My Health Story: Why I Created SheIsMe Health
 

For most of my adult life, I was in pain. Deep, chronic, life-altering pain.

It took twelve years to get diagnosed with fibromyalgia. Twelve years of being dismissed, misdiagnosed, handed prescriptions that didn’t help, and told to manage my stress. The truth? I was barely surviving. My health kept declining, my weight kept climbing, and the pain became unbearable. I couldn’t walk up stairs. I could barely sit still. My “normal” pain level was an 8 out of 10, and I lived in a constant state of physical agony and emotional exhaustion.
 

I wasn’t just in pain—I was angry, isolated, and hopeless.
 

And then—by pure chance—I fell and hurt my wrist. That injury led me to an orthopedic doctor who, shockingly, gave me a rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis I didn’t even know I needed. No one else had caught it. I had seen dozens of doctors. Spent thousands of dollars. And still, it took one random encounter to finally start connecting the dots.
 

But the biggest shift happened when I found a doctor who actually listened.

She specialized in women’s health and root-cause medicine—not just symptom management or prescription bandaids. She asked the right questions. She looked at my labs with fresh eyes. She understood how trauma and nervous system dysregulation can trigger disease. She talked to me about menopause, autoimmunity, and the connection between trauma, hormones, inflammation, and pain.
 

That’s what so many women don’t realize:
You can’t outrun your trauma.
You can’t just power through the burnout, the grief, the abuse, the pressure, the overworking. Eventually, your body keeps the score. And mine was screaming.
 

I used to lie in bed wondering if I could survive like this for another 30 years. The answer felt like no. I couldn’t even imagine another year like that—much less a lifetime.

But because of that doctor—and the deep, transformative care she gave me—I’m here today. Not just alive. Thriving.
 

We talked often about how broken the system is. About how many women are suffering in silence. About how badly we need a different model of care.

And so, SheIsMe Health was born.

This isn’t just about me. This is about all of us.
All the women who have been ignored.
All the women who are told to lose weight, calm down, or take another antidepressant.
All the women who are doing everything right and still not getting better.

SheIsMe Health is a new model of care for women.
We listen. We test. We find the root. We treat the whole woman.
No copays. No 7-minute appointments. No gaslighting. No bullshit. Just results.
 

This is the future of women’s health.
And you don’t have to fight for it alone anymore.