Good! They don't do that anymore where I live, which means doctors have a hard time accessing the images and reports. More than once I have been in an appointment with a doctor who could not access the images from the oh-so-great digital data repositories, so I had to come back another time.
So my follow up consult was not very encouraging.
The doctor said I have a substantial herniation at C5-6 and talked about spinal stenosis due to degeneration occurring at C6-7.
Evidently the stenosis causes my neck to angle forward (which is why my wife always says I’m hunched over) instead of curving back as it should.
He said there’s no severe spinal cord pinching, but there is pressure causing flattening.
The prognosis pretty much remained the same. This will NOT “get better”. According to him, the only way to really correct it is surgery and fusing the discs.
Of course that is not what I wanted to hear.
I talked to him about cortisone injections and physical therapy. His opinion is it might offer some relief…temporarily.
Either way, he couldn’t give me an injection today. It has to be done in a different facility with a special xray machine.
So its back to the song and dance with insurance to get it approved.
No idea what improvements I can achieve over my current state like this.
Already thinking it may be time to arrange a consult with the doctor who helped my wife with lower back problems. He did a minimally invasive partial discectomy to relive pressure and it worked wonders for her.
The doctor said I have a substantial herniation at C5-6 and talked about spinal stenosis due to degeneration occurring at C6-7.
Evidently the stenosis causes my neck to angle forward (which is why my wife always says I’m hunched over) instead of curving back as it should.
He said there’s no severe spinal cord pinching, but there is pressure causing flattening.
The prognosis pretty much remained the same. This will NOT “get better”. According to him, the only way to really correct it is surgery and fusing the discs.
Of course that is not what I wanted to hear.
I talked to him about cortisone injections and physical therapy. His opinion is it might offer some relief…temporarily.
Either way, he couldn’t give me an injection today. It has to be done in a different facility with a special xray machine.
So its back to the song and dance with insurance to get it approved.
No idea what improvements I can achieve over my current state like this.
Already thinking it may be time to arrange a consult with the doctor who helped my wife with lower back problems. He did a minimally invasive partial discectomy to relive pressure and it worked wonders for her.
Urgh. Not nice.
At least the problem is clearly diagnosed, and that's something you can build on. Getting a second opinion on the way forward is surely a good idea. It seems you already have that planned.
At least the problem is clearly diagnosed, and that's something you can build on. Getting a second opinion on the way forward is surely a good idea. It seems you already have that planned.
Okay, now that's a concrete diagnosis. I have experience with partial removal of the intervertebral disc in the lumbar area and it can work, but due to the lack of a full support surface, vertebral slippage can occur, with practically the same symptoms as a herniated disc, only worse because the spinal cord and nerves are exposed to a steady shearing movement. It was the same for me, after which two vertebral bodies were fused together, after removing the disc and filling the gap with cages, filled with bone mass to promote callus formation. That was 16 years ago and that was the solution. I can do practically everything, almost without restrictions, you learn to live with the stiffness. Before that I got up like a seriously ill 90 year old (according to the doctor) even though I was only 40, now everything is fine. So I wouldn't rule out surgery - based on experience. Even if it sounds bad. A constantly compressed spinal cord can ultimately lead to failures.
Agreed. Not really audio related, although everything sounds better with health, so perhaps it is.. haha, but my thoughts are this, to expand upon the importance of what we put into our bodies - even more important than choosing the right oil for the car!:
I'm not a doctor, these are my thoughts after much study and research, but may be 'unusual'.
I.e. this is my DIY Health, Rockerfeller may weep, but this is my suggestions!
1. Avoid all seed oils. Ban margarine etc. (See Dr. Sten Ekberg's videos on YT)
2. Avoid tomatoes and less potatoes too I guess (deadly nightshade family IIRC)
3. Do a heavy metal detox - zeolite, and investigate an aluminium detox.
4. Avoid all vaccines, statins, synthetic vitamins etc. I regard them as poison.
5. Only butter + other animals fats and coconut oil are heat stable. All others are no good for you once heated
6. Cold pressed olive oil for salads. Avoid non cold pressed - the estraction heats it. Never heat it.
7. Eat green leafy vegetables for their vitamin K. K = correct cholesterol transport.
8. Avoid fluoride in all products and all water, poison from the phosphate and aluminium industry, it steals calcium.
9. Avoid too much blue light, as a general health tip. Set TVs, laptops, phones etc to a warm setting.
10. Try to imagine what a roman would eat, and only ever eat that: Organic, meat, fruit, veg, wine: Real food.
11. Get some daylight each day (no sun in England now LOL). Sunlight is excellent.
12. Breakfast = bad. Try to fast for 16 hours each day, the main healing only starts a few hours after food is dealt with.
