Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Update

Alright, just realized I hadn't updated this for a really long time with the final update.
The test results on my thyroid and all the other tests they did, came back clear, I was perfectly healthy, except for my reaction to the wrap. It was an allergic reaction. It took me a month to get to where I was starting to feel normal again. That month was agony, because my heart was erradic, and I just plain felt ill and exhausted the whole time. I was completely miserable, and very afraid of what was happening to my health. I even had to get one of those wrist watches that monitors your heart rate. A normal resting heart rate is 60-100 bpm. My resting heart rate was about 120-130, and as time passed, it slowly lowered, and the attacks came on less often. But as I said, it took at least a month for that to start happening.(Oh! and the results only lasted one week for me. Not at all worth the one month of distress)
 I am not the only person this has happened to. Since writing this blog, I have heard from several others who have had issues with their heart after using the wrap. I also was on a page, I had given them rights to use my wrap pictures when I was first using it. After the side effects, I posted my reaction with my disclaimer that at the time i didn't know if they were connected or not, and asked if anyone else had had that issue. She promplty deleted my comment, but was still using my pictures. I asked her about it, and she told me she didn't want to panic anyone about my issues, because they had nothing to do with the wrap. Wrong. I asked her to take down my pictures, because (while at the time I didn't know if others had had issues or not) I felt that it was incredibly wrong to outright ignore my health problems, and act as though I had no basis for concern, nor did she feel the need to leave my comment up. I had been very polite in my explanation, and made sure to say I wasn't sure if it was connected, but felt an obligation to post it, just in case. People have a right to know, if there is the off chance that they could have issues with aproduct, before using it. Especially when it effects their heart. She took the pictures down, (as far as I know, hopefully my pictures aren't out there circulating still, as I do not want to support this product.)
I have since then heard from many other people on the page, disgruntled for also having their 'negative' comments taken down. They had had issues with the product and their health, or they hadn't been very pleased with their results, etc etc. She took down every one of the comments that were not supporting her efforts to sell the product. That is incredibly dishonest in my opinion.   SO, words of caution to anyone using this, or considering using it. It may work fine for you, but there is a chance you will have a reaction. If the product works for you, that is wonderful! But please do be cautious when chosing whether or not to use the product. Carefully watch your body for the first week after your first wrap, and make sure you don't have any issues, before using another one.