Case History: Mr S. (Male – aged 56, a diabetic since 1988) I was taking 12 National Health prescribed drugs when I first came to the clinic in July 1993 – now reduced (early 1994) to six a day. Also my insulin intake has been reduced by two-thirds.
In July ’93 when I started, I was struggling to walk on level ground for more than four or five minutes: now I can walk four or five times as far. I have no chest pains any more [he suffered badly from angina], but I still get cramp in the back of my legs, though they’re much better than before.
When I first visited the clinic I was sceptical, so I had a good look round before deciding to shell out a couple of thousand quid. But now I’ve had 20 chelation treatments with them (between 29 July 1993 and 8 December 1993) – one a week.
I got relief after the fourth or fifth week when I suddenly felt quite a bit of improvement. I came home on the Wednesday and on the Friday I suddenly found myself doing something I hadn’t done for 12 months. The improvement came just as quick as that. It was the breathlessness which had got me down before; it happened when I did anything physical at all.
By Christmas last year I was feeling better than I’ve felt for two or three years and my tests show I’ve had 20 per cent overall improvement in my arteries.
In 1986 I’d had balloon angioplasty on my worst (left) leg which had gone numb and it did help for a time. But then they did nothing except give me tablets until March ’93 when they tried to do an angiogram. By that time my leg arteries were so blocked up again they couldn’t get the wires up and they dismissed me, said they couldn’t treat me. They also abandoned any idea of doing a bypass operation, which they had considered for my angina.
Why did they wait all those years from the time of the first treatment? By that time I was beyond help.
It was at that point that a friend of mine, a medical journalist, told me about chelation therapy. I then went to my GP who admitted he knew nothing about it but said, ‘What have you got to lose? They’re offering you nothing.’
When I came to the clinic I saw there were patients getting treatment on the national health so I went to my doctor again and he wrote a letter. Then began another saga.
The local health authority refused the doctor’s request and repeated there was nothing more they could do. I decided to take it further, wrote to my MP and eventually drew his attention to the health minister’s commitment to allow chelation therapy on the National Health provided it was considered suitable by the consulting doctor.
My doctor did agree, but the local health authority turned me down. They said they were considering chelation therapy but at this stage could not allow it. I then wrote again to my MP, who wrote on my behalf to the National Health Authority. They wrote back saying that whilst chelation therapy was available within the National Health for some conditions, it was not considered to be effective for cardiovascular diseases and therefore they disallowed my request. I’m still in the process of fighting this and I won’t give up.
*93\104\2*
Cardio & Blood/ Cholesterol
