I HATE confrontation..help

I need to speak up to a chiropractor...shes been great so far in helping adjusting my jaw to be realigned. I clench at night, so last year it became misaligned with horrible symptoms, vertigo, fatigue... she began also doing adjustments to my back and neck. Im not sure Id be getting that done with a cranio -doc, if they realigned me. They use a splint type tool, like a guard. But the chiropractor was closer to me and a bit less money so went there.
The other day I had severe back pain from the tool they use on back. Lasted nearly two days. Thats never occurred. I would like to halt back treatments..I want mainly jaw focus. My back is aligned im sure, more than when I began last year. I dont think its vital to my jaw treatments to also do neck and back, but I feel they will say I should still do it. I get all nervous when disagreements begin. How can I be up front ?

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HootyTheNightOwl

Are you overthinking???

At the end of the day, you are paying them for a service and you are entitled to the service that you pay for, regardless of whether they like it or not.

Trying to deal with what they might or might not say is a stress that you don't need. All you need to say is that you are not benefitting from the extra services and you don't wish to continue with it.

Coralmist · 41-45, F

@HootyTheNightOwl oh Im always overthinking yes...ugh. They may try to alter my view saying it should be done. But perhaps they wont thats true.

HootyTheNightOwl

@Coralmist If they do, just tell them that you are getting no benefit and you don't want to spend two more days bed bound because of what they did to you again.

You know what is best for you, regardless of whether they agree with you or not and they can't force you to have a treatment done that you don't want unless they want to detain you against your will.

Coralmist · 41-45, F

@HootyTheNightOwl I think I will email this, because my face gets flush when asking something ugh. Thats true its my body, and ill still be paying. Ty friend. 🌺

HootyTheNightOwl

@Coralmist Maybe it will also help you to print a copy of the email, too, then you can show them the copy in the office if they play the "We didn't get your email" game again.

Yeah, and it's not fair that you should pay twice for the same service.

Financially is how you expect to be paying, not physically in terms of the pain that you suffered from last time.

I only allow certain people to touch a certain area of my back because its possible to put me on the floor if they touch it in a certain way, not knowing what they're doing. It takes a lot of trust for me to get to that point with anyone.

Right now, the only person I trust is my man. I know that he hasn't touched my back yet, but I also know that he doesn't want to hurt me and he will learn the right way to do it pretty quickly.

Coralmist · 41-45, F

@HootyTheNightOwl Well what I mean is they will still get my jaw treatment payment, so it shouldnt be yoo big a deal to halt the back treatments. Last time they didnt say they didnt get my email (on another issue), they just never replied, so i had to bring it up, and get nervous lol. They said they got it but that hand adjustments are best (Vs. Tool adjustment, which I wanted as its less force) and that I mustve been Googling. 🙁