Headaches

I have been seeing Dr. Friedman since December of 2000. On a whim, because I had a friend that swore by him but actually I was skeptical. Well it being December and all I decided to give him a try. The reason I chose December is because I had paid all my deductibles on my insurance.

After the initial talk we had, Dr. Friedman and my husband were talking to each other and I could not hear them. After all the x-rays, which I might add when you are hurting both in your back and in your head you just wish they would hurry. I found out later that they were necessary to treat me because everyone is different.

I was hurting so bad that I was getting nauseous. Of course when he told me to lie down on the little table I was waiting for the usual popping and carrying on but all he did was touch me on my ear. And immediately my pain went away.

Then he had me stand up in front of my husband and they began their talk again. But this time they told me what it was. Dr. Russell had showed my husband how one of my shoulder slouched and upon the adjustment it stood up straight. So he made a believer out of my husband right then and there. Of course I couldn't of altered the outcome because I didn't know what was being said.

Well he took more x-rays and there it was a marked improvement on all that was wrong with me. The only thing was that he had given me a pamphlet telling me of some side effects. He said I would feel pretty good for 2 days and then on the third day I would feel like a truck ran over me. And that I might even feel like I had the flu or at least some flu like systems.

Well to make a long story short I forgot about what he said about the 3rd day. And it just so happened that Dr. Russell called me on that day. He asked me how I felt and I told him if he had called the first or second day I would have told him great but that 3rd day I wished I had never saw him. He gently asked me did I remember what he told me about the 3rd day and of course I did not.

Which I will put a plug in for him now. He always calls me after an adjustment to see how I am doing. I had a friend who I talked into going with me and she had the adjustment. And we were going back on the 3rd day for another adjustment and believe it or not she would not go because she said she was coming down with the flu. I told her of my experience but she did not go back and my point to this story is that if you have these weird feelings they are probably normal so do go please give him at least a month before you start judging him to be a quack.

Another story I want to share with you is that it took about 6 months to completely get my spine in alignment. But about 2 years after I was in maintenance I started having headaches again. I went back 3 weeks straight in a row.( I live about 6 hours away) So Dr. Friedman decided to x-ray me again. Well he came in and asked me if I had been is an accident or something, and I told him no. Well have you fell in a hole or anything out of the ordinary? Well I said I didn't think I had. Well he firmly said I had because the old x-rays were not getting to my new problem. So he adjusted me a different way. And he told me to think about it that I would have had to had some kind of "accident" and that I would probably think of it later.

Well all the way home my husband and I could not think of anything. Then when we got into bed it hit us, We had took our Grandchildren to Dollywood and I rode a lot of those rides that jerks you around. Needless to say that had to be it because after the new x-rays and the new adjustments my headaches quit. Now I won't tell you that one adjustment will keep you in line that you never have to have another one but it sure beats the heck out of having those bad headaches as regular as I used to have them.

-Sharon,
Alabama