13. Controversial, but try to listen to some older music, and perhaps even visit a Cathedral when the organ is playing.
14. Avoid too much WiFi etc, we are more integrated with our world than people think.
My view is that diet is essential to give your body the chance to heal, it needs the right components.
A side benefit to my suggestion is that it's very tasty too 😀
Good luck, and perhaps also avoid lifting giant speakers and amps 😀
Highly controversial except point 10. Where would we be without the Romans? 🙂
Of course 😀.
There's no profit in my viewpoint. Really none at all.
But actually quite a bit of data and science, but not of a well publicised nature 🙂
Anyway, I don't want to become bogged down in politics on this forum, this really is for me to relax and discuss transistors and speakers - I really just wrote my list for those who want to try it, as a way to help people.
Thanks for understanding.
Well I recall having a conversation as a child in a swimming pool with a funny walking man. He said his parents were devout believers and had not let him have the DTP vaccinations when he was a kid.
He then had polio.
Coincidentally I visited the polio vaccine lab for work many times. After development and testing it took another 15 years of testing and then the time to get it approved.
BTW definitely avoid artificially hardened palm oil/fat. That orange smelly stuff that needs raffination at 200 degrees. Cheap and turns up in many products. Coats the vains with a plastic like coating.
He then had polio.
Coincidentally I visited the polio vaccine lab for work many times. After development and testing it took another 15 years of testing and then the time to get it approved.
BTW definitely avoid artificially hardened palm oil/fat. That orange smelly stuff that needs raffination at 200 degrees. Cheap and turns up in many products. Coats the vains with a plastic like coating.
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There's another side of the DDT/polio story that perhaps you are unaware of.
However as my reply above, vaccines are now political, and cannot be freely discussed, as you have just demonstrated.
I'll unwatch this thread now, thanks for your contribution.
We will stay unaware I guess?! I know what people that had polio usually say about the polio vaccination. Quite unanimously they wished they had had it. The former tetanus, hepatitis B and HPV patients all nodded in agreement.
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@Globulator it may or may not support healthy life, but I'm more than sceptical, that it works against this hernia disci with the described heavy symptoms.
The problem is: normally, nothing can "pull back" a herniated disc once the gelatinous fluid that has leaked out of the disc has solidified, and this happens relatively quickly. Then there is some relief through conservative methods like paravertebral targeted root blockage with injections, infusions and so on, or healing through surgery. In a few cases, a small herniated disc can retract and the leaked material is reabsorbed by the body. Of course I wish everyone can heal themselves, but "been there, done that"... for me, it was 20 years of drama... which seems to start again in my neck, but I'm still not at the level of @chromenuts to whom I wish to find a good solution and speedy healing.
The problem is: normally, nothing can "pull back" a herniated disc once the gelatinous fluid that has leaked out of the disc has solidified, and this happens relatively quickly. Then there is some relief through conservative methods like paravertebral targeted root blockage with injections, infusions and so on, or healing through surgery. In a few cases, a small herniated disc can retract and the leaked material is reabsorbed by the body. Of course I wish everyone can heal themselves, but "been there, done that"... for me, it was 20 years of drama... which seems to start again in my neck, but I'm still not at the level of @chromenuts to whom I wish to find a good solution and speedy healing.
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Unfortunately, this is true. But the myelon will recover after the surgery. You will can make a lot of training slowly step by step without risk of tetraplegy. The paravertebral musculature can stabilize the vertebral column.
