Condition Before Treatment
David was diagnosed with Multiple
Sclerosis
when he was in his twenties. He describes how that diagnosis affected
his life,
“When I was diagnosed early on, I
was 22, I had just gotten married, I married young, and I remember that
quite clearly. It was a bad situation and I had been married now for
a year, and I said to my wife, she doesn't remember this, but I said
to her, That I have MS and you might want to move on. she chose not
to move on and I was happy about that, I'm still happy about that!”
In his thirties, his MS when into
remission
and David thought that he had beat the disease. Unfortunately, in his
forties his legs started getting weaker and his balance worsened. Multiple
Sclerosis was back. He started to take conventional MS medications
but felt that the side effects where having too much of a negative
effect
on his quality of life. It was at this point that he started looking
for other treatment options and eventually decided to receive adult stem cell therapy in China.
Treatment in China
David received five umbilical cord blood
stem cell injections. He also received physical therapy, occupational
therapy, electric wave therapy, and acupuncture.
Dave describes his treatment in china,
"When you got there, it was two
different distinct procedures. Number one was the umbilical cord stem
cells and that's why I went there. But the bonus was the ancient Chinese
medicine that I was exposed to when I was there. And by ancient Chinese
medicine I mean the therapies that went along with the stem cells, like
physical therapy and the acupuncture. And I did better there. That
program
gave me 23 months, almost 2 years of walking without a wheel chair,
walking without a cane."
Condition After Returning Home
At the hospital in China, Dave noticed some of
the effects of stem cells immediately after he received his first IV.
"After the IVs the very next day
I felt like I was younger again, I felt like I was able to walk again,
and I believe it would be nice if StemCellsChina could send me stem
cells so I could get them done here!"
However he didn't feel consistent
improvement
until about 3 months after treatment,
"And the one thing that I remember--and I have told many people this--I stopped using my brace, I stopped
using my cane. The only time I would use my cane is if I needed it to
move something and I liked the fact that I didn't use a cane."
David was able to move about without
the help of a cane and even go skiing for about 2 years after receiving
stem cell treatment, and is now considering going back for another round
of treatment.
