My first 3 days with Dr. Burcon-Upper neck treatments

Thanks Songbird!

I'll contact them and will ask Dr. Burcon to work with them, as he offered. Yes, I'm in Montreal.

Hope you will feel better too.

Alex

 

Alex. I'm glad we got in contact. It seems a long way for you to go for your treatments when there's an office so close by. I live in Ottawa, so its a 2.5 hour car ride there and back...but I'm willing to give it a try. I'm still waiting for a diagnosis and by some miracle, got a call from the hospital here for an MRI this afternoon! There was a cancellation. How I managed to get it, I'm not sure, but I'm not going to wonder why for very long.

As for your nausea - do you have something to take for it? I use Gravol suppositories (yuk, I know, but they work) and have an anti-nausea pill that works if I can take it right away before the nausea starts.

I'm hopeful for both of us that Kirospecifik can help us. They did tell me they had helped people with tinnitus, fullness and vertigo/dizziness.

take care.

 

Songbird,

The feedback from your chiropractor sounds so familiar, the straightness of neck, the hips and legs. I am encouraged for you.

And Alex,

I would not give up. Because Dr. Burcon found that your C1 was out leads at least to the proposition that it could indeed have been the genesis of your problem long ago. Adjusting and getting it to hold in place can only help you.

Luck to you both,

Hank

 

Thanks Hank. I'm feeling rather anxious all the time about my possible condition. Is it MM? Is it MAV? Can chrio help me? Is this a lifelong affliction? I have to get myself back to work next week after a few weeks off and I'm in a panic about driving myself and what I will do if I have an attack at work. My colleagues seem prepared to help me...but they haven's been exposed to my vertigo and nausea.

I had an MRI today and more tests on monday to see what the blood flow in my neck is like ...ultrasounds called Dopplers. So at least I'm on the testing track! More to follow. I'm encouraged to pursue this from what I read here, and the results of my x-rays. I'm hoping some of the discomfort lessens as the adjustments go on. I'm a bit uncomfortable today, but not as bad as after the 1st one!!!

songbird.

 

The discomfort is predictable. Remember, you are moving bones around in your body. The muscles and ligamints are stretched and even tear to a degree. But they repair. You will be less uncomfortable as the process goes on.

Having been caught a couple of times away from home when the big V started, I understand the apprehension. In my case, the vertigo would always begin with just a general malaise, one that is difficult to describe. The hard question was always how long it would be before something big would hit. I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, and even today I can't help wondering sometimes whether that malaise might raise its ugly head. But no, it hasn't and each time I think it might, I've been wrong. This beast will mess with your mind!

At work, set the stage before you get there. Describe what an event is to your best friend and ask him or her to pass the word. Although I am confident that you will be better, doing a little education of the co-workers might assuage the fear of confronting this thing at work.

You're going to get better, believe it and stay positive.

Hank

 

Thanks for the advice - I have told my co-workers and even have a sign in my cubical! So that if I'm laying down it's because I'm dizzy not sleepy. They all seem to be OK with it and will help me in whatever way I need.

Right now, I'm not sleeping because of the anxiety - over not sleeping and getting back into the world with this beast lurking in the shadows. My husband has been very encouraging - the same as you - that the NUCCA treatments are making me feel better (they are, it just takes a few days) and that we are on the right path to fixing my misalignment problems and hopefully whatever is causing the vertigo.

My MRI went OK yesterday - I didn't expect it to be so loud! And i was lucky to be able to get in so soon. As a Canadian, we do have access to healthcare, but it can take ages to get in for tests and to see specialists. They had a cancellation and I was able to go when they called yesterday. And I remain grateful that I have the access to them. And no, it's not "free" - we pay for it by being rather heavily taxed. However, it's a comfort to know that I can see the specialists and get the tests I need. I see my GP today for an assessment on whether or not I should go back to work. I have an adjustment on Monday, so I'll probably be back in next Tuesday. Here's to hoping all goes well.

Thanks for listening, Hank, for the encouragement to pursue this line of treatment. I must say that my neck and back feel much better today. I'm signing off to go do some yoga now - one of my passions. It helps as well.

take care and keep posting!

songbird

 

BJ Palmer started upper cervical specific chiropractic in 1931. His father DD Palmer started chiropractic in 1895 when he restored a deaf man's hearing. BJ said that the most important part of the adjustment, the patient gives to himself... the rest afterwards. He had patients put to bed for four hours after an adjustment. I try to get my patients to lie still for fifteen minutes and carch them talking on the phone. There is an opening the size of the tip of your finger, just below your ear, between your skull and your jaw, where atlas can be palpated. Talking moves the atlas. I am not surprized when a patient decides to drive two hundred miles after an adjustment, takes a flight, gets home late, goes to work the next morning and has a relapse!

 

Dr Burcon:

I do rest for 15 mins at least after the adjustment, sometimes more. However, I have no choice but to travel for 2 hours to see a NUCCA practitioner. I don't do the driving, I always have someone drive me there and back. I rest my head on a pillow in a reclined position for most of the way home. I do believe that not moving (and not talking much) is important as part of the healing process.

I will discuss what you have said here on July 23 with my NUCCA practitioner and see what can be done to minimize the movement.

I have been having adjustments since February 2007 and have experienced a steady decline in vertigo symptoms to the point now where I experience nothing at all. My last "attack", which was mild in comparison to many I've had, was over 6 weeks ago.

Thanks for your continued insights into our pursuit of the NUCCA treatments.

songbird.