バイクで交通事故（全身打撲）の後、頭痛やめまい、くびこりが出現して、脳外科、耳鼻科を受診したが異常なかった。その後症状はさらに悪化し、聴力も低下し、「難治性のメニエール病」と診断され多数の薬を服用したが効果がなく、松井病院に2回入院し頸の電気治療を受けて、頭痛、めまい、うつ症状がほぼ完治するとともに、聴力も回復した症例
After a motorcycle accident (full body bruises), the patient developed headaches, dizziness, and neck stiffness. He visited a neurosurgeon and an otolaryngologist, but no abnormalities were found. His symptoms subsequently worsened, his hearing also deteriorated, and he was diagnosed with "intractable Meniere's disease." He took numerous medications, but to no avail. He was hospitalized twice at Matsui Hospital and received electrical therapy on his neck, which almost completely cured his headaches, dizziness, and depression, and also restored his hearing.
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症例 No.088 44歳 男性
体験記録 2025.09.04
松井病院入院までの経緯
職業は保健師です。
私は以前からふわふわするめまい、頭痛に悩まされており、今思い返せば、20歳ごろから繰り返すことが多くあったかもしれません。ちょうどその前後にバイクで交通事故を起こし大きなけがをしました。幸い骨折は無かったので全身の打撲程度で済み、当時の整形外科では首の治療など行うはずもありませんでした。頭痛やめまいは全く首と無関係と思いその都度、脳外科や耳鼻科へ行きましたが、「所見は無し」「異常なし」と言われるばかりでした。しかし、頭痛がひどいときは仕事もできなくなりこともあり片頭痛を疑いました。薬もいくつも試しましたがあまり効果はなく、薬代も高価なため、長続きはしませんでした。そのため、頭痛時は今もロキソニンを使っています。首や肩の痛みやコリにも悩まされていましたが、そこは近所の整骨院に通院し、何とか仕事を続けることができていました。
しかし、新型コロナウィルス感染症が出てきたことで状況は一変。整骨院への通院も職場から「遠慮するように」との同調圧力や、職場が新型コロナウィルス対応をしなければいけない市役所という場所柄もあり、よっぽどのことでない限り、病院への受診も控えるようにとのことでした。また、同時にワクチン対策班に組み込まれ、休みもなく、毎日朝から夜遅くまで仕事をしてパソコンを見たり、問診票の処理をしたりと、下を向く生活が長く続いていました。
そんな折、朝からひどいめまい発作となり頭痛もひどいため、どうにもできず近くの総合病院へ行きました。CTでは明らかな所見はないものの、意識がはっきりしておらず即日入院。血液データもMRIも異常はないが、めまいは残った状態で数日過ごしました。安静を保っていたことがよかったようで、その入院は1週間ほどで済みました。しかし、その後もめまいはとれることがなかったため、入院先の耳鼻科の医師と相談をして、めまいを専門でみてくれる耳鼻科の医師を紹介されました。そこからは、内服が増えていくいっぽうで、1錠であった内服が2錠に。1種類だった内服も2種、3種とどんどん増えていきました。それでも良くなりませんでしたので、次は漢方を足してみようという話になり、漢方専門医への受診を薦められました。私は治りたい一心でしたので、漢方専門医・耳鼻科への通院を続け、気が付けば毎食ごと山のような薬を飲んでいました。
そんな中で耳鼻科の医師からは「難治性メニエール病」との診断を受け、いつまでも治らないものだと思いつつも、内服を続けるしかありませんでした。そうすると、続けて不眠も出てくるようになり、精神科を受診。不眠も治療しなければならなくなり、内服がさらに増えました。この時点で10種類以上の薬を飲んでいたと思います。
それでも体調は変わらず不安定で、体調悪化の際はまた以前の総合病院へ入院しました。
2回目の入院は意識もはっきりしておりましたので、「難治性メニエール病」の治療について調べ、「内耳加圧療法にたどり着きました。退院後耳鼻科の専門医へ話すと、「山梨県ではやったことがないので、県内第一号の患者になる」と言われました。それでも治るなら信じてやるしかありません。内服はもう上限まで出しているので、他の治療法はありませんでした。この時点で、他県でセカンドオピニオンをするという選択肢もありましたが、世の中は新型コロナウィルス感染症の真っただ中。他県へ行くことはできず、今できることを続けるしか方法がは無かったのです。
