I had been diagnosed with everything you could think of including Fibromyalgia, and I'd been on anti-depressants for 15 or so years, prescription drugs like Viacodin and Morphine taking it several times a day, I'd tried every type of therapy I could find when the back pain first starting becoming a problem.
For that past 8 or so years, I had given up trying to find anything that would help, and just resigned myself to taking morphine and Vicodin for the rest of my life. The number of painkillers I was taking in the month before seeing was outrageous I couldn't get out of bed until painkillers started to work, I'd take them 3 hourly during the day, and always had to take more to sleep with, I'd always have painkillers beside the bed to take during the night.
I was told continuously that the weight I was carrying was the reason for the pain, and if I walked more and lost weight, I would not have a problem with chronic back pain. I found that walking seemed to aggravate the back pain, and was told I was just lazy. Recently I visited Performance Chiropractic Clinic in South Edmonton they diagnosed the reason for my lower back pain in the first visit and within 4 visits over 2 weeks the pain was gone. It's been about 4 months now and the pain hasn't yet returned.
The reason for the lower back pain was one of my legs ways 3/4 of an inch shorter than the other. So walking was doing me more harm than good. Adjustments to my hips had my legs the same length in a few minutes. I went from taking 20 plus prescription painkillers a day down to none within two weeks.
Yes that caused some problems of its own, my body was accustomed to that many painkillers... OK I was dependent or addicted, whatever way you want to say it, and my body didn't like not having painkillers in my system. I had to take 1 painkiller, a day just to relieve the withdrawal symptoms, then a half, now about 14 weeks after first seeing the chiropractor, I haven't taken Vicodin or morphine, or any other prescription painkillers, at all for almost 3 months.
The depression I had had for the whole time I was in pain, which was diagnosed as the reason for the pain at one stage, has totally gone. I knew the pain caused the depression and now the depression cased the pain...Visit the Performance Chiropractic Clinic in South Edmonton that fixed my Chronic Back Pain.
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