So you say you have a problem when "they" start killing unsuspecting people? If that is the case, you must go running and screaming from western medicine then. How many thousands die every day from percriptions? (Heath Ledger and Anna Nicole Smith included?) How many unsuspecting people live uncomfortably for years with surgical gauze, scissors, the doctors watch floating inside of them? How many people have gotten the wrong knee operated on? The wrong leg amputated? We hear about these medical horror stories every single day! But one chiropractor happens to adjust a patient and she suffers a stroke, and you want to abolish chiropractic all together? How do you know that the stroke caused her paralasis? She was operated on by medical doctors. Maybe while they were digging around in there, they caused the damage?
I have been seeing a chiropractor since I was 20 and I have gotton amazing results. I no longer suffer with dibilitating migranes that my doctors had me on T3's with caffine and codine since I was 15. I was born with asthma and was in and out of oxygen tents as a child, with my ever present inhaler by my side. Since I started chiropractic care, I haven't used my inhaler in over 10 years! Neck adjustments are not unnecessary nor are they done haphazzardly. Chiropractor do more school hours than medical doctors. I believe they are more knowledgeable, caring and health orientated then any medical doctor I have ever met.
Last year I had the misfortune to be admitted to the hospital. My symptoms were diarrhea, vomitting, painful stomach cramps, etc. Within 3 hours of being admitted the medical doctor diagnosed me with Ulcertive Colitis. Wanted to get me on steriod treatment immediately and was adament that is what I had. Even though I did not have any previous stomach problems. I called my chiropractor, told him my symtoms, and he said it sounded like a bacterial infection, not Ulcertive Colitis. Well, what do you know, 4 days later the doctor came back with my numerous test results and what a surprise, I DID NOT have ulcertive colitis, but indeed did have Shigella, a bacterial infection! Something my CHIROPRACTOR diagnosed over the PHONE!
So what about me? I was given unnecessary drugs, went through unnecessary tests, and all the unnecessary emotional termoil that I went through thinking that I had a chronic condition??? Should western medicine be abolished? I know that I did not suffer a stroke, and I feel very sorry for this lady. However, I feel that chiropractic does way more harm than good. It give the body a chance to function at it optimum. No drugs, no knives, no side effects.
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Originally posted by Michelle:
[b]I don't either. I don't care what people believe or how they come to believe it.When they start killing and paralyzing unsuspecting people without warning them ahead of time that it could happen, that's when I have a problem with it.[/b]
[ 13 June 2008: Message edited by: dontbelievethehype ]