Marien's Story
I had always had back pain due to my being a nurse, but never did I dream it would build up over time to an excruciating pain that brought me to tears and nearly cut my breath off to the point I could barely do my work.
I was told by my family doctor that my MRI was negative for any causes for upper back pain I was having that was affecting my work as a nurse and my life in general. I cried every day with this severe pain, not knowing what to do. She wanted to send me to an orthopedic doctor for a pain block or further evaluation. I didn’t want a needle in my back and I wasn’t looking for pain narcotics to cover the pain, I wanted to fix the problem, whatever it was. I mentioned a chiropractor, which she was skeptical about, but agreed to a referral. When looking at my spiral X-rays, he told me I had severe spurring in my thoracic spine (upper back), which there was nothing he or I could do to make them go away. He said he could adjust my spine, which was also curved at the thoracic level and hope to give me some pain relief. After about 3-4 treatments of him popping, adjusting and twisting my spine and leaving his office crying, I could take not more. I told him I was sorry.
I told my sitter, who sits with my Alzheimer’s mom, about all of this and she said, “Oh, they can laser those spurs off.” I thought no way—surgery!
Dreading going to work due to the pains slowing me down; that Saturday afternoon at work, with excruciating pain my upper back that was cutting my breath off, I sat down in a chair in a hallway at the hospital. It was quiet, and no one was around to see me. With my back turned, and older (grandpa) man came out of a room, waiting on a wheelchair for his wife to go home. He approached me, saw me hurting and asked “What’s the matter?” I told him I had spinal spurs that were killing me. Without a delay he said, “Honey, you are calcium deficient.” I said “What?” He said, “You need calcium and they’ll go away.” Talk about an angel appearing out of nowhere, God’s divine intervention in a time of need.
As soon as I got home, I told my husband and he pulled “spurs” up on the internet, and there it was, spurs = Calcium deficiency. Why didn’t the doctors know that? I don’t understand.
My next off day, I went straight to the local herb shop, walked in and said, “I’m desperate,” and told Marie my problem. She started me on some calcium and made me an appointment with their herb specialist Rhonda, and the next thing I knew, I was on my way to being pain free, which I am exceptionally better today. The master herbalist, Rhonda, put me on a regimen of Calcium, Hydrangea (which dissolves spurs), and PDA, a dietary enzyme. Rhonda and Marie have gave me my life back, and God made the way.
Thank You ,
Marien
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