The symptoms didn’t start manifesting until nearly two months after the atlas correction. Because the first symptoms were stomach related, (cramps, nausea) I did not find out for a year!!!! I thought that I was dying at one point as no doctor could figure out why I was so ill. By chance I found out that it could be because of the atlas being manipulated.

The symptoms come and go but some, like nausea, became less severe once the atlas was manipulated a second time 3 years ago by a second atlasprofilax practionner. We’d complained to the person who runs the website: they said the first person had done it incorrectly! Sometimes it will be two years that I have not had a particular symptom then it will come back all of a sudden. Every day I have had one or another of the symptoms listed below:

Severe weight loss (55 kilos to 49 in two weeks)
Ulnar and median nerve pain in arm (numbness and pain)
Shoulder pain
Involuntary neck spasms (after this happens feel like I have been hit on the back of neck, feel ill for about an hour)
Vertigo
Headaches
Had MRI of neck – results fine (slight arthritis but not unusual)
Lower-, middle- and upper-back pain
Rib cage pressure
Nausea
Abdomen cramps (more in back) Had ultra sound, blood tests, internal organs all fine
Acid (but PH test shows acid is normal) Had two endoscopies – no signs of ulcer, etc. Had tests for Heliobacter Pylori, gluten and lactose allergy – all fine. Also had Thyroid checked – fine.
Burning tongue
Pressure in throat
Saliva tasting strange
Tonsil stones produced like crazy for about a year then stopped.
Irregular periods (always were regular before)
Neuralgia
Jaw pain
Knee pain
Ankle problems
Tibia went out of place for no reason and had to have it corrected by osteopath
Hip and groin pain, sciatica
Recently after gentle osteo treatment had hot flushes for the first time – I’m 39 years of age.

I react severely to any kind of treatment be it massage (gives me indigestion and nausea) or gentle osteopathy which makes a lot of the symptoms explode.
I had very gentle osteopathy in Jan 2008 after not having any kind of treatment for over two years for fear of making things worse. After that, I had abdominal cramps, diarrhea, neuralgia, jaw pain, hot flushes, uncontrollable crying, nausea, back pain, weight loss, and generally felt awful and had to stay in bed.
Had cranio-sacral osteopathy (just sacrum treated for 10 mins) and even that made me react but not as severely as gentle osteopathy.

The only thing that helps is a healer I see who immediately can take away surface feeling of being ill (nausea, loss of appetite, diarrhea) but can’t seem to take away the base problems which seem to be skeletal and nerve related.

Before my atlas was manipulated in January 2004 the only problem I had was ulnar nerve pain in right arm and the odd headache. Apart from that I was healthy.

Today symptoms are much less severe but they tend to have 2 or 3 month cycles: Two months of arm pain then my body will have some kind of crisis ( severe pain in back or neck etc) then the arm pain will stop and I will have problems with my throat ( pressure, ball in throat, burny tongue etc) and so on and so on.

My advice to anyone thinking of getting treated by Atlasprofilax is to avoid them like the plague. They have ruined the last four years of my life and it is still ongoing.
I wish I’d gone to someone who was qualified and took X-rays before and after. Four years ago, I’d never heard of any other upper spine treatment.

Hope this helps…

I tried to call you three times yesterday. It didn’t work out. However it wasn’t the right time, so don’t worry about it!!

I’ll try to call you today, Monday. I was ill yesterday, and didn’t call. Call you in the afternoon. My area code is 978, so you know it’s me. Talk to you later.