Too Many Treatments to Count

Hi from the chair. Hmmm...I don't really know what to say on here anymore. It's very odd...I seem to get better, then I get worse, then I get better, then I get worse. I'm still getting great treatment from the folks at the spinal relief center. I went there yesterday for a scheduled appointment, and filled out my pain report sheet. I guess I am better than I was on my last visit, which was just two days before - but that seems to be the way it goes. whenever there is a weekend, my pain tends to go up. All I can figure is that it is due to the increased activity that is always part of my weekends.

But I'm not giving up. Dr. Meadows explained about not bending forward - and that it was a prohibition against not bending forward and twisting at the same time. And that the bending forward needs to be kept to a minimum by involving the knees to squat down when possible. I have been doing everything that I am told, and continue to do so. I am still walking between 30 and 50 minutes per day and doing my exercises as prescribed on the exercise ball.

Dr. Meadows is still seeing me and I am still getting treatments on the DRX9000 as well as Spine Force. I had a Spine Force session yesterday and I think I'm a little sore from THAT today. Hard to tell sometimes what is the original pain and what is additional muscle pain from the work you're doing. But, I have to say, that I still have that sharp, nerve-pain in my left buttock that was there on day-1 of my treatment.

My husband asked me a few days ago if I thought the treatment had helped me. I have to say that overall it has. I used to not be able to sleep when I went to bed without taking something to knock me out - take me under the pain. Now, I just go to bed and go to sleep. I used to not be able to sit up on the sofa without feeling intense pain for most of the time that I was sitting. That is no longer true. As a matter of fact, when I first started seeing Dr. Meadows and the Spinal Relief team, I was having trouble forming coherent thoughts because of the pain. THAT is certainly no longer true. But is the pain gone? No. Not yet anyway. I'll keep you posted.