「内耳加圧療法」も一定の効果はありましたが、内服を減らしたりするところまでには至らず、変わらず大量の内服と内耳加圧療法を続けることしかなく、仕事を休むことも多くなりました。この時点でめまいと一緒にかなりの難聴になっていることが聴力検査でわかってきました。
職場からは「仕事ができないのならやめることも考えて」と言われ、自分の病気をわかってもらえないこと、病気と向き合ってこんなに頑張っているのに治療成績が上がらないことに嫌気がさしてきました。
そしてやる気も起きなくなり、ついにはベッドから起きられなくなる日も出てくるようになりました。
不眠治療のために通院している精神科の医師から「うつではなく、別の病気だと思うけれど、今のうつ状態を治すには抗うつ薬を使うしかないね」ということで、SNRI（サインバルタ）が処方されました。「これをのまなくてはいけないのか・・」と思っていた当日、受診した脳外科の医師から「あなたの頭痛やめまいは首が原因かもしれません。ただ私には治療法がわかりません。首の治療を考えてみてください」と言われ、初めて首からめまいが来ることを知りました。
保健師として医学を学んだ私でも、首からこのような全身の不調が起こることは知ることがありませんでした。
そこからは、インターネットですぐ東京脳神経センターのホームページを見つけ、問診票をつけてみたところ28点。投薬治療での成績が良くなかった私にとっては最後の希望の光に見えました。運よく東京脳神経センターで北條先生の予約がとれたのが10日後。そこでは重度の頸性神経筋症候群・副交感神経失調症と話があり、週3回のスッキリセンターで寛解までおおよそ1年半。松井病院への入院であれば2～3か月という話になりました。
私は山梨県に住んでいましたので、一番近いスッキリセンター新宿までは自宅から片道2時間。とても通院ができません。そこで自宅から2～3か月も離れることに不安はありましたが、病気を治すためにはこれしかないとの思いで香川県にある松井病院へ入院することに決めました。時期が良かったのか、他の方が平均2～3か月待つ中、「大部屋のみ」という条件付きでしたが、東京脳神経センターでの初診から10日後には香川県にある松井病院へ入院し、治療を始めることができました。
松井病院への入院
松井病院へ入院してまず驚いたのは、同じ症状で悩んでる方がこんなに多いものかという感想でした。その時の入院患者さんは、全国各地から訪れており入院中の体調が良いときに話を聞くと、皆さん同じような症状や状況で色々な病院を受診したものの、はっきりとした原因がわからず東京脳神経センター・松井病院にたどり着いたとのこと。皆さん藁をすがる思いで最後の望みをかけて治療に臨んでるということをまず思い知りました。
治療は1日2回の物療（トプラー、SSP）で、残りの時間は安静にしているようにという松井先生の指示でした。TVはダメでラジオはOKということでしたので、私はスマートフォンアプリの「ラジコ」を契約して、東京や大阪のラジオ局の放送を聞いて過ごしました。ですが、あまりにも安静にしていると筋力が低下してしまうので、体調の良いときは病院の階段を昇降したり、夜の外来の終わった時間に外来周囲を散歩したりするなどして最低限の筋力低下防止には努めていました。
入院期間は新型コロナウィルスの真っ只中でしたので、外へ散歩に出ることもできず、週3回の大浴場での入浴をとても大切にしていました。ゆっくりお風呂につかることで気分もリフレッシュでき、また治療をがんばろうという気持ちになれました。
最初のころは、トプラーの揺れでめまいが誘発されかえって具合が悪くなることが多く、「こんな治療で本当に治るのか」と疑心暗鬼になることも多くありました。ただその際にも原先生や、看護師が丁寧に話を聞いてくれ、「もう少し頑張ろう」という気持ちになりました。
治療レベルを上げていくと必ず反動でめまいやふらつきがひどくなり、体調がかえって悪化することがあります。これは好転反応で一時的だということもこの時身をもって知りました。それとやはり「あきらめないで頑張ろう」という物療スタッフの皆さんの励ましや、先輩患者さんの励ましがありなかなかトプラーやSSPの治療数値を上げることができなかった私にとって、気持ちを何度も改めることができ、少しずつ治療の効果を感じることができてきました。
少し治療効果がわかってきた私は、先輩患者さんが私にしてくれたように治療を中断しないことの大切さを伝える側になってきました。思えば、治療中断をして退院してしまう患者さんはいろいろな事情があるとはいえ、こういうフォローが少し足りなかったのかな、とも思いました。
1回目の退院が近づくにつれ、その後のフォローが地方では難しいことがわかってきて、原先生にオンライン診察でのフォローの継続を依頼したところ、体制を整えてもらいオンライン診察のフォロー体制が出来上がったのはとてもありがたかったです。
1回目の入院は90日ぴったりまで行い、自分の感覚では完解が100%とした場合、60%くらいの回復でした。問診票の点数は28点から11点まで落ちていました。1回目の入院で一番驚いたのが、めまいがほぼ完治したことでした。確認のために退院翌日にメニエール病の診断で受診していた耳鼻科を訪れ、検査したところ、眼振は無く、難聴も正常レベルにまで回復していることが、データ上でも確認できました。これには耳鼻科の医師も驚いており、「どこで何をしてきたのか！」とクリニック内のスタッフが全員集まって私の話を聞くくらいのことでした。（※下図の画像を参照ください）
2回目の入院
