Overcoming Fibromyalgia
I have a patient who came in to see me a few months ago. She was diagnosed with fibromyalgia a few years back.
Her pain was so severe that when she first lay on my adjusting table, I could not even touch her without her crying out in agony. Literally, touch-- as in the application of pressure with my hands equal to that of a hand over the heart during the pledge of allegiance.
How can a chiropractor adjust when he can't even lightly palpate?
On the first two visits, I did nothing but very light myofascial release and craniosacral therapy. The visit after that, I used an Impulse instrument at the very lightest setting.
And on her fourth visit, she finally said, "Just go for it, already." So I adjusted her neck and thoracic listings with a diversified move.
The "crack" was deafening. She immediately felt like throwing up.
After some dizziness and nausea passed, she got up from the table and said that she felt better and smiled.
There is still a long way to go. She needs to heal not just physically, but emotionally and mentally as well. And she can get there, but there is a huge obstacle in her way: drug dependency.
The thing about the drug dependency that kills me the most is that the "pushers" are her medical doctors. She is convinced that as bad as it is now, without her prescriptions it will somehow get worse.
And her mind refuses to even consider my suggestion that perhaps, just maybe, the cause of the severity of her fibromyalgia is actually the pills she depends on to cure the condition. Dealing with the pain without drugs, now or even in the future, would be like a life without water. Impossible.
She is on eight prescription medications.
She is still in her twenties.