Her Story: The weight of piecing it all together.

By the time she found Ovum, she hadn't been able to leave the house in nine months.

After moving into a brand new apartment to set up a new life she started feeling unwell. Nothing dramatic at first but gradually, it turned and it kept getting worse.

It started with gut issues, feeling faint and actually fainting, vestibular problems like dizziness, instability, and a sensation of walking on marshmallows. Even movement became a trigger, unable to share a bed with her husband for nearly two years because even his slightest movement felt like being on a water bed. 

She developed heightened sensitivity across to light (requiring custom glasses to block sun from every angle), sound, and smell (often picking up on smells others couldn't detect). Her body struggled to regulate temperature, overheating while her hands and feet ran cold and clammy at the same time. She experienced rashes, migraines, nausea, and general weakness. Her menstrual cycle was disrupted for over a year. Her nervous system was so incredibly inflamed that even thinking, picturing, or recalling the smell or taste of certain things could bring on a flare up of symptoms. Her quality of life was being majorly impacted. 

They tried everything they could think of.

Gut scans, bloodwork, urine work, painkillers, ketamine infusions, a week in hospital, vestibular rehab, three spinal cord surgeries chasing a suspected nerve issue. But eventually a new doctor suggested a different theory: mould.

They tested the apartment, and the theory held. She had a fungal infection from mould exposure, and by that point she'd lost the ability to leave the apartment at all. Her partner found and bought a new house without her ever seeing it, blacked out the car windows, and got her there for a clean start.

It didn't fix things straight away. The symptoms were relentless and wide ranging and because she couldn't even look at a screen, her partner became her researcher, her advocate, her hands on a keyboard, chasing specialists and piecing together a picture their doctors couldn't.

Then they found Ovum, and began logging everything. Every test result, every medication, every supplement, every condition. After months of trying different treatments for the fungal infection she simply felt that nothing was improving her condition anymore. Then they asked Ovum what else there was. It pooled together knowledge and her health profile that it had been building and provided options for her to bring to her next appointment.

Championed by the insight Ovum had given them, they felt confident enough to push back when the doctor didn't listen to their suggestions.

They were empowered by the data Ovum provided to advocate for themselves and actually experience first hand the positive impacts that Ovum can have on health outcomes. 

They persisted to try the new medication that Ovum had suggested, and despite scepticism from the treating doctor, a month later her fungal levels dropped dramatically. 

For the first time in months, she was able to go outside on her own.

"We've gotten more out of Ovum in three months than we got from doctors in two years."

She still can't be behind a screen. But she no longer has to carry the weight of piecing her own case together, and her partner no longer has to retell her whole history from scratch at every new appointment. What took years of dead ends, unexplained results and being told to wait and see is finally starting to move.

She and her partner both say the same thing now: once she's through this, they want to be the biggest advocates for people going through something similar. As he puts it, "the system is so broken" that they had to find their own way through it.

"I trust you," she told him, "and I trust Ovum."

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