***Ask Dr. Z - Hyperacusis? Crazy? Wrong Diagnosis? Laser Therapy? The Trouble with Medical Specialists.

Ask Dr. Z - Hyperacusis? - Crazy? - Wrong Diagnosis? - Laser Therapy? - The Trouble with Western Medicine

Content:

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• Quotes for Your Life
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• I get letters: Hyperacusis? Crazy? Laser Therapy? The Trouble with Medical "Specialists"
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• Dr. Z's comments
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• How to Begin
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• Your first step towards a healthier life
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Quotes for Your Life

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.nn Dorothy Thompson

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.nn H. Jackson Brown

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.nn Pearl S. Buck

Nobody on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time at the office."nn Paul Tsongas

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.nn Dale Carnegie

I get letters

Hyperacusis? Crazy? The Trouble with "Specialists"

"I was a passenger on my husband's motorcycle. We were going down the freeway at 65 miles per hour. We hit some construction equipment and I flew off the back of the bike and landed on my left side and crushed my left arm. I hit my head. Luckily I was wearing a helmet. I don't remember anything until I woke up in the hospital.

This happened in September 2005 in Concord, CA. The first thing that happened when I woke up I had to have surgery on my left arm. I remember waking up and the nurses standing on top of me and I started dry heaving. They ran me down for a cat scan. They came back and said there is nothing - they cannot see anything. And then the seizures started happening more and more with uncontrollable crying and dry heaving. I don't think anybody knew what they were. Any sound, any movement started the seizures. There was a sign on the wall in my hospital room saying:

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• No cell phones, no talking, no TV, no radio, nothing.
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They wouldn't let anybody talk in my room. Because it was a trauma center there was nothing they could do for me. They put me on Adavent for my pain. I was in the hospital for 10 days and I couldn't leave my nephew's house for another seven days.

Then they flew me home. I went to my regular doctor, who put me on Neurontin. I went crazy on this medication. Suicidal.

Then they tried to put me in the mental ward up in Seattle, Fairfax mental hospital. I kept telling them: "I hit my head, I'm not crazy. It's the medicine that makes me feel like this." But the doctor insisted that "the medicine won't make you do that". But finally he took me off it.

The left side of my head was very swollen. It was bad. I remember sitting in the hospital bed and looking in the mirror. I started crying. It was awful. My whole face was off. I called my mother, but I couldn't say anything. I still don't know how I remembered her phone number. She somehow knew it was me calling.

Then they put me on Paxil and I felt terrible. With Paxil I got this really weird sensation all over my body. I didn't cry, but I couldn't even communicate. At that point I had only been to one neurologist who was very mean. She said to me: "I give you two choices. Do you want Paxil or Zoloft?" I said to her: "You are the doctor."

My GP put me on Neurontin. He told me it is good for pain and the seizure type activity. And then he put me on Clonazepam/Klonopin. I have been on Clonazepam for two and a half years.

I have gone to see eight neurologists, a chiropractor, an inner ear specialist, an osteopath, a psychiatrist. The chiropractor asked me if my neck hurt, and I said no. So he decided that my neck was not the problem. He would then try to adjust my neck and I immediately went into a seizure. So he backed off and referred me to another neurologist.

At that point I went to see an osteopath for cranial sacral therapy. He talked to me about the accident and then put me on the table to perform the exam on me. He shined light in my eyes and I immediately went into a seizure. He referred me to another neurologist.

This neurologist said I probably had an inner ear disorder. He started to perform an inner ear test and I immediately went into a seizure. He ran out of the room to get my husband, brought him back and told him: "I think you've got to take care of her." He literally ran out the door and I never heard from him again. He never called me. I called him several times and he never called me back.

Then I went to an inner ear doctor. He actually was the one who told me that I did not have an inner ear disorder. He told me you have a neurological disorder. I went to see another neurologist who told me: "No, you don't have a neurological disorder. You have a psychological problem. So you need to see a psychiatrist."

So I went to see a psychiatrist. He decided that I had a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But the neurologist insisted that I did not have a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

I had a lot of very expensive and very painful tests. All of them came back with no clear answers.

I ended up at the University of Washington for more testing. They had me sit in a chair and had me look at words and read the words on a poster while they were spinning the chair from one side to the other. Immediately I went into a full fledged seizure. The examining doctor then told me: "I think you have hyperacusis." Hyperacusis was the only thing they could come up with. One of the many labels I was given.

I was a prisoner in my own home. I could not leave, drive a car, go to work, nothing. It was terrible and depressing.

I kept researching on the Internet about inner ear disorders. I found Dr. Z through a laser website in Sweden. So I made an appointment with Dr. Z to have at least ten laser treatments for my hyperacusis. My parents came along to drive me and support me. I had a seizure on the flight to Sacramento.

During the first appointment I went into a full seizure that lasted about 40 minutes. It seemed I was reacting to Dr. Z's voice. So he started to whisper to me, which I could tolerate. He was willing to keep working with me instead of referring me to another specialist.

It was actually very disappointing when Dr. Z told me during my first appointment that I might not have an inner ear problem, and that he would not start with low level laser therapy. I was taken aback, because I had come here for Laser Therapy.

Dr. Z pointed out that I was not just hypersensitive to sound, but to pretty much everything else, such as touch, vibration, light. Even movements of my arms and my neck would set off seizures. He told me that a part of my brain, the temporal lobe, was not functioning properly.

