Clare
Clare’s first attack was 19 years ago, when her feet got badly frozen leading to numb feet and numb shins for the following month.
For the next few years she was fine and had two children. In 1999, she suffered an attack of optic neuritis and later, just like before, her feet, shins and fingers became numb again and she also had a stiff neck. It was a year later that she received the shock news - she had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. She started having problems with walking and balance, with spasms in her legs. Her back had become quite rigid, with muscles like bricks, which no amount of massage had been able to help. She felt that now her MS had changed to secondary progressive.
Other symptoms started to impact on her day to day living and she had to think twice about going out of the house. Every day things like going to the supermarket became a major ordeal and that is no longer the case.
The Boulderstone Technique - In Clare’s words “I felt a difference soon after seeing John. The monkey got off my shoulder - by which I mean the awful stiff pain in my shoulders and neck as if I was carrying something all the time - that went and my muscles became less rigid. I stopped twitching for good.
When I did the drug trial for two years the twitching was better, but it only lasted as long as I kept taking the drug. Now it’s stopped permanently. I hardly ever have any urgency about needing the loo now, so I can go out whenever I like. The best thing for me is that my attitude to life has changed - I’m much stroppier. Before, I’d try to please everyone and feel I failed and not made anyone happier - now I’m more assertive. I take it for granted now that I feel better. I can be complacent and forget to do the exercises for a few days. My knee starts to go a bit numb if I leave them off for too long - it reminds me to do them again, then I’m fine. I definitely haven’t got MS now.
I used to get incredibly stressed over nothing. Now I’m much less stressed; I calm myself down. I sleep better than I did. Walking is absolutely fine now. My back is relaxed now - no more rigidity. At the moment, I’m still seeing John every 4-6 weeks. As long as I keep up the clearing exercises I know I’m going to be fine. It’s unbelievable what the treatment does. It makes you better and it is non-invasive, unlike drugs. It hasn’t just made my MS symptoms much better, it has also made me a better person - a noticeably different person to my husband and friends.’
Clare’s husband
“The effect (of the first treatment of the Boulderstone Technique) was beyond belief. She was immediately better. I haven’t a clue how or why but it does bloody work! I’m the last to go for this sort of banana and feel almost embarrassed at the thought of my name being attached to condoning an alternative thing, yet the thought of all those poor sufferers missing out on a simple process that clearly works and me not doing my bit for it would have been a crime.”
