Hi my names Sarah.

To understand my recovery, I think it’s important to appreciate how bad it was before.

I am a mum to two teenage boys and have been a teacher for almost 20 years. On 1st March 2009 – a day I will never forget – while watching my eldest swim training, I managed to fall over (very stylishly!) after stepping on a non-slip surface.

I managed to break both of my legs.

My right leg was decimated, and it took 3 surgeries and 10 months to get me a stage where I could walk, drive and return to the classroom. I had spent 6 months in a wheelchair and a further 4 months on crutches learning to walk.

By the middle of 2010 I had begun to rediscover life – I was teaching, swim coaching and had started back at the gym. One afternoon, while on poolside my back began to twinge and out of nowhere it suddenly seized leaving me curled up on the floor, struggling to breathe and unable to move.

After 2 bottles of laughing gas the paramedics decided I needed to go to hospital where I was pumped full of drugs and sent on my way.

In the years that followed this happened more and more often in the most inappropriate places. After each episode I noticed that I was not fully recovering. I was in pain almost daily and I had started struggle to trust myself to go out alone.

I was visiting my GP regularly during this period. I had been for several MRI and CT scans, had a few thousand blood tests and seen a dozen different consultants with a range of specialisms – none of whom could find a cause or treatment.

I had been sent to Physio half a dozen times and been discharged each time. I had also begun seeing a chiropractor who helped me stay at work but who also told me eventually there was little else they could do as every time they tried to treat me my muscles would seize making treatment impossible.

In 2015 I was probably at my lowest point – not only was I in constant pain in my back I was now finding I was in pain everywhere. My arms and legs ached, burned and tingled all the time, I was struggling to remember what day it was and barely slept for a couple of hours a night.

I was at the stage where I was told by occupational health that I should probably consider leaving teaching.

I sat and sobbed in my GPs office when she told me she believed I had fibromyalgia.

I was referred to a pain clinic and a rheumatologist. The rheumatologist confirmed my GPs suspicions and the pain clinic gave me a tens machine to try and reduce the number episodes of back spasm. I had always struggled to take the painkillers offered to me by my GP and this didn’t improve as the level of medication increased. I was now also regularly having to use a wheelchair if I needed to go anywhere – I could barely stand or walk for more than a couple of minutes.

By Summer 2017 I was thoroughly at my wits end. I went to see my GP to beg them to try something different – just to help me. I wasn’t yet 40 and yet I felt I was barely existing – I had no life.

My GP was particularly unsympathetic and basically told me that I should just take the drugs on offer and if I wasn’t willing to do that then what did I expect them to do.

I burst into tears and walked out and to this day have never been back!

I decided then that I had to do some research – there had to be something I could do – this couldn’t be it; I wasn’t prepared to let my life continue down this path.

It was the summer holidays and I wasn’t capable of doing more than curl up in a heap, so I began to read.

I came across some research on nutrition and fibromyalgia and decided to give it a go. Although I didn’t eat particularly badly I began to eat super clean – I started a program of super nutrition including vitamin shakes, supplements and tonics.

No one was more shocked than me that within a couple of weeks I started to notice some improvements. I wasn’t fixed but I was definitely improving. This prompted me to keep searching for answers.

Quite by chance I came across an article about James at Physology and the work he had done for Fibromyalgia patients and decided it was worth sending a message.

After reading into the treatment further and exchanging messages with James I decided to bite the bullet and book an appointment.

I arrived at my first session with healthy scepticism – after all I had seen dozens of doctors, had more tests than I knew existed and got precisely nowhere so what realistically was the chance of this random man having the answers!?

The first big difference I found was that what James wanted was to listen to my story – he wanted to know what had happened, my frustrations and what I felt every day.

I think I paused for breath after about an hour and James began to explain to me his thoughts, his processes and with unrivalled confidence, his plan for fixing me.

He explained the science, showed me videos and explained what would happen in our sessions.

James spoke in detail about the benefits of super nutrition, intermittent fasting and eating clean – something that had already begun to benefit from. Although I was still finding hard to believe that I could actually get better, this was the closest I had come for many years.

Initially I had 2 sessions per week – they were physically tough at times but by the end of the first week I had the best nights sleep I had had in years. I was more committed to eating well than ever and spent the next couple of weeks just getting better and better.

Around this time, I found I could stand and walk for longer and longer and decided to try it out. I dragged my other half out for a stroll – we walked a mile or so and I was asked several times to slow down!

After 4 weeks I woke up one morning from a deep sleep and decided I felt like giving exercise a try (after consulting with James) – I had more energy than I could ever remember and although I was terrified, I felt I could do it.

That afternoon I swam 10 lengths and only stopped because my partner decided I was pushing my luck.

It only took a further 2 treatments for me to realise I was literally fixed – I had zero pain, I was sleeping, I was walking and exercising and felt sharper than I had for many years.

James and I decided it was worth having a break, so I had a couple of weeks away to see how I faired. To cut a long story short I was healed.

I am 6 months post treatment now and still fighting fit.

I am sensitive to eating the wrong foods so as long as I stick to the nutrition advice given by James, I keep myself 100% pain free.

Knowing that I have my life back, feeling like I have second chance to live the life I have always wanted and I can control that myself, is so freeing.

My late nana always used to say – you never appreciate your health until its gone. I fully agree with that and will be forever thankful to James for giving me a second chance at finding mine.

If you have Fibromyalgia, I’d say just don’t even hesitate and get in touch with Physology. Instead of wondering if they can help, just contact them and ask them. They sent me videos to learn and explained so much even before my consultation so it will just save you so much time and I’m sure the result will be that you get a second chance at life too.

Feel free to ask my anything!