Yesterday I went to the Edmonton lady, Jill Brighton at Earthsong Professional Massage Centre for the first laser treatment I’ve had since getting home on Monday. She was really nice. It was a bit of a drive for us, she’s pretty far north-west, but I really wanted to go to someone who was trained at Dr Khan’s clinic. He is the top authority on low-intensity-laser-therapy. He has 25 years of research behind him. He uses different intensity and times to suit each patient. Prior to researching laser and light therapy, he had 20 plus years behind him as a respected vascular surgeon. He had even opened and ran a hospital in California. Apparently there are many who claim to use “laser therapy”, but they use the same laser with everyone, with the same intensity. Also, I’ve read that many believe more is better, so they end up using a much higher intensity than is needed. This can cause more harm then good. So, this is why I wanted to find someone who uses the lasers that Dr Khan researched and helped to engineer. I’m the first person that Jill (the Edmonton laser therapist) has treated who has a rental unit at home. This enables me to do the longer, first two steps at home, and ultimately made the time I needed for the actual laser treatment to be only thirty minutes!! This will make a huge difference with the cost!! The first steps take me about 90 minutes at home. Had I needed to have Jill do all of the steps, it would have turned a half hour appointment into a 2 hour one!! Talk about saving money! The cost would have been from about $150 – $200. I would have reached the $300 per year maximum for alternative treatments through our health insurance with only 2 sessions! Considering Dr Khan recommends 2 treatments a week, we would be spending a ridiculous amount of money! Also, seeing what the cost would have been, had my mom not rented the home unit, makes the amount she is paying seem much more worthwhile! Not only does it end up saving money, I also get to do the first two parts of the treatment, the red and infrared LED arrays, daily. So I am praying that this starts to make a difference with my pain. The past couple of days have been horrible, but I want to believe that this laser therapy will soon make a difference. Jill has treated one other person with Trigeminal Neuralgia and after about 18 or so sessions, her pain had almost completely disappeared!! She had to go in once or twice a month in order to remain relatively pain free. I understand that this is not a cure, but I am on my hands and knees, begging for this to rid me of this horrible pain; or at least decrease it!! 

Speaking of home treatments, I just finished doing this and I am wiped. It relaxes me and makes me sleepy. Perfect just before bed!!! 😴

To help with research and treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia please go to http://www.tnnme.com (Trigeminal Neuralgia and Me) to sign a petition to have the World Health Organization (WHO) add Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) to their “Health Topic List”!         

Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!