I Spent Years in Traditional Medicine. Then I Became the Patient. And Everything Changed.
I know what it's like to sit across from a healthcare provider who's already decided they can't help you before you've even finished talking. To leave appointment after appointment with no answers and less hope than when you walked in.
I lived it. My fever spiked to 104°. For four months, I dealt with chronic migraines, crushing brain fog, and exhaustion so severe I was sleeping between patients at work. Traditional medicine ran the test (MRIs, neurology consults, all of it) and everything came back "normal."
What we're taught in traditional medicine only scratches the surface of what it actually means to be healthy. The labs, the data, the checklists they're a snapshot. Helpful, but incomplete. Not enough to explain why someone feels the way they do.
Functional medicine helped me find answers within 90 days. Nine months later, I felt like myself again. I can't unlearn what I learned and I won't go back to practicing the way I was taught.