For the past 5 years, I have lived with agonizing pain, after a visit with Lance Moore. In his office, my story started when I was 29 years old and about to start nursing school. What should have been a typical visit to the chiropractor in hopes of relieving some generalized, mild muscle aches, turned into emergency room visits, epidural injections, nerve conduction studies, MRIs, x-rays, 9 months of physical therapy, trigger point injections, pain meds, muscle relaxers, heating pads, acupressure mats...and guess what is next on my list?
Cervical disc replacement surgery. That's right-- I get to have a 5cm incision made across my throat in order for the Neurosurgery team to remove my herniated disc and replace it with an artificial one. I likely won't be able to speak or eat solid foods for 2 weeks after surgery. I'll require 6 months of recovery time and many more months of physical therapy and pain management. My family will have to fly across the country to take care of me after surgery. My boyfriend has become my nurse: having to help me get dressed, drive me to appointments, stay up all night on those agonizing sleepless nights, and bring me tissues for all of the tears of pain.
Since seeing Lance Moore, I've taken a medical leave of absence from school and have been left with no option other than to put my academic and career aspirations on hold until I am healthy enough to resume them.
I am now 34 years old and I have lost more than 5 years of my life and career to excruciating pain and countless sleepless nights. As I write this, my hand is blue and cold to the touch because the nerves that control my arm and hand are not getting enough blood due to the spinal cord compression in my neck.
I am counting down the seconds until I can have surgery in hopes of being able to put this unimaginable pain behind me. This experience has forever changed my life, my career, my body, and my health. I wish that I never stepped foot through this chiropractor's door. Please rethink any chiropractic cervical spine manipulations. read more