Alpha Gal Syndrome is a rare tick-borne condition caused by the Lone Star tick that triggers an immune response to a natural sugar molecule (alpha-gal) found in mammalian meat, causing severe gastrointestinal symptoms that are often misdiagnosed as IBS or other conditions, leading to unnecessary surgeries and treatments; the condition requires lifelong dietary restrictions, avoidance of animals and sunshine, and carries life-threatening risks in emergency rooms where patients may receive medications like Heparin (derived from pig intestines) that can trigger fatal anaphylactic reactions, with no known cure and treatment options that are often ineffective and financially burdensome.
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How Many Gallbladders Came Out Before Anyone Said Lone Star Tick?Added:
healthy organs removed because nobody connected it to a tick bite.
>> Well, she did put needles in both my ears and it's electro waves. Shocking. I don't know if they released them on purpose or if they escaped.
>> Now, it hasn't been that many years ago.
If you told me somebody could create something like this, I would have told you to put the National Inquirer down and get some help.
But over the course of the last few years, we've realized that a lot of the things we thought were conspiracy all of a sudden become reality. And anymore, I'm not questioning myself whether somebody can create something like this.
I'm questioning why and who would create something like this.
>> He was getting ready to flush my IV with Hepron. And I looked at him and I asked him, "What are you doing?" And he says, "That's heep." I said, "If you put that in my IV, you're going to kill me." And he's like, "Well, what do you mean?" And I told him, "I'm an alpha gal." It wasn't even on my records.
>> That's a real moment that happened to our friend Sherry. Not in some third world country either. Not in some place that doesn't have access to medicine right here in an American emergency room. And that nurse had no idea what Alpha Gal even was. Now, if you watched our last video, you already know what the Lonear tick is and what it carries.
But what we didn't have time to get into and what our comment section has been absolutely blowing up about is what this thing actually does to a real person's life. Today, we're going to hear that story. And I'm going to warn you right now, this one's pretty heavy. We have a friend right now. They've been on our channel before. Sherry and Tim, they're both afflicted with Alpha Gal, and they've been battling it for a long time, and they've just recently realized that maybe their beloved family pets are making them even more sick. I called Sherry and I asked her if she would sit down with us and just tell it straight.
And here's what that conversation looks like.
The apha gal has affected every part of my life. I mean every I don't want to devastating guys. Um, well, you know, I really didn't know precise. Well, I always knew something was different because I was diagnosed with IBS in Colorado, but when I moved out here, I was fortunate to come across a doctor who um actually had alpha gal.
And I was telling her I had really bad tummy pains. My stomach was always upset. I didn't know if I was just something wasn't right. It's all GI stuff. And she's like, "Sher, let me test you for Alpha Gal." And I can remember I put it off for one or two months, but as it got on, my symptoms got worse. So, I finally went to her and she's like, "Are you ready?" And I said, "Yes, ma'am." And sure enough, I have Alpha Gal. That's how I was diagnosed.
Now, stop right there because what Sherry just said is something we are seeing over and over in our comment section. At Brother Brovette 1881 from Southern Missouri wrote a and I quote, "Local doctors estimate 10% or more of residents here have it with probably half being underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed. We had it 2 years before he got a diagnosis.
He had it two years before he was properly diagnosed. And here's where it gets dark. Before doctors understood what alpha gal was, they were removing healthy gallbladders from patients because the GI symptoms were so severe.
They assumed it had to be a gallbladder problem. Healthy organs removed because nobody connected it to a tick bite.
How many people are sitting in a doctor's office right now being told they have IBS when what they actually have is alpha gal syndrome? Think about that. That number is not small. And Sherry's going to tell you exactly what that misdiagnosis period looked like for her.
>> Everybody is different because Alpha Gal is so different. That's why it's hard for the medical field to keep up with it. what might trigger me might not trigger somebody else with my symptoms.
I had um extreme GI issues as well as joint and muscle aches, the headaches, just a lot majority of it was all GI issues. It was all intestinal issues.
