Electrician Returns to Work and Expands Family After Chronic Illness Recovery

We told him three things. I said, "I wanna get back to normal, I wanna go back to work, and we wanna have another baby." And we did all three. Life is exactly what I wanted it to be. From our initial meeting, he said, "What's your goals?" That was pretty much one of the first things he said is, "Let's be clear on what your goals are, and I'll be clear on what I can help you with." My name is Ben Hayes. I live in Lafayette, Indiana, and I'm an electrician. Life was pretty tough before meeting Dr. Ian. I was in a period of chronic illness that we were not getting a lot of great answers through traditional medicine. I had some pretty bad anxiety and some very serious fatigue, kind of turned into malaise. If I overdid anything or overexerted myself, I would have quite a recovery, perhaps three or four days. I had some cognitive difficulties. However, I was getting worse, and the anxiety was the initial reason for visiting, and it was not manageable, which was an unusual experience for me. I'd made another appointment with a balance specialist. I waited another few months for that appointment. He misdiagnosed me with a vestibular migraine. A lot of my symptoms were pretty parallel with somebody that had a bad concussion. He started treatment as, uh, long COVID, and I began to see a little bit of improvement, but I still wasn't really getting there. I got to about 50% of my capacity back. I got sick again with what I felt like the original illness that I had. I went back to the same urgent care facility that I went to originally, and the same woman who treated me the second time is the same woman who treated me the first time, and she said, "Do you feel like you've gotten good care?" And I said, "Not really." So she said, "I have seen this man personally, and if you're willing to give it a try, it's a bit of a financial investment, but I think he might be able to help." And she said, "His name's Dr. Autoimmune. He's in Colorado, and he helped me, and he could help you." His approach was how I would approach solving a problem at work. What he was describing made sense to me, and it gave me the confidence to pursue his treatment. He had an approach with nutrition that I was not expecting, and I was surprised [chuckles] that I did. And Stevie was wonderful to work with, and she basically held my hand the whole time I was doing the elimination diet and my mold detox and was there for me. She taught me a lot about myself. Dr. Ian spent the time with me and held my hand as well and said, "You know, I'm gonna find out, and if I don't, I'll lead you in the direction that will help you." So I appreciate the care that they gave and the bedside manner from both Stevie and Dr. Ian. I noticed a change pretty quickly once we started what I would call our real treatment, and honestly, it was not great at first, and he told me that would happen. It got worse before it got better, but I put my faith in him, and I trusted him and Stevie, and we made it through. He won't send you on a wild goose chase with medications. He will be truthful with you, and he is willing to go to bat for you with whatever testing you need done. I think he can help, you know? We told him three things.