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Yara Testimonial
Yara C. is one of the patients whose testimonial is on the book "Multiple Sclerosis and (lots of) Vitamin D." However, this is not Yara's testimonial, but something she has recently shared with FB groups. We asked Yara for permission to translate it and publish it here for you. This is the kind of experience patients all over the world are having with the Coimbra Protocol.
"Blessed vitamin D!
Hello people,
"For personal reasons I haven't been present in the MS groups lately, in spite of having helped to found two of them. What brings me here today is the desire to share with you, my friends, a victory that I attribute to vitamin D. Without any shadow of doubt, I know that if not by the treatment with high doses of vitamin D, I definitely wouldn't be here.
I've been a patient of Dr. Cicero Coimbra for almost six years and I follow the protocol to the letter. I got to him in deplorable conditions, with vision loss in the left eye (saw only 20%), speech problems, poor concentration, a terrible tingling throughout the body, trigeminal neuralgia, incoordination in the left arm and leg, spasticity, and the most serious symptom of all: a strong vertigo that afflicted me 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I could not go to the bathroom alone, and even when I used the walls for support, I almost always fell. It was an indescribable feeling of falling in an elevator shaft, only backwards and with everything turning around me. The dizziness was such that I could not turn my head, or myself, when I was lying in bed. In short, I lived months in this situation, taking the darn Copaxone, that besides not fulfilling its promises was giving me terrible side effects.
So I decided to consult with Dr. Cicero and put all my hopes on something that seemed very sensible to me. And since the day of my consultation, a sunny future began to shine on my horizon, and a new story began for me. That day, Dr. Coimbra, with great humility but also with great confidence, looked into my eyes and said: The nightmare is over, Yara. You'll no longer have problems with multiple sclerosis. The improvements came slowly, and exactly seven months after my consultation I started to improve significantly. I started to take some steps alone, in the beginning I felt so bad and so tired by the effort that sometimes I had to spend a whole week resting, without leaving my house. But I did not give up and in the next week I'd start all over again. And again, again and again. I knew my recovery also depended on my emotional balance and my effort to improve. It was not easy, but I got it. Months later I was able to walk seven kilometers a day, alone and fast. Now, all my motor problems have disappeared, the only thing that remains is a strong ringing in both ears - more intense in the left. But let's say I've learned to live with this.
People, I had to tell you this long story because if I got out of bed at all was thanks to the action of vitamin D in my body. I stopped copaxone as soon as I started taking vitamin D. Doubts about the effectiveness of the Protocol? I have none. But what brought me here today, as seen in the photos below, is a different kind of victory: my path to weight loss.
I had started to put on weight just before my diagnosis, while living outside Brazil and, with the diagnosis and given my physical and emotional condition, things got much worse. I was gaining more and more weight, I ate badly, including processed foods, frozen food, bakery sweets, soft drinks, juice drinks, etc. and the result was what you see in the first two pictures. In the second, in 2010, I was at my maximum weight and in that picture I was all hard on the couch because of spasticity I could barely bear the weight of my own head, such was the fatigue and aches. I was heavy! Heavy and with no prospects of getting better, and I could not practice any physical activities. Food was my escape valve, but I did not eat much in terms of quantity, I just ate very bad foods to try to ease my frustrations and my pains. I was sick, physically and emotionally sick.
To make the story short, once I started my treatment with the protocol, I decided to play game of life again, because I had received a new chance to live and felt I had a moral duty to take care of my health, with more affection for myself. I began to understand the importance of good nutrition, I learned a lot and I established a strategy. I did it all in a very lucid and paced manner. I changed my eating habits and started exercising. Without haste, without anxiety, without miraculous or bizarre diets. It was a slow, very slow, but effective and definitive process, as I relearned to eat healthily and to enjoy exercising. I have lost 31 kg (68 lbs) so far, and before the end of the year, I'll lose another 10 kg (22 lbs).
I would like to make it clear that the intention of this post is not to say that my decisions - when it comes to weight loss - are for everybody. The Internet is there with a lot of information available to those who want to learn and decide what is best for themselves. But when it comes to vitamin D .... Ooooh, as true as the air I breathe, as true as my infinite gratitude to Dr. Cicero Coimbra for daring to think outside the box and break paradigms, I'm sure that if I got over such large obstacles it's only because MS is old history in my life. The disease is "off" and I feel I was born again. And that's why today I shout to the four corners of the world the wonders of this treatment. Long life, Dr. Cicero, humanist doctors like you are rare gems.
A final message to those who are starting now on the protocol: patience, patience, and when you think you've found enough patience, find more. Emotional control is very important in this treatment, even amid all the difficulties that a disease like MS brings. Emotional balance can make all the difference in our recovery. Everything has its time, each patient has its own pace, and it's important to let vitamin D reach its maximum effect - which can take several months. Above all, let's try to live with joy and gratitude, and remember that obstacles make us grow.
Many thanks and a strong hug!
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Yara
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