Certain types of painful conditions are very complex and difficult to treat. Often patients go from doctor to doctor and try all sorts of medical interventions that are expensive, have serious side-effects and often with little improvement.
While it’s early days for the Q Magnet Blanket, the patient feedback has been quite remarkable. This is Rita’s story…
After fracturing my ankle in May 2012, I developed a complicated type of pain in both feet. The pain alternated with swelling around the top and back of the feet, stabbing pains in the ankles, hot or very cold feet and tingling nerve endings.
In search of a cure, I tried conventional and unconventional treatments but found it hard to get much relief. I was put on an anti-convulsive medication and told I had a faulty pain system.
I was unable to do hydro therapy as the pain started as soon as I moved my feet in the water. At the Pain Clinic I was told to do a Pain Management Course for chronic pain to learn how to manage it.
The pain in my feet would wake me up at night, not allow me to wear proper shoes or stockings as anything tight fitting would trigger off an attack. I could only walk short distances with a thick rubber soles in my over sized shoes and kept a graph of pain progress. When I lay down, nerve endings would shoot up my leg and even shower water felt heavy on my over-sensitive feet. I kept my feet always on a pillow for sleeping.
Four months ago, I began sleeping each night on a blanket with Q Magnets.  I slowly found much improvement. I no longer have variations of hot and cold or swelling all around the feet. The nerve endings have lessened considerably and even though I am not wearing tight fitting shoes yet, I have managed to wear shoes each day without pain. I can shower without having to stand to the side to avoid water falling on my feet and overall I feel on the road to normality. I am still taking my anti convulsive medication but have lessened the dose. I still have some minor discomfort but very manageable from where I was. I believe the magnets have helped enormously in my recovery so far.
Rita Beltrame – Melbourne
21 October, 2014UPDATE: As of December 2016, Rita is 90% better. While it’s difficult to know how much each intervention contributed to her recovery; the medication helped and her physiotherapist at the Austin Hospital was terrific but whether or not it was a coincidence there was a definite turning point in her condition right at the time she started using the Q Blanket.
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NOTE:
Painful conditions that are more complex should be managed by a suitably qualified health professional such as pain specialist or neurologist. Talk to us about how using the Q Blanket may help, but always follow the advice of your healthcare provider.
