Chiropractor relief...Amazing!!

[pearsall001]

I've been having some slight to moderate back pain for some time now. I chalked it up to the aging process & just lived with it. It didn't slow me down to where I was concerned. Then I started getting a pain in my right leg that kept getting worse. So bad in fact that I couldn't drive for more than 5 minutes without being in agony, & I mean agony. From the lower back all the way down to my foot the pain was just unbearable. When I stood up I got some relief but I knew there was something wrong. So off to the Doc I go & he says it's the Sciatic nerve that's causing me my problem. He scheduled an MRI to take a look at my discs. But in the mean time I visit my Chiropractor & tell him what's been going on. He did a number on me, but let me tell you, when I left his office I was walking 110% better & the drive home (25 min) was absolutely pain free. Talk about instant relief!! He gave me a few execrisec to do & I just went back today for my 2wk followup. I have had no pain during those 2 weeks. Man, am I impressed!! He told me to keep doing the execrises & come back in 4 wks for a visit. I'll be there like clockwork. Anybody have any similar experiences. The MRI came back showing no disc damage. What a relief.

[Fireman32]

Phil,

I know your pain all to well. I have a blown disc in my back between L4 and L5. When i throw my back out I get the sciatic pain on both sides. (cant even walk at that point) Spent alot of time at the chiropractor and it helped alot. For me the pain will always return but hopefully for you its fixed. Me I need surgury to compleatly fix me but i'm holding off on that option as a last resort.

[steveinaz]

I feel for you guys with back pain. Good friend of mine has chronic back problems, 3 surgeries, etc, etc. Sometimes the poor guy can't even walk. I work in a warehouse and do alot of heavy lifting, so I am real careful about how I pick things up to avoid problems later--but at 45, sometimes I have a bad back day, though mine is muscle soreness, no disk problems.

[pearsall001]

Phil,

I know your pain all to well. I have a blown disc in my back between L4 and L5. When i throw my back out I get the sciatic pain on both sides. (cant even walk at that point) Spent alot of time at the chiropractor and it helped alot. For me the pain will always return but hopefully for you its fixed. Me I need surgury to compleatly fix me but i'm holding off on that option as a last resort.

Dave,

I feel for ya! I thought I was bad off. I hope you don't aggrivate it any more. Hopefully can you skate bye without the surgery. But if it comes to that I wish you the best of luck.

[Danny Tse]

One February morning, back in 1995, I experienced a horrible sneeze. As I bended over in the "mid-sneeze", I heard something "snapped" in the back. To make a long story short, I couldn't straighten my back by dinner time and I had to be carried back to bed. I was a college student then and had no medical insurance. I went to my university's student health center and all they did was gave me some painkilling pills and some instructions for exercise. After 3 months, I was still in pain and the student health center thinks I have a blown disc.

By June, I was graduating. My dad passed away earlier in the year and I had to travel back to China to take care of some personal matters for the family. My mom asked her sister there to see if I can get some accupuncture while in China. Three visits within one week, with a combination of accupuncture and massages, I've been pain free ever since. No drugs at all. I was skeptical at first, but I am a believer now. I don't know what they did, but it worked....and it cost less than one doctor's visit here in the US.

[Fireman32]

One February morning, back in 1995, I experienced a horrible sneeze. As I bended over in the "mid-sneeze", I heard something "snapped" in the back. To make a long story short, I couldn't straighten my back by dinner time and I had to be carried back to bed. I was a college student then and had no medical insurance. I went to my university's student health center and all they did was gave me some painkilling pills and some instructions for exercise. After 3 months, I was still in pain and the student health center thinks I have a blown disc.

By June, I was graduating. My dad passed away earlier in the year and I had to travel back to China to take care of some personal matters for the family. My mom asked her sister there to see if I can get some accupuncture while in China. Three visits within one week, with a combination of accupuncture and massages, I've been pain free ever since. No drugs at all. I was skeptical at first, but I am a believer now. I don't know what they did, but it worked....and it cost less than one doctor's visit here in the US.

Danny what a story. I've heard nothing but great things about accupuncture and that was going to be my next step to try the next time the back goes out on me. Knock on wood i've been basicly pain free for about 6 weeks.

[joeparaski]

You guys won't believe this cure, but here is my story.

