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@miguelvillegas
Hi Migual, I had an operation for spinal stenosis almost 2 years ago. The result was I went from 10 painkillers a day to 5. I was never completely free of pain.
Accupuncture alone helped. About 3 months ago, my accupuncturist suggested that we try a combination of accupuncture and a lazar treatment.
"I'm in heaven."
After the first treatment, I thought, hmm, I'll try a few more. I've been completely painfree for almost 3 months.
I was getting treatments weekly at first, then every two weeks. My accupuncturist went away for three weeks.
When she got back, she asked me how the pain was? I looked at her and said, "what pain?" She repeated her question three times and then I said I hadn't had amy pain while she was gone.
I no longer have back pain. I can sleep briefly on my right side, then it becomes uncomfortable but not painful.
After having a tooth removed from my upper jaw, my lower jaw became extremely painful. My accupuncturist could not do the double treatment because it was too close to my pacemaker. Darn! And triple darn.
As far as lazar goes, my vet has used it on my little 13-year-old Poodle/Bichon Frise as well.
I can't say enough about the accupuncture/lazar treatment. Just don't expect it to work completely after the first few treatments. After about 4, I really noticed the difference. I strongly recommend it. BTW I went up to about 4 painkillers after my tooth was removed. I'm down to about 2 a day now.
I'm not planning on going off the Tramadol/acetomenephen completely. I tried. I'm glad I didn't because the jaw pain was as bad as the spinal stenosis pain.