r/stemcells • u/Connect_Promise8772 • 22h ago
DO NOT GO TO IMMUNOTHERAPY REGENERATIVE MEDICINE PUERTA VALLARTA
We went to IRM for my husband’s chronic fibromyalgia. While we were there, he received stem cells three ways:
- intravenously,
- directly into the carpal tunnel area,
- and directly into his spine.
We stayed for 5 days.
Once we got back to NY, his pain started increasing day by day. The injection sites were getting more inflamed, and nothing was improving. We reached out to IRM and they told us this was “normal” and that he should take prednisone.
Three weeks after returning home, my husband couldn’t take the pain anymore. He couldn’t sit, stand, or walk. We went to urgent care, and they told us to go straight to the hospital.
At the hospital, they ran MRIs and CT scans. The imaging showed osteomyelitis of his sacrum and an abscess. We immediately notified IRM and even sent them the imaging. They kept insisting that he didn’t have that — that it was just inflammation from the stem cells — and again told us to give him prednisone.
Meanwhile, the hospital started him on antibiotics, but his infection kept getting worse. They took a culture, and it came back as NTM mycobacteria abscessus. As soon as I sent IRM the culture results, they stopped responding.
He was switched to targeted antibiotics, but still no improvement. His legs and penis started going numb, and the pain was unbearable. The doctors decided he needed surgery.
He had surgery two days ago. They found a lot of pus and dead tissue from the infection. They had to go through his back, and then he needed an abdominal surgery to drain the pus from the front.
I reached out to IRM again — and they’re still giving me the same dismissive behavior and zero accountability. denying they did not cause this. SAVE YOURSELF THE PAIN AND GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.