Checked Out of Hansa

I am home now from the Hansa and had a pretty good few days. The flight home was good and Memorial Day weekend was good. Well, fairly good. I don't usually say that.

On my last day at Hansa, I met with my doc and he gave me a hug! I thanked him for everything and told him I was so glad he was my doctor. He tested for unhealthy genes and other things. I did all my regular therapies, and then had a checkout appointment with the front desk where I went over all my medicine bottles, how long I'll have to take them, and what bottles will need to be shipped. I have 20+ bottles and I love how they came with instructions about how long I need to take each. It seems like a 45-90 day program of remedies. I love that it's not like, "Here, good luck taking these the rest of your life while trying to figure out how to pay for them". It wasn't like that at all.

I'm instructed to return to Hansa sometime this Fall depending on how well I'm doing. It sounds like it will be about $5,000 for 5 days next time. Yes, $1,000 a day. Brutal.

I hugged all my friends I made at Hansa, too, and will try to keep in touch with them. You really bond with the people who are there the same weeks that you are. It was nice to be able to relate to everybody.

I am not doing as well today. Really shaky. I actually didn't take my medicine all weekend. I am starting them today and won't take any more days off until it's time to start taking one day off a week. I'm supposed to continue using my sauna 4x a week. I need 20min of sunlight per day and 20min of exercise. So basically I need to walk outside 20min a day. I definitely did that over the weekend.

I've been sleeping extra deep and noticed (maybe from Brainwave) that I wasn't really as afraid of heights in the mountains like I usually am. I also wasn't as afraid of turbulence during the flight home like I usually am.

So, I'll be spending my summer taking all my 20+ remedies twice a day, detoxing, and getting outside as often as I can. I'm gonna try to eat less, too, because my stomach seems to do better, as well as my breathing, when I eat VERY light.

I have a headache today. I'm shaking and dizzy. I am trying to decide whether or not I should return to NUCCA treatments. My doc also suggested I do cranial sacral therapy twice a month. I need to find someone good and local.

Hansa Days 8 & 9

Here's a picture by the door of the ST8 therapy room. This is the thing where you have an oxygen tube. They're going to give me a paper about it. Sorry for the glare in the photo. I had no idea this is what the ST8 was doing. I'm familiar with ozone and rife, but not the others. 

Here's a photo of me doing the LUX therapy. It's lights with crystal things in them shining on your organs while you listen to sounds. I think I listened to a monk chant today with certain frequencies, but sometimes I'm listening to water and birds. The lights were on my forehead, heart, and stomach today. I despise sitting in these zero gravity chairs. I have no idea why!!! Nobody else feels weird in them! The light makes my heart act up, and the light on my head made my brain feel weird. They are strong whatever they are, and whatever they're doing. I know I should try to understand all of this more, but I really have just been trusting and going with the flow and not worrying. Plus it just seems way to complicated for my little blonde foggy brain. 

Here's a picture of the Bemer therapy. It's a mat on a chair hooked up to a device. Something about frequencies and circulation and we always have to be drinking electrolytes while we sit in it for 8 minutes. Some people can feel the effects of it while they're sitting but others can't.  

These signs are in various places around the building and I LOVE it. What a great rule. 

So, today, I did my Bemer, and then met with Doctor Streit for the second to last time. We brought of the Phrenic Nerve, which may be playing a role in my diaphragm problems. He gave me magnesium, glutathione, adjusted my sacrum, showed me how to do something around my neck with a rolled up towel to help possible nerve issues in my neck, he found extra disruptions in my diaphragm, gave me something to take in the evening for cortisol, and suggested I take collagen to help my tissues. He is such a brilliant, kind, funny man and I have enjoyed working with him so much. 

After doctor visit, I had a massage with Melissa, who seems to massage in a way that aids the lymph system. She pays attention to lymph nodes. It was shorter today and lighter because I am sore from the weather and from the previous day's massage. I swear when she lifts up my neck I can breath easier. Maybe 'cause the phrenic nerve gets some room to move my diaphragm? 

I did ok after treatment but I STILL HAVE EPISODES AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE! I just really think it has something to do with my neck and stomach and the connection (or disruption) between the two. 

