Twinkle VanFleet
Former California Ambassador, Executive Board Member, Advocacy Director, Healthcare Advisor, and Legislative Speaker for the International Pain Foundation. Medtronic Patient Ambassador for Medtronic INC, Founder RSD(S)-CRPS Info & Support Group,. Founder Stronger Than Pain and Stronger Than CRPS which will be for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Awareness. Currently Writing for the Daily Remedy to offer helpful hints for managing chronic illnesses. I’ve had CRPS 23 years following a severe work related injury to my right foot including 2 other moderate ones from the same incident Ongoing difficulties with weight bearing. I’m an award winning advocate and poet.
Other diagnosis’s include Major Depressive Sisorder, Generalized and Social Anxiety Disorders, Levoscoliosis, Spondylosis, Bone Spurs of the spine, Degenerative Disc Disease, Lumbar and Cervical Stenosis, Degenerative Joint Disease/ Osteoarthritis, Fibromyalgia, Direct and indirect nerve damage, Diverticulosis, Chrohn’s, Gastritis, Chronic Kidney Disease and Hemangiomas of the liver. I was born with Juvenile Arthritis with a mild Cerebral Palsy.
I’m a Chronic pain advocate of more than 2 decades who’s crossed over to advocating for Kratom in an effort to help those who’ve experienced patient abandonment and abrupt discontinuation of medications and care.
As a suicide survivor it’s my mission to let people know there’s another option to ending our lives. A tea that when taken responsibility and purchased from a reliable source is beneficial and relieving to the millions who suffer to survive and to support those who’ve struggled with active addiction to know that I’m proud of their recoveries.
In this heartfelt episode, we dive deep into the transformative journey of Twinkle VanFleet, a chronic pain warrior and passionate Kratom advocate. She shares the gripping narrative of how Kratom became her lifeline.