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Originally Posted by taliainpain
Hello, and I'm so glad I found this site. I'm 25 years old and I was in a car accident on November 18th. Since then I have had neck and upperback pain, really bad migraines, numbness in my arms and hands, and a tingling sensation. I also have had a bad case of the dropsies. My lawyer referred me to a chiropractor. Well he's been hooking me up to a tens unit that has literally burned my skin. Finally he said let's get an MRI. The MRI shows a 3 MM bulging disc in my neck. He didn't really tell me what that means or what kind of treatment we need to do. Or even where the bulge is other than my neck. The tens unit is not helping for more than about an hour. I've been reading and everyone has all their technical information up and I'm a little confused. But I'm so frustrated because I haven't been able to do normal daily things, like wash dishes and cook without intense pain. What am I doing wrong and can anyone help explain things to me?
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HI There, you are young, so I would suggest go to the natural way, before you go to the doctors, who would love to take you appart. the body has the ability to heal itself, if giving the right stuff. I had back problem 10 years ago, and now at 50 I am back being in trouble again, I am serious about physical therapy, as I have being 6 month in an out of sciatica and neck pain
I tried everything and the two below seems to be the best for me.I may get injections next week, I have being back doing those two for 3 weeks and it is super slow, but I would say I got rid of 70 % of the sciatica.
1/ get the book "treat you own neck" by robin mc Kensies, you will learned about posture and herniated disk.
2/ get " pain free" by egoscue , go to back section or if you can afford it see a postural alignement specialist.
3/ get a lumbar roll so you don't sit slouching right away.
keep moving, nothing is forever, even hell ! and I know what i am talking about it.
There is a lot of people doing laser spine surgery, and back surgery very tempting, and BIG BUSINESS... I would approach this with utmost cautious. there is a lot of people in pain with surgery. And there is a lot of success story.
I want to get out of pain NOW but I got to be patient too. hope this help
cheers virginie