Keith's story

PLANT PROGRAMME AND BREATHING DIFFICULTIES

7th June, 2006

Dear Jane Plant,

I have never smoked and always lived an active life never suffering any problems until around ten years ago I tore a muscle in my shoulder very badly, part of my treatment was the anti inflammatory drug Diclafenic.

After 10 days of starting this drug I became short of breath, wheezy and had a tight chest, this slowly got worse until I saw my GP. I was told I had asthma.

Some time later I researched my condition and realised that this drug could bring on my asthma. Although my GP was aware of this possibility he had not connected my asthma with the drug. I stopped the Diclafenic immediately but my asthma stayed with me. Over the years it slowly got worse, compounded by sinusitis and nasal polyps.

I ended up on a home nebuliser and up to 12 sprays each day plus 6 nasal sprays. On cold days I was house bound, could not carry out any physical duties at all and terrified to be away from my nebuliser because the attacks came on without warning and towards the end I could not breath. During December 2004 I was in A&E; twice being resuscitated and on 27th January 2005 I had a very severe attack at 5.20 a.m. and could not breath at all. Fortunately my wife phoned 999 and the paramedics were able to save my life.

The hospital consultant took me off all the sprays and put me on Serentide 500. Three times each day plus one nasal spray, this stabilised my condition and gave me a slightly better quality of life. Although I still suffered badly with my sinus problems. Then through my daughter's illness I became aware of YOUR LIFE IN YOUR HANDS. After 2 weeks absorbing the information and researching the possibility of a major diet change my wife and I took up the no dairy option of your book together with partial organic produce, we were already big eaters of fruit and vegetables. To my surprise and great joy within two weeks my sinus problem began to ease and became far less of a problem. As the weeks went by and all through the winter for the first time in many years I was free to live my life to the full.

Then one morning we ran out of Soya milk for my cereals and I thought the skimmed milk in the fridge would be fine. Within 24 hours I was wheezing, had a blocked nose and very heavy discoloured phlegm. I was just as bad as before, it took me two weeks back on a no dairy diet to return my body back to it being useful again.

As you are all too well aware when you have found something life changing for your own body and spent a lot of time, effort and resources to prove your findings you want to shout it from the roof tops. All I can say is thank god that our family found you and I hope you can make use of this very abbreviated account of how you have helped us all in our family not just the ones with an illness but all the others that are so relieved and grateful to you. Plus you have given us the ammunition to use this not just for ourselves but for other people that are not aware of your hard won research.

Thank you
Yours sincerely
Keith

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