The Anatomy of a $164 Headache (and my third return to this blog)

Posted on July 17, 2008
Filed Under acupuncture, chiropractic, headaches, massage therapy, migraine |

Hey folks… not sure how many of you are still out there. Life happened and considering the large salary that I pay myself to blog here… well you get the picture.

Anyhow, I am back once again, and instead of trying to run a blog for every different though stream I have (that’s what is seemed like) I am just going to ramble here about everything from daily life, faith, the state of health care, most likely NOT politics, maybe poker occasionally, living in Phoenix, my fight to lose nearly 50 pounds (at 206 today), and who knows what else. I guarantee it will be good or your money back.

So yesterday I went to the chiropractor just to keep my spine in shape, and not due to any particular problem. Today I wake up not feeling very good, but I proceeded to work out. After working out, my neck was super tight and I was starting to get a headache, so I decided to go get a massage ($39 + $15 tip). That helped a little but my massage therapist said “I think you need an adjustment.” I told her I had just gone yesterday to the chiropractor and she suggested that I go back. So, I left my massage and went to the chiropractor ($25 co-pay), and it gave me a little relief. I finally got back to my office (talk about a long lunch), and then I start to feel nauseas which sometimes happens when I get migraines. So I decide to just go home and rest. On the way home I call my wife and she suggests that I go get acupuncture, so she calls and gets me in right away (we have some of the best health care providers - they take such good care of us). Keep in mind, I have never had acupuncture, but my wife had and we saw some great results. I laid there and he did his magic. When we started, the paid was about a “5″ on a scale of 1-10, and by the time I left it was down to about 1.5 - very bearable. Oh yeah, $70 for the acupuncture plus he gave me some homeopathic sinus meds ($15) because I had some sinus pressure as well contributing to the headache.

So yes, it took me $164 to get rid of the headache, and now I get to work all night to get caught up. Looking back, if I had started with the acupuncture I might have saved on one of the others… who knows?

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