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Lorraine Chanon
Dec 31, 2025
I was not into chiropractors. I was one of those people who internally rolled my eyes when someone mentioned their chiropractor. In fact, when my Rolfing person told me three times something was off about my hip and I should see a chiropractor, I ignored him twice. I had been feeling hip pain for years. PT hadn't helped, massage hadn't helped, yoga hadn't helped, the list went on. I started thinking it was the result of getting older. But then the pain would hit...a certain position in a stretch, or sitting cross-legged, or warrior's pose or walking long distances, and then the pain was about a nine. Of course, I could just change my position or walk less or ice it - so what was the big deal. But it definitely wasn't going away - or so I thought. So I went to see Dr. Michael. I was highly skeptical. After he did the scans and told me my right hip was an inch higher than my left, I still wasn't convinced. That was the first visit. The next visit he adjusted me. At first, I just felt a bit light headed. See, I told myself, nothing changed. But then over the weekend, I noticed something wasn't there. The pain in my hip. I couldn't believe it. I was stretching that same stretch and just waiting for the ever present pain. And...it didn't show up. I think I was in shock. When I went back the next day to "commit or not commit", I literally had to sit myself down and say to myself - "Do you want a pain free life or do you want to continue to be gritting your teeth?" Because it's not just the money, in the beginning I needed to come three times a week. Was I really willing to commit? Of course I said yes. I was pain free for the first time in years...how could I say no to that? Yet the hip pain was only one change! Every few weeks something else that I thought was inevitable part of me seemed to fall away. For over thirty years I had GI issues that limited my food intake to the least interesting items on the menu like skinless chicken and fatless fish. I just accepted this and if I did try something "interesting" I knew the consequence would be bloating, cramping and hours of discomfort into the wee hours of the morning. A few weeks into the adjustments, I ate BBQ chicken wings off the grill with the skin on. Usually disastrous, but they were so good! That night I slept uninterrupted. No way! Another shock! So I decided to experiment - what about garlic? what about raw onion? what about fried foods? I was eating things I hadn't permitted myself in YEARS!! But none of it was reacting like it used to. Did I burp after the raw onion? Yes, but it was not 5 hours of discomfort, tossing and turning and dosing myself with large amounts of Gas-X and any other antacid that was handy. I took one Gas-X, and I slept through the night. Thirty years of suffering, gone! I still don't believe it! Another change is my ability to work out. I love swimming but if I did 1400 yards that afternoon and the next day it was like I had run a marathon. My body felt depleted and spent. I needed multiple naps to recover. I couldn't get enough electrolytes into my body. These days I am only limited by time. I can easily do 2000 yards and feel fine for the rest of the day and the next. My body just seems to be working better. So does my brain, I've been taking on projects that I used to avoid because they seemed too stressful. Why do something today if I could put it off to tomorrow? As a result, I haven't sent holiday cards in years. This year, holiday cards sent. Plus, I'm taking on the hard things, like my will. It doesn't seem as daunting. Which is why I'm writing this review on New Year's Eve. Because I chose to get help from Dr. Michael with healing my body. I don't need any resolutions. I already know this year is going to be amazing.