chiropractic table during rads,ouch!

poetjanet

I've been seeing my chiropractor about every two weeks since I started my surgeries to try to keep my back from going out.  His treatments are rather gentle in that he just uses something called, the activator method, which is llike pressing the button on the end of an ink pen onto your body, as best as I can explain it.  However after 9 radiation treatments,  laying face down on his table was too much for my sore radiated breast.  He had told me when I told him about the breast cancer that he treats some of his breast cancer patients sitting or standing.  I wish I had realized that I couldn't lay on that table any more. My pain level shot up from a 4 to an 8.  I thought it would be better after I got off the table, but continued to hurt quite a bit still that evening and the next day. Glad I have one more day to recoop before I have to go back for more radiation treatments!  Just wanted to put this out there for anyone else who goes to a chiropractor and hasn't laid on the table since rads started.  Some chiropractors have tables with release sections in them, but the one I go to does not.