When a friend shared cactus juice with Fran 10 months ago…
NO ONE EXPECTED…

Such Dramatic Help for
Rare Neurological Condition

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“I can walk again..
my pain is nearly gone,
brain pressure normal,
headaches gone,
dizziness gone,
balance better,
swelling in ankles gone,
bloodsugar lowered,
I am losing weight and
have more energy
and stamina
than ever before!”
–Fran Pettis

“I thought I would have to live with my medical problems…
I’ve changed that belief because of this juice!”

Fran Pettis, a 53-year-old office specialist II with Child Support Services in Oregon, knows what it’s like to be in constant pain and to have fluid retention so severe that it has threatened her life several times.

Fran has a rare chronic neurological disorder called idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH). People with IIH have all the symptoms of a brain tumor – but they don’t have one.

“My body rushes antibodies to my brain to fix something that is not there,” says Fran. “That makes the cerebrospinal fluid build-up in my brain. But then there is nowhere for the fluid to go. The pressure becomes intense.”

Symptoms can range from severe headaches and difficulty with balance, to problems with vision and a whooshing sound in one or both ears related to the high pressure inside the head.

“At one time, the pressure inside my brain reached 425, compared to a normal pressure of 100 to 150,” says Fran. She had a shunt implanted inside her brain to draw the fluid away and relieve the pressure. It helped, but over a 10 year period, she endured 23 surgeries to correct one problem or another related to the shunt.

Then in 2004, when her condition was at its worst, Fran ended up with a blood bacterial infection, spinal meningitis and pneumonia. Doctors induced a coma for 12 days to try to control everything. Once out of the coma, she slowly recovered, but had to undergo physical therapy to help her walk again.

Doctors aren’t sure what causes IIH. Fran believes that 21 years of stress from a former marriage that was emotionally abusive may have contributed to it. But one thing she does know for sure is this. The Nopal Cactus Juice has given her life an amazing turnaround. She can’t stop counting the many benefits.

“My pain is almost nothing now,” says Fran. “My headaches are gone and I’ve lowered my blood sugar. I’ve also lost 30 pounds and I’m still losing weight. I have so much more energy and stamina I can’t believe it.”

Her balance is better because the whooshing sound in her head is gone and she is no longer dizzy. Her ankles and feet aren’t swollen because she’s not retaining fluid. She can climb stairs. And she can walk around the entire Costco store without getting tired or having to run to a bathroom. The fluid continually draining from her brain through the shunt had made her incontinent – but not anymore.

In November 2009, Fran and her new husband Dean were house-sitting and taking care of her friend’s greyhound dogs. That’s when she first learned about the Nopal Cactus Juice. Her friend was drinking it and suggested it might help Fran.

“Because I was so sick and my body was so toxic, I had to start slowly with a small dose at first,” says Fran. Gradually she started seeing improvements. And as her body tolerated higher doses, she kept increasing the amount she drank. Currently she drinks four ounces of juice twice a day. “That’s what seems to work best for me right now,” says Fran. “I just know that I would not go a day without drinking this juice.”

Fran is especially proud that she is now able to walk without assistance to the stage in her church and stand for 30 minutes in front of the congregation. During the worship service she interprets all of the church music into sign language for the deaf.

“I thought I would have to live with all of my medical problems,” says Fran. “Now I know that I don’t. This had really been an amazing experience into wellness. Anywhere I can help, I want to share my story to give people hope that this will work for them too…if they drink enough of the cactus juice for long enough to get the iinflammation really cleared out.”

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