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  Spinal steroid injections.

  by BrentR in

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  last wed i got a spinal epidural steroid injection and for the first time in many years i am back pain free.

  i am curious as to how many people have had them that experienced an improvement or did not.. i am a licensed massage therapist and i work in conjunction with a chiropractic clinic.

  we see most people after they have tried most or all of the traditional medical treatments and have not had any relief.

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  wozadummy

  Yes that's right it's called Prolotherapy and a course of closely timed injections must be done to benefit ,it's been 5 years since my last series and it's only now that I can start to fell a bit uncomfortable from time to time.

  I've always done daily stretching exercises and strength exercises to keep in tone . This ,like other treatments is not a cure but a pain relief strategy , but the pain is always there but with strategies such as these it can help to manage pain and strengthen surrounding areas to support the damaged area. Even when driving I do pelvic tilts almost unconscienctiously so I can enjoy a degree of health fitness.

  one thing I did not mention before was that with lower back damage it can spasm the muscles so much that I developed tumors (non cancerous) in the pain area the size of half boiled eggs. A sports therapist used to massage me and burst them with his thumbs, I used to go home a wreck , but since I had the prolotherapy none have come back.

  Always keep up exercise and never sit too long ,that has helped too, I hope this helps someone.
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  WHy is King David Always held up as a great guy?

  by zack in

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  some of blondie's comments on her wt review makes me post this question.

  the wt always holds up david as a great.

  they love him.

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  wozadummy

  Well David lost his son in death coz Jehovah wanted to punish David and he had too much blood on his hands to build the temple ......he's a hard god to understand is'nt he?

  I could not understand how Jehovah thought he was good enough to rule his Kingdom and reject Saul who never came close to David's hateful selfish deciet!

  And CRUMPET your looking ravishing in your new look!
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  Spinal steroid injections.

  by BrentR in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  last wed i got a spinal epidural steroid injection and for the first time in many years i am back pain free.

  i am curious as to how many people have had them that experienced an improvement or did not.. i am a licensed massage therapist and i work in conjunction with a chiropractic clinic.

  we see most people after they have tried most or all of the traditional medical treatments and have not had any relief.

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  wozadummy

  I damaged L3-5 in 1989 which crippled me and tried the treatment mentioned here in '93 in hospital. It was the most excrutiating pain I've recieved in treatment! I watched the monitor as the tube was inserted to each point in my spine and it took 4 people to hold me down as they did it. I left the hospital really ill from the horrors of th pain as the fluids compressed in my spine as they did it.

  After a few days I got less pain but it came back with a vengeance a few weeks later .Back to hospital and they said they would now lay me up in hospital in traction for a year after removing 3 disks. Hell no I said and walked out. I guess it does'nt work for everyone but I'm glad it does for some .

  We went nearly broke while I was out of work and had to sell the house as a last ditch attempt to find relief and then finally found a doctor in Queensland Australia who performed Nestfields treatment ,which I had read about in a book. By this time my left side had withered and my face on that side was paralysed and my leg was an inch shorter.

  When I had the first treatment all my feelings came back on my left side and I actually drove 200km to where we were staying! This was impossible before as I could not drive that distance and had to travell as a passenger semi laid back. After 3 more treatments I was ,in time ,back at work as a builder. It does'nt treat the permanent injury but acts on the nerves and muscle tissue in the back and relaxes it so the pain can go. The treatment is where a curved blade is inserted into pain spots in your back or neck ,into muscle tissue and severes the painful frozen nerves so they free up. The doctor who treated me taught some doctors in America how to do it ,and then others here in Oz. Because of my damage he over the years changed to a different treatment to assist the previous work done, but this involves injections of a salt/glucose into the cartilage of the spinal joints which irritates the cartilage to grow and repair itself.

  For those who don't believe in these treatments I show the mess in my Xrays and MRI's and say well I'm still able to work full time at building and I'm no spring chicken!

  I'm sorry if this is off topic but I just am so glad to have told fellow sufferers about this and hope it works for them, I've been to clinics for years and seen people who have had operations to remove disks etc and hardly any after 2 years are virtually pain free but are suffering more than ever.
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  Australian animals and the flood

  by nvrgnbk in

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  how did the kangaroo, the koala bear, and the platypus get from noah's ark to australia?

  how did any animals get to australia for that matter?i know that this has been considered before but i just love asking jws this question.. nvr.

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  I watched a program not long ago and it made mention of the dingo. it suggested that it had similarities with a breed of village dog in Indonesia and that the Aborigines may have brought the dog with them.

  One thing is for sure, it can crossbreed with domestic dogs. So that's one creature ,now what about all the rest? The Platypus, now thats a fascinating creature!

  Sadly alot of our indigenous creatures are disappearing so maybe one day we won't be needing to wonder about their origins anymore for they will be gone. Alot of small ones are going because of the domestic/feral cat. There is a Professor in the Adelaide hills who is big on returning the natural scrub back so the remaining creatures will have a home .He has built a high chain wire fence around the sanctuary to keep the cats out - and you can buy the hides of the cats as novelty items that he has shot from his gift shop!
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  Did the heavenly calling cease in 1935? Not anymore!

  by AnnOMaly in

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  watch out for the questions from readers in the may 1st 2007 watchtower.

