Patient Story
Victoria: autoimmune, couldn't get out of bed, graves disease
Summary
Victoria has multiple autoimmune conditions including dermatomyositis, type 1 diabetes, Graves disease, and connective tissue disease. Before Med Matrix, hard prescription medications with significant side effects left her barely able to get off the couch. Through functional medicine, dietary changes, and targeted supplements, her Graves disease thyroid levels returned to normal within roughly five months, her joint pain improved dramatically, and her overall quality of life is nearly back to what it was before.
Before Med Matrix
- Multiple autoimmune diagnoses: dermatomyositis, type 1 diabetes, Graves disease, connective tissue disease
- Severe joint pain; sometimes could not get out of bed
- Significant fatigue
- On heavy prescription medications with difficult side effects
- Quality of life described as "pretty bad"
- Conventional doctors focused on symptoms rather than root causes
Results
- Graves disease thyroid levels returned to normal (from December to May, approximately 5 months)
- Joint pain significantly reduced
- Fatigue improved
- Overall quality of life nearly back to pre-illness baseline
- Able to resume activities she could not do before
- Lower side effect burden compared to prior pharmaceutical regimen
Key Quotes
“It was looking at more of the root cause, not just treating symptoms. That wasn't working for my symptoms with normal medical doctors.”
“Especially when the doctor said the Graves disease was back to normal levels. That was like, wow, that's cool.”
“It is letting me do almost back to completely like what I used to be doing. From where I was to now.”
“It's not that expensive, really. It's basically what you'd pay at a doctor for co-pays, or cheaper, and the supplements are super effective and low side effects.”
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anything that you don't want to talk about? No. Okay, perfect. Thank you so much. Um All right. So, all set. Cool. All right. So, um Victoria, uh before finding Med Matrix, uh what were you dealing with day-to-day as far as health goes? What did what did that look like for you? So, I have a lot of autoimmune conditions. Um I have dermatomyioitis. I have type 1 diabetes, the Graves disease, and um connective tissue disease, which really affects my joints and um movements and stuff. And um the I was I've just been on so such like hard medicine, hard prescription medicines, and it's really and it's really um hard like side effects, just not good stuff. So, I wanted to try the functional route and it's been really effective so far with some of my conditions. Um, so the joint pain was really hard. Um, like sometimes couldn't get out of bed. Um, but a lot of dysfunctional medicine has helped with like joint pain. Uh, diet changes have helped a bit. Um, some of the supplements have helped with that. um like fatigue it's helped with I think um and the the Graves disease the thyroid issues um those are back to normal levels which is awesome literally couldn't move off the couch get move off the couch or get really hard to anything myself and my daughter and it um it it the quality of life was pretty bad quality of life was pretty bad before. Thank you for sharing. Um, so what made you so what made you I searched I had medicine the internet and I searched the internet first one that came up with med matrix and I looked up matrix so I looked at one and the most one to me the most convenient and you guys are awesome and you guys are awesome and then what felt different about our approach once you started what felt different about our approach once you started So natural, so natural, low side effects, low side effects. It was looking at more of the root cause, looking at more symptoms, which wasn't working for my symptoms, which wasn't working for my symptoms. It was more like few weeks than 6 months or however long. Yeah. The normal um medical doctors. Mhm. Yeah. Okay, great. Was so was there like a wow moment for you when you realized that like things were actually improving with your health like a specific moment or Yeah. Yes. Especially when the doctor said I that the Graves disease was back to normal levels. Um that was like wow that's cool. That's awesome. How so how long had you been dealing with the Graves disease before you? That was December and by um May it was back to normal. Wow. Awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and then so how so all these changes, how has this actually impacted quality of life for you? If you have any like specific examples, has this allowed you to do things that you weren't able to do before or is this just kind of like overall just better quality of life? Overall better quality of life for sure. Um, it is let me do almost back to completely like what I used to be doing, which great. Yeah. Yeah. From where I was to now. Yeah. That's awesome. Um, so what would you say to someone who's skeptical or feels, you know, they've tried everything and they're considering reaching out to Med Matrix? I would say definitely try it. It's definitely worth it. Um, even it's not that expensive really. It like it's basically what you'd pay at a doctor for co-pays uh or cheaper and the uh supplements are super effective and low side effects. Yeah, that's great. It's good feedback.
