Chiropractic Testimonials – Mary

📍 📍 It’s my pleasure,

and I’m very grateful to Doctor ellison for inviting me to this to speak on behalf of what my journey has been. It’s been going on since the late 1990s, and I was starting to get pain in my mid back

and then it traveled to my lower back

where I started getting

sciatica pain in both legs.

And eventually all the way. So I sought out a doctor in probably 2005 and they started with the x rays, the MRIs, and then the doctor visit telling me that they needed to do some more tests and they did a needle test into my vertebrae. And determined that I had degenerative, degenerative disc disease, which means I had discs that could no longer hold fluid.

And that was the cause of

my nerve pain that would go across in my back and down my sciatica. He sent me to a pain doctor

who walked into the room and handed me a prescription for Norco without even welcoming himself. And introducing himself,

and I turned to him and I said,

I didn’t come here for pills.

I came here to have someone help me with the pain, and he said

he couldn’t help me and left. So I called again and got a new doctor. This was a pain management doctor, and he decided to put me in therapy. Of course, the therapy didn’t work, so then I went to acupuncture. The acupuncture didn’t work. They started doing

disc injections of steroids

in my mid and lower back.

My neck wasn’t bothering me bad, so they left it alone. I did this every six months

for probably ten years, with no relief. So they finally decided,

let’s try a spinal ablation. And I went in, and without anesthesia They went in with needles all up

and down my back,

and for 90 seconds these needles got hot and burned my nerves.

It was the most excruciating pain I had ever been in. And it didn’t work. After about six weeks, all the pain started going bad, going back. Plus I was still healing

from the burns in my back. So very discouraged. I just told my husband,

I said, I think I’m done. I just can’t keep doing this. So when we moved to Idaho,

after the doctor had told me, I just need to learn to live with my pain.

We came up here

and on my Facebook page

came an advertisement

for a chiropractor, a holistic chiropractor who could relieve any back pain you could bring to him and I thought,

it was a free seminar. Why not? What did I have to lose? Even though my doctors,

my medical doctors told me chiropractic was no longer an option

because of I also developed osteoporosis from all the injections.

They don’t tell you that it causes that. So they said if I went to a chiropractor, he could break my bones. So I was a little terrified,

but yet I was at the point of,

what else can I try? I had braces, I had TENS machines,

I did everything on my back to try

and stay out of pain. Nothing worked. So I came to a seminar,

and he said the same thing,

what do you have to lose?

So I took my husband and we came to

a private appointment. My husband was very skeptical because of all these years of doctors and no help and I just started crying and I said

I just want to try this. And so my husband agreed to spend

the money because my insurance would not cover more than six appointments.

So we took the financial obligation and I have to tell you after about four months of adjustments

two times a week. I could start standing at my kitchen sink to do dishes. I could sew a little bit a few hours

and then I’d have to go do my therapy and I could talk to my neighbors out in my front yard without having to say I have to go in my back

is too much in pain.

And I told Doctor ellison,

I said, I’m starting to see a difference. He goes, you have a long road. Your back is really a mess. But I promise you I’m going

to do everything I can to do that. So back a few months ago, all of a sudden I said to my husband, You know what? I can almost forget about my back pain. I can go almost all day with no pain.

Unless I do something like wash windows, mow the lawn, get over and pull weeds, the strain. Strenuous things will still bring it into a little bit of pain, but nothing like

I have ever suffered all these years. And I told Doctor ellison one day,

I said, you were right. I don’t have to live with this pain

and thank you for coming into my life because you make all the difference in the world for me.

And I’m never going back to a medical doctor because they did nothing but ruin my back. And this is why I testify,

because if there’s anybody sitting out there that’s listening to this that’s in the same boat, try it. You have nothing more to lose. Everybody’s situation is different. I, but I would just say, come and see Doctor Ellison. He is not out For fame and fortune,

he is out to help people

who are in pain. His office is crowded every time I’m here. People coming in, thanking him as they leave. They’re on a first name basis. He knows his job and he knows what he’s doing. And like I just said

you have nothing to lose but the pain.