What Our Patients Are Saying

I first used Carol's services as a Holistic Wellness Physician when my daughter was about 15 months old. My daughter was suffering from chronic ear infections due to the use of antibiotics on a daily basis (because of her developmental birth defect - spina bifida - she was put on antibiotics for an accompanying neurogenic bladder.)

After a few months of recurring visits to the Pediatrician for OTHER antibiotics (and recommendations for surgical treatment!) I went to see Dr. Carol whom I knew through affiliation with my church. Dr. Carol prescribed a series of natural supplements which I administered to my daughter over a period of a few weeks. Her chronic ear infections disappeared and she NEVER got them back.

Since then (now almost 20 years!) I have used Dr. Carol's advice to treat my daughter for other conditions related to her birth defect (i.e. frequent bladder infections, kidney infections, requiring emergency hospital visits,...)

Again, Dr. Carol prescribed nutritional supplements (one of which was as simple as the daily use of Pro-biotic acidophilus) which has prevented kidney infections for the last 3 years and, once again, eliminated the "need" for surgery!

R. G.

I went to a seminar to hear Dr. Carol Fischer speak about stress, weight and wellness. She offered a free consultation to any new people who were interested. First two visits were about “what’s going on with my body”. Another visit was x-rays, and fourth was my first treatment. Not knowing what to expect except that I had a good feeling I came to the right place.

I had explained to Dr. Fischer that 2 ½ years ago I had toe surgery and ½ inch of my knuckle was taken out. Only to discover no pins or screws were put in and ½ my bone went one way and the other half another way. I spent many months suffering and walking wrong. Finally I was on the road to recovery when 1 ½ years later, I tore the cartilage in my knee cap- same leg as toes problem. Surgery came and after a year and much exercise, I fell and jammed the same knee, pelvis and hip.

The doctor who took care of me said my past pelvis and past hip problems were from a need to have a hip and knee replacement. I didn’t want that and I knew there had to be an alternative. For 2 ½ years I’ve been living by taking Celebrex, Mobic, Ibuprofen, and Tylenol pm, as I was unable to sleep.

After my first treatment I went to my car and as I got in and was sitting, my body started to relax. The only way to describe it is like warm butter running down. I was so relaxed I wanted to just go to sleep. That night and since then I haven’t needed anything to help me sleep, and no cramps in my calves or feet! I also have had a snap in the back of my knee that had surgery, and the snap is gone! I had had to sleep with a pillow between my legs as my pelvis hurt so much that the pillow gave me relief. That pain is now gone also! With the jamming of my left hip I was unable to sleep on my right side. I am now able to sleep on my right side again!

For the past 50 years I also had been having cramps in my calves and feet since I was ten years of age. That night for the first time I was able to sleep without having cramps in my calves or feet, and I have not had any cramps at all since that first treatment. I have been to other doctors before, including chiropractors, but no one ever had been able to help me with this. The cramps would get so bad that they would wake me up every night and I would have to get up and take a hot bath or get a massage from my husband. There were times the cramps would get so bad that I could not walk and my husband would take me to the ER where they would give me medication to ease the pain. It is truly a miracle that I no longer suffer from these leg and foot cramps!

I had just turned 48 and suddenly I was having hot flashes from my knees to the top of my head. At night constantly sweating where I would have to shower or change my gown. I called my mom and asked her how she was when she started change of life and how long it lasted, as I had heard – like mother – like daughter. She said that she was 50 and it lasted 2 years – piece of cake. Well not for me! I took everything that I was told about, and even one month on estrogen, but that scared me so I refused to take it. My doctor said I would be sorry, as she would take it until the day she died. Last September 2005 I went to a seminar and hear Dr. Carol Fischer and how she could help me with the needs that I had but not expecting the hot flashes and night sweats to completely stop. Middle of December 2005 they left me, and in a few months I will be 60. It has been a long 12 years! Thank you for your help!

