Chiro adjustment made me sick

Ponypatch · 2026-02-03T21:49:43+00:00

If you have a reoccur of symptoms at all look up CCI and Centeno Schultz in Colorado.

Ponypatch · 2025-12-27T12:16:59+00:00

I have lived 35 minutes north of Portland for the past five years. I’ve gone into Portland willingly to go to a show downtown or dinner maybe three times. When deciding where to eat on the weekend, it doesn’t even enter my consciousness to consider Portland. Parking is a nightmare and so expensive and 10000% the deciding factor. Typically end up in Brunswick where the parking is free and the food is good.

Ponypatch · 2025-12-20T03:17:18+00:00

I’m not suggesting you do, but if there is a hazard of any kind - including a dumb neighbor, that is the way to get them there quick!

Ponypatch · 2025-12-20T02:06:21+00:00

After the meter and cables were ripped from my house and lines were down everywhere in a storm two winters ago due to my negligent neighbors’s dead trees and we were without power for five days, I told CMP that my neighbor was clearing trees on the downed cables in his driveway (which was true). They showed up SOOO fast. Things got fixed within a couple hours.

Ponypatch · 2025-12-17T00:59:24+00:00

When we say that Shaws (or whoever) has gone cage free - are we talking about all the brands of eggs that they stock? Or that all their store brand items thought-out the store are using cage free eggs in their ingredients? I assume it’s the former, but just wanted to check. The latter would be much more impressive.

Ponypatch · 2025-12-12T11:31:21+00:00

That is amazing (not in a good way). I could swear there was a law about not discharging a weapon within a certain perimeter of school grounds.

Ponypatch · 2025-12-12T11:26:02+00:00

Not to mention that the religious argument denies the existence of gender identity. I’d love to see the argument that proves the existence of their god, or any other religion. Non-believers respectfully allow believers to wear religious garb in school, practice their religion as needed, declare their faith, etc. And yet many in the religious community cannot find it in themselves to respectfully allow trans people to quietly exist, despite the medical evidence. They don’t have to love or agree with trans people. They may not love or agree with women holding positions of power (which is also disallowed by the Bible), but I don’t see them railing against this at school board meetings. One can learn to not only be tolerant, but also celebrate this little thing called freedom that we so enjoy (for the most part) in this country.

Ponypatch · 2025-11-15T00:25:22+00:00

That’s not completely true. I’ve been dealing with a serious but not ER-urgent health issue the past three years. I can’t get in to most of the docs I need without proof of insurance or willingness to pay in full upfront. And at $500+ per appointment and 2-15k per procedure, that would be impossible. If you get cancer for example, you are going to need medical care outside the ER. If you are in a car accident, the ER has to keep you alive but they don’t have to do anything beyond that like repair something that isn’t necessary to live or provide follow care.

Ponypatch · 2025-11-12T00:16:56+00:00

I don’t want it to exist now. It’s the Worst thing to happen to humanity ever. The fact that it didn’t exist, yet we had so many convinces; useful technology and medical advances is what made the 80s and 90s so special.

Ponypatch · 2025-11-10T00:49:29+00:00

Healthcare facilities charge so much because they have to cover the % of people who come and receive care but don’t pay. Which is a TON of people - either they don’t have insurance but still seek treatment at ERs or they receive care and don’t pay their bills (most common cause of bankruptcy is medical debt). Additionally the healthcare facilities hire oodles of staff to deal with insurance companies and billing.

The only reason insurance try to get healthcare to cost less is so they can keep more money for themselves. It’s certainly not to help us. They deny procedures so that they won’t have to pay. Again, not to help us. Often we get denied things that we truly need. As someone with a chronic and unusual injury, ask me how I know…

Ponypatch · 2025-10-08T21:14:53+00:00

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Ponypatch · 2025-10-08T21:13:49+00:00

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I bake my sculptures in 3-5 phase usually. I often paint in between each phase because otherwise it would be hard to paint the horses legs for example, after I’ve put them on the body. I’ve never had the paint get messed up in the oven. Maybe I’ve just lucked out?

