I have been off medications now for 2 months. The going has been tough. But through support of supplements and the staff members at Yachter Chiropactic I have made it this far. I went off of the antidepressants cold turkey. After about one month the brain was getting very stressed. I called Dr. Dan Yachter and left a message. He called back within 2 hours and started the support that he said he would give. He got me in to the nutritionist as soon as possible and had Dr. F stop whatever he was doing and work with me to give me the support that I so desperately needed at the time.
Never have I been given the support to get off these drugs before. I have tried to do so six times since 1993. Once ending up in the hospital after reducing gradually for one year.
I have the implant still and it has saved me many times. But that is all that I am on, and the supplements. No drugs. I am chemical free at this time. No thyroid, no cholesterol medications either. Truly drug free.
Doctor Dan holds a series of lectures called the Extreme Make Over. I went off the medications before the EMO but with the support of the lectures and the culture of support that surrounded me I was able to come off the drugs. I know that I am not out of the window of danger yet. I have to prove to myself that this will work. So far it has. The following is an essay that I wrote at the end of the EMO.
I knew I would not lose a lot of weight on this EMO because I am toxic in lead and until I get some of that pulled out the weight can wait. But what I wanted to write about was the fact that I went off of all my antidepressants all at once, just before I started the EMO.
I had been on the antidepressants for eighteen years and on seventeen different ones during those years. Every doctor that I had during those years told me that I would be on the drugs all my life.
Only that no matter what drug I was on or combination of drugs I was unstable emotionally. Constant depression hung on me even when on three or four pill cocktails. I was told that there was no other way. I had to take the pills and maybe a little exercise would help. When one is that depressed one does not fill like moving any part of one's body. I would go to work half alive, sometimes contemplating suicide. I never got past the contemplating to the planning stage because the support that my husband and my art gave me, kept me going.
In 2008 I received a VNS implant. It stimulates the vagus nerve as it goes into the brain and causes serotonin to be produced. It was the first time in my life that I experienced joy. I a mean I experienced it at a different level than I had ever felt it before. Now I had something to fight for. Now I knew what life could be. But it took a mammogram finding a cyst in one of my breasts to shock me into trying even harder to lose weigh and get my health back. So I started correcting my diet. I lost 40 lbs in 6 months. I went gluten free and pulled other things out of my diet, But the depression was still there. Even with the VNS and three antidepressants.
Then a relative suggested Dr. Dan. He looked at my x-rays and determined that the curvature of the neck that he calls the Arch of Life was not curved at all. This in itself would have caused my depression. So we started the adjustments.
At the same time Dr. F started the detox from lead. I was feeling so good that I went cold turkey off the antidepressants. I did not tell any one. I lasted about 4 weeks until I had to call Dr Dan and said that I might have to go back on the drugs. He got me into Dr. F, who put me on some great supplements to balance the brain as it needed it at that time. I came back to near normal faster than any antidepressant had ever done for me. I have up and down days, mostly up now and with out the drugs that have ruled my life for eighteen years. When I needed support to just get through those tough days when coming off the antidepressants. the staff, and especially Dr. Dan were there to tell me I would, I could, do it. This support has meant the world to me. No doctor has supported me in my quest for health as he has. I know that I have come home to where God wants me to be with my health.
The next battle is the Candida (a yeast ) that I believe that I have. It causes depression and many other health problems. But I know that I will be able to conquer this problem with the guidance of Dr. Dan and his staff.
I received the results from the candida test and it was negative. I am still going to do the protocol for the yeast infection for I have information that leads me to think that the blood test is wrong. The spit test.
When on gets up in the morning, and before anything is put in one's mouth one spits into a clear glass of clean water. If the spit clumps and then strings downward or becomes cloudy one has candida. Mine did. For three days straight. Since I am so sensitive to every other problem (gluten,soy, milk,) I think that even just a little bit of the yeast would cause a problem. I can't eat even a little sugar, good or bad,without getting severely depressed even now.
Never have I been given the support to get off these drugs before. I have tried to do so six times since 1993. Once ending up in the hospital after reducing gradually for one year.
I have the implant still and it has saved me many times. But that is all that I am on, and the supplements. No drugs. I am chemical free at this time. No thyroid, no cholesterol medications either. Truly drug free.
Doctor Dan holds a series of lectures called the Extreme Make Over. I went off the medications before the EMO but with the support of the lectures and the culture of support that surrounded me I was able to come off the drugs. I know that I am not out of the window of danger yet. I have to prove to myself that this will work. So far it has. The following is an essay that I wrote at the end of the EMO.
I knew I would not lose a lot of weight on this EMO because I am toxic in lead and until I get some of that pulled out the weight can wait. But what I wanted to write about was the fact that I went off of all my antidepressants all at once, just before I started the EMO.
I had been on the antidepressants for eighteen years and on seventeen different ones during those years. Every doctor that I had during those years told me that I would be on the drugs all my life.
Only that no matter what drug I was on or combination of drugs I was unstable emotionally. Constant depression hung on me even when on three or four pill cocktails. I was told that there was no other way. I had to take the pills and maybe a little exercise would help. When one is that depressed one does not fill like moving any part of one's body. I would go to work half alive, sometimes contemplating suicide. I never got past the contemplating to the planning stage because the support that my husband and my art gave me, kept me going.
In 2008 I received a VNS implant. It stimulates the vagus nerve as it goes into the brain and causes serotonin to be produced. It was the first time in my life that I experienced joy. I a mean I experienced it at a different level than I had ever felt it before. Now I had something to fight for. Now I knew what life could be. But it took a mammogram finding a cyst in one of my breasts to shock me into trying even harder to lose weigh and get my health back. So I started correcting my diet. I lost 40 lbs in 6 months. I went gluten free and pulled other things out of my diet, But the depression was still there. Even with the VNS and three antidepressants.
Then a relative suggested Dr. Dan. He looked at my x-rays and determined that the curvature of the neck that he calls the Arch of Life was not curved at all. This in itself would have caused my depression. So we started the adjustments.
At the same time Dr. F started the detox from lead. I was feeling so good that I went cold turkey off the antidepressants. I did not tell any one. I lasted about 4 weeks until I had to call Dr Dan and said that I might have to go back on the drugs. He got me into Dr. F, who put me on some great supplements to balance the brain as it needed it at that time. I came back to near normal faster than any antidepressant had ever done for me. I have up and down days, mostly up now and with out the drugs that have ruled my life for eighteen years. When I needed support to just get through those tough days when coming off the antidepressants. the staff, and especially Dr. Dan were there to tell me I would, I could, do it. This support has meant the world to me. No doctor has supported me in my quest for health as he has. I know that I have come home to where God wants me to be with my health.
The next battle is the Candida (a yeast ) that I believe that I have. It causes depression and many other health problems. But I know that I will be able to conquer this problem with the guidance of Dr. Dan and his staff.
I received the results from the candida test and it was negative. I am still going to do the protocol for the yeast infection for I have information that leads me to think that the blood test is wrong. The spit test.
When on gets up in the morning, and before anything is put in one's mouth one spits into a clear glass of clean water. If the spit clumps and then strings downward or becomes cloudy one has candida. Mine did. For three days straight. Since I am so sensitive to every other problem (gluten,soy, milk,) I think that even just a little bit of the yeast would cause a problem. I can't eat even a little sugar, good or bad,without getting severely depressed even now.