Tomorrow is my last day and oh my gosh. I don't even know how to feel. A lot of the patients I talk to don't know how to feel either, as it's the last day for many of them, too. I hope to have some sort of summarization visit tomorrow with my doc. 

We'll see what tomorrow brings. 

Hansa Days 6 & 7

Here's some photos of the sauna they have at the Hansa Center. It's VERY fancy. I think it fits 5 people.

On Monday I was completely miserable, but kept hearing from the Hansa staff that it's very normal for their patients to have a crummy weekend after the first week of treatment. They said they see it all the time. The full moon and huge storm that rolled in were negatively affecting everyone, too. I had been up 'til 2am the previous night with gastritis and shaking. It was brutal. I had some intestinal problems as well, and was very jittery. I did the sauna first thing in the morning which was NOT a good idea. I can only handle the sauna later in the day, and I let the staff know. I didn't do well with the light or oxygen therapies and was beat by the time I made it to see the doctor.

The doctor is always my favorite part of the treatment day. Today we tested me with color therapies. I am drawn more to lavender and green but did not like red, yellow, or blue. He told me which colors represent systems of the body but I forgot. He also tested me with food sensitivities with vials of energy from the foods. A lot of foods came up that I already knew I don't do well with. He mentioned one of the doctors there helped people with their severe peanut allergies.

On Tuesday I had slept a little better, had a hard time waking up, but made it to the Hansa and got to go straight in to see the doc after my Bemer. He talked about how our brains are cross sectioned and we did some physical therapy where I would have to balance and walk with my eyes closed. He teased me a little bit about being a dancer because my knees were very straight with my leg lifts and my toes were very pointed. I actually caught myself standing in ballet first position. He released my right psoas, which was cool that he found that just basically by the frequency coming from it. I knew I had a problem with that area but hadn't said a thing. We also did some vertigo physical therapy by being on the ground in a fetal position and turning my head and looking up. My eyes were doing a weird thing when I was dizzy I guess.

I'm back at the hotel now feeling horrendous. It's weird to have a fairly ok morning and then feel horrendous the rest of the day. I'm exceptionally dizzy and have a headache. I'm exhausted and my eyes burn and I think another storm is coming.

Something I like about the Hansa Center is it smells like coffee and essential oils, it's like a spa, everyone is opening Christian there, and you meet people who are returning who have made progress. It is not typical to make progress your first time there. You basically shouldn't expect that. Things start to come together later after being there. I met person #5 who is doing well.

One thing I HATE is this falling empty feeling I feel in the zero gravity chairs. It seems to have something to do with my stomach or my body falling asleep before my mind? It is SCARY and torturous. I hate it and I don't know what it is or how to make it better. I've felt it in my bed at home before so I can't totally blame the chairs.

Oh, we addressed my high morning cortisol today, too, but I forgot the remedy at the front desk when I left today.

I feel like I need to nap. I feel so miserable. But I don't want to because that's one of the reasons I was up until 2am Monday night.

I need to get off my computer now. The screen is bothering me. I feel exceptionally awful.

Hansa Day 5

Today I did the Bemer chair (I really need to take a pic), had electrolyte drink, did light therapy on liver and spleen again while listening to the sound of a river in headphones, had green juice detox drink, had a 1hr massage with Kathy, and visited with my doc. Today he honed in on 5 emotional and physical traumas I have from childhood, car accidents, c-section trauma, etc. He adjusted the base of my skull and my SI joint, and found I have tolerance/compassion imbalance. He kept picked up energy blocks in my pelvis. It's so interesting to me he keeps coming back to it because it really is where the most trauma is. I told him I went of my contraceptive the very week I got hurt, and he wants me to get a pack out here from my regular doctor so he can look at it. He thinks that might be a big puzzle piece. I do too. I almost forgot about it until he brought it up. I told him I'm STILL having trouble breathing and he said something about 5 square breathing where you hold it, let it out, hold it, let it out. I need to write down exactly what he said.

So then, he got this toy dolly out and had me grab her hand, which had a little metal circle on it. So, I did and then grabbed the doctors hand and she started singing. Then I let go of the doctors hand and she stopped singing. It was like she was running off our energy?? I have no idea. Anyway, this led to the bug zapper electrocuter thing, which had to go on my toes, my c-section scar, and my head. It was unpleasant but the doc said I did REALLY well. I guess 'cause I wasn't screaming or rolling off the table I was laying on.

