Casey Odell

I have always been an active and daring person. If there was an adventure within my reach I was geared up and ready to tackle it, or at least try to. Throughout my college career I had successfully competed in several triathlons and one half marathon and was undoutably in the best shape of my life. That all changed shortly after I started training for my first marathon. I went to bed feeling fine but then woke up in the morning with terrible joint pain in my knees, elbows, and low back that would not go away. Shortly after I developed irritable bowel syndrome, heart palpitations, and mental fog all with no known cause. I had gone from feeling like a star athlete to a 90 year old woman in the matter of weeks! I became desparate to understand what was happening to me, and how I could