Jake’s Story
Jake started complaining that he had a headache when he was five; he was only in kindergarten. As parents, we started looking for solutions – we wanted to see our son enjoying school. We changed Jake from the morning class to the afternoon class because the afternoon class was a calmer group, we kept him home some days, we arranged with his teacher to allow him to work in a quiet room and we started seeing a very long line of doctors and specialists. Jake’s headaches continued. He was able to get through kindergarten but he continued to suffer into the summer and into the next school year. By second grade Jake could do nothing without a headache. He had a headache during school, he had a headache during baseball practice, he had a headache when he was outside playing with his brothers, he had a headache when he woke up in the morning and when he went to bed at night. By the time Jake reached third grade we even tried home schooling but the headaches continued.
From the time Jake was 5 until his junior year in high school – Jakes’s head hurt. Some days on a scale of 1 to 10 the pain was only a 2 or 3 but other days it was a full blown migraine; his temples were pounding, he was nauseated, he was sensitive to light and noise, and it was a struggle for him to get out of bed. As parents we felt helpless when we would hear Jake crawl to the bathroom because he was too nauseated and in too much pain to walk. Jake was dealing with more pain than any child should have to deal with;
however, he wanted to be a normal boy. He wanted to play Little League baseball, he wanted to wrestle and play football like his brothers, he wanted to golf, and he wanted to be able to play with his friends without pain. Jake did those things but he was constantly dealing with a headache.
Jake saw pediatricians, neurologists, dentists, pediatric neurologists and physical therapists. We took Jake to every specialist we could find including the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. The “help” we received for Jake revolved around two main ideas. The first was give him a pill and another pill, try this pill and now try this one. Jake was given anti-anxiety drugs, anti-seizure drugs, sleeping pills, shots in the emergency room and even injections of Botox and nothing stopped the pain. The second main theory was the pain is all in his head and if you ignore it and maybe try imagery in a dark room it will go away or he will outgrow it. We knew that Jake’s pain was real but so many doctors gave Jake the impression that he was just looking for attention. These doctors did not have to look at Jake when his eyes were glossy from pain and he was working so hard just to do the things he wanted to do. Jake got to the point where he did not like doctors and he did not want to see any more because he thought no one could help him. We were at a loss as parents but knew we could not stop looking for answers. Our looking intensified when we found Jake in a corner, crying and curled in a fetal position after a wrestling match. He told his dad, “I am so sick of this, I can’t handle it anymore; I just want to wrestle once without my head pounding.”
We heard about a homeopathic physician from Sante Fe from a friend. Jake was tired of doctors and had given up on getting help; however, I scheduled an appointment because as a parent I could not give up. From day one, this doctor was different. He put all the pieces together by asking probing questions that had never been asked and he used an approach that worked. After fighting to not go to that first visit, Jake walked out of the office and said, “This is different, I think he is going to help me.” George cured our son. He did not try to eliminate symptoms with a pill; he went to the root of the problem and cured him. After Jake had had three or four appointments with George, he work up headache free for the first time in twelve years. I will never forget that day, I asked Jake, “How do you feel today” and he answered, “I feel good.” Those are the best words a parent can hear. My child felt good.
Anyone who thinks migraines are not curable has not met this man. After three weeks of appointments with George, Jake’s migraines and headaches were completely resolved. George knows more about migraines than anyone we have ever met and we have met a lot. George is brilliant. He spends the necessary time with a patient to ask essential questions, listen to answers, and then from those answers develop a treatment plan that goes to the root of the problem. His intelligence, compassion, and ability to see the whole person has resulted in a completely new approach to curing migraines. An approach that works.
-Leasa Martinez, Educator