And I have had like colonoscopies, upper GIS, complete blood workups, um, CAT scans, ultrasounds, anything to find out. Well, in that process, they diagnosed me with IBS. From what I understand, a lot of people that have been diagnosed with alpha gale have also been diagnosed with something previous, whether it was IBS or diverticuliitis or something of that sort. As part symptoms, I've also became very sensitive to sunshine. Not like allergic to sunshine, but just very sensitive to the sunshine. So, I just don't do that anymore. So, >> did you catch that? Sunshine.
She moved to the Spring River in Hardy, Arkansas to fish and kayak and enjoy retirement.
And now, sunshine itself is actually a trigger. This is not just some red meat allergy. This thing reaches into every single corner of your life and takes something and it just keeps going. And for the people that don't understand it or don't believe it, you're blessed because the ones that we know that have it, they have it severe enough that it affects them in every single aspect of their life.
Try to imagine being sick every day and not understanding where that's coming from. You want to know about a strain on a relationship? People actually joked about my statement, it could take your marriage. What I'm saying is it's it was a joke about a cheeseburger and a kiss.
But the truth is when one of your one person out of the relationship is sick all the time, it creates a strain and a stress on a relationship that even the strongest ones are challenged to to stay strong and stay together. So, it's real.
We don't have to understand it, but it's still freaking real. And even if it was some sort of a psychological thing, I can understand that too because fear is real.
>> It's really affected my life because before I got Alpha Gal, we moved out here to Spring River Hardy, Arkansas to be by the river so we can fish and kayak and you know, we're retired couple and all of that was basically taken away. But in my case, it's more mental because I'm so afraid of ticks.
>> And that fear, it's legitimate. And here's where I want to go for a second.
And I know our comment section is going to have a lot to say about this. There is a growing number of people who believe this is not an accident. We got comments saying that government released ticks intentionally. We got comments about drones dropping them and helicopters and planes. We got comments connecting this to the push to get people off meat entirely.
Now, I'm not here to tell you what I believe. What I will tell you is this.
Limes disease has documented origins that raise severe serious questions about whether it came from a lab. That story has never been fully put to bed.
Not for us anyways. We may have missed something. But Alpha Gal is different biologically. It is a natural sugar molecule that mammals already carry. The tick bite triggers your immune system to attack it.
So, the science is different. But here's what nobody can argue with. The lonear tick population is exploding. The range is expanding north. And the one disease it is most known for carrying permanently destroys your ability to eat meat. be near animals and in some cases safely receive medical treatment. That's scary. If they don't know what you got, they can really hurt you and not even know it.
Whether that is an accident or not, the result is the same. And Sherry is living that result every single day. When you found out that there was a treatment, >> I was excited. You were excited when you treat. Who wouldn't be? You know, to think that you hear about a treatment.
So, you go and you drive the 5 hours, you pay the 200 just so you could have a cheeseburger.
Well, she did put needles in both my ears and it's electro waves. So, it's like shocking. It's It sent shock waves through my vega system or the vega nerve. That's what it's doing. It resets the vega nerve. Is it mentioned that the next time you get bit by a tick, you have to go and have the procedure done again and again and again? I have been bit by like six ticks since my acupuncture.
Can you imagine how expensive that would be? And it's a 5hour drive in one way.
What one? 5 hours there, 5 hours back.
$200. Every time I get by a tick, I have to pay that 200. So, I don't think that acupuncture is fine for a little while until you get back bit by another tick.
>> Sherry, did the treatment work for you?
>> No.
>> No.
>> No, the treatment did not work for me.
Um, so she suggested that we get 100% grass-fed beef and I came home and made a bunch of little meatballs, cooked them up, and anytime that we would walk by, we would grab a little small bite of beef and go on. My husband did real well with it. He was doing awesome. But with me, I I had to get past the mental part of eating meat again.
But it didn't work.
>> It failed you.
>> It was devastating. You know, it was devastating. Who wants to eat chicken and fish for the rest of their lives?