  "when does the calling of christians to a heavenly hope cease?

  " it's a good'un.. included are the statements:.

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  wozadummy

  If it is now being emphasized more fully that the annointed are not special ,then don't we then have the right climate to promote some of the great crowd in the writing department to be annointed and then put them on the governing body?

  Thus having a situation of replacements becoming special in preference to any old time annointed baptised before 1935 ,that is if there are any still living? I would have thought that a man annointed and faithful for over 70 years would have more credibility with God than an other sheep who suddenly thinks he is annointed and gets promoted to the governing body from the writing department and is only in his 40's,50's or 60's!
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  Jesus' death

  by Honesty in

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  2. bible

  chapter 6 page 28 paragraph 3 of the revelation book claims that jesus was indeed "the first" human to be resurrected to immortal spirit life.

  (colossians 1:18) moreover, he is "the last" to be so resurrected by jehovah personally.

  this is an outright false teaching from the watchtower society as the biblical evidence proves:.

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  wozadummy

  I agree with Joseph malik ,the only thing unique with Jesus's death was he died sinless whereas Stephen died a sinner ,yet he Chose to martyr himself at the hands of persecuters the same as jesus ,and in that way they had parallel deaths.
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  My JW life.

  by PEC in

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  my sister and i were raised in the "truth", by our mother alone, working for minimum wage.

  as a young child, i remember being give a dollar or two every week to put in the contribution box at the kh, my mother was making $40 to $60 a week and gave that cult $2, plus the gas for fs, plus the cost of books and magazines.

  we had 6 6' tall bookcases all full of the watchtower and awake annual volumes, back to the 50's or 40's, plus every book the wtbts ever published.

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  Thanks PEC that was inspiring
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  Had that darn "weights" dream!

  by MsMcDucket in

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  stupid dream!

  you can't move!

  your body feels like dead weights!

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  I'm sorry MrsMcD for being away so long , I just had to collect my thoughts during the day .Also sorry to hear about your husband but this is something that is unbelievable. It reminds me of a girl I knew when I was a teenager, she had gone out with a freind of mine for a while and he told me ,when they had broken up ,that she had a penchant for some unusual sexual behaviour.

  Well I was asked by her to take her to see a drive-in movie ,and ,borrowing another freinds van we went and reversed it up to see the movie. We had a matress in the back and when I fell asleep I awoke to her doing something that my freind had warned me about - she was there with her pants down and her hand in my pants! Well normally guys would say it was a dream come true but unfortunately I awoke and recalled what my mother used to do to me when I was a little kid ,I was woken up angry and I let her know it.

  We talked about it after I had calmed down and she admitted to me she had this problem of being turned on by fiddling up a man when he is asleep. Apparently my freind used to play upon her desires and pretended to be asleep and she would go thru the whole act! So women do it too.

  I went out with her for a while and she agreed not to touch me like that anymore because it had only been a short time that I actually had been able to have sex with a woman . Up till then I would feel sick if a girl wanted to be intimate with me because it made all my bad memories come back from my mother molesting me.

  It's no real mystery is it that the JW's suck us into a place where we think we are safe from the bad in this world ? Then when I married my second wife she tells me she was molested by her Elder father! And this goes to court this week so we hope to get some justice from the system 'cause she sure did'nt get it from the WTS when we were conned in there.
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  My computer blew up.... Literally!!! BANG!!! :S

  by Elsewhere in

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  2. friends

  i needed to reboot so i did a normal shutdown.

  no big deal.. it shutdown and started to come back up but never got past the post.

  so i rebooted again and got the same thing... i opened it up to see what was going on and noticed there was a lot of dust collected on the cpu cooling fan and fins.

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  WTF ......you left it on ....you are Tim are'nt you ,I used to love your show. If your lucky you might just have blown the fan and PSU ,But I don't like you're chances of having an undamaged hard drive.
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  Had that darn "weights" dream!

  by MsMcDucket in

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  stupid dream!

  you can't move!

  your body feels like dead weights!

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  Thanks for this, it explains what I thought had been something only I had experienced.

  The main time this happened to me I was studying with JW's in 1982 and was under alot of stress at the time making changes to conform ,even imagining voices in my head swearing foul language as I went with my family to Kingdom Hall meetings. Imagining the demons were harrassing me, because of my study conductor telling me so, the stress was exteme, then one night going to bed I suddenly felt huge pressure on my chest and could'nt breath and nearly blacked out. Then I called to Jehovah to protect me as I thought it was demon attack ,and I was released .

  But this was pivotal in me becoming a JW as I had'nt completely accepted god as yet but now I did as I thought he had fought off the demons for me ,so now I thought I had been accepted by god so I gave my whole life over for 20+ years on the basis of this mis understanding!

  I had a lifetime of weird experiences and now because of this post I now am now going to explore more about this mental phenomena and it may lead me to explanations of other events that I had put down to demons !

  I've been seeing shrinks for years and none had suggested any of this as explanations ,they just looked at me weird - shit I despise doctors.

  That Wikipaedia article fitted my experiences ,and that artists picture did it for me ,just what i imagined happened.

  I have lived a fearful life as long as I can remember and if this is what is going on with me my shrink is going to get a talking to for I've told him of my experiences and he gave the usual shrink dumb non commital look.