My local newspaper is online and has a facebook section to post comments, one of the topics was "Chiropractor goes back to work" - first comment posted was a woman who berated Chiropractor's and said they were worthless and do nothing.
I posted a trolling type comment saying the "woman" was off her meds, she's apart of an atheist group who enjoys doing combat with any local church function/government because few years ago they decided that the "Mayor wasn't allowed to have Prayer before meeting".
Anyhow, she berates the practice saying its hurting the human body and such and I respond - well it worked for me - she claims its a lie, I said ok granted then you must believe acupuncture is a joke as well - this woman flat out says its a joke for medicine that never should be used.
Anyhow I flipped out, I suffered from clustered headaches for years without actually having it diagnosed, I had half my teeth pulled out - I had dozens of tests ran, I've been to dozens of doctors mainly neurosurgeons and such. Nobody could peace together my problem.
Finally I go see a guy who does acupuncture whose a 72 yr old Korean, I never even heard of acupuncture up to few months ago. He says "ahh yes, suicide headaches, I think I might be able to help although it is not for sure".
Here's some info on clustered headaches:
Dr. Peter Goadsby, Professor of Clinical Neurology at University College London (now University of California, San Francisco), a leading researcher on the condition has commented:
"Cluster headache is probably the worst pain that humans experience. I know that’s quite a strong remark to make, but if you ask a cluster headache patient if they’ve had a worse experience, they’ll universally say they haven't. Women with cluster headache will tell you that an attack is worse than giving birth. So you can imagine that these people give birth without anesthetic [several] times a day. Many cluster headache sufferers have committed suicide, leading to the nickname "suicide headaches" for cluster headaches. Cluster headaches often occur periodically: spontaneous remissions interrupt active periods of pain, though there are about 20% of suffers whose cluster headaches never remit. The cause of the condition is currently unknown. It affects approximately 0.1% of the population, and men are more commonly affected than women."[1]
Yes the pain is up there, anyhow this 5'2 korean puts two dozen needles into me in various places and lets me leave them in there for an hour or two? can't remember. Since March or so I have not had one single full blown headache - its been two very very minor headaches, I'm talking normal wise headaches, nothing more then simple pain you wait an hour and it disappears.
Its now July - and I have not had headaches since then, how does it not work? It might not last - pretty sure it won't its a lifetime disease that you deal with. However I am just frustrated that someone would openly ignore open medicine that has a possible chance to cure a problem.
I see it in the news all the time, people believing in "faith healing" and ultimately pay the price when it doesn't work instead of going to traditional medicine because of beliefs, I understand believe me, but in my situation I tried every thing I possibly could, regardless of "beliefs" or anything else.
Not trying to be a troll or start a war on a BBS, just thought maybe someone could learn something from this experience.
