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Who knew making a large batch of bread could change my life?

I suddenly felt a weird pop in my back. I was not sure what had happened, but like many people, I just brushed it off, continuing with my work. I mean come on I was in my twenties; I could handle it.

Next thing I knew I was laying on the floor unable to move. Naturally, I was terrified so went to my doctor for answers and found I had severely strained my back. What?! Strained my back? I was in my early 20s, how in the world could that have happened? I mean I work out and go for long walks and hikes with my dog all the time. I should be at the height of health. Something like this just doesn’t happen.

My doctor than did what all doctors do and wrote me a prescription for Vicodin, and I had an immediate flashback to an article I had stumbled across a couple years prior, while studying for my undergrad. For one of my class assignments, I was looking for a topic to research and found an article was discussing how dependent our society had become on medications. I have always been passionate about healthcare and was working as an STNA at the time, but I never really thought about the medicine cart until I read this article.

At the time of its publication, the average American was taking almost 30 different prescription medications, and not all the medications actually treated the initial ailment. Many of them were merely prescribed to help manage the side-effects of the others. It was mind blowing and a real eye-opener for me.

Every day, while working in a nursing home, I would watch the nurse would push around this cart that contained all the medications for each of the residents. I would often stop and talk with the nurse at times, observing as they prepared the medications, but did not really think much of it. After reading the article, I found myself paying attention to it more. There were times the nurse would hand patients medicine cups that were filled to the brim with medications for who knows what. I know a few of the pills were probably for a specific ailment, but how many of them were just there to counteract the effects of the others? How many medications were they taking for just one ailment?

Was this going to be the start for me going down that road? Taking a pill to help my back pain, then another to counteract the effects of it? Or constant changing of medications until we found the right one? How much effect will these chemicals have on me? The one thing I did know was this medicine would only mask my issues, but not solve the problem.

I knew there had to be a better way. So, I turned to chiropractic for help and found not only did I strain my back that day, but my spine had become misaligned as well. After a few adjustments, I noticed a big improvement with my pain and got me back on track, but it still was not enough to make it completely go away.

I dug some more and completely devoted myself to understand what alternative healthcare options that were out there. It was then that I first heard of acupuncturist Marysville Ohio and I found it absolutely fascinating, but I wasn’t too sure about trying it. I mean I was terrified of needles at the time and how would allowing someone to place them all over me be any help? By this time, however, like many of you, I was at my whit’s end and decided to give it a shot.