My Personal Story

Living with Chronic Pain

I have been diagnosed with bone spurs, bulging disks, degenerative disk disease and stenosis to my C4-C7 and L4-S1 vertebrates.  These conditions result in chronic neck and lower back pain.  The key treatments offered to me, by Traditional Western Medicine, were/are pain medication as well as cervical fusion of my neck; I will never allow my neck to be fused.

Between 1995 and 1999, while developing and patenting two treatments in neuropathic pain and Parkinson’s, I became addicted to pain medication I used to manage my chronic spinal conditions.  In 1999 addiction to pain medication cost me my license to practice and barred me from owning a pharmacy in the state of California for 3 years. Although this was a difficult time in my life, the hardships were a blessing in disguise. 

Beginning in 2000 with the support of my family and many friends (both personal and professional) I learned how to carefully manage my pain with a combination of energy medicine, nutrition, exercise and disciplined Integrative Medicine.  This combined approach has provided me with a personalized pain management program that helps me addresses the cause as well as the symptoms of my pain. I still suffer with chronic pain but now I am in control of it versus it controlling me.

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