Parkinson’s, PDCare Laser
"I can treat my pain and it's no longer debilitating" says Susie from Sydney, Australia.
Throughout my life I have been plagued with aches and pains. So, I am use to having pain and learning different ways to manage it.
I bought the PhysioCare at that time I was suffering from lower back pain, pain in my gluts, and in my shoulder as well. I used it in response to pain and it would help immediately, and I used it for a few days – I used it every alternate day because that’s what was advised in the brochure. So, it became a tool, and I would rather use that than take Ibuprofen or paracetamol to help.
I was using it off and on and then, then I got a new pain! At my age it is all about new pains, I got a new pain in my knee. I had a baker’s cyst at the back of my knee – which I tried all sorts of things to get rid of but they are persistent things, bakers cysts, it hung around. I started to use the Symbyx device around my knee to give me relief for that. It helped a lot, you can’t fix the bakers cyst, that’s still there, but it helps with the corresponding muscle pain up and down the calf and around my knee. So, I’m pain free in that area at the moment.
And then more recently, this year, end of march, I got shingles, which is another pesky little complaint. It’s a very painful complaint. The shingles blisters were around my hip and it shot down my leg. It was excruciating and I ended up taking a drug which did give me pain relief, but I had to take quite a high dose and it had strong spacey/space-out side effect. I still got the pain from time to time but I didn’t want to go any higher on my dose because it was already giving me a lot of problems in my day-to-day life. That’s when I took advise from a Physio, who as a friend said “you know, you’ve got that red light device. It could help you with the nerve pain shooting down your leg”. I had to stay on the medication, but the device gave me the top up in a way that meant that I didn’t have to increase my dose any further and I am free of the shingles pain now.
Being able to use a drug free alternative, freely, so to speak, without any side effect has meant that I can treat my pain and not have that debilitating ongoing pain. And I am certainly a nicer person to be around as a result of that.