Now this is alot like getting a second opinion. Chiropractors are just like if not more qualified than the doctors you visited before. Do some shopping around for your chiropractor. I have found those that graduated from Palmer, Davenport Ohio are of the best kind (younger the better) AND they should be a FAMILY practice clinic. Your pain also sounds like it is referral pain.

What I mean is there is a compensatory part of your back that is "out" or misaligned. The part that you feel is the focal point of another area that is hurt in your back. I know kind of strange.... I work alot on my feet and at the pc. when I lay down my sacrum is so sore!!! That is not from sitting down alot but my shortened hamstrings are pulling on my low back. Consequently my "but" hurts and then my mid back is what hurts in the morning when I get up..... just because my lower spine (lumbar) is out

Yes I need to see one. I am going to have to wait because the insurance I have now doesnt cover a visit like that. So I'm getting married in a month and I'll be getting on my hubby isurance which will take like 30 or 31 days before my coverage will start. Thanks for your reply.

Sure no problem. I would also recommend going to a sauna, or having an epsom salt bath..... let your muscles relax..... your chiro should want to work with you on corrective action like finding the cause as well as fixing your pain problem..... they are expensive but if he offers footlevers for you then get them. I love mine but they are expensive:( They last 2 years but so worth it you will see the chiropractor less with these......

Congratulations on getting married!!!! Best wishes to you.

thank you bunches mrburton!

Back Pain Facts
Although chiropractors care for more than just back pain, many patients visit chiropractors looking for relief from this pervasive condition. In fact, 31 million Americans experience low-back pain at any given time.

What Causes Back Pain?
The back is a complicated structure of bones, joints, ligaments and muscles. You can sprain ligaments, strain muscles, rupture disks, and irritate joints, all of which can lead to back pain. While sports injuries or accidents can cause back pain, sometimes the simplest of movements—for example, picking up a pencil from the floor— can have painful results. In addition, arthritis, poor posture, obesity, and psychological stress can cause or complicate back pain. Back pain can also directly result from disease of the internal organs, such as kidney stones, kidney infections, blood clots, or bone loss.

Chiro Treatment for Back Problems
Used primarily by Doctors of Chiropractic (DCs) for the last century, manipulation has been largely ignored by most others in the health care community until recently. Now, with today's growing emphasis on treatment and cost effectiveness, manipulation is receiving more widespread attention.

Chiropractic spinal manipulation is a safe and effective spine pain treatment. It reduces pain, decreases medication, rapidly advances physical therapy, and requires very few passive forms of treatment, such as bed rest.

In fact, after an extensive study of all currently available care for low back problems, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research—a federal government research organization—recommended that low back pain sufferers choose the most conservative care first. And it recommended spinal manipulation as the only safe and effective, drugless form of initial professional treatment for acute low back problems in adults....

I hope it will help making dicission..

Thanks chiropractor. I will consider it. I have one question. Do i have to be refered by my family doctor or just set up and appt with a chiropratcor at my own will?

I think it is better you should consult through your family Dr. because he know your history and will help, if he don't mind it! otherwise you can consult at your own.

I would suggest that you start by seeing your PCP or family doctor first. Them it would be best to seek the opinion of a spinal surgeon for a full evaluation. Either an orthopedic surgeon that specializes in spines or a neurosurgeon that specializes in spines only.

An MRI is probably in order to visually see what is going on, if anything and what the best course of treatment would be.

I would not count on your new insurance covering you for chiropractic care. many of the ins companies require a waiting period for a pre-existing condition. Since you have been suffering with this for more than 2 years, they will consider this a pre-existing condition and may not cover you for a period of time, usually 6 months.

I would start now, by seeing a spinal surgeon and get an evaluation as to what is going on with the insurance you have now. If you are already under treatment for a condition before the new insurance starts, you may have some leverage to have the new insurance pic up the pre existing condition because you are already under medical care and they would be less likely to deny you coverage.

Good luck and congrats on your impending wedding.

Fran

Thanks Fran. I never thought about the whole pre-existing situation. It really sucks because I cant get any good insurance. The insurance I have not doesn't even pay for doctor visits. Which is just insane! A doctor visit cost me $133 for no more than 1 hr! It's insurace from Veteran Affairs because I'm a student and my father is a Verteran. Prescriptions are very cheap when I use the prescription card. Sometimes I just want to say forget about and just live with it since I have for over 2 years.

Hey, the doctor visits...... surgeons.... if you find a chiropractor they often run specials where you can get exam, xrays if needed, consultation (an education) for a really good deal. Like 40-60 bucks.... and if he sees something he can't fix he will tell you where to go..... bring your medical history with you if you think it would help.... Your doctor will have your records, they are yours not his.

Second, a chiropractor's education is more than a MD. They have more time and credits in diagnosis and pathology than any MD. I would find one who is kind of young 30-40 and graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic. See the DC for half of a normal doctor's visit.

Mr Burton, I don't see how a chiropractor's education is more than a doctors.

Do they really have more time and credits in diagnosis and pathology than any doctor?

How do you figure that out?

Love, how are you doing? Have you been able to see a spine surgeon yet for diagnosis?

Personally I would not suggest you see a chiropractor for treatment. You really need to have a medical diagnosis from a doctor of medicine, not a doctor of chiropractic.

Fran

If I listened to my doctor for my shoulder I would have had arthroscopic surgery on my shoulder already. When I was 13! I am now 31 and my shoulder works fine.... no surgery for me.

Thanks for the reply.