Homeopathic Medicines/Remedies For Sciatica (Herniated Disk): – Remission or Cure?
INTRODUCTION:-
I started this blog to share my experiences of some Homeopathic Treatments or Cures. There are two ailments that specifically prompted me to start this blog, ie. Herniated Disc (Sciatica) and Kidney Stones (Calculi). I have encountered only four people, including myself, that I know, have suffered excruciating pain from Herniated Disk/Sciatica. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. I am a Strong advocate of Home Cure or Homeopathic Treatment, if it’s just as effective as a treatment in a hospital.
Now, I can do my best to describe here what causes Herniated Disc (Sciatica) but I think my friends at The Mayo Clinic do a better job than I possibly can. So, if you don’t mind, I will pause here and send you over to them. If you prefer reading, then check out The Mayo Clinic, otherwise, there is a video at The Spinal Health website. Come back here after you have acquainted yourself with the basics at either site. Now, for those of us who do not need any introduction, let’s continue with the narrative.
ONSET:-
My first experience with Sciatica (Herniated Disk) occurred on the morning of July 22, 1998. I had just arrived at the Voice Stream (now T-Mobile) Office, at 3800 Ezell Rd., Nashville, Tennessee after driving just 1.7 miles from my apartment. As I bent low to key-in the entry code to unlock the side door, my knees gave way and down they went to the concrete floor. The laptop and its bag strapped on my left shoulder helped to drag me down in a flash. I couldn’t get up so while on my knees, I opened the door and let myself in. I was on all fours all the way to my chair and lifted myself up with my left arm on my desk and my right hand on my chair. After I sat down, I become a contortionist leaning both my torso and butt to the left. I felt a sharp pain travel down my left butt cheek, ran down my left inner thigh all the way to the back of my left knee where the painful sensation dissipated into oblivion down my left calf. Several times I prodded my inner left thigh with the tip of my right index finger trying to locate the pain as one does locating a muscular pain. I could not locate the pain but it was there and still hurting. Weird…Really weird. That was my first encounter with pain caused by Her/His Highness Nerves.
I was very alarmed thinking that I was on my way to being paralyzed. With my hands on the desk, I raised myself from the chair and stood up. I told my boss, Rob Jensen, what had just happened to me. He told me to go the hospital. I, however, called Dr. Dixon Gardner, my doctor. The receptionist told me to come over and wait in line if I didn’t mind. Well, I didn’t mind so I got ready to go. First I had to recreate what happened at the door, so, I bent forward and lowered my head. Well, my knees didn’t buckle this time, so I kept going lower and lower trying to touch my toes like I used to while maintaining stiff knees. I could not touch my toes because the pain prevented me. I walked out of the office slowly with the “Elephant Man’s” gait to my car and got behind the steering wheel. I sat on my right butt cheek and the side of my right thigh. I noticed something strange. I actually felt better contorted like that as that position would initially produce more short pains and cease. What? Yes, it’s strange but that’s how Sciatica rolls. The more pain you illicit by contortion, the more you can comfortably maintain that position because you no longer feel any pain after the initial pain. It’s like programming the body to be immune to the pain by virtue of body posture. So you keep searching for all locations that cause pain by assuming different body postures.
DIAGNOSIS & FIRST AID: I arrived at 707 Youngs Lane, Nashville, TN seventeen minutes later. Dr. Dixon Gardner examined me in the late morning and sent me off with a Naproxen Sodium prescription. Rosie, the nurse, booked an appointment for me to see the people at the Outpatient Diagnostic Center two days later at 337 22nd Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee to do a CT Scan. The result confirmed the doctor’s initial diagnosis. Since, my Herniated Disk was in an initial stage, he told me to continue with the 800mg of Naproxen Sodium and sent me off on my merry way but to contact him as soon as I noticed any adverse change in my condition.
For two and half days I doped myself with that poison. Whenever the effect of the Naproxen Sodium wore off, the pain came back with a vengeance. I said to myself that I just couldn’t stay on that med for the rest of my life. Something has to and MUST give. Coincidentally I called a lady friend in Newark, New Jersey on the third night of that 800mg poison. I told her about my pain. She didn’t let me finish my story and said she had suffered the same fate. She had seen an Indian doctor who advised her to take BORAGE OIL (Omega-6 Fatty Acid) Supplements. She did and she was now pain free. She told me which brand to buy – SOLGAR SUPER GLA (Omega-6) 300mg. That same night, I drove to The Vitamin Shoppe at 3904 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville, Tennessee and bought a bottle of my saviour. Three days and just three capsules later (one capsule a day), I was One Hundred Percent Free of pain. Yeeeeehaaaaaaaw!!! I could bend with straight knees and touch my toes. I would spread my legs, bend low, then swing with my right finger tips, to touch my left toes and switch and touch my right toes with my left finger tips. Yes, I got my mojo back. So, I called Newark and gave her my joyous testimonial. She was happy for me and happy that she played a significant part in my treatment and cure or remission. My next report was to Dr. Dixon. So, I threw the rest of the Naproxen Sodium away. Well, Dr. Dixon is no longer with us. The nurse working with Dr. Dixon impressed me by her genuine concern in my plight so much that we still keep in touch to this very day…almost twenty-four (24) years (Today is March 23, 2022) and counting.
