Patient Story
From Four Naps a Day to Functioning
Summary
Shelby had been sick for years, passed from one GP to another and from specialist to specialist through tests and scans that never produced an answer. She had a hard time breathing, a taste of metal in her mouth, and thyroid levels that swung from severe hypothyroidism to hyper, and she could not get through a day without three or four naps of two to three hours each while caring for her 18 year old daughter, who was born with significant special needs. Her husband pushed her to call Med Matrix. After comprehensive labs, an InBody scan, and telehealth visits with Colin Renaud, PA-C, and his nurse Jamie, she says she feels much better and a whole lot more hopeful.
Before Med Matrix
- Had been sick for many years with no answer from her doctors
- Passed from one GP to another, specialist after specialist, test after test, scan after scan
- Hard time breathing
- Taste of metal in her mouth
- Went from severe hypothyroidism to hyper, with levels swinging off the charts
- Felt her doctors' only response was over-medicating her
- Was referred to a podiatrist for issues with her lungs, her brain and her heart
- Could not go a day without three or four naps, two to three hours each
- Could barely function; her brain was not working
- Struggled to care for her 18 year old daughter, who needs a lot of hands-on care
- Says she would not have been able to drive a year ago
- Felt invalidated by the medical community, and was asked whether she had talked to a counselor lately
Results
- Feeling so much better
- A whole lot more hopeful about her health and her future
- Knows there is a reason she was feeling the way she was, and a way to address it
- Drives an hour to the clinic now, which she says she could not have done a year ago
- Given the tools and explanations to take care of her own health between visits
- Says the labs and their meaning were explained to her rather than dismissed
Key Quotes
“I couldn't go a day without taking three or four naps at a time, and those naps were two to three hours each. That is no way to live. It's no way to be able to take care of your family.”
“When my regular doctors finally decided that the issues I seemed to be having with my lungs, with my brain, with my heart might best be diagnosed by a podiatrist, I thought, 'Okay, they're clearly not taking me seriously.'”
“I'm feeling so much better and a huge part of that is knowing that the way I was feeling is not in my head.”
“The distance, it doesn't matter for me because traveling an hour to be able to feel the way I do today as opposed to the way I felt a year ago, I wouldn't have been able to drive a year ago.”
