Fibromyalgia

Testimony of Lana Nelson

Once upon a time, I owned a dental laboratory and made dentures.

Early one morning as I was delivering a set of dentures in my small delivery car I was involved in a life altering car wreck. As I slowed down seeing a wreck in front of me, a semi truck crashed into the back of my car.

 I sustained head injury and whiplash neck injuries. My morning delivery ended with a bloody head and an ambulance ride to an emergency room.

Over the next ten years I tried to find a cure for the pain. I was prescribed muscle relaxers and pain pills for the constant headaches and body pain I was in, from my head to the soles of my feet. I thought drugs were supposed to cure the pain, I really thought that was what drugs were for. I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. There wasn’t much known about it.

I had severe TMJ problems and went through treatments from having dye injected into my jaws to months of wires across my mouth, and years of splint therapy and orthodontics to try to correct the problem.

Physical therapy took up a lot of my time and it was finally determined by occupational retraining experts that there was no job that I could be retrained for because of the pain I was in.

I was sent to neurologists for the throbbing headaches and seizure like spells.The last neurologist I was referred to put me through many of the same tests that I had already been through, but he really examined my neck and back. My neck had been thrown into a reverse curve from the wreck and it was very painful to turn my head. This neurologist told me that he believed the headaches and pain were coming from my neck and back. He referred me to a chiropractor.

The Chiropractic treatments helped ease the headaches but still I would still have other pain. The headaches would return.  I started a search for help in the natural field. I was Rolfed and I had massages weekly. I poured over nutrition and herb books, did juicing cleanses, fasting, I slept on a slant board and took massage classes. I consulted a Naturopathic Doctor for bowel problems that had developed since the car wreck.

One day I said to my friend, “I should marry a chiropractor; I am seeing one three times a week!”

I do believe that the universe gives you what you want. I met Bruce on a blind date. Not only was he a Chiropractor, but he specialized in Fibromyalgia, and he was handsome.

Two weeks after Dr. Bruce treated me I was out of pain, no headaches, no bowel problems, and I had full motion in my neck. My shoulders stopped throbbing and the deep pain that seemed to go to the bone in my arms was gone and my arms stopped going numb. The pain in my feet that felt like I was walking with rocks in my shoes was gone. I was out of bed early in the morning feeling like I did when I was a kid. The TMJ problem was gone. I could open my mouth without pain and chew.

The Chiropractor that I went to before I was treated by Dr.Bruce did help me, but when I asked him if he could adjust my neck and back, then why couldn’t he do the same for my jaw? He told me that the jaw was for dentists to work with.

Dr Bruce worked with my whole body and even gave me nutritional supplements. He used TNT – The Nelson Technique to help me be freed from pain,

The year 2011 marks 19 years since I have been free from “Fibromyalgia” pain and headaches. It is gone.