When I first came to Alternacare, I was looking for an alternative to modern medicine. My doctor had just diagnosed me with graves disease (hyperthyroidism), and told me I had to take a thyroid medication and a beta blocker or I would have a heart attack or stroke, and possibly die. I had all the common symptoms for graves disease including heart racing, tremors, hormone imbalance, high blood pressure and pulse, and hair loss. I literally felt like my body was dying. I had no energy to do anything.
I didn’t feel it was the Lord’s will for me to cover up the symptoms with prescription meds, which the doctor told me would probably not work anyway for my situation, and I would have to have my thyroid removed.
After visiting Alternacare, I learned that there was a reason my body wasn’t functioning properly. It has now been about 5 months since I started the holistic journey and I feel great. Most of my symptoms are gone, and the few remaining are diminishing.
Thank you for saving my life! I am looking forward to great results when I go back to the doctor next month, and get my blood work results.
Belinda Dishman
Since coming to Alternacare I have seen a lot of improvement in my physical well-being, i.e. I have lost 25 lbs. Also, I have had my thyroid tests checked @ my medical doctor and have been able to stop taking Synthroid, Cholesterol is in ok range and my 2 year bone density tests have shown improvements in bone density with NO medications. Thank you all at Alternacare for being compassionate, caring and good listeners.
Patsy Lassetter
My medical history is high blood pressure, diabetic Type 2, Thyroid problems, IBS, Acid Reflux, and Rheumatoid Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, and overweight. My medications consisted of 18 different pills a day, taking some once, twice and some were up to 3 x’s a day. I have now cut my medications down to 5 pills a day! My blood pressure and diabetes is under control. The pain in my body has decreased and I am no longer in horrible pain. My weight has dropped 32.6 lbs in 8 weeks! The weight has come off all over my body and not just in one area. I am very proud and thankful I went to the Saturday workshop and started this program for myself. My goal is another 28 lbs to lose, and I intend to keep the weight off.
My name is Sonia Frank. I’m 51 year old and, what anyone would consider living a pretty healthy life style, but still struggling with my weight. Hypothyroid was also part of my life, along with Fibromyalgia. Two years ago I made the best decision of my life, “I quit smoking “cold turkey.” I started feeling better the minute I stopped, even though I wasn’t a heavy smoker. Then came a little bit of the problem, my clothes were getting tighter, months went by, and then menopause became a friend along with my weight problems. Even though my size wasn’t that bad (8-10), my problem was buying pants. I was getting worse and worse, everything was going to my tummy and started looking like my front was my back, I became very depressed and frustrated specially considering that I worked out almost 2 hours a day and was eating a very healthy diet, even had my own trainer at the gym! I also tried many things that they claimed would help you lose weight. I would lose maybe a pound or two, but the sizes stayed the same.God bless them all
There were periods in my life where I felt like I was going to die.Four years ago I developed a goiter on my thyroid, three nodules to be exact and hyperthyroidism. I could not tolerate sugar or flour products of any kind without feeling like I was going to jump out of my skin and heart palpitations that were very frightening, so I started going to various allopathic doctors to determine a treatment plan for my disease state. The term Nuclear medicine got tossed around in order to determine the course of action the doctors would take or worse having my thyroid taken out.
I decided that was not the avenue I wanted to pursue, but when I chose not to go that path I was chastised and humiliated within the medical field, as if I were stupid. I knew nutritional healing worked. I firmly believe in God’s word that herbs and food help to heal the body.
So when I saw the workshop Dr. DeBease was giving in a newspaper article, I leapt at the chance to attend. He said all the things I knew and had studied at great length that through proper nutrition our bodies can heal itself. I had tried for several months to treat myself, but Dr. DeBease held the missing key to my nutrition. The tests he ordered gave him the right tools to reverse my disease rather than slap a Band-Aid fix or throw pharmaceuticals at my problem.
I suffered with; hyperthyroidism, fatigue, numbness in the whole left side of my body, dizzy spells, major heart palpitations, my nail beds had pulled away from the skin and insomnia. To be quite honest there were periods in my life when I felt that I was going to die. My thought process was very skewed. I felt as if I were going to have a mental breakdown at times, knowing all along it was my thyroid creating the confusion, but lacking the tools and knowledge of its exact cause left me feeling desperate. When Dr. DeBease discussed what he believed were causing my problems this is something that no other doctor within a fifty mile radius from here to Atlanta had ever told me… When my test came back he was dead on with his assessment.
Since my treatment began my nodules have gone from three to one in a matter of months. I know in time they will go away completely. My numbness has gone away completely. My heart palpitations have diminished greatly and my fatigue has improved a lot as well. I finally feel like I have my life back. I am just so thankful to have found Dr. DeBease and his wonderful staff that truly care in treating the patient rather than the symptoms.
Leah Stone
