Dr. Bello is like a miracle. I have only been doing this care for 2 full weeks, and starting my third week next week but I must, must, must write a review. I'll start by saying, these could all be miracles, but I will let you decide. First a history:
Migraines regularly for over 14 years (I'm only in my thirties!) and at their worst 3-4 times a week. Started looking into food allergies, it helped to some very small extent, except even when super careful, I would still get them 2-3 times a week. But - the migraines were improving, until recently no matter how carefully I ate, I was getting migraines twice a week, for days at a time without any relief. Every morning I would wake up with a mild headache as well, and take pain killers for it. This is a chronic and ongoing pain I've dealt with forever that just seemed like a fact of life.
So I was looking up "acupuncture for migraine relief" and found all the acupuncturists in my area charge $100 per session, otherwise, they have less good reviews. I knew in my case, my migraines being so bad and so frequent, it will likely take over 10 sessions, and I knew with add ons it would draw me well over $1k. So I found this place instead and signed up for a free consultation the day after a two-day-long-agonizing-migraine.
Dr. Bello is jovial and friendly. He immediately makes you feel at ease. He looks young, but has a long list of very satisfied patients that got the help they needed, particularly for migraines, even so. So here is my list of miracles:
-After three months of eating Tylenol for breakfast, I didn't need to take any the day after my adjustment, nor since except for a cold I had.
-After my adjustment, my jaw felt like someone had released a bite block. After a few hours, I found that my jaw wasn't popping when I tried to open it. In fact, I could open it all the way - a feat I could not actually manage before, thus I always had bite blocks, due to TMJ.
-After my first adjustment, I didn't have a single daily headache. There is some muscle soreness that develops after a few hours to a day after your adjustment, and it goes away easily and it's nothing on a migraine.
-I went a full TWELVE DAYS without a single migraine. NOT EVEN A LITTLE ONE. This is the first time in my memory that I have gone this long without a nauseating migraine since they started. On day eleven, I got a little ballsy and added some of my known-allergen foods into my diet. On day twelve I had a migraine, please note that my migraines have been lasting well over a day, mostly into two days, for years, and this migraine lasted literally 4 hours. FOUR. I was able to go to work that evening. That has never, ever, ever happened in my history of migraines.
I did not expect miracles when I went here, and yet, I seem to have found them. I am so happy, just having gone that long without a migraine and having one so short, worth every penny, cheaper than it would have cost for more than 10 acupuncture+medicine treatments, etc. Dr. Bello is a saint, and he's very good at what he does.
I will update this in a couple more weeks with how everything else goes down, but so far I am just happy af.
** Four full weeks update
No migraines for three weeks - the last one I had lasted 6 hours compared to 48, and some other weird things have occured: My arch pain has stopped, my hip pain has stopped. Any time I walked 1+ miles before (often!) I would get a dull soreness in my hip, and wake up with arch pain like crazy. Particularly, if I walked in sandals, it would worsen. I walked 2 miles with sandals.... no hip nor arch pain! So awesome. And I haven't been migraine free this long since before I started getting migraines! Went from 2+ per week to ZERO. How is this even real? But here it is happening, and it gets better and better! read more