1回目の入院の後、職場に復帰はしましたが、3か月ほどでめまい、難聴以外の症状が戻ってしまい、再度休職することになりました。その際に職場の人事担当の人が「入院もして、長期休暇したのになんで治らないの？」と言われたことは今でも忘れられません。
そして、2回目の入院は少し入院ベッド空きの待機時期があったので、この際体の悪いところをすべて直そうということになり以前から気になっていた腰痛を近医の整形でみてもらい、椎間板ヘルニア+腰椎すべり症の診断で手術を行ってから入院をすることになりました。
腰は背骨で首とつながっているので、悪いことはないだろうと思い、入院手術+リハビリの後、松井病院に2回目の入院をしました。2回目の入院は20点まで戻ってしまっていました。
1回目の経験から、90日を無駄なく過ごすように入院当初からSSPやトプラーのレベルをどんどん上げていき、入院30日の現状で入院中行える最大レベルの治療域まで強さを上げ、残り60日を過ごしました。
2回目の退院のときは問診票の点数が5点まで下がりました。
2回目の入院の際は、先生の診断書に添えて、松井先生の著書「首こりを治せば不調の9割が消える」を同封して職場の人事担当に自分の病気を理解してもらうように一度読んでほしいとお伝えしました。そのかいあってか、人事担当も前任から変わったこともあり、退院後の職場配置について考慮してくれました。
「保健師としての採用なので、年度途中の異動はできないんだけど、色々な働き方があるから、また随時教えます」とのこと、また退院時の原先生の診断書に「デスクワークが好ましくない」との1文があったこともあり、考慮してくれたことも大きかったようですが、人事担当には「なぜデスクワークがダメなのか」という理解が松井先生の著書を読んでくれたことで理解してもらえたんだと思います。
現在は、2回目の退院から2年が経過していますが、基本的にデスクワークをせず外で体を動かす仕事に異動させてもらい、同僚も病気の理解をしてもらい2週に1回（金曜日、土曜日の連日）のスッキリセンター大宮への通院を続けています。1回目の入院後に体制を整えてもらったオンライン診察も継続しているのと、1年に1回東京脳神経センターで松井先生にも直接診察をしてもらい、フォローをしてもらっています。
そのかいもあってか、現在は体調の波はあるものの問診票は2点～3点で推移しています。
今は、大好きなバイクの運転や車の運転も苦にならず、以前のように友人たちと週末は出かけることもでき、ストレスの解消にもなっています。
現在、東京脳神経センターで不調の原因がわかり、治療を開始して4年が経過しています。城攻めに例えるなら、4年かけてようやく外堀が埋まり、本丸に攻め入る入口にきたところだと思っています。まだまだ諦めずに治療を続けたいと思っています。
これから治療をするかたに伝えたいのは、長期間の治療になってもあきらめず続けることです。経済的には治療も自費診療も多く、苦しいかもしれません。時間を確保するのも大変かもしれません。家族や職場の理解を得ることも難しいこともあります。同じ治療を行ってもよくなる方、治療に時間のかかる方それぞれいます。ですので一人では治療もくじけてしまいます。私もここまで続けられたのは、入院・治療中に出会った同じ病気で苦しむ全国の仲間や松井病院及びスッキリセンターのスタッフの皆さんがあってと思っています。あきらめす治療を続けたから今があると思っています。
首からくる不調は正直言ってただ寝ているだけ、漫然と薬を飲み続けるだけでは良くなりません。治療に1歩踏み出して、痛みや不調に耐え治療を続けることで結果が出てきます。外科手術のように切った張ったでよくなるものではないので、自分でも努力が大事です。治療者まかせにせず、自分がいまどんな状態で、首のどの部分や筋肉が悪いのか、学んでいくことで医師との診察も有意義なものに変わっていきます。
同じ病気を抱え、治療を頑張る仲間は多くいます。自分の気持ちが許せば、そういう方とも交流をして色々な情報を得ること、治療の経過を聞くこともモチベーションアップにもとても有効です。
また、首の治療の方法は松井先生の方法がただ一つというわけではないのですが、首からくる様々な不調の内容をよく理解もせず薬のみ処方する医師は信用しないことです。私も松井先生の治療と並行していろいろな方法を試しています。どれが正解かはまだわかりません。
この頸性神経筋症候群の患者さんとほぼ同じ症状で起立性調節障害という病気があり、こちらも確固たる治療法が確立されず、無意味な投薬や治療で時間を無駄にしてしまっている若年層の方が多数います。ですが、起立性調節障害の診断で松井病院へ入院して元気に学校や社会に復帰していった患者さんを多数見ました。
復帰後に学校に戻り、中学校・高校・大学や部活に打ち込んで本来の学生生活に戻っていくことは、本人のためにもなりますし、元気に働いてお金を稼ぎ、家族をやがては持ち、社会の一員として生活を営んでいけることは大きく見て現在の日本の問題となっている働き手の不足や少子高齢化対策にもつながっていくと思うのです。
この病気や松井病院での治療が多くの人に知るところとなり、国や地方自治体、職場が啓発周知・治療法の開発に助力してくれることを切に願います。
聴力レベルの推移
症状経過