A. S.

Year 2000 and I was 24 and out of nowhere, my sacrum shifted and I could hardly move. I began chiropractic care with a doctor other than Dr. Fischer. I made a routine with the doctor but continued to suffer. My chiropractor moved so I began going to Dr. Fischer. My sacrum area immediately healed and we began long-term correction. As with all bodies, the stress can move from the low back to the mid back, etc and for the past three years we have been treating these areas routinely to keep me healthy. My wife and two small children are also regular patients. Chiropractic helps solve mechanical issues and also can help from a total wellness standpoint – a “one stop shop” for health care. I do not ever have a family physician because I maintain health with the treatment and advice I got from Dr. Fischer. It’s often compared to a tune-up for your car, if you maintain the working parts you won’t need a master mechanic (surgeon) to rebuild you.

P. O.

After four abdominal surgeries, I decided to try a different approach! Chiropractic care with holistics has provided the complementary care that I needed. Prior to my fifth surgery, I started subluxation treatments. I am now eight weeks out from surgery and I continue the treatments. Now, my pain in miniscule! I have not had to use pain medications since being released from the hospital! Other complications such as swelling and bowel management are being addressed. I am sure that Chiropractic care has helped me to feel better faster.

M. S.

After seeing other Chiropractors, and Medical Doctors in the last 12 years, Dr. Fischer was the first doctor that I could see results in about a month. This had never happened before! Dr. Fischer hones in on the problem to make the correction. Also, her caring manner has been a true positive experience.

J. Z.

Since I have been coming to see Dr. Fischer, my neck pain and headaches are completely gone! Also, the pain in my low back is on an upward spiral and my hip pain is totally gone! This is all thanks to Dr. Fischer.

D. L.

The job that I have requires me to be on my feet on a constant basis, which caused me to develop a knob on the back of my left heel. It was so painful that I walked with a limp. Finally, I found Dr. Fischer, a holistic chiropractor and started treatment with her. After only two treatments I noticed a big difference. Usually, after about one hour of work, I would have to stop because of the pain I was dealing with in my left heel. Now, for the first time in a long time I was able to work for two hours straight! My energy level has gone up due to the supplements Dr. Fischer has me on and I no longer have a limp when I walk. Dr. Fischer is very gentle and effective with her patients. I have already recommended my sister. Thank you Dr. Fischer!

B. D.

After my first chiropractic visit, the physical therapist told me my leg was 20% better. I had therapy three times a week and a knee replacement in August. I’ve had a physical therapist since then, seven months and only an improvement to a certain point. After my first chiropractic appointment, I was 20% and after my second, 25% better – all according to my physical therapist! I sat on a sofa for a long time – two and a half hours – I was able to get up and go to the bathroom. Before, I would be in horrible pain if I stood up, with a severe pain in my pelvis. When I get up in the morning, I no longer have a first step of pain. Before I would have severe pain in the pelvis and hip when I stood up. I would have to walk it out, but it hurt so bad that I could only stand intense deep pain and could not move for a minute. I would have to walk three to four minutes before I could even go to the bathroom where I could sit. Even getting out of the car is pain-free – it’s gone now, after only two visits!

A. S.

I had one of the worst headaches I have ever had for 3 days because of a stiff neck and back. I came to see Dr. Fischer and my headache was gone in a half hour of treatment.

G. B.

Have been to many Chiropractors and always have felt pain afterwards. Dr. Fischer adjusted me and my back feels fabulous ever since I left her office. That has not been the case with other Chiropractors!

F. M.

I am feeling less tired, with about a 70% improvement. I am sleeping better, through the night – before I would rarely go to bed and stay asleep and would be very tired when the alarm clock would go off – now have been doing much better and have been less tired when the alarm clock goes off. I am much less irritable and cranky. I have been on nutrition for two weeks and have improved.

K. C.

I had no stamina - by the time the gardening tools were out, I was too tired to get anything done. Walking to the nursery and pulling the weeds were beyond me. Now I just feel so much better after just 2-1/2 months under Dr. Fischer’s care. I can now dig some of the weeds! My stamina has increased – I am not just thinking about doing things, but I can actually do them. I can do simple cleaning without getting tired. Dr. Fischer has given me food supplements that have also helped along with chiropractic care.

