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(More customer reviews)I recently finished reading The Inner Pulse and wanted to tell everyone that I thought it was a very intriguing read and well worth what I spent on it. It certainly made me think a lot. I'd also like to share a bit of my story.
First off, I don't have a life threatening illness. I am a 46 year old female who lives in Texas and works in the IT industry. 5 years ago after much struggle to advance myself, I managed to be recruited by my current company to do the type of work that I have always wanted to do. I was working with some great people and absolutely threw myself into my work to learn all that I could. At the time, my children were of high school age and up. I am happily married for 26 years and have a very loving relationship with my husband and children. 5 years ago as I was starting this new job, I noticed that I was tired all the time and had started gaining a lot of weight. I ignored it thinking that this was caused by the strain of leaning so much new information and not being very active. However, one day I noticed that I felt like I had something stuck in my throat when I swallowed. The feeling did not go away for several days so I went to see my doctor who found out that I had nodules growing in my thyroid. I went to ultrasounds and had other tests and finally was referred to an Endocrinologist in Dallas. My Endocrinologist sent me though another round of tests and finally performed a biopsy on the largest nodule. My results show that I have no signs of cancer and all my blood tests show that my thyroid is within normal thresholds. This is good.
However, I continued to gain weight (to me it was rapid and alarming). I am 5'7" and 5 years ago was about 155lbs. I gained weight until I finally weighed about 210lbs. My regular doctor and the Endocrinologist both told me that there was nothing wrong with me and that I simply had to be more active. I kept telling them that I felt that there is something wrong with my thyroid and that I needed them to think outside the box for me. I exercised more with no change in weight. This was highly unusual for me. I pulled my diet down in calories and managed to lose 8 lbs but the second that I ate a bit more than usual, I gained it all back. My husband and I bought the P90X program and started it but ended up injuring ourselves while doing the strenuous exercises. It was so unusual for me to not be able to lose weight that I was really beginning to despair that I would not be able to correct my weight. To compound things, my injuries from P90X had inflamed my hip flexors and I found that I could not run without lots of pain. I was terrified that if I went to my regular doctor that he would put me on pain meds or send me out for surgery and I would never lose weight. I finally ended up completely disgusted with myself. I had difficulty looking at myself in the mirror and ended up in tears many times at clothing stores when I had to buy larger sizes. I basically stopped having relations with my husband because I felt so ugly. I told my daughter that I had nothing to look forward to and began drinking quite a bit.
One day at work, a young man came into the office passing out business cards. His name is Dr. Andrew Oteo and he is a Chiropractor who was just starting his practice on the same floor as my company and he was looking for patients. I had never been to a Chiropractor and actually had a good bit of fear of them. I told him at the time that I needed someone to help me with the pain that I was having when running and that I would think about seeing him. A couple of days later, Dr. Oteo had an open house at his office and raffled some products and a few free visits. One of my co-workers put my name into the drawing and I won. So, despite having an irrational fear of Chiropractors, I made an appointment.
Dr. Oteo is a very earnest young man who cares about his patients and he found that my hips and shoulders were out of alignment causing my hip flexors to become inflamed. As we worked to correct this with adjustments and exercises, I also found out that Dr. Oteo is a certified trainer so I proposed that he take me on as a training client also and I would agree to be measured and photographed and used as a case study for his marketing purposes. To my delight, he agreed. Dr. Oteo has worked with me on my diet and most importantly he has encouraged me to adopt a more positive attitude about life in general. I have talked to him at length about my thyroid issues and my frustrations. He has counseled me to wait and see how my thyroid feels after I have lost some weight. When I started working with Dr. Oteo my weight was 198lbs. After working with Dr. Oteo for 3 months I am now at 175lbs. And, I am noticing that my thyroid seems to be shrinking. I no longer feel like I have something stuck in my throat. My attitude has improved dramatically. I used to run long distance when I was younger and have dreamed of finally being able to run a marathon. Dr. Oteo says that I definitely have it in me to do it. Our goal is to get my weight down to about 130lbs. More importantly, I have stopped drinking and no longer have any problems in the bedroom which of course delights my husband. I also feel like I have something to look forward to again. Dr. Oteo has pulled me back from a very bad place and I am profoundly grateful that he came into the office that day.
I feel like my inner pulse is coming back very strong ever since I started working with Dr. Oteo. He did not push my concerns about my thyroid and weight gain away. That bit of caring meant more than all of the tests that the other doctors have done. They all seemed to want to push my concerns away because the tests came back "normal". I still feel like my weight gain is a direct result of the nodules in my thyroid but am not sure if the other docs will listen to me. Dr. Oteo does want me to continue to see my Endocrinologist and is in no way trying to cast aspersions on what he does. But, after understanding how much results can come from one doctor picking up on my inner pulse, I am not sure that I want to see the same Endocrinologist. My pulse story is not much of one but after reading this book I understand that I must follow up on my instinct that there is still something wrong with my thyroid.
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