After a motorcycle accident (full body bruises), the patient developed headaches, dizziness, and neck stiffness. He visited a neurosurgeon and an otolaryngologist, but no abnormalities were found. His symptoms subsequently worsened, his hearing also deteriorated, and he was diagnosed with "intractable Meniere's disease." He took numerous medications, but to no avail. He was hospitalized twice at Matsui Hospital and received electrical therapy on his neck, which almost completely cured his headaches, dizziness, and depression, and also restored his hearing.
Case No. 088 44-year-old male
Experience record 2025.09.04
History leading up to hospitalization at Matsui Hospital
I work as a public health nurse.
I have always suffered from lightheadedness and headaches, and looking back, these have been recurring since I was around 20 years old. Around the same time, I was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. Fortunately, I didn't break any bones and only suffered bruises all over my body, and the orthopedic clinics at the time wouldn't have treated my neck. I thought the headaches and dizziness were completely unrelated to my neck, so I went to neurosurgeons and ear, nose, and throat doctors each time, but they always told me there were no findings or that there was nothing abnormal.
However, when the headaches were severe, I was unable to work, so I suspected I had migraines. I tried several medications, but they were not very effective and were expensive, so I didn't continue for long. That's why I still use Loxonin when I have headaches. I also suffered from pain and stiffness in my neck and shoulders, but I went to a nearby osteopathic clinic and was somehow able to continue working.
However, the COVID-19 pandemic completely changed the situation.
As I worked as a city employee (public health nurse), I felt peer pressure from my workplace to "refrain" from going to the osteopathic clinic. Furthermore, because my workplace was City Hall, which had to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak, I also had to refrain from going to the hospital unless it was absolutely necessary. At the same time, I was assigned to the vaccine response team, and for a long time I was living a life of despair, working from morning until late at night without any days off, looking at a computer and filling out medical questionnaires.
