Re: Scoliosis connection?

May 24, 2001

In a message dated 5/24/01 10:53:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time, marciaq21@... writes:

Hey, I wonder if there is a scoliosis connection? I have really bad scoliosis to the point I had to wear a brace in junior high, but not bad enough that I had to have surgery. Years ago I had a chiropractor at a conference I was at tell me that scoliosis can affect allergies too. This was before I had the thyroid problem, so she may have mentioned that and I was not interested at the time so I forgot.

Scoliosis is supposed to be caused by a selenium deficiency. Many people with thyroid problems have this curvature of the spine.

May 25, 2001

In a message dated 5/25/01 6:25:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, getdawnrose@... writes:

this is the best response that my body could have made to all my problems and changing things might make things worse.

Dear Dawn Rose,

What you said makes sense. I don't know if it's so, but it is a very creative way to view the problem, and shows your ability to think "outside the box." If your x-rays reveal all these problems, and you are mostly asymptomatic, maybe you should "leave well enough alone." I don't know how a chiro can fix all those problems anyway.

Good luck with whatever you decide.

AntJoan

May 25, 2001

That's very interesting... selenium huh?

Apart from that - the obvious connection between scoliosis and thyroid that

I can see is that according to the picture I was given by the chiro, the

nerves which come out of your spinal column and feed various bits of your

body get trapped and interrupted by spinal column curvatures or problems.

Maybe scoliosis bends the spine around to such a point that the nerve

feeding the thyroid gland is pinched and interrupted by the bones and fat

etc? That's a very layperson guess about how it all works, but seems to me

to make sense!

Rather frighteningly, my ex-rays revealed a possible fusion of my right

sacroilliac joint (though we are going to do another ex-ray as at this stage

it is just as likely to be a fogged image! There is ankylosing spond. in my

family so it is worth another look - I can't imagine it has fused, I would

have been in more pain surely?)- and added to that my bottom most set of

vertebrae are at " stage three " degeneration and you wouldn't expect to see

that sort of thing except in a person of 75+... I am 34, whooops! Don't see

myself going back to backstage work!

Had a very interesting conversation with the chiro - my main concern is that

perhaps, with all my structural problems (the short right leg and twisted

hips!) - just maybe, this is the best response that my body could have made

to all my problems and changing things might make things worse.

I said to the chiro - " what if you pull me around and I get cyatic pain and

lower back pain - will you put me back together again the way I was before,

or do I have to keep going? " My point is that perhaps the short leg and the

hip twist and the scoliosis is a small compromise that my body has made in

order to avoid crippling back and leg pain, perhaps even it helped me avoid

thyroid problems until now???... I would rather live with that compromise!

She agreed that we couldn't be sure treatment was the right course until we

tried, but that we would take things slowly and if it appeared at any point

that my body had " made the best compromise " then we would go with that ...

It's nice to find a practitioner you feel you can trust.

Cheers one and all