Thank you Dr. Sexton, Katie, and the rest of the NIW staff for being so supportive and helpful!

I started seeing Dr. Sexton and his team in December of 2019. Four months prior, I had found out I had Hashimotos Thyroiditis — I was terribly fatigued (even with 9+ hours of sleep) and had daily headaches. I had also slowly gained weight. My anxiety was through the roof and it was getting harder to do my job (stay at home mom to two little boys).I initially blamed my fatigue on being a mom — I was busy with the boys all day, exhausted from the heat of the summer, my 5-AM workouts, but it finally got to a point where I realized something was wrong and I needed to figure out what.

For months I went under the guidance of an endocrinologist, and I just wasn’t feeling any different even though I was medicated, in fact, my headaches were getting worse and more persistent. I am a very fit and active 35-year old and I couldn’t make it through the day without a nap!

I finally decided I needed to go the functional medicine route, as conventional medicine just wasn’t working for me (Doctor wasn’t listening, brushing off symptoms, telling me to just wait for the medicine to start working). I knew I needed some relief as my fatigue was unbearable. I started working with Dr. Sexton in December of 2019 and after a month of extensive testing, I started following his protocol to relieve my systems and heal my body. By March of 2020 I am feeling AMAZING! My fatigue is gone. My headaches are non-existent. My thyroid lab results are all in range (and my TSH had started at 10.8), and my hashimotos antibodies went down to 1! I have lost 10 lbs and my anxiety is gone. Besides working with Dr. Sexton, I worked very closely with health coach Katie. She was always so thorough and made sure I had enough resources for the following week (new recipes, books to read, health tips, etc).

Looking back on my initial consult with Dr. Sexton, everything he suspected about my symptoms — that the headaches were probably due to underlying food sensitives, and additional headache from reactivated Epstein-Barr — turned out to be true once lab results were in. He is so knowledgeable and thorough. I do want to say that I took all their advice and followed the diet guidelines 100%, but I know that their detailed and personalized approach is what helped me get back to optimal health in such a short time.

If you told me in December that by March I would be headache-free, fatigue free, and not dreaming about my afternoon nap at 8 AM and chugging coffee first thing in the morning, I would not have believed you one bit!

Thank you Dr. Sexton, Katie, and the rest of the NIW staff for being so supportive and helpful!