I had many other symptoms: Nausea, vertigo, motion sickness, constipation, bloating feeling, belching, gas, ringing in the ears, mood swings, anxiety, anger, depression, fatigue, blurred vision, headaches, insomnia, rapid pounding heart beat, stiffness, muscle pain, weakness, poor memory, confusion and more.

I decided to get off Clonazepam after Dr. Z went over the possible side effects with me. Many of these possible side effects described me perfectly. Plus, this medication was not really able to prevent my seizures.

Dr. Z recommended that I try his Personal Portable Oxygen Bar and use it several times a day. I noticed an immediate improvement. My seizures would not last as long or get that intense. He also put me on a no carb, high protein, high fat diet with several nutritional supplements to help with blood sugar, digestion and for brain support.

After just one week I had the best day in 2.5 years. I felt like my old self.

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• Dr. Z was finally able to adjust my neck.
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• He taught me how to stop seizures when they come on.
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• I am much less sensitive now.
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• I can move my neck, move my arms.
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• I can tolerate Dr. Z's normal tone of voice.
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• I have not gotten car sick any more, even on very windy mountain roads.
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We stayed a total of 2.5 weeks. I saw Dr. Z five days a week. I had only one other seizure during the second part of our stay. That was after driving on a very rough Interstate 80 to Truckee. The road was so rough that my whole body was shaking. On the way back I decided to lie down so my head would not bounce up and down. It worked beautifully. No seizure. I have learned a lot.

My parents are thrilled. I am so very grateful. Maybe I can get my full life back, go out to dinner, have friends over. Maybe I can even go back to work."

Anita N, Seattle

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Wreck

A motorcycle accident while on vacation with her husband left our 42 year old vivacious, head-strong daughter with a debilitating head injury that changed her life.

No more working at their business, no more parties, movies, TV, driving, going shopping, and even a sneeze would start a seizure and a series of "dry heaves" leaving her completely tired out and in bed.

During the last two and a half years she and her husband have contacted and/or was referred to every head trauma specialist that would give them an appointment. Each time their hope of some help with her problem was broken with another referral and another prescription for medication.

Along with her family and friends she continued checking leads on head injuries resulting in problems like hers. The prognosis from the majority of specialists was probable damage to the inner ear.

While on an internet search she found an article on "laser treatment" for inner ear problems and a link to a Dr. Zeischegg, a Board Certified Chiropractic Neurologist, living in Califo ia. She contacted him and made an appointment. Her mother and I went with her from Seattle with high expectations that finally something positive could be accomplished.

On our first visit to "Dr. Z", he said it wasn't an ear problem, (this was the type of diagnosis we had heard so many times) but instead of being handed a new prescription and a referral to a specialist he went on to say this was probably a "miss firing" within the nervous system and brain, and he would like to explore further.

Within the first week he had pin pointed the problem area and was able to stop the seizures and "dry heaves."

By the start of the second week we returned to our cabin from an appointment with Dr. Z with the daughter we had lost to an accident over two and a half years ago.

At this time, the second week, she is looking forward to returning home to her husband and friends and using what she has learned from Dr. Z to pick up the life she thought she had lost.nn

A very happy father in the Seattle area

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Dr. Z's comments

Can you imagine? Being referred from one specialist to another, to another, to yet another...with no results, with no hope.

Anita was extremely lucky...her parents were so very supportive.

I post these letters on our website to give others some hope. There are so many people out there whose health is suffering...but they don't know what to do or where to turn.

Healing takes time and your patience.

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• Many people assume doctor means healer
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• The word doctor actually means teacher
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This is exactly what I consider my role to be: I attempt to teach my local patients and on-line clients a new view of reality.

The main thing that makes me different - I have developed certain skills of observation over the past 20 years in practice. The most dramatic change occurred over the past seven years during my studies of Functional Neurology with Prof. Ted Carrick and his many highly gifted instructors of the Carrick Institute of Graduate Studies.

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How to Begin

Always start with your SELF

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• Your lack of health is NOT due to medication deficiency
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• Always start with the basics
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• What do you eat and drink and snack?
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• What kind of air do you breathe?
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• Do you breathe deeply enough?
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• How is your digestion?
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• What is your history with antibiotics?
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• Best still... Complete Dr. Z's Self Evaluation
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The Solution

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• The Solution: Change what you eat/drink
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• The solution: how you digest what you eat/drink
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• The solution: increase your oxygen supply
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• The solution: your insight and intelligence
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• The solution: your compassion with your self
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• The solution: your willingness to make changes
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The solution: you take full responsibility

Your First Step towards a Healthier Lifen

Nothing can replace a face to face evaluation.

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• If you happen to live relatively close to our office, I strongly suggest that you call call 530-265-0224 and make an appointment with my lovely wife Victoria.
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• We are located in Nevada City, Califo ia. This is approximately 1.5 hours by car from Sacramento, Califo ia towards Reno/Lake Tahoe in the beautiful foothillls of the Sierra Nevada.
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If you cannot come personally - - - -

Our on-line Self Evaluation is geared towards giving you a basic starting point in order to make some intelligent changes in diet and improve some basic human functions such as digestion, blood sugar control.

If you have ever taken antibiotics, yesterday or 30 years ago - the chances are high that you may suffer the consequences of bowel flora imbalance and candida overgrowth.

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• It is my clinical experience that this approach is always useful.
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• This does not mean that it will or can solve all your problems.
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However, the majority of my local and on-line clients experience dramatic improvements in their health, when they addressnnDDHC - Diet, Digestion, Hypoglycemia/Blood Sugar, Candida

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