The reason I say my life was changed forever is because at this point my physical health began to go down hill. When the doctor that was sitting in for my docotor adjusted me, something went wrong. I felt something that I had never felt before. I felt worse from this point on than I had felt when I first sought treatment from my chiropracter. At this point my chiro started a real rigorous course of treatment in hopes to restore me to my former self, which I now believe only made things worse. I now believe that I was treated in excess of what the standards or protocol suggests. I was treated several times a week for the next year. I was referred to several other doctors, another chiropracter, an orthopedic doctor, pain management and so forth. I guess at this point workers comp decided there was nothing else that could be done. If only I had the wisdom I have now back then. Once workers comp sent me to their doctors they released me in more pain than when I had started. I forgot to mention during this time I was pregnant with my second child, so pain medication was out of the question. My pregancy was extremely difficult because I was in constant pain. So here I am pregnant, in pain, and no answers for what is wrong with me.
I'm going to skip ahead a few years and tell you one of my therories on chiropractic care and fibromyalgia and in the next post I'll continue my story. I believe that although I may have been pre-disposed to Fibromyalgia. I firmly believe that chiropractic care had something to do with it surfacing to the extent that it did. I understand that they now believe Fibromyalgia is a condition that has it origins in the central nervous system. I also have heard it characterized as a neurological condition. To me it stands to reason if someone jerked around on your spine incorrectly it could definitely cause neurological damage or damage to the central nervous system. I don't have any kind of medical background. This is just my own personal theory. I am curious as to whether any studies have ever been done linking the two. It seems kind of strange that Chiropractic care and Fibromyalgia seem to have kind of raised their heads around the same time frame. I'm curious to know if any of you fibromyalgia sufferers can link the beginnings of their condition to chiropractic care. Post a comment and let me know. I mentioned this to my current physcian and her thoughts were that it would be hard to link Fibromyalgia to a single contributing factor like that because there have been so many changes in the world in the last 30 years, like microwaves, cell phones, etc. What do you think?
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Does Chiropractic Care cause Fibromyalgia?
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