The doc put KT tape on my floating rib, told me I need to keep my shoulders back to stretch my pectoral muscles, and a couple visits ago he said I have histamine intolerance? I will have to ask him again about that.

I love how he acknowledges and addresses EVERYTHING I say. I'm very comfortable asking him and telling him anything and everything, which is so not what I'm used to with conventional doctors. He has so much knowledge it seems impossible. He made up one more remedy bottle for me so now I am up to ten remedies twice a day, which actually isn't so bad compared to what I've been on before.

After my doctor visit I had my 30min infrared sauna which I always love, and then one last Bemer before I was done for the day.

My body pain is worse and my dreams are way more vivid than usual. I don't do well waking up or falling asleep, but I'm gonna try and enjoy the weekend here in Kansas as much as I can. When in Rome, right?

Hansa Days 3 & 4

Yesterday my doc did a presentation on bug bites during lunch. It should be on YouTube somewhere. It's called "Surviving Summer". It was really good. It was actually beautiful weather yesterday so I spent some time outside enjoying the scenery. I had a moment of breathing well while I was out there but it didn't last long. I got some new tinctures and did the same therapies as the previous day.

Today my doc found things I never even told him about. He found my floating rib, my bulging L5, and told me that the kind of injury I have in my SI joint can actually cause Dysautonomia. There's something going on with my cerebral spinal fluid, too. I don't have CSF insufficiency like I suspected, but that is a good thing! He worked on my sacrotuberois ligament and had me lift my legs. Then he worked on the base of my skull, after which I had VERY strange tingly sensation on my scalp but it went away. I love how he addresses EVERYTHING! He validates so much of my research and explains everything so perfectly. It's been so enlightening to work with him and I'm so glad they have patients see their doctors every day for an hour for two weeks. It's just brilliant.

Today, I did the Bemer therapy, had electrolytes, green juice, lymph massage, oxygen frequency therapy on my sternum, light therapy on my liver and spleen, another Bemer, and far infrared sauna. 

I still have some new focus from brainwave but it kinda comes and goes. My pain was worse today but the weather was bad. I didn't sleep very well or very long either. 

I look forward to tomorrow. 

Hansa Day 2

Today I did the Bemer chair and then met with the doc where he found I have ammonia toxicity. So he made me a tincture for it, closed my Ileocecal valve, pulled down my hiatal hernia, and tested me for H Pylori which came up positive. I've had previous tests for that but I guess it was missed.

After the doc, I did the light therapy, had a 1hr full body massage, did the sauna, did oxygen therapy, and did the Bemer again. Oh, I also stood on a vibrating plate thing which I did NOT like. 

I love the mineral water, green juices, and electrolyte drinks they have around the facility. I love the new people I've met, too.

My husband and son have been with me the past 10 days but they leave tomorrow. My mom will be flying in tomorrow though to stay with me for the rest of the time.

I'm having a hard time breathing today. Not sure if it's the ginger bitters the doc gave me for my stomach or what. I've been having weird episodes, too. I've had moments of being ok and moments that just hit me and I am not ok. It's so black and white. I'm so sick of the episodes and I don't know what they are or what to do about them!

Hopefully something can be done in the next week and a half.

First Official Day at Hansa

Today I came into the Hansa Center, registered, got a gift bag, put my stuff in a cubby, and then had some sort of weird thermal test where they used a thermometer thing on different points on my upper body to see how my body regulates? It's a little hard to explain and I'm not sure how it works. 

After my thermal scan, which I believe is called a "CRT", I was able to meet Dr. Streit, who has been assigned to me for the two weeks I'll be here. I get to meet with him every day for an hour, which I think is just absolutely brilliant. To be honest, I was hoping I would get him as my doctor, and I don't really know why. There was a 25% chance I would get him 'cause there's 4 working doctors in the facility. They really all seem wonderful, but I'm not sure if I knew he was going to be my doctor or what. He's really cool, though. He went over my CRT results, and LISTENED to me. Like, he ACTUALLY listened to me. He was not concerned with his own doctor ego and his own ideas like I've experienced with others. Rather, he was concerned with my explanation of my symptoms. It's been embarrassing and exhausting to explain 115 symptoms everywhere from my teeth to my toes, but he is a "whole body" doctor and understands everything inside and out. He understands how everything is connected, and never once did he think I was weird. I've been called unusual for so long. He welcomes the unusual, which was both a relief and a breath of fresh air.