Because I do eat chicken, turkey, and fish. That's it. You know, we can splurge for like ostrich or emu duck bacon, but you know, with the alpha gal diet and you want to have those foods, you have to pay for it. It's expensive to have that diet.
>> 5 hours one way. Think about that. $200, needles in both ears, and it didn't work.
And here's the part that really got me.
She was told that even if it did work, the next tick bite resets everything.
You have to do it all over again in an area where Sherry is finding ticks on herself every single time regularly.
That is not a treatment. That is a financial drain on top of an already devastating situation. But the treatment failure is not even the hardest part of Sherry's story.
This next part is >> the apha gal has affected every part of my life. I mean every I don't want to devastating guys. Um I'm not going to go too much into it but you'd lose a lot.
You're not going to lose. You got the potential to lose your pets.
Even my medicine, I could even lose that. My doctor, this is the third time when I seen her. Uh it was the third time that she wants us to get rid of the animals. Um your dogs have that alpha gal. All animals have the alpha gal. Anytime they sneeze or brush up against me or want to be loved, I can go into a reaction. Yes.
>> It's probably one of the hardest things.
>> We don't have children. We don't have grandchildren. So, we put a lot of love into our pets. They mean a lot to us. I hope you never have to be in that position to have to get rid of your animals.
Tim didn't want to be on camera today and I completely respect that. But I will tell you this. I know these people and I've watched what this has done to their life, their retirement, the world that they've built together. That is its own story that these words don't even fully cover. Sherry did say something off camera that stuck with me. She said, "You lose a lot." And she meant everything.
the animals, the river, the sunshine, the food, the freedom to go outside without fear, the ability to walk into an emergency room and trust that the people treating you know what they are dealing with all of it.
>> You can't get away from it. And it's it's more and more every day. The texts are so bad this year.
>> Do you go in and the doctors know exactly what to do? It's um it's very scary going into the ER from having a reaction because the medical field isn't very familiar with Alpha Gal. They're just learning about it just as much as we are. I was recently in the ER because of a flare up and a nurse was he was getting ready to flush my IV with Hepin.
And I looked at him and I asked him, "What are you doing? What is that?" And he says, "That's he." I said, "If you put that in my IV, you're going to kill me." And he's like, "Well, what do you mean?" And I told him, "I'm an alpha gal.
I am alpha gal. It wasn't even on my records." He says, "We need to add that to your records. It should have already been added to my records."
For everyone watching who does not know, Heperin is a blood thinner derived from pig intestines. Sounds gross, but that's where they make medicine. It is one of the most commonly used medications in emergency rooms across this country. For an alpha gal patient, it can trigger a severe anaphylactic reaction. Scary. You go to get help and you end up with bigger problems. This is not a rare edge case. This is a standard medication that nurses administer every single day. And Sherry had to stop that nurse herself.
What if she missed it? If she had not known, if she had been unconscious, if she had trusted that her condition was on her chart, we have to make sure that we know all of it. This is why awareness is not optional. This is a life ordeath awareness. And our comment section already knows this. Anna M77748 wrote, "God forbid you have to go to the emergency room because because not all nurses and doctors know about it and end up giving you something with mammal in it." This is not one person's experience either. It seems to be a pretty clear pattern.
>> And I do think it was man-made. Man-made for a specific reason. Maybe it's part of the Great Purge.
I don't know. I do. You hear of people dying from Alpha Gal, but it's only because they ate something that they knew they shouldn't have or they came in. It's not just a red meat allergy.
It's your cosmetics, your toilet paper, laundry soap, uh shampoo, condition, everything you come in contact. No leather gloves when you work in the garden.
>> Toilet paper, laundry soap, shampoo, leather gloves.
I want you to sit with that just for a second because when we made our last video, we talked about losing your bacon double cheeseburger and your dog and your marriage and that felt heavy enough. But what Sher is describing is a complete reconstruction of every single daily habit you have built over your entire life from the moment you wake up to the moment you go back to sleep. And it does not go away.
There is no cure. There is no shot.
