1 Peter 2:24; John 6:53, 19:34; Matthew 9:21, 26:28
Miracles do happen and I'm writing today to catalog a personal miracle, so I never forget that God does in fact miraculously heal people.
This morning, I'm trying to process that God has healed me. I want to be grateful for God being faithful, kind, gracious and merciful to me. To realize He in-fact is with me and calls me His own, therefor cares for me more than I care for myself.
Recently, I was diagnosed with chronic diseases that took 48 years of testing to name. Over that time, doctors chased other diseases where the symptoms mimicked what I have and when tests were inconclusive, I was dismissed and at worst called crazy.
What I have was not discovered by the medical community until the 1980's when researchers from the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic worked together on patients with symptoms like mine. Twelve years ago, the medical community saw the groupings of diseases and gave it names. Last year, Olympian Katie Ledecky shared internationally that she has a form of Autonomic Dysfunction called Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). Due to Katie's admission, my doctors realized I could have the combination of diseases and still function and exercise like I do or did. Over the years, I had learned steps to manage the impacts of the diseases which allowed me a high level of functionality where many patients like me are unable to get out of bed.
In February 2025, I was diagnosed with Autonomic Dysfunction, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. In March, a test revealed Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome (MALS). The AD-MCAS-EDS cannot be cured but the symptoms can be managed. MALS can be addressed through surgery, and I look forward to that step.
Somewhere around 2011, I began experiencing episodes of vertigo which were violent leaving me incapacitated for up to six months. On January 16, 2021, following a violent vertigo episode, chronic vertigo set in, and since then I have dealt with three forms of chronic vertigo for four-and-a-half years. It was not until February 2025 that doctors reluctantly agreed that the three forms of vertigo and the violent episodes were results of my chronic diseases.
Over the recent years, I can pinpoint to the areas of the brain that cause the three forms of vertigo. The cerebellum was the section of brain, inflammatory and physical pressure on various sections of the cerebellum and brain stem cause the spinning. Ehlers Danlos caused the inability to hold my head up during the violent spinning and likely cause the left side and back side vertigos when laying down. Autonomic dysfunction caused the spinning as I sat up from a laying position. Each form spun differently. No medications or physical therapy helped whatsoever, in fact the physical therapy made the symptoms worse.
During a test on March 11, 2025, to check suspected MALS, I was injected with iodine as the contrast solution. I felt the warm effects as the iodine circulated my system then my brain and, noticed it settled and stayed in my thyroid. Since I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism in August 2016, that effect of the iodine settling in my thyroid wasn't a shock to me but a confirmation. (I began telling doctors in 2011 that I think I have an issue with my thyroid. It took five years until one doctor agreed to test me and found out I was correct.)
The night of March 11, 2025, after the injection of iodine, I didn't spin when I laid down or sat up and, enjoyed being able to lay on my left side briefly. The effects of the iodine lasted seven days exactly after which, the three forms of vertigo resumed.
I told my doctors, and each said to experiment by taking iodine pills and so I began.
Thinking the pills weren't strong enough, I ordered 2% and 10% iodine from two companies and began taking the 2% drops, two drops twice a day. Still no positive impacts.
A second CT scan was ordered so, I returned to the place where I was given iodine as a contrast hoping to receive another injection of iodine. On April 28, I was injected with that (glorious) iodine contrast and learned it was 74% iodine solution. Now I understood what my dose could be and once again, the chronic vertigo stopped for seven days.
This time, I switched to the 10% solution and began taking seven drops each morning and evening. The vertigo did return briefly on day seven following the injection but, on day 10 (May 30, 2025), the vertigo for laying on my back stopped.
This morning Saturday, May 17, 2025, as I woke twice early morning to stop leg cramps, I noticed the sitting up vertigo had stopped. I decided to experiment and lay on my left side. No spinning. None.
The three forms of chronic vertigo that began January 16, 2021, have stopped. Chronic vertigo that could not be diagnosed by traditional medicine and doctors, stopped. Chronic vertigo where some doctors were afraid of me saying patients like me scare them because they don't know what to do, stopped. Chronic vertigo where medicines and physical therapy and alternative medicines (like Chinese medicine which I tried) could not stop - stopped.
But GOD...
But my God did heal me. But my God revealed to me what it was and what to do. But my God gave me the gift of healing that looked like the blood of His son shed for me.
Yes, God healed me!
As I took the iodine drops I marveled at the look, smell and taste. Each drop looked like blood dropping into the glass of water. The glass of iodine and water smelled and tasted like blood. Had I not made the mixture of iodine + water, I would have sworn I was drinking water mixed with blood.
And so, I proclaim today that God my Father, has been faithful, merciful, kind and gracious to me to lead me to discover an iodine deficiency, which caused the hypothyroidism, that coupled with EDS-MCAS-AD caused three forms of chronic vertigo, where each spun differently, as well as episodes of violent vertigo.
And the cure is drops of iodine in water that resemble the blood of Jesus Christ poured out to save me and all mankind.
Today, I proclaim God healed me. I recognize that through a chemical that resembles blood, I was healed. God led me through-and-to this discovery where He was and is my physician.
So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life." John 6:53 ESV
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed. 1 Peter 2:24 ESV
But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. John 19:34 ESV
...for she said to herself, "If I only touch His garment, I will be made well." Matthew 9:21 ESV
"...for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins." Matthew 26:28 ESV
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