After talking with the doc, we had a lunch break, and then I came back and started my therapies. The first one......I don't know what it was but I laid in a chair and had an oxygen tube, and some weird things on my clavicles and shoulder blades. The next treatment was.........light therapy? I had headphones on and they had a light on my chest and back. Then I sat in another chair that was called a beamer? I don't know what that was. But then I sat in a REALLY fancy infrared sauna and I know exactly what that is! I was done mid-afternoon and came back to the hotel and took an "almost" nap. 

Below is a picture of what my tests have determined. They seem to be accurate. Dr Streit even picked up on things that I didn't tell him, that I wasn't tested for, and that I didn't put on any paperwork. There were a few things like that which, to me, proves that this kind of alternative medicine is legit. 

There are people from all over the world at this center. I heard several different accents. People from different countries. I feel blessed to be here. I've read of so many people who wish they could come here and I AM here. I'm very fortunate. I am really hopeful and even almost excited to see what I can accomplish here. I'm not usually excited but things seem promising.

Brainwave Complete

So I did all my brainwave sessions. Each were the same it seemed, but I did not handle them all the same. Sometimes I was fine, sometimes I was stuck between sleep and awake, sometimes I would hallucinate, sometimes I would feel claustrophobic, etc. I was almost considering discontinuing the sessions because I was having such a hard time, but I pushed through. On the last day, I prepared to push through my last session, but my tech said I actually did not even need my final session because my brain was balanced! They said they rarely see that happen so fast but I was lucky. So I was able to do my exit interview and was sent on my way. 

Over the weekend I was experiencing EXTREME dizziness, if that's even the right word. I stayed in bed for so long. Way longer than I normally do. It was so horrible and bizarre. Once the weekend passed I seemed to slowly be getting a little better. I think my focus is a little better. I've been meeting a lot of new people and have been able to have conversations without wigging out. It comes and goes.

I think my sleep is ok. I went off my spec of 2mg of Ambien and have not needed it. My dreams are a little too vivid but maybe that will resolve. My tech says the brain will settle over the next few weeks so I'll just have to see if I notice any more positive changes along the way. 

Brainwave Optimization Day 1

I've arrived at the Hansa Center. Today I started Brainwave Optimization and it was like hypnotism of torture. I have to be hooked up to electrodes and have weird tunes, or notes, or chords or whatever you want to call them in my ears to mimic my brainwaves for 1.5hrs twice a day. I'm not sure why I was wigging out and feeling so uncomfortable. I had bizarre symptoms like Ascension and full body aches and my skin felt invisible. Of course, I am unusual, and this is a strange reaction, but I think the fact that my neck and stomach had to hold still for so long played a big part. I'm also still motion sickness from traveling here, and sleep deprived.

Below is a chart that shows my parasympathetic nervous system (on the left) and my sympathetic nervous system (on the right). I'm not sure which lobe this is but clearly I'm stuck in fight or flight. I think I could physically feel my brain refusing to go to the left. It was NOT fun. I felt like a skeleton sitting in an electric chair.

I will try to eat less and drink more and relax tomorrow as I think that may have played a role in how I was reacting. 

On two positive notes, my technician is a gem in every sense of the word, and I got to meet THE Dr Jernigan unexpectedly. My tech must have told him I was NOT doing well and he kindly peeked in. I must say, this human being gives off a STRONG, humble, wise, powerful first impression. I felt I was in the presence of a true healer whose spirit is VERY good. 

I pray tomorrow I will not react so horrifically. I don't want anyone else to feel deterred by my reaction to this because, as usual, I do NOT respond normally to things. This has helped many people.

I was supposed to rest and nap but my body won't let me nap 'cause I feel like I can't breath. My heart and lungs and stomach hate me, and so does the severe Spring weather here.