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May. 3rd, 2016 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_lucy21 Yesterday, I woke up wheezing, and so clearly, did not go to work. I'm stubborn, but I'm not as reckless as all that.
Today, I am breathing better, but my voice is shot. Nothing hurts, except for some really minor throat irritation, so I don't know what's up with that. It doesn't hurt to talk, it just sounds awful if I try to talk at a normal volume. That can clear itself up any time now.
Tomorrow, I am going to a chiropractor. This isn't the first time- it's probably the fifth- but this one is affiliated with the state university hospital in my city, which is one of the best hospitals in the state, if not the country. So I feel reasonably confident that this guy is going to be on the up and up.
(my wariness of chiropractors is probably somewhat unfair, but my aunt's first husband is a chiro, and he's a pretty awful person, and not a very good chiro, so I am pretty distrustful)
The chiropractor practices in an institute for integrative medicine. They also offer acupuncture, and other holistic treatment options. It's an interesting concept. And again, giant state university hospital, so I feel like they're going to be fairly evidence based. So, if this doesn't work, maybe there are other options within the practice. (It'll probably work temporarily, but my muscles are so tight that they will eventually pull things out of alignment again. It's a matter of how long I get before that happens). Maybe someone there knows what to do with the muscular equivalent of PTSD (no, really. It is apparently a thing. Not a thing that any of my doctors have heard of, but I also haven't been talking to specialists, either).
Today, I am breathing better, but my voice is shot. Nothing hurts, except for some really minor throat irritation, so I don't know what's up with that. It doesn't hurt to talk, it just sounds awful if I try to talk at a normal volume. That can clear itself up any time now.
Tomorrow, I am going to a chiropractor. This isn't the first time- it's probably the fifth- but this one is affiliated with the state university hospital in my city, which is one of the best hospitals in the state, if not the country. So I feel reasonably confident that this guy is going to be on the up and up.
(my wariness of chiropractors is probably somewhat unfair, but my aunt's first husband is a chiro, and he's a pretty awful person, and not a very good chiro, so I am pretty distrustful)
The chiropractor practices in an institute for integrative medicine. They also offer acupuncture, and other holistic treatment options. It's an interesting concept. And again, giant state university hospital, so I feel like they're going to be fairly evidence based. So, if this doesn't work, maybe there are other options within the practice. (It'll probably work temporarily, but my muscles are so tight that they will eventually pull things out of alignment again. It's a matter of how long I get before that happens). Maybe someone there knows what to do with the muscular equivalent of PTSD (no, really. It is apparently a thing. Not a thing that any of my doctors have heard of, but I also haven't been talking to specialists, either).