My gal is a chiropractor who, while still practicing various traditional chiropractic methods, has had embraced a couple of 'alternative' approaches with huge success employing Wolfe Non-Surgical and treating fascia via methods of the Human Garage. i might suggest you, and others on this thread seek out both of these. The latter is free, can be done on self but also has individuals and teams all over the world who can help one another.
Eat decent organic foods, staying away from processed junk ie. fast food, corn, soy, canola oils and starches, red meat, nightshade vegetables ie. tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, corn syrup and other processed sugars, legumes ie. beans, peanuts, cheese and dairy (except yogurt and other fermented dairy), wheat, barley, rye gluten, pasta, potato starches.
Eat lots of green vegetables, especially cruciferous types ie. brocolli, cabbage, brussel sprouts, kale, green beans, spinach and other high nitrate vegetables in moderation. Fresh ocean caught fish is the best form of animal protein, specifically red sockeye salmon, steelhead trout, Alaskan cod, sardines, halibut. Avoid shell fish, especially shrimp and other farm raised shellfish. Lamb is a decent red meat option if you need iron.
Eat good starches like wild rice, red potatoes, sweet potato, carrots and other root vegetables. Avoid fried food, especially when fried in cheap, low quality oils ie. corn, soybean, canola, safflower oil. Use only high quality virgin olive oil for all cooking, but don't heat it past 275 deg F.
Avoid ALL alcoholic beverages. Alcohol is a toxin to your body and has no health benefits whatsoever. If you want the benefits of red wine, use a resveratrol supplement.
Its so important to keep your gut functioning properly and feeding it with the proper types of pre- and probiotics. Your intestinal health is critical to every part of your body and its functional health. It regulates your mood, keeps you from getting sick and most importantly regulates the immune system. That in itself is critical due to arthritis being an auto immune disease. Its also important for keeping cancer at bay. Avoiding antibiotics is important. Some people benefit from steroids but use these with caution, as they can have serious side effects and risks.
Drink lots of high quality mineral rich spring water, not the awful purified stuff with a few cheap minerals added. This is very important for your body to function and regulate the entire nervous system. Do not drink soda with cheap sugar and artificial colors, especially diet soda of any kind.
Get lots of good sleep if you can. Maintain healthy sleep hygiene. Keep your stress levels low. Stay active if you can and don't push too hard. Arthritis is essentially your own immune system attacking your body, so its important to regulate its response.
Supplements like turmeric, curcumin, MSM, a high potency quality probiotic help alot with inflammation. Your liver and kidneys need to be kept in top shape.
Absolutely avoid long term use of Ibuprofen and other Nsaid drugs. They tear up your stomach and are hard on kidneys. If you have to chose an Nsaid, stick to high quality aspirin and make sure you eat before taking it.
For longer term pain relief I recommend taking opiate pain killers. They have by far the least side effects and work much better. People will blow lots of smoke saying all opiates are evil, but in reality they're very well tolerated and don't pose a significant threat of addiction if the person taking them isn't predisposed to addictive behavior, severely depressed or impulsive.
This medication is there for a reason despite all the controversy surrounding its use and abuse potential. Same holds true for benzodiazepine muscle relaxants, which work much better than the lower grade muscle relaxers that often don't work at all for many people. Taking these meds responsibly can greatly improve the quality of your life, which is the whole goal of symptom management.
Avoiding stress is so important, as well as maintaining a healthy relationship with loved ones, so they understand your situation and help you when you have bad flare-ups.
Massages and acupuncture can help alot, but you have to find the right therapist who understands you and know how to approach your issue.
Healthy activities are very helpful in regulating pain levels and maintaining motion. The correct type of exercise releases dopamine, serotonin and other feel good substances, helping to deal with pain and inflammation. I can't overstate how important it is to maintain a healthy sex life, which can really help with pain levels and stress relief. Even if you feel really crumby, it can do alot for your overall mood and wellbeing.
Warm baths with epsom salt can also help. Make sure to void the epsom salt if you have kidney issues.
Muscle relaxers help alot for some people, but honestly only the benzodiazapene types. Yes, they can be addictive but only if you're that type of person. Most people won't have an issue if they don't have an obvious issue with addiction. There are definitely people who should avoid these medications, but most people won't have an issue if they take it responsibly.
