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Rori - Los Angeles
When I started with Matia just over 2 years ago, I was in constant burning pain, desperate and scared out of my mind. I'd been in this kind of pain for 7 years, but it had flared up to an unbearable place. I'd seen a urologist in Los Angeles who supposedly "specialized" in IC .(I'd figured out what I had when my mother saw an ad for Elmiron in a magazine and called to say it sounded like me.) He gave me Elmiron and Attarax and Prelief and sent me to an acupuncturist who gave me enzymes, and an internal massage specialist, and I started taking everything I found on the internet. Some of it made everything worse, and some helped only enough for me to know I really did have IC. (I never allowed any of the more invasive tests urologists usually do, I was too scared - and very determined to find an alternative way to heal myself.) Then I was referred to Matia by another L.A urologist to whom I am forever grateful.
I could feel the difference after 1 week, and I was out of that searing, burning pain after 6 weeks. I was a slow case. I was so sensitive, Matia had to move me very slowly. My diet still hovers around List #1, but it's mostly my choice because I'm not much of a cook and prefer things to be simple. I still don't eat fruits or sugar (I don't believe I'll ever again eat "sugar"), but I can handle most everything else, and I've moved through many different formulas to where I can try most everything she suggests without a flare-up and with great results. I still use and love Matia's products (I adore the olive oil soap) and will always use the sulfate-free shampoos and conditioners and low-peroxide hair colors I found. I find myself thinking about doing and trying and using things I never would have considered a year ago.
This experience has been, after having and raising my daughter, the defining experience of my life. To find the faith in myself and in Matia's process to keep going, and the discipline to stick to the plan no matter what gave me personal strength I didn't know I had. And putting myself in the hands of another human being was startling.
You probably already know for yourself, but Matia is an angel. Not just in descriptive terms, but, for me, absolutely true and literal. I have never met anyone in my life like her. She has absolutely no ego about her work. She is there for you 100% no matter how crazy you get in the middle of the night (there were many of those for me), or how frightened you get. I can't even imagine how she knows what she knows. I can only guess at her gifts, but I know for sure she's an angel. It's the only way she could handle the huge heart she offers to everyone she sees.
Another of Matia's patients once wrote to a group of us in describing Matia's process of healing - "You just get a new 'normal.'" And I've found that to be true. I can barely even imagine the pain I was once in. It just seems like every day the "different" and "better" I feel becomes a new normal for me.
Going through the "dark nights" is a part of the process I barely remember, but I'm no longer afraid. I look at the transitions ahead as things to look forward to, because I now know I'll come out on the other side no matter what. Good luck to you on your journey, and you've started in the right place.
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