Mom seeks answers to daughter’s health issues
“I was a teenage mom. A few years before she was born, I had three seizures. Two of them were on the same day and another was a couple months later. They put me on seizure medicine, and I was still on it when I was pregnant with her. They told me that she could have multiple birth defects and brain damage based on the drug alone. Abortion was absolutely not an option for me. But being such a young mother — I was 17 when she was born — it was pretty scary. If I didn’t have great, supportive parents to help me, that would have been really rough. But when she came out, she was so perfect and amazing.
“She was 3 years old when she started having seizures. She has epilepsy, and she takes medication for it. Throughout her life, she’s had a bunch of health issues. She would have joint pains. She would say she was nauseous. And there were just a lot of other little things. We would go to doctors, they would run tests, and it would come back negative. Then one day she came to me and said, ‘Mom, I’m falling apart.’ When she named everything bothering her all together, I was like, ‘OK, there’s something serious going on here.’
“We found out that the foods she was eating could be causing some of it. We went to a chiropractor doctor who specializes in gluten intolerance and things like that. He said, ‘Take these things out of your diet and see how you feel.’ So we did that. We took out gluten, which was like wheat and rice and corn, and she felt so much better. But that was just the beginning.”
— Megan Martin (with daughter, Angel)
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