A. K.

Gloria, who was age 4, was always clinging to me. I did not take her out a lot because of this. She was afraid of people that she did not know. When I first brought her to Dr. Fischer, Gloria would not leave my arms and buried her head in my shoulder. She would not stand by herself and would cling to me. Gloria had not been sleeping well through the night. She would wake up with night terrors. After the first adjustment she smiled at Dr. Fischer. She even stood by herself and walked out of the clinic! What a difference! After the adjustment, Dr. Fischer gave Gloria some vitamins to take and she slept through the night with no problem. After 2 treatments and a month, Gloria is now doing great. When I came to the office to get her checked – she was a smiley, happy, outgoing child. She smiles at people she knows now and no longer clings to me. She even plays by herself now! She is behaving more like a normal child. Thank you Dr. Fischer!

M. W.

I was unable to walk correctly. I walked sideways and was dizzy for over 8 months. After seeing Dr. Fischer for adjustments my dizziness was gone in only 2 visits. I have been a patient for 6 months now, and the dizziness has not come back, and I am walking straight! I am very happy. No one had been able to fix it before.

E. Y.

I bought a water filter from Dr. Fischer. I love the taste of the water from the new filter. I could not drink my regular water at night as it gave me terrible heartburn. Now I can drink the water all night long. I don’t have acid reflux or anything. It is so tasty – I love it! My husband refused to drink water because he did not like it. Now he is drinking water and he loves it. My coffee even tastes delicious with it. And that is the honest truth.

A. S.

My story is definitely a miracle to me. My leg pain started in December 2007. I was falling a lot and had pain in the right top muscle, which was also very weak; I couldn’t lift my leg AT ALL. I had to use a cane to walk and fell at least 5x prior to getting help because I lost my balance. I had to lift my leg with my hands. I could not lift my leg to get it up on the table. It was pretty much dead. There was not much strength in it at all unless I kept it straight like the cane when walking. I saw doctors at St. Mary’s, a D.O., a neurologist and a neurosurgeon. I also had a lot of x-rays and a MRI. Nothing showed up on any of the tests, so the doctors all said there was nothing they could do since they couldn’t see anything. I asked “Could it be MS?” and the one doctor said, “Yeah, could be something like that.” He also said the feeling in the muscle would never come back. I tried the pain pills and hated them because of the side effects. I started seeing Dr. Fischer in January 2008; she thought it could be a virus. I came in four days a week. She worked long and hard on my leg, never giving up and told me she would keep working to get the feeling back in that muscle. Some days it was rough driving in so much but I didn’t want to give up either. Finally, I went down to 3 visits a week, then 2 weeks, 1 visit and now my leg is so much stronger and just about back to normal. I can move the leg on my own; now it feels more secure, stronger; I can walk without the cane. I feel like going back to those other doctors and giving them a good kick with the leg they said would never get better. Dr. Fischer has done wonders for me.

J. G.

My son who is 26 months has had trouble gaining weight for about the last six months. His sister who is his twin gains without any problems. As you can see he is much smaller than her. I took him to our pediatricin and he put him on Pedisure, but Linus could not keep it down and would throw up every time I gave it to him. The doctor said just keep trying and he should get used to drinking it, but Linus didn’t get used to it. I found out about Dr. Fischer through her website and made an appointment. I was very impressed with her and had a feeling I found the right doctor for Linus. She did a nutrition check and wanted to know everything I was feeding him. She totally changed his diet and very gently started adjusting him and before too long he started improving and I'm so happy to see he is actually gaining weight and I know he feels better too. What a relief to see such success.

