Re: Can you believe this CHIROPRACTOR?LAURA

[Guest guest]

Can't remember if I answered you...LOL..but good going, ...and yes he

is a quack..that does NOT care...for anything but what lines his wallet and

it is GREEN......

Keep us in touch of what the new chiro says...

Huggs..Faithy

--* Can you believe this CHIROPRACTOR?

>

> WARNING: The following post could contain some offensive adult language.

> If you are easily upset by that type of post please stop reading now.

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> I've been having severe problems with my right lower back and hip, on top

> of

> my upper back between my shoulders and the muscles over my ribs being in

> almost constant spasm. Since the thing started with my lower back and

> right

> hip and leg I've barely been able to walk - so I decided to see a

> chiropractor.

>

> He was a young guy, in his early 30's. We talked for a few minutes about

> my

> pain and my history of back pain and surgery and told him I believe I have

> FMS. Without hesitation he looked at me and said that I did not, because

> I

> did not display the appropriate emotional charactics of someone with FMS,

> although I was indeed the right race, age, sex, and color to be a prime

> candidate. I asked what he meant and he said, " Well, you appear too

> level-headed. " So I asked how FMS people were and he used the term (and I

> kid you not)

> D-R-A-M-A -- Q-U-E-E-N.

>

> When he got through with his descriptive spiel he added, " see, if you

> were

> the fibromyalgia type, you'd have never let me get through that long

> explanation without a million interruptions about yourself and your pain.

> I worked hard to hide my annoyance. I wanted to be able to walk better by

> that evening - I had a class to go to, and didn't want to creep/limp my

> old

> fat ass into the room with all those 19 year olds.

>

> Later, as he rambled on about his (and obviously those that taught him)

> opinion about FMS he used the word PSYCHOSOMATIC, and went into a long

> discussion trying to correlate middle-aged women with incomes below 40,000

> and FMS. <yawn><bullshit><yawn>

>

> I really don't have much more to say about that except that I'm becoming

> very discouraged with the medical community in my neck of the woods.

>

> I saw my primary care physician back in early January for a cold and tried

> to discuss FMS with him, but he always just blows off my pain complaints.

> About the FMS when I brought it up - he said that it was just a cluster of

> symptoms that were labeled FMS when diagnostic tests didn't prove it was

> an

> identifiable disease. That was it, end of discussion.

>

> They both can consider their asses fired.

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> in Louisiana

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