For the woman with mast cell activation, dysautonomia, or interstitial cystitis
You've changed your diet. Exhausted your list of specialists.
Tried Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine... and acupuncture and tapping and that other thing your friend has been harping on for months.
And your world is still shrinking.You're down to 5 foods that don't make you feel filleted from the inside out.
Spend 14 hours a day flat to keep the orthostatic headache at bay.
Plan your entire day around bathroom breaks and when you're able to pop the next Azo.
Almost worse, it feels like every practitioner you see treats this as normal.
Start with the symptom that's taking the most from your life
If the list of foods you can eat has shrunk down to white rice, here's what you need to know about what's really driving MCAS and histamine reactions.
Access The Physiology Driving MCASIf sitting or standing makes you feel like a vacuum's been attached to the space between your eyes, here's the lowdown on dysautonomia, POTS, and orthostatic intolerance (cratering blood pressure when you stand up without the fast heart rate).
Access The Physiology Driving POTS/DysautonomiaIf urinary urgency plans your day for you, this is where to start.
Access IC FreedomReady to break out of the symptom loop entirely? This is the program I wish I'd had on Day 1.
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I'm Brandy, a research scientist who specializes in MCAS, dysautonomia, & interstitial cystitis
I've lived this symptom storm.
I didn't plan to become an expert in mast cell activation or dysautonomia or interstitial cystitis. I didn't even know these things existed until they showed up in my body. Once they did though and I was met with gaslighting and band-aid approaches to take the edge off, I refused to live life limited by these symptoms.
I've spent 15+ years in pharmaceutical R&D (with a stint at the CDC before that), and when my body started falling apart I did what a research scientist does... I treated it like a research project and studied my labs like my life depended on it.
At first, it was Hashimoto's, migraines, brain fog, fatigue, and that raw, histamine-y feeling. All of those paled in comparison to the chronic UTI/IC symptoms. Standard and alternative approaches failed, so I decided to figure out my own way out.
I got pretty good at resolving symptoms... I was the one who finally broke the urinary urgency pattern after 18 months of failed attempts by specialists. The problem was every time I cracked one symptom cluster, another set popped up. So, I started trying to figure out what was causing the symptoms in the first place.
Here's what it turned out to be.
What was really driving my symptoms
Post-Pill Syndrome.
I thought at first it was quitting hormonal birth control cold-turkey.
Gadolinium
from an MRI in 2008, back when linear contrast agents were still in routine use. Gadolinium is a heavy metal, and it's known to deposit in the body for decades.
Lyme
Treated over a decade earlier with 6 months of doxycycline. I thought it was gone. It wasn’t.
Long-COVID,
which tracked almost perfectly with the onset of both IC and MCAS symptoms and worsening of orthostatic intolerance.
A body that had clamped down energy production in an attempt to survive all of it.
Which meant... every time I tried to kill Borrelia or move that gadolinium, I cratered. My liver was overwhelmed, my clearance was maxed out, and I had no energy reserve to keep from flaring.
I felt trapped.
I knew what was wrong now, I just didn't know what to do about it. I also refused to believe this was my life now.
I began plodding my way through figuring out what needed to happen first to build back energy and clearance capacity so my body had more bandwidth. As I did this, the symptoms disappeared.
- I was no longer reacting to breakfast.
- The orthostatic headaches got less and less intense.
- I wasn't seeing my heart rate climb into the anaerobic zone on a morning dog walk.
As I worked with clients, the path became more and more clear. This before that to protect the brain from that on fire feeling. This too to help even more with histamine clearance.
Ultimately, the path became the Reclaim Wellness Intensive.
Why protocols often fail
Most protocols assume your system has the capacity to respond.
That your detox pathways are open.
That your nervous system is able to handle the stress of the protocol itself (and isn't running in pure sympathetic mode with an inflamed vagus nerve to boot).
That your body has enough energy and clearance capacity to process what the protocol's asking it to do.
When that's not the case? Even the right protocol backfires.
Within days you wake up with worse symptoms. New symptoms. Reaching for the emergency stash of Azo, Ibuprofen, Pepcid,... anything to take the edge off.
I've been there (multiple times). Started a protocol, woke up the next day thinking I had meningitis because I couldn't turn my head and the headache was an order of magnitude worse than any I'd had before.
The problem wasn't that I hadn't found the right protocol...
It was that I was skipping steps.
Trying to clear, push, and fix without first stabilizing detox pathways and ensuring my body had enough energy to handle the additional demand.
And, here's what I really want you to understand. For me, it was everything.
Heavy metal exposure. Lyme that I thought had been properly treated a decade earlier (it wasn't, the spirochetes were still alive, active, and multiplying). Long-COVID. (Surprisingly tracked with both interstitial cystitis/chronic UTI symptoms and also onset of GI MCAS symptoms and orthostatic intolerance.)
Looking back, it's no wonder that every time I tried a new protocol, I cratered.
What I didn't know then is that when your energy is low, when your detox pathways (Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3, and elimination itself) are already "partly clogged", anything you add into the mix adds to the body's burden.
That's why so many women get stuck in this cycle:
In order for the things to work, capacity has to be restored first.
That's what we do inside The Reclaim Wellness Intensive.
Join the Reclaim Wellness IntensiveWhat Happens when You Break the Cycle?
Most women have been stuck in survival mode for so long, they don't even realize how reactive their bodies are anymore… until the pattern begins to break.
The women I work with go from:
This cannot possibly be the best we can expect.
Somewhere along the way, five safe foods, fourteen hours a day flat, and a day planned around bathroom adjacent got relabeled as "satisfactory management of symptoms".
I don't accept that.
If you've read this far, I suspect you don't either.
Start with the symptom that's taking the most from your life.
Or skip straight to the path I wish I'd had on Day 1:
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Tired of living life limited by your symptoms?
Let's uncover what's holding you back from wellness and fix it so you're free to get back to life!
Whether it's MCAS, recurrent UTI/IC, dysautonomia or a body that seems to react to everything, you're in the right place.
Hi, I'm Brandy Searcy, a pharmaceutical research scientist and health coach.
For years, I was really sick and had to beg for tests to be done until finally someone listened. That someone was me,… I finally heard the voice inside me speak very clearly, if I wanted out of this, I had to do it for myself.
Once I decided to step fully into my power as the owner of my health, something nothing short of a miracle happened. The one missing piece I’d been searching for revealed itself.
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