Tales from the Chiro
May. 13th, 2003 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
same_skyMagnus always makes fun of me because I'm jumpy. I'm the one that will jump when someone speaks suddenly, or appears out of nowhere, or I see a particularly nasty spider. So you can imagine what happened when I go to the chiropractor today and got my first adjustment. Yes, folks, I jumped a foot off the table and screamed out loud. Twice. That's when he decided to try it a different way.. rofl. It was really embarrasing.
Anyway. He spent a long while going over x-rays and explaining how a neck is supposed to look and work. A proper neck is curved. In an accident, your neck snaps backwards and then returns, but the curve doesn't. (At least, if there's a neck injury.) My neck happens to be straight and/or curved in the wrong direction, with the gaps between the thingies all wrong, as a result. Descriptive, eh? And furthermore, it's all crooked. Pardon my description, but I don't remember all the terms and no one cares anyway. It was really very cool, because he pointed to each gap and explained what nerves were located there and what it would cause.
So. Not only did he tell me during the last visit that I have headaches, he told me today where they started and where they ended up (behind my eyes, often on the right side), asked me about how often I wake up with numb hands (5 nights out of 7, probably). He also described the way my shoulders feel all tense and burning at the end of the day, and furthermore, that my thyroid is being pinched (or something), which would explain why I'm often tired. Magnus will definitely agree with that.. I'm the sleepiest person he's ever met! And there was another thing or two that he pointed out.. it was all pretty neat. He seems to think that my big accident was when I was around 14, though, and I can't think of anything spectacular that happened to me then. I had a wreck when I was 17, but he insists that he's never more than two years off. *grin* I dunno.. people fall and stuff all the time and just don't remember it.
One of my legs is longer than the other, my neck is definitely messed up, my spine is very slightly crooked and my back is curved a bit too much. And I've got to stop sitting on my foot. But he said that it shouldn't take long to heal my pain, and if I did the exercises correctly, it'd be all fixed in a year.. but if I don't, then I'll be back in two years with the same problem. I'll be going twice a week for a while (he said probably not long) and then once a week until all pain is gone, then once a month after that. He was extremely optimistic about fixing me.. he kept saying, "How old are you? 24? You're just a baby!" *giggle*
As for the adjustments.. other than the jumpiness, it wasn't too bad. The thing he did to my shoulder really hurt, but it doesn't hurt now or anything. I did NOT like the popping neck thing.. it's scary, but it didn't hurt. I also wasn't too thrilled with how he was talking about the risks of stroke from adjustments, particularly among people who take birth control pills. Hello?! Tell me this before I lay down, dammit! Anyway. I'll probably stop writing such detailed reports now, since this was the last of the long visits and from now on, it'll be just adjustments and no long explanations.
In other news, our desks arrived today. They're extremely heavy, and I gues we'll put them together tonight, if possible. I need to clear off the current desks in preparation so when M gets home, it'll be as painless as possible.
Anyway. He spent a long while going over x-rays and explaining how a neck is supposed to look and work. A proper neck is curved. In an accident, your neck snaps backwards and then returns, but the curve doesn't. (At least, if there's a neck injury.) My neck happens to be straight and/or curved in the wrong direction, with the gaps between the thingies all wrong, as a result. Descriptive, eh? And furthermore, it's all crooked. Pardon my description, but I don't remember all the terms and no one cares anyway. It was really very cool, because he pointed to each gap and explained what nerves were located there and what it would cause.
So. Not only did he tell me during the last visit that I have headaches, he told me today where they started and where they ended up (behind my eyes, often on the right side), asked me about how often I wake up with numb hands (5 nights out of 7, probably). He also described the way my shoulders feel all tense and burning at the end of the day, and furthermore, that my thyroid is being pinched (or something), which would explain why I'm often tired. Magnus will definitely agree with that.. I'm the sleepiest person he's ever met! And there was another thing or two that he pointed out.. it was all pretty neat. He seems to think that my big accident was when I was around 14, though, and I can't think of anything spectacular that happened to me then. I had a wreck when I was 17, but he insists that he's never more than two years off. *grin* I dunno.. people fall and stuff all the time and just don't remember it.
One of my legs is longer than the other, my neck is definitely messed up, my spine is very slightly crooked and my back is curved a bit too much. And I've got to stop sitting on my foot. But he said that it shouldn't take long to heal my pain, and if I did the exercises correctly, it'd be all fixed in a year.. but if I don't, then I'll be back in two years with the same problem. I'll be going twice a week for a while (he said probably not long) and then once a week until all pain is gone, then once a month after that. He was extremely optimistic about fixing me.. he kept saying, "How old are you? 24? You're just a baby!" *giggle*
As for the adjustments.. other than the jumpiness, it wasn't too bad. The thing he did to my shoulder really hurt, but it doesn't hurt now or anything. I did NOT like the popping neck thing.. it's scary, but it didn't hurt. I also wasn't too thrilled with how he was talking about the risks of stroke from adjustments, particularly among people who take birth control pills. Hello?! Tell me this before I lay down, dammit! Anyway. I'll probably stop writing such detailed reports now, since this was the last of the long visits and from now on, it'll be just adjustments and no long explanations.
In other news, our desks arrived today. They're extremely heavy, and I gues we'll put them together tonight, if possible. I need to clear off the current desks in preparation so when M gets home, it'll be as painless as possible.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2003-05-13 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-13 08:39 pm (UTC)I've noticed that very thing about us. Anyway, I have this feeling that I'm going to be dismally bad at the exercises, but I'm going to give it a shot. I don't really have a lot of pain and problems with my shoulders, but he's got me tentatively hoping that he can do something with my headaches, and that's worth much more than the shoulder thing. To get it all taken care of at once is almost beyond imagining! ;)
no subject
Date: 2003-05-14 12:05 pm (UTC)