with autoimmune disorders and mysterious maladies. I had told her that I was through with doctors, and wanted to be left alone in my misery. When she called me one day, and found that I couldn’t get out of bed because of another migraine, Dr. Roby sent her to drive me to his office.
He told me about his studies of autoimmune disorders, and the astounding results that he had had with treating them as a hormone allergy, and asked if I would let him put a small quantity of a couple of substances under my skin to see if we could figure out what I was reacting to. That was easy, by that time the migraine was so bad, that I would have allowed him to cut me into little pieces if it wouold make the pain go away. I was also asked to quantify the pain level on a 1 to 10 scale. It was definitely a ten. He injected the first substance, nothing happened. He injected the second and within 15 seconds, the pain which had been a raging 10, was completely gone!
I had reacted to a tiny little bit of the hormone, progesterone. It got my attention in a big way. I was so amazed that it had happened, that it was hours before I realized that, not only was my headache gone, but so were the ulcers in my mouth, and there was NO PAIN anywhere in my body for the first time in years. I was ecstatic. And, I was ready to follow the protocol that Dr. Roby had set up.
I started to watch my diet, walk slowly for an hour everyday, and to pay attention to what my body was trying to tell me about the importance of taking my allergies seriously. We balanced my hormones, and supplemented those that were too low (all of them). I use biodentical hormones, estrogen, testosterone, and human growth hormone.
I made it past the critical age of 60, and while I am definitely out of warranty, I am alive, usually pain free, generally doing well, and having a great time.