It has been a rough week and a half or so. I calmed down a bit from the head bump on my second treatment, but continued to feel worse than when I arrived, and this became especially exacerbated towards the end. The doctors decided that I was likely being treated too intensely (I had 9 treatments over the course of 11 days). Normally I guess they just treat patients on an every-other day basis, but make exceptions for out-of-towners.

In general I feel like my threshold for overstimulation has gone way down (i.e. I get overstimulated much more easily, like I probably shouldn't be writing this as the amount of time on the computer it's taking is exacerbating symptoms), anxiety way up (not necessarily from the treatments...), and the past couple days I've felt slightly nauseated, which is a totally new symptoms to me, probably unrelated, but who knows.

So, I came home early yesterday, with a rental unit that I can treat myself with at my own pace, once I "stabilize" after taking a bit of a break. I do think the treatments have helped with a longtime hamstring injury I have, so I rented it primarily for that, and we'll see if a slower schedule on the neck/head works. I wish I would've known this was possible/probably a better path for me from the get go, so in that sense i'm disappointed with Dr. Kahn and co., but I guess they wanted to monitor me closely while I was starting out. He says this kind of reaction is rare, but he has seen it before in a handful of patients, particularly 17-25 yr old males for whatever reason.

On my way home from Toronto I passed through my NUCCA chiro and saw her, figuring I'd save the trip since I was passing through. It's about 90 minutes from me, but I only go once every few months now since I've been "holding my adjustment" for a year. I saw her in December, wanting to be sure that I was in alignment before starting the laser treatment, and I was. Well, turns out I was out of alignment for the first time in a year, could have been the bump (it was right above C-1), or something else.

I was really feeling pretty crummy yesterday with the driving, and was seriously considering getting a hotel along the way, but actually felt better, and good enough to finish the drive after the adjustment. That was new to me, as in the past I've not experienced much after adjustments, making me think it was pretty much useless. Today I'm feeling fairly bad again, which is expected I guess. I'll likely wait till I calm down to see if trying the lasers works again - perhaps I felt so bad while in Toronto because I was out of alignment - who knows... my priority now is resting up to get back to feeling "reasonable" for the start of the semester.