(Written December of 2018 after receiving treatment at the Taymount Clinic in September of 2018 - Update at the bottom).To say that my FMT treatment from the Taymount Clinic has been life-changing would be an understatement.I chose to have an FMT treatment as a flicker of hope to help abate my celiac symptoms that persisted even with a gluten free diet and were possibly caused by antibiotic dysbiosis. My symptoms were mainly headaches, nausea, stomach pain, fatigue, brain fog, and chronic UTIs.During the course of treatment, I noticed several immediate improvements in my symptoms. My nausea and stomach pain were the first to go, headaches and fatigue disappeared as well, I also became much more relaxed and less anxious, which were issues I hadn’t even realized I had due to everything else I was suffering from. The biggest change was that my unexplained chronic muscle pain of the past 15-20 years started to disappear. I have lived my entire adolescent and adult life in fear of doing anything because I knew it would result in pain. By the time I finished my 2 week treatment at the Taymount Clinic, I was no longer in pain. This has given me a quality of life that I haven’t experienced since I was a child!Since coming home, I’ve had the stamina and energy to do things my chronic pain had prevented me from doing before, like snorkeling, scuba diving, and boogie boarding. I've even been able to do simple things again without hesitation, like cooking, exercising, and folding laundry, which used to result in exhaustion and pain. I’ve noticed several other changes since coming home as well. I’ve started putting on a little weight, which was needed (I’ve always been quite frail), but the weight hasn’t been around my middle, it's more muscular weight and filling out my frame. My menses has been a lot less painful every month and seems to be behaving more “normal” and regular. My hair and nails are growing faster and stronger, my eyelashes have gotten longer. My skin seems more elastic and my bruises and scrapes heal faster, even my dark circles under my eyes have started to fade.I feel like I am free to eat again! Previously it didn’t matter what I ate - there would be some sort of stomach pain. That pain is gone and I seem to be tolerating all foods again aside from gluten. One of the best improvements in my celiac symptoms is that, previously, cross-contamination of gluten would result in flu-like symptoms for a week and then exhaustion and brain-fog would last for about a month. In the few times that I’ve gotten cross-contaminated food with gluten since my FMT treatment, symptoms have been not only mild, but only last for 12-48 hours (if I get any symptoms at all - sometimes I don’t) and then my body recovers. My chronic UTIs became less frequent and less severe, and I’m ecstatic to report that I haven’t had any UTI symptoms for 2 whole weeks.Have things been completely perfect since coming home? Of course not, but bad days are now few and far between, and have gone from being a full body in pain, to a much more localized issue here and there. I notice that most of the time, it’s because I’m not getting enough diversity in my diet, which is an easy remedy.All-in-all, I’m so glad to have gone to the Taymount clinic and received an FMT - I only wish I had done it sooner! It has given me a quality of life that I thought I could only wish for. I can’t express enough how much I appreciate the care, comfort, patience, understanding, and education the clinicians provided to me during my time there.A huge "thank you!" to Taymount. I truly could not have asked for a better experience.UPDATE: After dealing with a nasty round of antibiotics in early 2022, I started struggling with stamina and IBS issues. I decided to do another round of treatment last October. 7 months later, I'm back to my "new" normal self again. The staff was so incredibly patient with all of my questions! Annie and staff were so wonderful to work with and easing any questions/concerns I had during the process! So glad to have found Taymount!
