The OHC saved my health (mentally and physically) ...

The OHC saved my health (mentally and physically) and I ll be forever grateful to them - especially Sara and Marie.

I was 24 (2017) when I became seriously unwell. I had multiple appointments with different GP s and even a neurologist who all said nothing was wrong with me - I literally felt like I was going crazy. Finally after about 8 months of pain (which I now realise was fibromyalgia) and fatigue (and many other symptoms like head-dog) I randomly all of a sudden felt like myself again and thought it was just a random blip in my life - wrong. 2-3 months later I had a severe crash and after seeing a holistic GP and acupuncturist I finally found that I had CFS. That s when I found the OHC. Without them I wouldn t have known what to do or how to make it better as sadly the NHS still do not recognise CFS/ME as a real illness. Marie got me in the right head space to start to be able to heal (on the psychology team) and then a couple of months later I started working with Sara in the nutrition team to really start to change my lifestyle whilst still putting into practise the headspace techniques I had learnt. It was a long journey but after about a year I really started to improve and the crashes finally became less and less with longer gaps in-between until finally 3 years later I no longer have crashes and for the most part have healed from having chronic fatigue and it s array of symptoms. I still have some weaknesses but nothing that I can t manage and if I keep working at it then maybe one day they will lesson even more too.
I am forever grateful and I hope if anyone young who has CFS comes across my message and reads it, I want to let you know there is hope!!! When I found out I had CFS I didn t see many reviews/testimonials from young people, but there are young people who sadly do get this illness and I want you to know that you CAN recover from it, it s just a journey that you have to work at.