One day, while I was busy like this, I was hit with a severe attack of dizziness in the morning and had a terrible headache, so I was unable to do anything and went to a nearby general hospital.
Although the CT scan showed no obvious findings, I was not fully conscious, so I was immediately hospitalized. My blood data and MRI showed no abnormalities, but I still had dizziness, so I was hospitalized for a few days. It seemed to be good that I kept resting, and my hospital stay was only about a week.
However, the dizziness did not go away after that, so I consulted an ENT doctor at the hospital, who referred me to another ENT doctor who specializes in dizziness. There, the number of oral medications I was taking increased, and my one tablet became two. The number of types of medication I was taking then quickly increased to two types, then three types.
However, I still didn't get better, so we decided to try Chinese herbal medicine next and I was recommended to see a Chinese herbalist. I was determined to get better, so I continued to visit the Chinese herbalist and ENT specialist, and before I knew it, I was taking mountains of medicine with every meal. In the midst of all this, the ENT specialist diagnosed me with "intractable Meniere's disease," and although I knew it would never be cured, I had no choice but to continue taking the medicine.
As time went on, I began to suffer from insomnia, so I went to a psychiatrist. I also had to get treatment for my insomnia, and the number of oral medications I was taking increased. I think I was taking more than 10 different medications at this point.
However, my condition remained unstable, and when it worsened I was admitted to my previous general hospital again.
During my second hospitalization, I was fully conscious, so I researched treatments for "intractable Meniere's disease" and discovered inner ear compression therapy. After I was released from the hospital, I spoke to an ENT specialist, who told me that this had never been done in Yamanashi Prefecture, so I would be the first patient in the prefecture to have this treatment. Still, if it could be cured, I had no choice but to believe in it. I had already maxed out my oral medication, so there was no other treatment available.
Admission to Matsui Hospital
At this point, I could have gone to another prefecture to get a second opinion, but the world was in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and I couldn't travel to another prefecture, so I had no choice but to continue doing what I could at the time.
The "cochlear compression therapy" also had some effect, but it didn't get to the point where I could reduce my oral medication, and I had to continue taking the same large doses of oral medication and the cochlear compression therapy, which meant I was often absent from work. At this point, a hearing test revealed that I had suffered from significant hearing loss along with dizziness.
My boss at work told me, "If you can't do your job, consider quitting," and I became fed up with no one understanding my illness, and with the fact that despite working so hard to deal with my illness, my treatment results were not improving.
I also lost motivation, and eventually there were days when I couldn't get out of bed.
The psychiatrist I see for insomnia treatment said, "I don't think it's depression, but something else, but the only way to cure your current depression is to use an antidepressant," and prescribed me an SNRI (Cymbalta).
One day, while I was wondering, "Do I really have to take this?", I went to a neurosurgeon and he told me, "Your headaches and dizziness may be caused by your neck. However, I don't know how to treat it. Please consider treating your neck." It was the first time I had heard that dizziness can come from the neck. Even though I studied medicine as a public health nurse, I had no idea that such whole-body disorders could be caused by the neck.
From there, I quickly found the Tokyo Neurological Center's website on the Internet and filled out a medical questionnaire, which showed me to be in a severe state, scoring 28 out of a possible 30.
As I hadn't been getting good results with medication, this seemed like a last ray of hope for me. Luckily, I was able to make an appointment with Dr. Hojo at the Tokyo Neurological Center 10 days later. He diagnosed me with severe cervical neuromuscular syndrome and parasympathetic dysfunction, and said that with outpatient treatment three times a week, it would take about a year and a half until I was in remission. If I were admitted to Matsui Hospital, it would take two to three months. I lived in Yamanashi Prefecture, so it was far from Tokyo (2 hours each way) and it was impossible for me to commute to receive treatment. I was worried about being away from home for 2-3 months, but I decided to be admitted to Matsui Hospital in Kagawa Prefecture, as I felt that this was the only way to cure my illness. Perhaps it was good timing, because while other patients were waiting an average of two to three months, I was able to be admitted to Matsui Hospital in Kagawa Prefecture and begin treatment 10 days after my initial consultation at the Tokyo Neurological Center, although I was only able to be admitted to a shared room. The first thing that surprised me when I was admitted to Matsui Hospital was the impression that there were so many people suffering from the same symptoms. The patients at that time had come from all over the country, and when I talked to them while they were feeling well during their hospital stay, they all told me that they had visited various hospitals with similar symptoms and situations, but they couldn't find a clear cause and so they ended up at Tokyo Neurological Center and Matsui Hospital. The first thing I realized was that everyone was grasping at straws and seeking treatment as their last hope.
