SimplyBecky wrote on Mar 11^th, 2011 at 3:11pm:

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    Potter

Chiropractors are useful for some of the secondary damage you do to yourself during an attack. Scrunching up your shoulder and neck fighting the beast. Several on the board use them for that purpose.

If he tells you he can stop or in any way modify your CH's, he is either un-educated or a liar.

Joe

Hi Red,
And thank you for that informed observation!, this is what we really want,
validation from the horses mouth!
The experience of pain of the peeps on here is rock solid and can never be denied, it is irrefutable,
and a priceless source of help to new and old...

Respect

Gary

Good on ya Red Ryder!!  - for not giving false hopes as a Chiropractor once did to me!!  It actually triggered my CH - I went twice and both times I left and within 5 minutes WHAM!!  I never went back.
I'm a massage therapist and not even deep tissue, neuromuscular therapy, myofascial release, or craniosacral therapy will help stop the CH's and believe me I've had numerous colleagues who have tried everything we've collectively known. I may as well have tried voodoo!
As Red said, this cycle I was helped the most by: Oxygen, vitamin D3/fish oil etc.., a Prednisone taper, and Verapamil.

I didn't think they could, but I wasn't sure.  I'm in PA and PA...well, sucks.  We have a law for everything.  Oh, well.  He can at least relieve some of the tension in my neck and shoulders.  I hope.

Re: the oxygen. If you're stuck with a doc that won't write a script for it, you need to take matters into your own hands. You can lay all the blame you want while you suffer, or you can do something to change your situation. Your choice.

I love Chiropractors, I live in Davenport Iowa, we probably have one Chiropractor per 100 people..LOL Palmer College is here and it's amazing how many people come here to school and decide to stay.

I'm a true believer but not for CH.

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This kind of thing is not unique to naturopaths. It is borne of arrogance and can strike any profession.

You know what I think discussions like this show? How very, very lucky we are.

The BAD parts for us are that we suffer debilitating pain. Which most people - including doctors, other health care professional, our families, our friends, our colleagues - do not understand and often show no sympathy for. Our condition often goes undiagnosed or poorly treated for a long, long time. Even when we are treated with the most effective treatments that are known, our life is never the same. The pain is helped, but it still comes and still impacts our lives. We still have painful, interfering people like Ghiassi who annoy us (and sometimes entertain us  ) and caring people who also end up annoying us and sometimes holding us back, even though they love us and they are well-intentioned. And we have pain, and pain, and pain.

But what we have is not life-threatening (except of course in the situation of those poor souls who simply cannot get relief and see only one drastic way to find a way out). It's not a progressive disease that sees us lose all of our bodily functions. And, we have each other.

The people who suffer from cancer and obscure neurological or psychiatric or kidney or liver diseases or all sorts of other diseases that can eventually kill or maim, are still exposed to the same sorts of unsympathetic and unethical and half-cocked medical opinions and "treatment" that we do, and the consequences can be much higher. We are here encouraging each other to be our own advocates, and to fight to get what we know to be the best treatment out there. And yet other patients really don't have much other choice than to follow their medical advice blindly! Or at least, they don't believe they do.

At least in our tiny small numbers, people can come here and we can give them consistent advice (most of the time )