In 1992, I visited a Centre for Complementary Medicine where I was diagnosed with ME and given a variety of Complementary treatments to follow. I persevered with numerous medications, but none gave me the relief  to make my suffering at all bearable. I resolved to find something or someone to help restore my health to its former level.  

In the meantime, to add to my misery, I was involved in a car accident that left me with acute lower back pain, yet another blow.  I had always led an active life having worked as an Auxiliary nurse and having enjoyed the outdoor life, riding and caring for my two horses in the New Forest.  I struggled on for years, without success, constantly trying to climb out of this dark hole, never finding anything suitable.  

They say fate can be kind or cruel, and it was a lucky date for me when , by chance,  I bumped into an old friend. Marguerite, who I hadn't seen for years.  She was surprised to see how my health had deteriorated and she told me about some supplements from the USA that she had been taking and how they had helped her health and her friend who had MS.  She had been so pleased wit the results that she had decided to distribute the products herself in the UK.  Having swapped telephone numbers, we parted company and I went down the same old road thinking 'I've heard it all before and with my financial problems, I can't afford them anyway.'   

A couple of months passed and I remained in my world of darkness, taking each day as it .  came, not being able to cope with any more than that, my resolve diminishing,  Then, again out of the blue, Marguerite contacted me, for a favour.  Her car was out of action and she needed someone to drive her around for a few days.  I picked myself up and made myself physically deal with the task in hand.  In return, Marguerite suggested I might like to try some of these supplements.  What was there to lose?  I agreed to try the products and said if the results were good that 'I would shout it from the rooftops.'  In March last year, I started on a course of USANA Essentials (Chelated Minerals and Antioxidants), later adding Profavanol, Procosamine and Omega essential oils.

Almost immediately, I began to feel my energy levels rising and my mental awareness, in turn showed a marked improvement.  I started feeling positive about myself again.  For the past eight years, I had found it difficult to cope with communicating by letter or telephone.  Now only a few weeks on, the ability was there and improving and the fog was lifting from my life.  My muscle aches and pains began to decrease and also the lower back pain which had crippled me at times.

The biggest miracle is that by May, only eight weeks after starting the supplements, I had somehow managed to put my house on the market.  I have now sold it and bought a delightful little cottage in Wales nearer my daughter and grandchildren, something I should have done ten years previously, but felt I couldn't face.  I can only hope I go from strength to strength.  I haven't looked back and who knows, soon I might be back in the saddle.  All I can say is thank you to Marguerite for her listening, understanding and her persistence and thank you to Dr Myron Wentz, renowned microbiologist and immunologist for spending a lifetime developing and rigorously testing this unique product range.  These nutritionals have given me back a sense of vitality I had given up on and hope for the future.

Sue Smedley, Wales