“Honestly, I felt I was dying.”

      Honestly, I felt I was dying. Fear was beginning to actually get the upper hand. I had tree chronic conditions. The first was bronchial asthma, since I was 3. I used an inhaler at least once a day for most of my life. I had been through 3 bouts with pneumonia and several with bronchitis.

      In 1986, I began what was to be the first of three trips to the emergency rrom for chest pains and an irregular heart beat. Each time I was hooked up to an EKG and determined to be fine. The doctors finally diagnosed chronic heartburn and reflux- a pre-ulcer condition. I began chewing a large bottle of antacids every month and taking prescribed stomach pills (Tagament, Zantac, Antacids). The pain in my sternum was daily, and often debilitating.

      In 1989, I was diagnosed with too much protein in my urine. A biopsy was preformed and I was told I would just have to learn to live with yet another chronic condition, monitoring it throughout the rest of my life because it can lead to kidney failure.

      I was told that all of these conditions were incurable. My frustration was mounting, as I felt chained to drugs and pain. I even felt pain in my kidneys.

      The idea of Chiropractic was never suggested to me. I assumed that Chiropractic dealt mainly with back problems. Then, my boss, John Morgan, began seeing Dr. David for a back problem, but we noticed other side affects. He quit having his morning bouts of sinusitis. He also quit getting colds and flu, which he previously seemed predisposed to. I asked him to ask Dr. David if he thought he could help me.            

      I went in for an examination, and was eager to get help. However, Dr. David said that he did not do any direct healing, but that God had designed the body to heal itself. His job was to see if there were any clogged pipes or kinked hoses interfering with God’s healing process. He merely was creating an environment for God’s healing work to take place. I liked this approach, and elements in my X-rays and stature showed that there were definite problems that did not reflect a normal, healthy spine.

      I know that this is not normal, but after the first adjustment I had immediate relief. I was able to go through the rest of my day without any antacids. This was strange, since my normal intake was at least two before and two after a meal. I also went to bed without taking any antacids and my nightly discomfort in my esophagus was tolerable! After the second adjustment, I felt so good I began pigging out on foods that I couldn’t eat for years. I expected to feel the nightly repercussions, but they never came! I have lost weight because I can go long periods now without eating. Before, when I tried to fast, I would have harrowing pain.

      An added side affect is that my borderline high blood pressure (what the doctors had called it) has improved to normal. I am still on the road to healing, and I no longer feel like I am dying. My urine has returned to a normal color and odor and no more pain! I am so excited not to be bound to the prescription medicines. I haven’t taken any stomach pills since the treatment began. I have only needed to use my inhaler three times. That is incredible. I have gone weeks without using something that I have used all my life.

I thank the Lord Jesus for using Dr. David to put me on the road to healing.

            Thanks Dr. David!

                        -Craig Walsh, III

I would like to tell you my story about how chiropractic care has helped my husband and I regain our health and keep it up.

Starting around May of 1986, I started having pain in my left shoulder and I got a cortisone shot in the shoulder joint to help the pain. It helped for a short while and eventually the pain came back and moved down my entire arm within the year. I endured the pain thinking there was not much to do about it. Later on, another pain started just above my left knee and within nine months, my whole leg was hurting as well as my left arm. I was to the point where I could not even sleep at night because the pain would not cease.

I went through “back classes” to learn how to sit properly and do everything in a correct way, which would cease my pain. I even tried traction, stretching the upper part of my body from the lower part to release the pressure on the sciatic nerve in hopes that the pain would go away. But after months of trial and error, I gave up and endured the pain once more, until one morning in 1992, I could not stand up straight because not only my whole left side hurt, but my lower back was also stiff and hurting.

For a long time, my boss was telling me the benefits of Chiropractic Care, but I told him that I was afraid of it and wasn’t sure I believed in it. But that morning, despite the pain, I showed up to work and told the boss “I am in such pain today that I am willing to try Chiropractic Care at this point.” I was so desperate that I had to trust someone to help me.

And there I was going to the Chiropractor a few times a week for the first three weeks, and believe it or not all the pain of those many years had disappeared. There was no left arm pain or left leg pain and my back was just great. It was almost a miracle to me. I was asking myself why did I wait so long to try it?

With proper use of my body and regular chiropractic visits, I kept my good health. Then I got too comfortable and stopped going. Everything seemed to be going fine for a while. A year later I started having problems with my stomach. I took antacids for months with no positive results. I ate very bland foods, which was very boring and dull for me. I reached the point that I could not eat anything without that fire pit in my stomach. The pain eventually reached my throat and I had to sleep on a wedge on my bed to elevate my head. I then developed neck ache from all the stress of it and from the lack of sleep that I was getting. Once again, I was in bad shape. The doctor prescribed me a stronger medicine called Tagament, which seemed to help for a while. I even tried acupuncture, which relieved some of the pain. Once more I was getting desperate.

At a class one day, there was a chiropractor with whom I had lunch with and we started talking about my stomach problems. He pointed out to me that stomach problem I was having was also causing the pain that I was suffering from in my upper back I could not believe it again. I never told him about the pain in my upper back, but he knew that it was probable that I was suffering from upper back pain.

I decided to try going to the Chiropractor again. Within no more than four days of going everyday, my stomach was fine and I could again eat anything that I wanted to eat, even spicy foods. This finally made me decide to trash the Tagamet forever. Even my husband who was just like me a few years back, could not believe all of the benefits that I was receiving from Chiropractic care. Since he was suffering from terrible headaches every morning, he decided to try out Chiropractic care as well. He now was a believer too!

We are doing wonderfully, thanks to Dr. David Melendez of Gold Coast Chiropractic Center. And thanks for his constant support and caring. We know now that we can and will have good health at all times.

Chiropractic is the key to unlock the door to great health and good life.

I hereby testify that the above statements are true, to the best of my knowledge, and release this information to be used for the purpose of patient education.

-Ginette C. Straith

I now say “NO” to drugs!

This is my story. I was going from one doctor to another trying to find the right one to get rid of my headaches and neck and back pain. I even suffered from pain in my waist and thighs.

During the past ten years I have used many kinds of medicines for my sleeplessness, pills for my nerves and pills for my headaches. All I was doing during these years was ruining my stomach. No matter how strong the medicine was, it didn’t have any effect on me… until I finally came to the doctors of Chiropractic.

I could see then that what I needed was intensive care. It is what has made my headaches disappear. I have been able to sleep at night and work better during the day.

Every day, more and more I recommended that you do the same. Come see the doctors, David and Lorraine Melendez. Thank you, I am feeling so much better now!

-Magdalena Sanchez