By Vince F on Wednesday, October 04, 2000 - 11:33 am:

Prolo came up on a Med BB I frequent and I went
to find info for people who it might help and came
across this site so adding my vote for it.

I didn't have it done but wish I would have
when my back goes out and the Dr I knew who did it
has retired.

My mother had it done 40 yrs ago by a surgeon
who gave up cuting when he found the treatment and
he treated her and 4 friends who were in bad shape
and one had had surgery for sciatica that Didn't
work but the Dr trimmed 2 herniated disks that the
prolo Dr said Wouldn't cause her leg pain. He took
Xrays and showed them to us and you could see the
disks had been cut. Her pains came back Worse than
before so she decided to take my recomendation and
had the prolo done and Hasn't had a problem in 20
yrs.

My mom had been hurting since she gave birth and
I was a teen and a Dr told her to stay off her
feet. She was in bed for 1 1/2 Mo and told my dad
to find her a Dr. Dad worked with a guy whose wife
was a nurse at a teaching hospital here in Phila.
She told him, Before you go see anyone else to go
to a Dr who used to be an Orthopedic Surgeon there
and let him look at her. Mom was SO bad she said
she couldn't get on the exam table so he put her
in the hospital and gave her morphine and gave her
his Full treatment at the time of 16 shots. She
said the next day she woke and had some pain so
he gave her more morphine. The next day she said
the pain was gone so he discharged her and she
hasn't had a problem in the 40 yrs since. She is
86 now.

i saw notes about no studies being done or is it
a placebo effect. Who cares if it Works. Drs can't
make the money they can by doing Surgery so why
would they recomend it if they weren't doing it.
I believe in alternative therapies when I can find
them and had an old guy who used to walk around a
BIG park where i used to play tennis. When a knee
started hurting me he told me he took Cod Liver Oil
gelcaps for his arthritis and had been for 7 yrs.
My knees weren't bad but a weight lifting girl
friend said she had arthritis in her wrists. She
tried it and said it was working. I took some
myself and my knees Stoped hurting. I had to take
it for a few yrs but Only one cap when it acted up
and haven't had to take it for 5 yrs now. There
was a physical therapist who played at the courts
so I asked him if he ever heard of it helping and
How could it. He scoffed and asked me if it
Lubricated the joints. I didn't know about the
synovial fluid sacks in the joints and how they
worked and read that Vit D which is in Cod feeds
them so maybe it Does. I didn't think he was That
bright or knowledgable but when i heard he bought
a 400K$ house in the area I realized he didn't
Want to hear about and Simple cures. He can treat
his patients for ages and tell them they Have to
Live with the pains when he can't cure them. I
solved my problem with One 3$ bottle of Cod oil
caps. Had a different knee problem and MSM has
solved that and Fast.

Right now I am lowering my BP with herbal supps.
I was debating on going to a Dr to get on meds but
read about dangers and side effects so decided to
try things myself first and it looks like it's
working.

VF

By Laurie on Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 03:57 pm:

After 2 years of pain in my thoracic spine, most doctors gave me pills and said live with it. Well, I couldnt. I found a prolotherapist who took the time to treat my condition and really figure out what was going on. After 3 treatments I am able to be active again. I am pain free and I cant believe this worked!
Lar

By kim on Sunday, October 22, 2000 - 09:09 am:

laurie, I also have thoracic and cervical pain and am seriously thinking about trying prolotherapy. How did you find a reliable doctor also did you experience pain afterwards? I have heard that botox is used and that the pain can be somewhat overwhelming. Thanks for any help you can give. Kim

By Laurie on Monday, October 23, 2000 - 04:34 am:

Kim

I had pain from a fall I took water skiing, landed right on my upper back. Months before this accident, I woke up with a numb right leg. After months of my procrastination, I went to a doctor who found three cervical ruptured disks pressing on my spinal cord. I immediately had surgery, not knowing about prolotherapy, it may not have helped at that stage of my neck injury anyway. My thoracic pain continued and I got all kinds of diagnoses. A friend of mine was seeing a prolotherpist in Tampa FL and told me to check him out. He felt I had a lot of ligament & rib head damamge and hypermobilty in the area of my pain. I went through 3 treatments, drove 5 hours to receive them, and 6 months later Im improving and even skiing again. The pain afterwards was not as bad as I thought it would be, but I was desperate to take some discomfort to get to this point. Be prepared to rest and not be vigorously active for a while, you will feel swollen and stiff. I still worked, but layed off most activity involving my back. So far Im happy! By the way, read the book pain pain go away or prolo your pain away. Find a doc with a lot of training and experience. My doctor was very good.