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John is a
trial lawyer in Tennessee. He was a college athlete, and rugby player. He
had years of discomfort misdiagnosed as prostatitis, for which he was
treated with antibiotics. It would recede for a while and then come back.
At one point it came back and did not go away. His symptoms were frequency
and a nagging, sharp pain in his lower back and prostate area. He would go
to the bathroom and not be able to urinate. He was miserable. A doctor did
look around but only found inflammation which he did not think was IC, and
again antibiotics were prescribed. The
doctor did not suspect IC
because it was thought to be primarily a women’s disease.
John went everywhere looking
for relief. From a branch of the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, to UCLA, to
Columbia Medical Center. He had all sorts of terrible tests done. His
prostate was massaged, drained and he even had surgery on it. Nothing
helped. He was still miserable. A urologist in Nashville finally did a
cystoscopy and diagnosed IC with Hunner’s ulcers. This was in 1998 or
1999. He was put on Elmiron. John did see a gradual improvement with
Elmiron.
In 1998 or 1999 John found
Matia and came out to Los Angeles to see her. She has supervised him ever
since. When he comes to Los Angeles he has acupuncture treatments with
Matia. She monitors his progress and adjusts the herbs as necessary.
John said that he did not totally follow the
regimen but he got much better after he did what Matia told
him, He tends to cheat on his diet. He knows that if he were stricter he
would be doing so much better. However, even his bad spells are better than
his best days before. John has a great deal of confidence in Matia. He
knows that everything she does, if it does not make him better, is not going
to hurt him. She has always been very kind to him.
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