Damaris Adamo-Overcoming Injuries & Pain to Become the Winter 2017 Champion

After Damaris Adamo won the Winter 2017 Body Fat Challenge by losing 23 lbs of fat, 11.83% body fat and winning $2,500 for her 6 week effort, she wrote about what she had to overcome and how our program helped her:

“My back was broken in 2005

In 2013 I had life saving emergency surgery.

I was the 1 in 1.1million people to have what is called Cauda Equina Syndrome.

The months leading up to the surgery I was managing the pain with up to 4000mg a day of Advil!

 I had a less than 70% chance I would be partially (or entirely) paralyzed in my right leg.

Additionally, I was told I may have to be cathetered for several months or even have a colonoscopy bag and may never regain any feeling in the “saddle region”.

I was 40.

The results of the surgury and recovery were outstanding!

I am ecstatic to tell you none of the above came to fruition.

The one thing I did not see coming: Ulcers.

Basically small holes in the lining of my stomach, small intestine and esophagus.

(Let’s go back to when I said I was doing up to 4000 mg of nsaids a day)

I have been on protonix for about 3 years now to manage the acidic gastric flare-ups. Imagine heartburn on crack.