Eat lots of green vegetables, especially cruciferous types ie. brocolli, cabbage, brussel sprouts, kale, green beans, spinach and other high nitrate vegetables in moderation. Fresh ocean caught fish is the best form of animal protein, specifically red sockeye salmon, steelhead trout, Alaskan cod, sardines, halibut. Avoid shell fish, especially shrimp and other farm raised shellfish. Lamb is a decent red meat option if you need iron.
Eat good starches like wild rice, red potatoes, sweet potato, carrots and other root vegetables. Avoid fried food, especially when fried in cheap, low quality oils ie. corn, soybean, canola, safflower oil. Use only high quality virgin olive oil for all cooking, but don't heat it past 275 deg F.
Avoid ALL alcoholic beverages. Alcohol is a toxin to your body and has no health benefits whatsoever. If you want the benefits of red wine, use a resveratrol supplement.
Its so important to keep your gut functioning properly and feeding it with the proper types of pre- and probiotics. Your intestinal health is critical to every part of your body and its functional health. It regulates your mood, keeps you from getting sick and most importantly regulates the immune system. That in itself is critical due to arthritis being an auto immune disease. Its also important for keeping cancer at bay. Avoiding antibiotics is important. Some people benefit from steroids but use these with caution, as they can have serious side effects and risks.
Drink lots of high quality mineral rich spring water, not the awful purified stuff with a few cheap minerals added. This is very important for your body to function and regulate the entire nervous system. Do not drink soda with cheap sugar and artificial colors, especially diet soda of any kind.
Get lots of good sleep if you can. Maintain healthy sleep hygiene. Keep your stress levels low. Stay active if you can and don't push too hard. Arthritis is essentially your own immune system attacking your body, so its important to regulate its response.
Supplements like turmeric, curcumin, MSM, a high potency quality probiotic help alot with inflammation. Your liver and kidneys need to be kept in top shape.
Absolutely avoid long term use of Ibuprofen and other Nsaid drugs. They tear up your stomach and are hard on kidneys. If you have to chose an Nsaid, stick to high quality aspirin and make sure you eat before taking it.
For longer term pain relief I recommend taking opiate pain killers. They have by far the least side effects and work much better. People will blow lots of smoke saying all opiates are evil, but in reality they're very well tolerated and don't pose a significant threat of addiction if the person taking them isn't predisposed to addictive behavior, severely depressed or impulsive.
This medication is there for a reason despite all the controversy surrounding its use and abuse potential. Same holds true for benzodiazepine muscle relaxants, which work much better than the lower grade muscle relaxers that often don't work at all for many people. Taking these meds responsibly can greatly improve the quality of your life, which is the whole goal of symptom management.
Avoiding stress is so important, as well as maintaining a healthy relationship with loved ones, so they understand your situation and help you when you have bad flare-ups.
Massages and acupuncture can help alot, but you have to find the right therapist who understands you and know how to approach your issue.
Healthy activities are very helpful in regulating pain levels and maintaining motion. The correct type of exercise releases dopamine, serotonin and other feel good substances, helping to deal with pain and inflammation. I can't overstate how important it is to maintain a healthy sex life, which can really help with pain levels and stress relief. Even if you feel really crumby, it can do alot for your overall mood and wellbeing.
Warm baths with epsom salt can also help. Make sure to void the epsom salt if you have kidney issues.
Muscle relaxers help alot for some people, but honestly only the benzodiazapene types. Yes, they can be addictive but only if you're that type of person. Most people won't have an issue if they don't have an obvious issue with addiction. There are definitely people who should avoid these medications, but most people won't have an issue if they take it responsibly.
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I remember a friend of my eldest sister in the early 60's called Marther, she had a paralysed arm as a result of polio. Have you ever met anyone who has had polio? I doubt it. Smallpox.... Just think of all those poisoned vaccinated people that have helped keep you alive and healthy.😉
Mrs tobydog is retired from dental nursing. For her to assist dentists in the surgery she had to keep up to date with her Hep B vaccinations. Would you like to be treated by someone carrying such a lovely disease?
Would you decline a cancer vaccine?