There's no procedure that guarantees relief. There is only management every single day for the rest of your life from one tick bite.
>> I don't know if they released them on purpose or if they escaped. You know, I'm not sure.
>> Sherry, is there anything good that has come out of being exposed to the alpha gal syndrome.
>> You know, I think some good has came out of it because I haven't had McDonald's in 2 years. We don't eat fast food restaurants. We don't eat chocolate. We don't have a lot of sweets. We have a very healthy diet.
We live a very clean life because we have to or it's going to get us both in trouble.
Now, I said this at the beginning of our last video that I did not have evidence to tell you whether any of this is intentional. I still don't. But I'll tell you this, whatever the origins, the lonear tick is here.
Its population is exploding and the disease it carries is permanent.
Protect yourself. Do it like it matters because it does. Is there anything else you would like to add to that?
>> I would. You know guys, I have not put out a video in like 3 months and I'm really thinking about this. If you want to go over to my channel, I'm going to start putting out my Alpha Gal journals.
Maybe we could share a recipe or maybe we could just chitchat and talk. And I think there's going to be a lot more because Alpha Gal's on the rise. And I'd like you to all come on over. Let's let's explore and learn and kind of lean on each other for this syndrome because it doesn't go away. It is not curable.
No matter what they say, there's not a shot that's going to cure your Alpha Gal. Come on over.
>> We are going to link Sherry's channel below. If you're living with Alpha Gal or you suspect you might be, go find her. that community she's hoping to build is going to be genuine and her stories are going to be genuine and she's got a lot of work to do to get back on track, but she wants to share that with you and I'm excited for her.
And if this video found you today and you did not see our last one, it is linked right here, here, here. I'm not sure where, but it's linked, baby. All right, watch it, share it, because the more people who understand what this tick carries, the fewer people end up in the emergency room having to stop a nurse from making a fatal mistake because they don't know. Drop your stories in the comments, guys. Share them with us. What do you think? Who?
Why? What? Where?
It didn't just come out of the clear blue sky.
Maybe it did. I don't know. We are reading every single one of those comments, guys. I'm going to tell you that.
We're almost 2,000 comments into our last video. I'm having a hard time keeping up, but I'm doing my best. You might only get a heart, but that's because we care and we really do love that you messaged us.
So, thank you. And the cross commenting, you guys are kicking butt. I love the debate because most of us would not be exposed to this interpretation or perspective, the potential if you didn't share it. I don't care how planet pop-tart you think it is. As long as we're not talking about violence, I don't care how planet pop-tart people think your perspective is. If you don't share it, we never freaking know. And I wouldn't have believed this 10 years ago. I'd have told you you need help.
You need help. And today I'm like, you got my attention. Let's find the meat on the bones. That's where the truth lies.
All right, guys. If you're enjoying this content, make sure you give me a thumbs up and hit that notification bell.
They're going to let you know that we got something else pretty important to share with you. And share this video because oftent times people are misdiagnosed. That's the scariest part.
and they try to treat treat treat this that and they miss the freaking thing until it's too late. We don't want that to happen. So share it with people, especially if you know somebody that seems to be under the weather quite often or has a strange IB syndrome. It might be something different. And subscribe right now. Let me know where you guys are from. I really do love to know where my peeps are and I really feel like you guys are finding me or I'm finding you. However it happens, we together now. Thanks for watching. We'll see you on the next one. And peace. I do want to mention one more thing. It's not going to be easy, but I'm going to mention it for anybody that hung out to the very end of this. My wife has and I have met some people that are local.
They have suffered a tragedy in their family. And I'm not going to share their last names or exactly what the tragedy is, but I will say that if you guys are like the prayer crowd, we're going to ask you to pray right now for these people. They suffered a tragic loss that no parent should ever have to suffer.
So, you can guess it from there. He'll know who you're talking about. All right. So, just pray for our friends.
But I'll say that it's it's Michelle and Eric.
They need it. All right, guys.
>> Bills powed high, but the faith ran deeper.
She was the dreamer.
He the believer.
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