NOTE: I did not consult Dr. Dixon before taking the Super GLA Borage Oil. You should contact your doctor if you want to give the Super GLA a try. Don’t be a hard head like me.
TREATMENT & REMISSION/CURE:-
Like a fool, I stopped popping the Super GLA also. Two weeks later, I felt the pain coming back so I went back to the Borage Oil capsules, this time, on a two-capsule daily dosage till I emptied the bottle. Now, while I was on the Borage Oil treatment, I started a research on the internet to learn more about this “magical” oil. I found out that I had to balance it with another Essential Fatty Acid — an Omega-3 Oil. Either Flaxseed Oil or Fish Oil (Salmon, Krill or Mackerel). Well, since Borage Oil is plant based, I opted for the Flaxseed Oil just to stick with the plants instead of the Fish Oil (animal based). Please don’t get me wrong. They are equally good. I just prefer the plants. My continued research led me to Vitamin E laced with Selenium which acts as a catalyst so that the body may absorb more of the Borage Oil into the blood stream. So, I bought both the Flaxseed and Vitamin E/Selenium and finished off all three bottles. I went pain free for over six months without a single capsule of Borage Oil and then I bought another round of my “three musketeers”, popped a set of them whenever I wanted so as to finish them before the expiration dates caught up with me.
Today is March 13, 2022 and I am still One Hundred Percent pain free. That’s almost twenty-four (24) years and counting. Am I cured or is it in remission? I don’t know. Either way, I am a Happy Camper. On February 2, 2022 I had a CT Scan done to check on my Precious…eh I mean my Kidney Stones. The stones were nowhere to be found, but the radiologist confirmed my enlarged prostate and NOTHING about a Herniated Disk. The absence of the kidney stones is also due to a Homeopathic Treatment/Remedy on my part. Sometimes I go for a year or more without a single capsule of Borage Oil and I am still able to touch my toes, wiggle my body “just a little bit” on the dance floor without ANY pain.
TIMING:
Please note that the effective Homeopathic Medicine / Remedy for my Sciatica (Herniated Disk) commenced within one week of the onset of my ailment.
In early 2017, sometime after my contract at AT&T in Framingham, Massachusetts, ended, one of my coworkers, Ernesto, a muscle-toned young man told me in a telephone conversation that he was suffering from Herniated Disk. Immediately, I advised him to try my Homeopathic Medicine/Remedies. Let me note here that I didn’t and don’t know if he followed my advice to a “t”. After about four or so months, I checked on him. He told me that my Homeopathic Medicines/Remedies did not work for him so he was going to undergo that dangerous Sciatica surgery to take him out of his misery. Well, “bara boom, bara bim”, he ended up in a wheel chair after the surgery. I don’t know if he is still in a wheel chair. We lost contact.
REFLECTION:-
Brainstorming on Ernesto’s case makes me wonder if the Borage Oil Homeopathic Medicines or Remedy only works on one week old Herniated Disk, as such as it was in both my lady friend’s case and mine or could it work on a few weeks old Sciatica. If so, what is the maximum number of weeks the Herniated Disk/Sciatica should fall within in order to respond to the daily 300mg. dose of Borage Oil as a Homeopathic Treatment? Then again if Ernesto had doubled or tripled the daily dosage for a month or two, would that have made a difference? This could be a good research/thesis for a student of Neurosurgery to come back and give us a solid conclusion.
So, if someone has any information on a Borage Oil as a Homeopathic Medicine for Sciatica Treatment, please, send in a word or testimonial as to its effectiveness or otherwise. Let’s share the knowledge.
CONCLUSION:-
Essential Fatty Acids such as Borage and Flaxseed Oils have properties that are effective against several ailments. At the top of my list is Inflammation which equates to Pain, followed by High Blood Pressure and Diabetes but not necessarily in that order. Please do your own research online and see the extensive lists for all four of the supplements I have listed in this blog.
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Stay Well and Good Luck!!!
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