Enjoy your antigens.😎
If the climate in your area is not cold like most of Canada, see the Indian diet patterns, we use more vegetables, turmeric, ginger, garlic and other herbs, some of which are considered of medical value, in our diet. And more grain, the milling tends to be coarser than the flour used in white bread, that retains a lot of nutrients and fiber.
And we do eat millet flour as well, and a lot of protein from lentils and nuts, the lentils have peanuts added at times.
Medicinal value as per our ancient medical system called Ayurveda, where the medicines are prepared mostly from plants and herbs.
There are descriptions of surgery and the tools needed in old (6th century B.C.) in some texts in India. So part of our heritage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushruta_Samhita
Peanuts are the only nuts with a complete set of amino acids it seems, better than almonds, walnuts, pistachio etc.
As a result, Indians are considered constipated if they do not go potty in two days.
The Western norm seems three days for each movement, which is considered toxic from food remnants in the body here.
The Western diet pattern, with a high meat proportion, and low fiber, was born out of climate compulsions, icy winter meant no vegetables could grow.
And media has been a big influence, promoting convenience food, and what can be called 'food porn', showing food which contains an amount of fat best decribed as grease.
And the ingredients focus on a high proportion of high fat foods (bacon, sausage, marbled steak and so on). And heart attack inducing amounts of cheese.
Another difference is in cooking technique, we do not deep fry meat except fish (less than 2 minutes, thin cuts), nor do we have charring techniques as used on steaks.
Kebab is cooked on rod like things, fairly thin layer of mince allows a short cooking time. Even disk kebab is shallow fried for a shorter time than in Western styles.
You can look at Japanese, Chinese and Korean food also, if you are curious.
But as mentioned above, a topic which can be a source of conflict, and in any case a long term plan.
The images do look bad, you do need surgery, ask around, find a hospital with experienced doctors who can do it in a minimally invasive way, because the open surgery may see you in a support collar for what may seem a long time.
As for vaccines, they are part of the reason for the population explosion, before that it was common for children to die young, so people had more kids...now they tend to survive longer.
So yes, they are very useful, and if you know a polio or tetanus patient, or have had to have rabies vaccination, you will realise it is essential.
There are people who do not believe in vaccines, and even those who say Covid was biological warfare...but they are entitled to their opinion.
In sum, best of luck, be very careful, this will mean changes in your life style, you may not be comfortable, but you will have to get used to them.
And we do eat millet flour as well, and a lot of protein from lentils and nuts, the lentils have peanuts added at times.
Medicinal value as per our ancient medical system called Ayurveda, where the medicines are prepared mostly from plants and herbs.
There are descriptions of surgery and the tools needed in old (6th century B.C.) in some texts in India. So part of our heritage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushruta_Samhita
Peanuts are the only nuts with a complete set of amino acids it seems, better than almonds, walnuts, pistachio etc.
As a result, Indians are considered constipated if they do not go potty in two days.
The Western norm seems three days for each movement, which is considered toxic from food remnants in the body here.
The Western diet pattern, with a high meat proportion, and low fiber, was born out of climate compulsions, icy winter meant no vegetables could grow.
And media has been a big influence, promoting convenience food, and what can be called 'food porn', showing food which contains an amount of fat best decribed as grease.
And the ingredients focus on a high proportion of high fat foods (bacon, sausage, marbled steak and so on). And heart attack inducing amounts of cheese.
Another difference is in cooking technique, we do not deep fry meat except fish (less than 2 minutes, thin cuts), nor do we have charring techniques as used on steaks.
Kebab is cooked on rod like things, fairly thin layer of mince allows a short cooking time. Even disk kebab is shallow fried for a shorter time than in Western styles.
You can look at Japanese, Chinese and Korean food also, if you are curious.
But as mentioned above, a topic which can be a source of conflict, and in any case a long term plan.
The images do look bad, you do need surgery, ask around, find a hospital with experienced doctors who can do it in a minimally invasive way, because the open surgery may see you in a support collar for what may seem a long time.
As for vaccines, they are part of the reason for the population explosion, before that it was common for children to die young, so people had more kids...now they tend to survive longer.
So yes, they are very useful, and if you know a polio or tetanus patient, or have had to have rabies vaccination, you will realise it is essential.
