Something Different

I haven't updated on all of my doctor's appointments recently and thought I would bring everyone up to speed.  Starting around the end of September, the beginning of October, we were making several trips to Wichita throughout the month to see the specialist.  I took a fertility drug for several consecutive months.  After that did not produce the result the doctor was hoping for we switched drugs to a similar, but different drug, and added an injection.  This required even more trips, I was lucky and it worked out that they fell on many of the days I was already off of school.  Unfortunately this drug did not have the desired effects either. 

Back in November my cousin told me about a chiropractor she had seen who had an interesting story.  It intrigued me and made me think about how my body was created to work.  Up until this time, I had never thought about how my body worked in terms of my nervous system.  I was unaware that a nerve coming from my spine could possibly be pinched without me knowing it.  I was also unaware that a pinched nerve could mess with how the rest of my organs worked.  To make a long story short, I made an appointment with this chiropractor, he took some x-rays, and the vertebrae around the nerve going to my reproductive organs were not in place.  Unfortunately driving to Hutchinson 2 to 3 times a week was just out of the question so I started searching for a chiropractor near Herington.

I did a little searching on the Internet and found some information concerning infertility and chiropractic adjustments.  Sadly in the world of infertility there is very little conclusive evidence of anything.  Because every one's bodies work differently and react differently, it is hard for scientists to nail down any hard facts.  However, there was some favorable evidence that acupuncture and chiropractic adjustments may aide in the issue of infertility.

I found a chiropractor near Herington who practices chiropractic care as well as electro-acupuncture.  Electro-acupuncture stimulates the acupuncture points with microcurrent.  I decided to make an appointment with him.  On my first visit I was explaining our story.  He told me in all the classes and meetings he has to go to, in order to keep his license up to date, they've been talking about infertility.  He said there have been a couple of women who have come to him but have lived to far away to continue treatment.  He was excited to treat me and try some of the things he had learned about.  On my last visit he did some tests and there are four supplements my body seems to be low in.  We are going to try taking the supplements and continue treatment to see what happens.  We decided that even if this doesn't produce the results we are hoping for in terms of infertility/miscarriage, my back will be realigned and the lower back pain I have will be gone!!:)

When we were celebrating Christmas with my family my dad was reading parts of the Christmas story.  He was talking about the "appointed time".  Jesus came at the appointed time, at the end of his life he wasn't seized until the appointed time.  God has a plan in our lives and we will continue to walk hand in hand with Jesus every step of the way.