For the next 3 years, I tried all manner of eastern and western medicine to get better. Massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, physical therapy, pain pills, epidural injections, and finally major surgery. Rods and screws and a synthetic disk, yep, that’s my back in that x-ray. After almost 3 years and NO relief, the doctors said there was nothing more I could do and nothing more they could do. I’d just have to survive a life of chronic pain and they’d keep giving me pain pills. I was unwilling to suffer the rest of my life. I knew there had to be a solution. I decided I would search the world over until I found a cure for my pain. I could not and would not live a life of quiet desperation.