Guest guest Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Cathleen, As a massage therapist and reflexologist I have recommended magnets for years. I mainly used the Nikken brand. My chiropractor also used them extensively. I have the magnetic mattress pad on my massage table. However I do take it off if one has a pacemaker or insulin pump and of course the watches need to be removed. One does need to know where to place them-especially using them over the triple warmer meridian which for me made my heart race. There are always precautions for every thing so don't use them " blindly " . I also enjoy reading your posts-keep up the good work. Ruth in Indiana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 I am glad to find others who use magnets. Ya know if they work for whatever reason it is sure better than loading yourself down with so much medication with all their side affects. Cathleen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2008 Report Share Posted June 7, 2008 I've often wondered about the magnet thing and one of the thoughts I had was to do some sort of study or something to find out if people that work around MRI machines are healthier and in less pain than the general population. Can you imagine how much magnetic energy they're being exposed to daily? Something to ponder. I'm glad you're getting results. Pain is no fun and surgery even less so. Good luck.Gaiacita <gaiacita@...> wrote: Well, I thought I'd post this as something interesting for those of you who haven't messed with magnets for healing before. 3 years ago (I think about that long, I'm time aware deficient) I had breast reconstruction surgery. That surgery opened up my stomach (they use the fat there to make a breast) from the right side of my body to the left, basically split my stomach in half. The surgeon said that she put in mesh during the surgery because after something like that many people get hernias, so to head off any hernias she puts in mesh. A few months ago I decide I'm so totally out of shape that I had better get into an exercise, muscle strengthening routine. So I start out easy, because it's been years and years since I've done anything like this. I start doing my exercises while in bed in the morning, for comfort and support. After a few days I realize I'm still sore in the stomach area (I think from the exercises), especially in one particular area. That soreness should have gone away by then. I look in the mirror and I see a marble size bulge, right across from my navel. At first I think maybe it's something to do with a diverticular pouch (my husband having gone through surgery for this, so it is on my mind) and I figure it will disappear after a bit. No, it stays, and stays sore, especially when I do any exercise. Then I think, hmmm she mentioned rupture, so I look up on the web and it seems it is quite common for women my age to get a rupture where mine is. Although it basically looks like a marble there, when I probe it it is football shaped, so it sounds exactly like the hernias they talk about. I have an appt with my surgeon in a few weeks so decide to just wait till I go to her. She broke it, she can fix it. :-) In the mean time I think "well, maybe I'll just try some energy work on it" so I spend about an hour, pushing with one finger on the hernia and sending energy there. Instead of it going away, I bruised the area a lot, and within 2 to 3 days the hernia seemed to double in size and become quite sore all day long. Hmmmm Now it is no longer marble shape or size, but football shaped in distinct outline and bulge. And though it is sore all day, it really hurts to bend over as it is exactly where my waist is for bending, putting pressure on it even more. A week ago (about 4 days after my energy experiment gone wrong) I am cleaning out my bathroom drawers and run across a set of magnets I had bought years and years ago. At the time my husband was suffering from hip numbness and someone said how magnets helped them so I bought these for him. He put one in his back pocket and in 2 months, no more pain. Never had pain again so we put the magnets up and I forgot about them. I now decided to experiment with the magnets. One is flat, about an inch, maybe inch and a half in diameter, cloth one the side that goes on the body and logo on the other side. Nikken magnets. I have no idea which is the cloth side, north or south, but I tape that side on my stomach. I leave it there 24/7. It has been a week. Now, there is zero pain on the hernia, even if I push on it. It is flat instead of raised. Only slightly reddish instead of intense red. And it actually feels kind of squishy instead of hard like it did pre magnet. I'm going to leave the magnet on till I go to the surgeon next week. It will be interesting to see what she says. I'm pretty much of a mind to just continue with the magnet and see what happens rather than resort to hernia surgery. All in all I'm pretty darn impressed with this magnet therapy. I'm considering putting an Lahovsky coil around my waist too, to see if that improves it even more. Samala, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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