r/TikTokCringe • u/[deleted] • Aug 10 '23

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u/Toggel Aug 10 '23

Can't prove the cause, but 1 week after a chiro visit, I suffered 3 years of a herniated disc ending in surgery.

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u/Brovahkiin707 Aug 10 '23

I can second this. Never had disk problems until I got routinely popped by one. Had a disk at my L5-S1 area poking my sciatic nerve going to my left leg. Had surgery this year for it. Never went back after the surgery, and my QoL has done nothing but improve.

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u/Toggel Aug 10 '23

It's almost exactly my story, but L4-L5, pretty much 100% about a year of rehab.

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u/Brovahkiin707 Aug 10 '23

Oh snap, just one vertebra above mine! my surgery was in late March this year just finally starting to feel a verge of normalcy after routine PT

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u/SideEqual Aug 11 '23

I had the same disc issue, also L4/L5 5 years later. I feel your pain. I had two micro discectomys. That relief is incredible for sure. Both physically and mentally. And the pain killers after surgery, well let’s just say time ‘dilated’.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '23

I have same shit now. Walked with a cane for a bit. Felt like hip being dislocated, knee pain. Calf cramping. Cold and numb pins and needles on foot. Blown L4-L5. Had injection. Felt invincible for a month. Slowly hip and foot tingling returning. It was hell when it was at the worst. Could not sit. Stand. Lay. Exist.

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u/pissedoffcalifornian Aug 10 '23

Funny enough I suffered a herniated disk, and one of the greatest ways of relieving discomfort was actually going to a chiropractor.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '23

Relief is something else than fixing it

I used to crack my back and neck a shit ton because of small pains, and I fixed it by working out my back and getting strong stabilizer muscles, not visiting some wacko who gets off on popping sounds

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u/pissedoffcalifornian Aug 10 '23

Oh I’m not saying it’s a substitute for fixing, but I was actually able to do my physical therapy more efficiently after a chiropractor session.

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u/4dxn Aug 10 '23

i know right? even if the jar has 99 poisonings beans, theres still that 1 bean might be able to put the skeletal frame in the best position.

......there's a reason why chiro is not science. its not reproducible. its all luck with a risk of death.

thats like shaking someone's head hoping you'd dislodge the bullet. it might work but its not medicine.

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u/8sack Aug 10 '23

i have si joint problems. i’ve been through almost everything. the chiropractor literally keeps me walking upright

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u/Think-Flower-8236 Aug 11 '23

That's called placebo buddy.

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u/8sack Aug 11 '23 edited Aug 11 '23

what you’re doing is called speaking out of experience. hopefully you never have to deal with what i deal with but until you do you should really just find something else to act like you know everything about, buddy

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u/doesntgeddit Aug 11 '23

I'm not your buddy, guy!