Has anyone tried this, and if so, has it helped? It's a treatment that supposidly helps with disc herniations and the like. I'd like to try it, but my insurance won't cover it and the treatments are insanely expensive ($2800 for 5!).

My aunt said she'd be willing to pay for them, but I havn't heard any actual patient feedback from it, just the commercials on TV. If you can lend any advice or share your experience, I'd appreciate it. :)

Sorry, I can't offer you any feedback on Vax-D treatments, I have never heard of them.

Good luck with your decision.
~M~

I read about it just out of curiosity. It sounds like one must have a LOT of treatments at $150 each. One site stated, up to forty. The general consensus was that you could not do it if you have any kind of degeneration.

Well, since all of us start degenerating at age 30, that leaves out a lot of the population.

Before I would try this I would go see a chiroprator and ask to use the inversion table. It works on the same principles, decompressing the discs. See if it works for you and then invest in one of those if it does.

This technolgy is too new. Why be a guinea pig?

I agree, and my ortho actually wrote me a prescription for an inversion table but naturally my crap insurance denied the request. My mom (I just turned 18) filed an appeal so hopefully we'll get one, but we just want to be careful about how we go about this. If we buy one now, we doubt they'll re-imburse us, and I really don't want to toss $200 away since I could hold out another month or so... :\

But, I agree with you completely, and thanks for the reply.

I read about it just out of curiosity. It sounds like one must have a LOT of treatments at $150 each. One site stated, up to forty. The general consensus was that you could not do it if you have any kind of degeneration.

Well, since all of us start degenerating at age 30, that leaves out a lot of the population.

Before I would try this I would go see a chiroprator and ask to use the inversion table. It works on the same principles, decompressing the discs. See if it works for you and then invest in one of those if it does.

This technolgy is too new. Why be a guinea pig?

My husband is currently doing Vax-D and my best friend's husband had it done several years ago. It was very successful for our friend and my dh is seeing improvement (and he has had a long-term problem--2 herniated disks for 10 yrs). DH has significant degeneration and is still improving.

When we researched the procedure, the cost ran between $2,500 and $3,500 for about 6 weeks of treatment. It depends on the treatment center. Treatment is generally 5 days a week...

Inversion board...Vax-D is more than an inversion board! We have had one for several years (and dh has used it regularly). There is more "pull" than just hanging upside down. Plus you generally have other treatment at the same time (electrical stimulation or water massage). You might see some improvement with inversion, and that may be sufficient for your problem, but it won't give you the same results as Vax-D.

Success rate...all reports say the success rate is 70%. All I know is that it's working for us.

Vax-D has been around a while--you wouldn't be a guinea pig! :)

Thanks for the reply Sandy. :) I think since the insurance is a big issue for me, I'll probably try out the inversion table first for a few weeks and see if that helps. If not, then I'll definately check into Vax-D. I've been dying to try it, I'm desperate.

I tried this treatment with a newer machine, called Accu-Spina, from the same company. The series was almost $4,000 for 25 treatments. I had a centrally bulging L5 S1 disc. I had to give up after three treatments because it flared up my disc pain so badly. They were cool about it and refunded my money for the unused sessions, but it did not work out for me.

I don't think it is a scam though, I believe it does work for some people, just make sure you can get the balance of your money back if it doesn't work.

I went on to get an endoscopic discectomy/IDET which I am recovering from. Good Luck!

Interesting situation, Johno, and thanks for the reply. I'll definately make sure we can get a refund on your remaining balance if that happens to me. The whole concept makes sense, but you never know. It's like when I had my epidurals - the only relief was the hour right after from the numbing stuff and then it was even more sensitive afterwards because of the big ole' needle! :eek: