Back Pain Treatment Options

colordiva wrote:

I have been dealing with chronic back pain for 5 years I'm in my late 30's have 2 kids a great job and hubby but I give up I'm done can't take it anymore there is all this talk about people OD on there pain killers but I wonder what the percentage is of people killing themselves because of undertreated chronic pain:(

PLEASE, PLEASE PLEASE - DONT GIVE UP!
believe me I KNOW EXACTLY how u feel, been there and felt the same way. i hurt for so long before they finally did an operation, which BTW worked for me, and it Can work for u too. so please look into Every option u can, go to as many doctors if u have to.
i do know with health insurance, u have to go thru a lot of different options before they will agree and pay for operations. thats what happened to me. tried everything, went to 2 different doctors too. Even after the operation i had (removed the disk completely) it was several months before i felt that it really was going to work, i still hurt but NOT nearly as before.

back pain is probably the worse kind of pain because its 24/7 pain. i always say its something i wouldnt wish on an enemey.
so i Do understand how u feel, even the day i was heading to the operating room, i prayed to God that If it didnt work, to please let me go. i didnt want to be around anymore with this pain. so believe i do understand how u feel - completely!
but like u, i had a husband i love, kids i love and a life that i wanted to live for. so Don't give up, there is help out there - im sure of it. even if its not the kind of help where it will take away the pain forever, it may be enough to help u Want to live!

No one understands how u feel until They themselves go thru this kind of pain. u can tell ur family exactly how u feel and they probably wont understand it like u would like them to. but remember they can't. its not possible for them to because they see u as a whole person, they dont see a cut, or u with broken bones, or anything to see with their eyes - they dont see ur broken inside. therefore they cant really get it.

i'd like to say ur story will end the same as mine did, but of course i cant. i dont know the whole situation of ur problems and wouldnt understand it anyway. but i Sincerely Hope it turns out as well for You as it did for me. please hang in there for a little while longer, push every option that u can. Make ur husband help u find the help u need, because i know u cant really do it on ur own while hurting this much.
i will tell u too, with me, the operation helped but that doesnt mean u will be the same as u once were before the back problems, u still need to be careful what u do from then on afterwards. u can and Will probably hurt here and there, even years later (like me, 9 yrs its been)- u just never will be the same but hopefully ur story will end like mine and u will have a reason to live again.

remember u do have a life worth living for, so it Is worth fighting for.

Best of Luck to u, i'll pray for u and hopefully u will be able to write back here and tell us - u made it and are happy again.
<3 & Hugs to u..
:)

Back pain can also simply be a result of poor posture and weak core and back muscles. Many of us spend countless hours in our office hunched over paper work, computers, or laptops, this then causes us to put too much strain on our lower back simply because of our poor posture. Some of us spend time and money on doctors to simply tell us to take an aspirin. Having a poor posture can be cause serious complications to our health: Scoliosis, Kyphosis, Knock Knees and Bow Legs, and Asthma. This conditions have been associated with poor posture. A quick and painless solution would be better posture. How to get a better posture? Simple do some exercise that beneficial to your posture. And easy tool that we can all utilize is EBA's Posture Shirt. You simply wear this garment and it gently puts you back, neck, and shoulders into alignment. You never feel discomfort of any sort.

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chiropractor milpitas are the best chiropractors and help you to your body pains

Cox Flexion Distraction, Spinal Decompression, McKenzie Technique, Therapuetic Massage, and ART or PNF. We use the same modalities or therapies Physical Therapists use....how are OUR therapies not effective. Oh, I make the same claims as the PT down the street, Sorry! I am helping patients without drugs and surgery. Spread some "wisdow" and tell us how effective and outrageous your claims are on the effectiveness of drugs on NMS problems. Short relief, if at all, with long term ramifications. Drugs like those you recommended cause illness anyway you look at it. None of them will get a patient healthy. Go back to school, then med school, then chiropractic school and see where you took the wrong path.

Ummmm mr. chiropractor, you said ... "drugs don't get you healthy".

Hard to imagine that an "educated" chiropractor would not know this, but, drugs have helped millions upon millions of people "get healthy".

From antibiotics to emergency medicines, drugs help save lives and help people get healthy every day.

And yes, even many people with musculoskeletal conditions such as spinal stenosis and osteoarthritis benefit from medications. You are not aware of this?

You think chiropractic is an alternative to to all/most medications? Please describe the extensive medical/pharmacological training you have had. Please describe your extensive rotations in psychology, post surgical/neurological/post traumatic injury rehabilitation, urology, wound care, orthopedic, and cardiac care that helped you form your "educated" opinions.

By the way, "doc mike", most reasonable people don't have much problem with chiropractors who limit their practices to using well established treatments on patients who might reasonably respond to such treatments. Conditions such as uncomplicated nonradiculopathic low back pain etc.

The evidence that chiropractic is filled with quackery is that the majority of chiropractors treat with unfounded and bizarre techniques like activator, nucca, hio, ak, sot, dnft, network, etc etc. Troubling also is the fact that thousands of chiropractor belong to cult like organizations like maximized living, DE, scientology and attend meetings like "parker" in which bizarre techniques are promoted.

Lastly, while this is changing in Canada, the majority of chiropractic schools continue to teach the idiotic idea that "chiropractic subluxations" cause illness and disease.(and I ain't talk'n neck pain or back pain).

I saw chiropractic schooling first hand. Moved on to medicine and never looked back. except that I spend a few minutes each day exposing chiropractic quackery here and on other sites.

I know first hand the pathetic clinical experience that chiropractors here in the US receive. A full investigation should be done. One day .....

Folks, if you want a real chiropractic expert's opinion then you have to ask a real expert. That would be Dr. Scott Haldeman, DC, MD, Phd who has REAL degrees, unlike the con wisdom who has none.
Dr. Haldeman is a PRACTICING chiropractor, spine surgeon and is a professor of neurology at a major university. Dr. Haldeman has been published in just about every major chiropractic and medical journal (peer reviewed) and his textbooks are standard in several chiropractic and medical schools.
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Right here!!!! And on the loser's water cooler, chirotalk!!!!
Too funny. Way, way, waaaaaaaaaaaaay too funny.

Chiropractic is an excellent way of dealing with back pain. Chiropractors not only give you quick pain relief, but they can offer you exercises to use at home, so that you can treat the back pain yourself, and support your ongoing care. For more information, visit http://www.back-doctor.co.uk/back-pain.html