Help Sam access treatment for EDS-related spine and joint instability to reduce pain, regain function, and live more actively & comfortably.
Christchurch, Canterbury
I’m fundraising for regenerative medicine to help stabilize my degenerating and unstable spine and other joints affected by Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a connective tissue disorder that causes joint instability, pain, and early degeneration.
After years of unexplained pain, injuries, I received an EDS diagnosis last year, learning my body produces faulty collagen, affecting many body systems. Ongoing joint pain & discomforts meant giving up my career as a young scientist, along with many sports and activities I loved. After a pool concussion, Cranio-Cervical Instability CCI is now my most challenging condition, among several others, with neck pain, stiffness, difficulty swallowing and throat/voice issues, vegas nerve degeneration and damage.
With your support, I can access these promising treatments - Caring Medical "Where the world goes for Prolotherapy" , travel to appointments, and cover related medical costs. My dream is to return to more of what I love - photography, swimming & cycling, singing, and connecting with friends, while continuing inspiring others to live authentically and positively.
These treatments have great potential to restore strength and stability to my damaged ligaments, reduce pain & help avoid risky invasive surgeries, I’ve spoken with others worldwide who’ve had significant improvements from similar treatments & I’m hopeful it could help me regain lost function, slow degeneration & restore more activity to my life.
I’m grateful for any bit of support!
Funds will go towards various repeated prolotherapy injections of multiple joints, travel for treatment & scans & complementary medical care such as physiotherapy and postural restoration.
Update and Thank You! 4 November 2025
Thank you so much to everyone for your support and donations! We have decided to split it into two stages of treatment (first 25K), and extended the end date to allow more time to promote the page and fundraise. Love, Sam <3
Thank you very much for your donation and support :) ~Sam
Thank you so much for supporting me Bella! Sam
Thanks so much for your support! Much appreciated
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