L. P.

My left knee began hurting three years ago in November, the right two years ago in August. I had a complete knee replacement because it was causing me pain. After the surgery, while in rehab, I was in a great deal of pain and was unable to bend my knee completely. I had back pain, knee pain, limited arm movement, shoulder pain, neck pain, and side effects. I had concerns after surgery, including pain, stiffness, residuals, and infections. One month after the surgery, I started seeing Dr. Fischer. The treatments helped speed the healing, decreased the pain, and made me recover faster. And now it is as if I never had knee replacement surgery. I’m better than new now. Results were felt within three months; I’ve gotten a lot better with very little pain after treatment. Dr. Fischer has helped me a lot and is a very nice person. My treatments were certainly worth my time, money, and effort to get here.

C. B.

 Hello. My name is L. K., age 40, and I have a Bachelors of Science in Nursing. I share with you this fact because all of my adulthood, I have practiced conventional medicine. My story isn't an unusual case scenario. I'm sure most of you will find some self-reflection as I share it with you. Being a mother of 2 boys, ages 14 and 15, my life went something like this...I would awake at the crack of dawn, get the boys ready for school, as I sipped on my 2-3 cups of caffeinated coffee, ate little, drove them to school, went to work where I would then again sip on 2-3 cups of coffee to stay wake. The stress of the day was at its peak, always catering to the needs of patients, family, and friends. As noon approached I'd eat lunch, by mid-day feel tired again due to the carbs that I consumed as by blood sugar rose and plummeted. Once again I was tired, so I'd sip on some more coffee, even though I knew from past studies that caffeine has a nine hour half life. The night finally approached, finally I'd think "Time to settle down". Gee, now I'd have at least three glasses of red wine (of course red because after all, I learned that it was healthy for you), and took an anti-anxiety pill just to relax completely and forget about the day. Sound familiar? Notice that I didn't mention my middle name? You probably guessed it by now. It is-STRESS?

Now, as time went on, my menstrual cycle started to become irregular and my abdomen was swollen.  Being a nurse, I went to my Family Doctor.  She decided that I should have an abdominal ultrasound along with my mammogram.  Well, here's the news...I had a 3cm uterine cyst and an abnormal mammogram.  The bleeding became unbearable, having my period every 2 weeks with heavy bleeding, cramps, and clots.  I also had endometriosis (growth of the uterine lining outside of my uterus that swells with each menstrual cycle).  This lasted for about one year until the point of no return.  Not to mention prior to this, I was diagnosed with hypertension, migraines since childhood, and GERD (gastro esophageal reflux disease).

A few years back, I saw a gastroenterologist, had multiple tests done, and yet no solution to the problem except to take a prescription anti-acid drug.  So here I was, taking 2 pills for my high blood pressure, 1 anti-anxiety med, Imitrex injections for the headaches, and sampled a multitude of anti-reflux drugs to finally decide that Nexium was the right one for me.  I've been taking these for about 5 years.  I was then led to my GYN who sent me to, of course, another doctor who suggested hormones, an IUD, or surgery.  To no surprise, I was told that it isn't a guarantee to solve my problems.

Frustrated, I went to the top hospital, you guessed it, U of M.  There I saw another surgeon who basically gave me the same options only this time I was told that it would be guaranteed.  HOWEVER, my option for having just the cyst to be removed wasn't an option since I was not going to have children anymore.  The cautions to surgery, which is called ablation (removal of the uterine lining), is that if I bled again in the future, I'd have to have a hysterectomy because they would not be capable of doing a biopsy to test for uterine cancer, and I would not know when I was going through menopause.

You can only imagine how these conditions affected my lifestyle.  At this point, I was thinking, "I am only 40 and my body is literally falling apart".  There has to be a way around this.  I learned that with each decade, a person would be taking the same amount of prescription drugs.  For example, I'm 40 which means the norm is 4 drugs - yes, drugs- toxifying my body as they treat the symptoms and not the cause!  If this does sound familiar, even a tiny remote chance, there is a solution.

