Ashtyn

Ashley’s Story

As told by her Mom

I’m passionate now, I just want everyone to know what chiropractic care can do…, it makes me cry…It makes me teary eyed just knowing how healthy she is now…We will never turn back.

You know I would have never thought of Chiropractic for regular health issues, I thought it was for older people. Starting care at Life Mission Chiropractic for Ashley has been the best decision I have ever made.

For over six months five year old Ashley, had been suffering from daily headaches and consistently not feeling well. Ashley had really dark circles under her eyes.  Ashley says “My head hurted, I had to go to the hospital.” She couldn’t be a kid! She wasn’t able to have fun like other kids. Almost every morning complaining of tummy aches and headaches. Every few weeks she had to be pulled out of school because of throwing up do to the bad headaches. Even if she wasn’t throwing up she would be complaining to the teachers about her headaches and would have to go lie down for awhile. At home she would continuously be crying “Mommy, my head hurts so bad,” just wanting to go to sleep, literally just everyday not feeling well. It was always something. She was always falling, tripping on stuff, and getting hurt from her condition obviously.

They tried Tylenol.  Ashley reported that her heart hurt and that she felt palpitations in her chest. Also, every time Ashley would get a cold we would have to put her on a nebulator due to her persistent cough and wheezing. She would often be suffering from stomach aches and a total lack of sleep. She was skipping her meals.

I kept telling her pediatricians that she had migraines (I knew about them because I had them years ago and they just make you want to go to sleep and she was just crying because they hurt so bad…) and the only solution they had was to keep her on a schedule…to be out to bed at the same time ect., but I knew it wasn’t that. It seemed like we were seeing all these different doctors and each had a different opinion, one even told us that she had “neurally mediated hypotension,” they wanted us to see a neurologist. They had no answers. At one point they told her she had juvenile diabetes and sent us to Nemours for testing. And of course the testing showed she was fine.

Now since starting care with Dr. Adams, Ashley is doing amazingly well, very rarely gets a headache; we never hear her complain of tummy aches anymore. Her visits to the medical doctors have been fewer. We hardly go anymore. We now have less medical bills to the doctors for her. Now, instead of dark circles under her eyes, she now has skin color, and a bright smile to match. She also rarely gets sick anymore and if she does it is not affecting her breathing. She used to get sick all the time, it seemed like every week or every other week she would get the runny nose, the cold, or the cough.  Ashley likes to dance ballet and play on the playground and just have fun. To other parents I would just have to say that if you don’t think chiropractic can help your child…it can… I would have never known what it could do for Ashley without chiropractic and we will never go back to neglecting our spinal health. I am very thankful to my friends who shared how Dr. Adams at Life Mission Chiropractic could help.