Summary of adulthood to age thirty

In high school, I slipped on ice and landed hard on my back. I wasn't healing from it, and started taking ibuprofen pretty regularly to get through my days of school, work, and play. I tried a session of chiropractic care, but it didn't help, and I decided not to try it again for many years. It was the beginning of a long life of physical pain and challenging fatigue.

When I was 18, I had an incident in which a horse 'ran over' me. Its chest hit my head as it was galloping, and knocked me through the air out of its path. I was knocked unconciouss for a few moments, and sustained minor injuries. I didn't recover well from the head and neck issues, and had quite a few tests done to prove that no permanent damage was lurking. I had a migraine and neck/shoulder pain for a year, and went to physical therapy to help.

A year later, I was in a car collision, and my neck was reinjured. Eventually, I sought more physical therapy. Back then it consisted of massaging the triggerpoints, ultrasound, and moist heat with electrode therapy. It was pretty relaxing.

I seemed to heal a while after these stressors, it just seemed to take forever to feel normal. In my mid-adulthood I suffered more physical injuries, and found it took even longer to heal. Physical therapy, at that point, involved excersizing and building the muscles. I didn't heal as well, nor did it last.

In my mid-twenties, my stomach troubles reached an all-time high. I had my first upper g.i. test, was given my first script for acid reflux, and have been taking some sort ever since.

I began being in pain much more frquently, and seemingly without cause, as I approached 30. I worked long hours, and enjoyed being a work-a-holic, as it was a great distraction from the pain of daily living. Once I reached 30, and after finding some much-needed online research tools, I made the brave decision of needing to find the keys to unlock the mysteries within.