Today --- 2nd May 2017 --- I completed my second visit with Family Chiropractor Dr. Beth Cooper. And, I have already begun to note a cessation, an easing, really, of the Tinnitus ("ringing/humming/wheezing in both my ears"). Mine is not a typical Chiropractic matter. I shared with her, last week, my concern about a four year "battle" with Tinnitus ("ringing in BOTH ears"). It seemed to have crept up on me. Or, rather, I began paying greater attention to it following the end of my focus on being the Primary Care Giver --- for over 14 years --- for my mother who passed away from Alzheimer's Disease at age 91 in October 2014. [SEE my online article written and published in 2013, Google, "The Fearless Caregiver"/ Roland A. Foulkes] While I only noticed the noise about a year before her death, I probably had it, yet paid little attention to it, more than four years. While my primary doctor has not offered a solution or explanation for me, except to refer me to an Ear and Nose specialist, I did seek out alternative treatments --- e.g., Various Homeopathic Remedies, Lipo Flavonoids, related/other Vitamins/Minerals, etc. I even attended those "Free" Hearing Test Offers only to learn that I have, and my mom had, GREAT hearing and and that neither of us needed the hearing aids they were selling. Following my mom's passing three years ago, and with greater focus on me, it appears that the noise (really, less ringing, and more consistent high pitched, annoying, humming/wheezing) increased. or reached more of my attention. Given that my mom's dad wore a hearing aid most of his life as a result of decades of work in the loud, noisy, Fullers Earth mines in north Florida, I wondered if I were losing my hearing. (But this was not a genetic related matter.) No, as I learned, I was not. Then, of course, looking for a reason, I thought back to that Alice Cooper Concert at the Hollywood Sportatorium back in 1973, during my Junior year in high school. At one point I had to leave the concert hall because the music was SO LOUD, SO PAINFUL, that it felt as if ice picks were being jammed into both of my ears. Yet, in the 40 or more years since that concert, and after having lived and worked in over 85 nations on 5 continents as a Medical Anthropologist with the World Health Organization, Peace Corps, National Science Foundation and Fulbright Fellowships, I had no problems with my ears. Only until the past four years did the Tinnitus present in this noisome way. As I said at the beginning of this POSITIVE REVIEW of Dr. Beth Cooper and the Sunshine Chiropractic Center, after only two sessions, at age 61,I have noticed some relief. Needless-to-say, I look forward, with great anticipation and hope, to continuing the treatments provided by Dr, Cooper. Treatments that will divorce me PERMANENTLY from this unwelcomed noisy aural intruder. Thanks Dr. Cooper. Let's get on with the eviction of this invasive Tinnitus. read more