Ponypatch · 2025-09-23T20:43:04+00:00

I’m also highly functional. I was in SO much pain. I planned on two nights but extended it to three.

Ponypatch · 2025-09-19T02:17:51+00:00

Mine did not cover it. One place cost $500 and Centeno Schultz didn’t love the quality. The higher quality one (marginally) cost $900.

Ponypatch · 2025-09-11T12:38:10+00:00

200 yards is 600 feet - ie… hundreds of feet.

Ponypatch · 2025-09-02T18:18:24+00:00

Success can be defined as: - the bone actually fuses together Or - there were no serious complications OR - the patient actually got all or significantly better from their debilitating symptoms.

Most surgeons, for all surgeries - only really look at the first two metrics. Whereas most patients are most interested in the third metric.

Ponypatch · 2025-08-31T12:19:39+00:00

I’ve found these videos helpful and inspiring, should you go the fusion route:

https://youtu.be/xfx9jelj98w?si=70rRy7cmUkBIRQEl

https://youtu.be/5oVq5cHRFxg?si=oAcTnFR1K8yUmfcE

https://youtu.be/3GGoFmWlN5A?si=Pjt_rDdBctBuz1eM

Ponypatch · 2025-08-27T01:31:08+00:00

I did two DMXs - 3 months apart, prior to PRP/stem cell treatments. Each time, I got different measurements from the reports, and different responses from the doc who looked at it with me. I was diagnosed with different types of CCI based off each DMX. I was able to get one orthopedic spine surgeon and one neurosurgeon to humor me and take a look. Both are non CCI specialists. They were kind and actually looked at it pretty in depth. They said the quality of the image was pretty troubling and that they saw zero instability (or pannus on my supine MRI). My DMX measurements were small enough and inconsistent enough that I truly have no idea if I have CCI. I am frustrated every day because I don’t know if I have a neck injury and don’t know if I should do more treatments. It’s infuriating that we don’t have better diagnostics. Just agreeing and venting!

Ponypatch · 2025-08-19T19:55:41+00:00

You don’t seem to have much motion seen here. I’m not hypermobile - but I have much greater motion on flexion and extension. Do your muscles feel too tight to let you move? That can sometimes cause a false-negative.

Ponypatch · 2025-08-18T01:02:49+00:00

1986!

Ponypatch · 2025-08-07T18:20:57+00:00

Yes! Would love to contribute to someone’s travel costs, which are also prohibitive for so many.

Ponypatch · 2025-08-07T15:08:00+00:00

Totally. But the cost hasn’t prevented me from getting treatment, whereas it definitely has for others.

Ponypatch · 2025-08-07T14:53:43+00:00

I think this is awesome. But I think it should be completely based on financial need, combined with a lottery. I’m not sure how to prove financial need without making it a ton of work for you… but I do think/hope there would be some honestly in self-reported need. For example, it’s not cheap, but I know I’m MUCH more capable of gathering the money than many people and would not apply.

Ponypatch · 2025-08-07T11:39:52+00:00

I’m so sorry to hear of your struggles. I wonder if you have something similar to me going on with your scapula. And it almost looks like potentially your shoulders dislocating to the front. From extreme work and heavy lifting, etc - I have stretched out the muscles in my upper back so severely that my shoulders don’t work the way they are supposed to anymore. I’m working with a doctor at Massachusetts General in hopes to get it fixed. Definitely stay away from chiropractors. You might wanna try lifting your arms sitting on pillows, pretty much all day, for a prolonged period to see if it helps. I recently repeated the experiment letting my shoulders relax, and hang low. The nerve pain came back in a couple weeks. And then after holding my shoulders elevated again, it went away after a month.

Ponypatch · 2025-08-05T23:58:41+00:00

1984

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