Yet, when you continue to see your doctors, and refuse drugs that give the same symptoms you already have from the drug's side affects, and you tell the doctor the drugs are poisons that mask the root causes, it's difficult for Western trained doctors to accept.
It's time to heal yourself.
When it comes to concussions, some are long lasting but don't show on CT scans. THERE ARE THOSE CYNICS THAT BELIEVE IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD, AND THE TRUTH IS, IT IS! You just can't see a concussion. A concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury that affects brain function. Effects are often short term and can include headaches and trouble with concentration, memory, balance, mood and sleep.
Concussions can be hard to recognize. I was sent to a concussion specialist who diagnosed me. However the order of tasks I had to follow were incorrect. She pushed me right into P/T, first, and the one therapist she sent me to - very knowledgeable - quit the practice after 2 visits. And I had to travel far causing me stress as I should never have been driving with a convergence insufficiency of the eyes. After the first attempt, the places and people I found were not responsible or helpful. I was sent to an optometrist in Commack, and I couldn't figure out how to get to Commack anymore due to the concussion. When I finally figured it out and found it on Goggle map, it was such a disappointment. I was told I could not have eye therapy with the optometrist until I paid them $1000 for prism glasses. I was living 120% below poverty level with a small mortgage that consumed most of the retirement check from S.S. The story continues with looking for help, and seeing many eye doctors and specialists. None of them helped except for a Pediatric Ophthalmologist who helped me address the double vision but not the blurriness and night halos and blindness while driving. My life had changed, and I couldn't go out after dark, anymore. Winters were tough when trapped indoors after 4:30 PM.
After years of seeing Specialists, Doctors, Physical Therapists, Nurse Practitioners, I'm struggling to take my power and stamina back, but it isn't easy with the dimming vision, gait disturbance, imbalance when walking, and the loss of focus and organizational skills. Things are backing up and becoming scattered on table tops, dressers, and filing tasks incomplete. I need to organize my files and it's too hard with the visual problems and holding a magnifying glass with one hand. I develop migraines over my left eye and have to lay down. I'm at the point that every area needing organization is so difficult to put away when that specific place to store things in also needs organizing. I tackle very small areas, and after 15 minutes, I have to lay down because it's exhausting to keep intentionally holding myself up, and the back pain rears it's ugly head, and I fatigue, and stop working.
January 2024, I developed a chronic cough that was dry and deep, and it hurt my ribcage and heart to continually cough. I finally went to a Pulmonary doctor in July after seeing my Primary Doctor. I made 3 trips to NYU Langone in Huntington. I had extensive blood tests. A PFT - pulmonary function test, and that dreaded CT scan of the lungs. I had a nurse interpret everything not the doctor. I was told to use inhalers and nasal sprays. I had to stop using them. I had very bad reactions especially to the inhaler. No one told me that the Ct Scan picked up an atrophied thyroid. Just because it wasn't related to the lungs, it didn't matter to them? And it picked up part of the liver and the report said I have liver steatosis. These are HUGE oversights by the pulmonary doctor, IMO. I found them!!
And I asked for an ex ray of the spine in 2024 that my Primary Doctor prescribed to show my chiropractor, and ask him why the lower back pain was starting to flare up. That ex ray also showed my gallbladder as an extra bonus - and I have gallstones that I wouldn't have known about. Always get a copy of your radiology reports and READ THEM. You may have conditions that are silent and without symptoms but these conditions can progress without your knowledge. And your doctor never told you until these diseases progressed into stage 4.
One thing negative about seeing a specialist is that they appear to have their head in a compartmentalized box and only see that foot, heart, lungs, eyes, gallbladder, brain, or endocrine system, etc. The great news is they can help you restore, fix and cure diseases with their specialist training.
I also was having flutters or tremors in the chest early in the morning when waking up. I saw my cardiologist. After an EKG, a heart sonogram, a carotid artery sonogram, a RAD Nuclear stress test, I have coronary heart disease. This is ongoing and I won't see the cardiologist until September 19.
I also made an appointment with a Podiatrist in 2024. I had ex rays and was told I have a foot deformity in my arches. And arthritis. And I was prescribed petroleum jelly with chemicals that affect the adrenal glands. I discontinued it. It was suggested I buy special shoes that I cannot afford. I can do special exercises for the feet at P/T and at home.
And this story expands all the way back to October 27 2017 when I had blunt force trauma to the skull moments after I was wheeled out of the surgical unit of a hospital and taken by a Nurse's Aid into the doctor's parking lot. I was pushed through a defective security gate while still under anesthesia, and the gate crashed down on my left skull with torque force by a mechanized machine, and a 4 inch pipe crashed into my head then left shoulder. This caused whip lash. No one explored if I suffered from pituitary dysfunction or damage to the vagal nerve. I had pain in my left jaws well into 2018 and shortness of breath.
This has taken me hours to write. I need to do a few things in the kitchen. (to be continued).
Meanwhile I am now into the next phase of my self healing and today I'm tweaking the strict meal plans I've been on that slowly has led to losing 14 pounds since January 1, 2024. Now I begin recording everything and documenting the new Chinese herbal medicines, Probiotics, Omega fish oils, many other supplements like Ashwagandha into a readable journal.
LWM 2:37 PM Saturday, September 7 2024
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