I had chronic back pain for many years. I went to chiropractors, I had physio-therapy, electric shocks, and accupuncture....nothing worked. I walked crooked (like the tower of Pisa) and I would sometime have to crawl out of my car with tears of pain and then hold myself on the counter while working.

X-rays showed that my spine was crooked and surgery was recommended. After hearing some horror stories of people that had surgery, I figured that I'd just have to live with the pain.

Then one day at work, a customer, an older gentleman who was a retired chiropractor, saw the pain I was in and came over to talk to me. I told him that I already tried chiropractor and it didn't work. He asked me to hold out my right arm outstretched, I did, and he told me to hold it as straight as I could while he pushed down on it. I held it pretty good. Then he said hold it outstretched again, only this time he applied pressure to my side and pushed down on my arm, and the arm went straight down. He asked me if I drink alot of milk, as said I drank plenty of milk. He said stop drinking milk and your problem will go away.

I nearly laughed out loud at such a ridiculous test. But later, I figured what the hell, these old guys have tricks and methods gained from experience so it couldn't possibly hurt to try it. After all, what did I have to lose except the pleasure of drinking milk? So I stopped drinking milk.

A month or so later, I was virtually pain-free and my spine was no longer crooked!!

That guy pretty much saved my life. Occasionally when I meet someone with back pain, I'll ask if they drink lots of milk, and most of the time the answer is yes. I tell them my story, and unless they had some sort of accident, the milk trick works!!!

Joe

[hearingimpared]

I don't care what you say, I've been to the bone cracker twice and have to go to him twice a week for a while and as far as I am concerned it is a torture chamber. I've gotten no relief as a matter of fact my lower back pain has increased and is covering a wider area. My sciatica pain on the other side has increased also. Until further notice I think the bone crackers are quacks!!!

EDIT, I don't drink milk although I just started taking calcium/magnesium/zinc suppliments and got hit by a car!!!!

[Midnite Mick]

You guys won't believe this cure, but here is my story.

I had chronic back pain for many years. I went to chiropractors, I had physio-therapy, electric shocks, and accupuncture....nothing worked. I walked crooked (like the tower of Pisa) and I would sometime have to crawl out of my car with tears of pain and then hold myself on the counter while working.

X-rays showed that my spine was crooked and surgery was recommended. After hearing some horror stories of people that had surgery, I figured that I'd just have to live with the pain.

Then one day at work, a customer, an older gentleman who was a retired chiropractor, saw the pain I was in and came over to talk to me. I told him that I already tried chiropractor and it didn't work. He asked me to hold out my right arm outstretched, I did, and he told me to hold it as straight as I could while he pushed down on it. I held it pretty good. Then he said hold it outstretched again, only this time he applied pressure to my side and pushed down on my arm, and the arm went straight down. He asked me if I drink alot of milk, as said I drank plenty of milk. He said stop drinking milk and your problem will go away.

I nearly laughed out loud at such a ridiculous test. But later, I figured what the hell, these old guys have tricks and methods gained from experience so it couldn't possibly hurt to try it. After all, what did I have to lose except the pleasure of drinking milk? So I stopped drinking milk.

A month or so later, I was virtually pain-free and my spine was no longer crooked!!

That guy pretty much saved my life. Occasionally when I meet someone with back pain, I'll ask if they drink lots of milk, and most of the time the answer is yes. I tell them my story, and unless they had some sort of accident, the milk trick works!!!

Joe

Wow that is an incredible story. Did you ever follow up with the older gentleman for a possible explanation?

Thanks,
Mike

[Danny Tse]

Danny what a story. I've heard nothing but great things about accupuncture and that was going to be my next step to try the next time the back goes out on me. Knock on wood i've been basicly pain free for about 6 weeks.

Well, Fireman, I hope you stay pain free from now on.

[dorokusai]

I fell off a ladder onto an I Beam at work a couple years ago and became sorta F'd up for awhile. I eventually went to a chiropractor and the noises from my body being "aligned" were very weird to me. I felt more upright but not neccesarily better and scheduling the visits weekly was quite hard for me due to my job, so I stopped going.

I've had a few bad weeks since then but I don't mind being in pain and I'm an angry man anyways, so it works out just fine. When I can't get up in the morning, hopefully I'll almost be dead so its money in my pocket for now.