For years now, I have been attending classes studying natural health. It fascinated me so much that I decided to go to the chiropractor because of the stabbing pain in my right neck down the shoulder blade. This of course made that problem sudside to where I could function again. Then after learning about vitamins and health, I decided to take control over my OWN health, so I went to two health food stores and purchased hundreds of dollars worth of vitamins known to man. As I continued to read about them, I found too many contradictory statements about each vitamin and mineral and asking the health food stores what they thought even brought more confusion because they were only viewing my one condition, not my whole body, with little history behind it. This helped to some extent, however my conditions were NOT getting any better. Hence, my last straw was to find a Naturopathic Doctor in my area. Through a long search I came upon Dr. Fischer's wellness center and made the call.

I don't feel that it was luck when I found Dr. Fischer. Her warm smile when she first introduced herself to me, reassured me that I was in the right place. After our initial consultation I was convinced that she was advising me correctly and NOT just with her knowledge but with her heart. She stated the facts and explained thoroughly about what my body was doing and not doing. Prior to the day of detoxifying myself I conditioned my mind that "this was it and there is not turning back".

So because I still have a little perfectionist-syndrome still left in me I decided to use it to my advantage which drove me through the next three weeks. I must admit, the first week was self-discovery. It's amazing that even though you do not eat or drink certain things, they seem to become a HUGE temptation when you're not allowed them. (Starbucks was one for me). This is how our minds work.

However, I decided that I wasn't going to be paying good money on products and food that I never ate before to go to waste, plus I wanted this to work. Yes, I really wanted this to work because I did want to be healthy and eliminate the ailments that I now was face-to-face with. I would say that I started noticing improvements after one week. My blood pressure was already normal after just quitting the drugs cold turkey. (It is important to take note that she did NOT advise me to do this. I took it upon my own self). I never considered myself a fruit eater but I must say, after the three weeks of drinking protein shakes with fruit, eating salad, veggies, and a protein, I learned a whole new way of life and my taste buds did a big transformation. My advice when detoxifying is to stay focused on the goal, change your negative thoughts into positive affirmations, and remember that with everything in life, "It's not just about the destination, it's the self-discovery that comes with the journey". So this is where the real MIRACLE happens...

After the three weeks were complete I felt completely renewed and energized than I have ever felt in my life. Detoxifying my mind and body was one of the most important keys in healing my life. With a sober and fresh mind I was able to view living in a whole new way. No more fluctuations of highs and lows anymore.

Most importantly is what detoxifying did to my body inside and out. I am elated to state that I lost 7 lbs. and one inch from my entire body. I no longer need to take the two prescription blood pressure pills because it is now at a steady 120/80. I no longer need to take any non-prescription or prescription medications for my acid reflux AND I cancelled the surgery for my female issues. I have stopped bleeding every two weeks, have a normal menstrual cycle, my stomach swelling has come down in size immensely, and I can palpate the fibroid in my left breast which I can barely feel anymore.

I believe Dr. Fischer would have the most informative answers to how this happens and will customize the program to heal every individual uniquely. But I can tell you that a low-fat, vegetarian diet, no caffeine, alcohol or dairy and maintaining a healthy weight reduces toxic accumulations that promote fibroid growth. The essential fatty acids from fish, spinach, olive oil, and eating green vegetables like broccoli, cabbage and brussel sprouts help maintain hormonal balance, reduce inflammation, and increase the elimination of estrogen that was very dominant in my body before the new ME awakened! I couldn't feel better. I have learned a whole new way of life - eating and exercising - and I give all my heart-felt thanks to Dr. Fischer for her guidance, inspiration, knowledge and a clean bill of health.

Thank you again for helping me regain complete wellness!

L.K.

My seven year old son has always suffered from spring-time allergies. This year he had two adjustments and started the homeopathic drops and pills, which he gladly took, that relieved all of his symptoms. This was a great thing to help him have a normal, active spring. A great success story for anyone with allergies. I would highly recommend this treatment.

T.R.

In reference to an "Eating Your Way Thin" workshop:

It is people like you who make our world a better place... I can't even begin to express all the positive feed that was received... I can safely say you were well received by all!

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Flowery Mt. Baptist Church

Thank you so much Dr. Fischer for all of your support. You truly are gifted in what you do—I’ve been to so many holistic practitioners for help; you really are the only one who has significantly contributed to my healing!