There are people who do not believe in vaccines, and even those who say Covid was biological warfare...but they are entitled to their opinion.
In sum, best of luck, be very careful, this will mean changes in your life style, you may not be comfortable, but you will have to get used to them.
Agreed, the idea of the diet is to allow the body to heal faster and stronger on the cellular level, macro injuries still need some mechanical assistance.
No need for that, Steve Kirsch covers quite a lot of the data analysis, Ivor Cummins goes into detail of the mechanisms of cholesterol, Aseem Malhotra on statins etc - there's a whole population of health professionals and experts who fell out of favour with the corporate narratives about health - which - like the sugar industry - appear to be mainly focussed on profit, and hence infkuence politics. E.g. Andrew Bridgen MP, demonised for simply reeling of lists of inconvenient facts and data that bucked the political winds of the times. Beautiful old souls like Vernon Coleman have also suffered this way.
The problem is that the pharma influence has polarised the discussion on much of health, made it very political - dividing families and causing great emotional harm - it's a huge, emotive, divisive subject, which is why I try to avoid this type of push-pull argument, many people are true believers in big pharma: I'm not going to be able to change that.
Thanks for your understanding.
Yes. I see vaccines as both useless and dangerous. That's my researched opinion, that's all 🙂.
Cancer (and autism) were extremely rare before vaccines, Clif High writes about the SV40 Polio vaccine's effects upon him and his family. This stuff is all documented.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK221112/
I'm not going to lead you down the rabbit hole but the invention, use and effects of the polio vaccine, trotted out as the 'example' are 'somewhet different' to that advertised, and the real cause of polio is also another rabbit hole.
The safety testing of these items is also rather controversial: in general it's compares to another vaccine - i.e. the placebo is not a true placebo. it's like comparing amplifiers, instead of comparing the Hifi to the live instrument... it has value, but it's not reality.
In the 1980s vaccine discussions were common, even Jim Carey chatted about it. Then the MMR came along and the high politicized attack on Dr Andrew Wakefield occurred. His crime? For pointing out that the mercury caused a gut problem, that caused the brain to become malnourished, causing autism. he never claimed the MMR directly caused it - he merely pointed out the indirect mechanism he say in his patients.
His wife, Elle Macpherson was also lambasted - she had the temerity to recover from cancer without chemo or radiation treatment. Look them up on the internet, and marvel at the sheer volume of fact check websites and vilification - for two people who simply said the wrong thing - said what they saw and what they did.
My conclusion therefore is that I have my views, based on data: But these views are politically unpopular, due to the influence of the companies making the money. I guess it's like the HiFi magazines always finding the big advertisers stuff is superb - but on a rather bigger and more important scale.
Anyway, thanks for your time, I'll get back to my transistors and tubes now 😀
Difficult subject. I know the value of vaccines as I travelled in areas where one could be infected with quite some diseases. I think one is very happy to have them when people around are infected and you see the effects. I know a medical person that got infected with HPV and he has returning cancer as a result.
Until the vaccine-that-can-not-be-spoken-of that was. After a mass vaccination I was very very ill for months (way more ill compared to the virus-that-can-not-be-spoken-of that I of course also got) and instead of any help I got a telephone call that I probably/maybe/possibly had a new variant of the disease I was vaccinated against. No access to doctor or hospital! Only recently it was admitted I was by far not the only one in my area and many are still not OK.
Anyway as a trained professional with many certifications and immense field experience in both technical and medical sectors I can attest we are all going to die with 100% certainty. This is the result of intensive scientific research and supported by international fellow scientists and various papers.
Until the vaccine-that-can-not-be-spoken-of that was. After a mass vaccination I was very very ill for months (way more ill compared to the virus-that-can-not-be-spoken-of that I of course also got) and instead of any help I got a telephone call that I probably/maybe/possibly had a new variant of the disease I was vaccinated against. No access to doctor or hospital! Only recently it was admitted I was by far not the only one in my area and many are still not OK.
Anyway as a trained professional with many certifications and immense field experience in both technical and medical sectors I can attest we are all going to die with 100% certainty. This is the result of intensive scientific research and supported by international fellow scientists and various papers.
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