Worried

by S
(Taiwan)

I've suffered from back pain ever since I had a bicycle accident 12 years ago. At the time it really wasn't that bad, but in the following months I noticed that I wasn't walking correctly. I saw doctors and they just kept suggesting that I rest and take painkillers. Eventually I gave up and decided to live with it.

Then 6 years ago I moved to Taiwan. My back continued to get worse and I began to develop pain in the upper back and neck too. I saw a Chinese doctor who said it was bad. I got treatment but it didn't help and I was having all sorts of communication difficulties.

Finally I gave up and found a US doctor of chiropractics. Seeing him was helping but I still felt as though things were getting worse. Numbness spreading in my feet. Weakness in the legs. Then a few months ago I had a bad motorcycle accident. Again immediately afterwards I felt OK with my back then a month down the line everything just started to go wrong. My leg length was off by an inch, my neck muscles began to spasm uncontrollably, I had nausea and dizziness. I got to see a neurologist who sent me for a head CT scan which came back with nothing.

He then said that my x-rays weren't that bad and I was not to worry about. I've found the whole thing so frustrating. I'm a teacher and so being on my feet is essential to the job, but there are days when I feel like I can't cope with the pain. I've almost broken down in class on several occasions. I think it's the feeling that there's nothing I can do that is killing me.

I got to see another doctor today and he seems to think the problem lies with my immune system. I'm very skeptical of this but had a blood test anyway.

My biggest worry though is the future. I'm 30, in pain and struggling to make it through a days work. Where will I be in 10 years? 20 years? My girlfriend and I are hoping to get married this year and it terrifies me. Marriage means kids and I can barely look after myself. I feel like I'm just going to be a burden to her.

Part of me thinks I should return to the UK, but I've no idea what I would do for a living or how my gf and our dog would fit in with that.

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Oct 07, 2011
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by: Dennis Denlinger

I had a hit to the head with a baseball bat when I was in sixth grade. It paralyzed a muscle in my neck which has the job of keeping the head level. Then, to keep the head level, other muscles kicked in, but stopped doing their jobs which caused other problems, including severe headaches.

Then, decades later, a chiropractor was adjusting the top vertebra in my neck. Each time, as I was driving away from his office I could feel the bone move out of place. Then he showed me a drawing of the muscles and bones of the neck. I immediately spotted the neck spring muscle, noticed that mine was not working and got it to working. Within 2 weeks it was on automatic and ten percent of the headaches went away. Next, I got a copy of the doctor's bible, the book "Gray's Anatomy". I found a short muscle between the top vertebra and skull which was not working. I got it to working and handled half the headaches. Next, I got fifteen other muscles or groups of muscles which were working when they shouldn't or not working when they should or were paralyzed. I got them working much better and all the headaches went away.

Then I realized that I was applying elementary engineering principles which I had learned as part of earning an Architectural Degree at Carnegie-Mellon University. I wrote a book "Muscle N' Bone" which is available on my website.

You can contact me at 916-488-9643 if you want more information.

Good luck.

Dennis Denlinger
Oct 04, 2011
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by: steve (mylowerbackpain)

Hi - I'm not a doctor so treat anything I suggest with a dose of caution, but have you tried Bowen therapy?

I found that it worked for me - I didn't have anything wrong with my back that medical science could determine.

Bowen releases "tensions" in the muscles which helped sort me out.

Just an idea.

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