I had horrible sciatica for months, was eating pills like crazy. Having suicidal thoughts, etc.
(((Doctor))) wanted to cut my spine open and fuse some vertebrae or whatever. I told him to fuck off. On a fren'z recommendation, went to a Chinee electro-acupuncturist. I was totally skeptical. 3 treatments later, pain was gone. 9 years later, no pain. A based Chink lady that barely spoke English saved me.
sciatica for months
sometimes it just goes away like that? I've had a few times, the fix for me was to keep moving. If I sat in bed it never fixed itself. That constant pain can really fuck your mind up though, people can imagine pain but they simply do not understand day 3 of having zero sleep, you really do start wanting to die at that point.
I don't think acupuncture is entirely woo-woo, because I can get rid of headaches by rubbing the dimples above the eye socket, and I've noticed that nerves on the feet seem to influence other areas; but I would try a chiropractor first because IME that always works.
It does.
But sometimes, it's also muscular on which case the chink bullshit may help.
The muscle tenses up more and more causing pain.
So you need to massage, relax the muscle.
You can do this with pain pills. The muscle falls asleep and breaks the circle of pain.
Or, you massage it and shoot it with electricity to make it tired and it stops tensing.
Sciatica is nerve related. But it affects the muscle around it.
I normally avoid taking pills but yes, in that case they are required to stop the body freaking out
Sleep deprivation is psychological torture. Both because of the direct physical effects of not sleeping, and the psychological feedback loop it creates (no sleep increases cortisol > cortisol decreases sleep > repeat until you're hallucinating > repeat until the underlying issue is resolved so you can sleep or...really bad things WILL happen).
This is why you should maintain an ongoing relationship with a good physician so they know you're not exaggerating if you tell them you havent slept in X days. That relationship is going to be the difference between them thinking you're just drugseeking and them prescribing benzos or opiates so you can get a good night's sleep and come back tomorrow to discuss treatment options without being so loopy from sleep deprivation that you can barely string a sentence together.
you can barely string a sentence together.
I had to call an ambulance once and the paramedics were ploughing through the usual list of stupid questions, and I just really struggled to answer them and felt myself getting really irritable with this process. They kept asking me if I had been drinking or had taken any drugs because I was slurring my speech.
You'd imagine that a paramedic would be aware of what it's like to to be 72 hours into this and to quit expecting me to answer stupid shit. If I could have walked I would be stepped out and driven myself just to avoid talking to them.
Luckily I fall sleep in minutes and am dead to the world for 7 hours, but I only realised a few years ago that my quality of sleep was shockingly bad and that normal people weren't tired all day long. I was nodding off on the motorway at this point. Fixed now, and I feel 20 years younger
I was the biggest skeptic ever, thought it was a waste of money but my good fren swore it helped his son, who had the same exact condition. It never bothered me again. I believe it can help for SOME conditions.
That eastern shit is real and it works. The unfuriating part is that we used to have our own systems of natural medicine in the west that didn't have all the chinkisms. But those have all been crushed in favor of synthetic drugs.
They took this from you. Millennia of accumulated wisdom of folk medicine destroyed by big pharma and big medicine.
I was eating Oxys like candy and laying in the pool, drinking beer all day.
I...kinda miss that.
Nigger behavior
This is shameful behavior.
Chinkwisdom
The treatment was torture...she stuck about 50 needles in me, from the small of my back down my left leg to the little toe. Needles were clipped to electrical wires, and a small machine sent pulses several times a second. 40 minutes, 3 treatments, 2 weeks apart. It was agonizing. $100 per session. Honolulu, Chinatown, Clara Wong.
All I know is, I went from 'I wanna die' to 'holy shit, let's get back to work!'
Send her a postcard ....
That is a lot to go through if you're skeptical at the time.
Electro acupuncture is awesome! I, too, was skeptical. I had severe vomiting almost daily for 12 years The regular docs said it was all in my head after stomach dumping test came back normal
Went to a naturopath she said probably the impulses between my stomach and brain had gotten messed up after a severe illness 12 years earlier.
3 electro acupuncture treatments later - the problem is virtually completely solved. (I have a few more treatments left) It was hell during the procedure mainly because she told me to only go as high as it was tolerable - I kept her cranking it up because I just wanted relief and thought more shock equaled faster/better result.
It’s incredible stuff
I don’t quite understand how it works but I am incredibly thankful.
You puked for 12 years? How are your teeth??
Believe it or not - not too bad It was never acidic I compare it to a backed up sink - stuff just wouldn’t move forward and I had zero stomach acid. It was weird which is why the normal docs couldn’t figure it out or be bothered
Did you try this? It worked for me.
Nothing worked, it was pure misery
Before I knew about the tennis ball method I once had a toradol shot and that worked too. I don't think my low back problems are very chronic though.
I knew a guy with almost the same story. He had insane pain in his foot, doctor wanted to cut it up in some surgery with a 50% success rate, super expensive to boot, so he said fuck that and ended up getting acupuncture and has been fine ever since.
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