Dr. Matsui's instructions were that the treatment would consist of physical therapy (Pain Topler and SSP) twice a day, and that the rest of the time they should rest.
To keep my neck at rest, I was told not to watch TV, but listening to the radio was OK, so I subscribed to the smartphone app "Radiko" and spent my time listening to radio stations in Tokyo and Osaka. However, too much rest can weaken my muscles, so when I felt well, I tried to do the bare minimum of exercise to prevent muscle weakness, such as walking up and down the hospital stairs or taking a walk around the clinic area after the outpatient clinic hours in the evening.
My hospital stay was in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, so I couldn't even go for walks outside, and I made it a point to bathe in the large public bath three times a week. Taking a long bath refreshed me and motivated me to work hard on my treatment.
At first, the Toplar electrical treatment often made me dizzy and confused, and I often became skeptical, wondering if such treatment would really cure me. However, even then, Dr. Hara and the nurses listened to me carefully, which gave me the motivation to keep trying a little harder.
When increasing the level of electrical therapy, dizziness and unsteadiness inevitably occur as a reaction, and the physical condition may worsen. I learned through experience that this is a temporary healing reaction.
Also, thanks to the encouragement of the therapy staff who told me to "don't give up and keep trying," as well as the encouragement of senior patients, I was able to change my attitude many times, even though I had struggled to improve my Topler and SSP treatment values, and I have gradually begun to feel the effects of the treatment.
Now that I have begun to understand the effectiveness of treatment, I have become the one to convey the importance of not interrupting treatment, just as my senior patients did for me. Looking back, I think that although there are various reasons why patients discontinue treatment and are discharged from the hospital, perhaps this kind of follow-up was lacking.
As the first discharge date approached, I realized that follow-up care would be difficult because I live in a rural area, so I asked Dr. Hara to continue providing follow-up care via online consultations. I was very grateful that an online follow-up system was already in place.
The first hospitalization lasted exactly 90 days, and I felt that I had recovered about 60% of the time, assuming that complete recovery is 100%. My score on the medical questionnaire had dropped from 28 to 11. What surprised me most about my first hospitalization was that my dizziness had almost completely disappeared. To confirm, the day after I was discharged from the hospital, I went to the ENT clinic where I had been diagnosed with Meniere's disease, and the results showed that there was no nystagmus and that my hearing loss had returned to normal. The ENT doctor was so surprised by this that all the staff at the clinic gathered around to hear my story, asking, "Where and what kind of treatment did you receive?".(※Please refer to the image below.)
Second admission
After my first hospitalization, I returned to work, but after about three months, all of my symptoms except for the dizziness and hearing loss returned, so I had to take a second leave of absence. I still remember the question my HR representative asked me at the time: "You were hospitalized and took a long leave of absence, so why aren't you getting better?"
Since there was a period of time before my second admission to Matsui Hospital, I decided to take this opportunity to fix all the issues in my body, so I went to a local orthopedic clinic to have the lower back pain that had been bothering me for a while. I was diagnosed with a herniated disc and spondylolisthesis, and underwent surgery.
Since the lower back is connected to the neck by the spine, I thought there would be no harm to my neck, so after hospitalization for surgery and rehabilitation, I was admitted to Matsui Hospital for the second time. During my second admission, my score had returned to 20 points from 11 points.
Based on my first experience, I gradually increased the level of my SSP and Topler from the beginning of my hospitalization in order to make the most of the 90 days, and after 30 days of hospitalization, I increased the strength to the maximum therapeutic level that could be achieved during my stay, and spent the remaining 60 days there.
When I was discharged for the second time, my score on the medical questionnaire had dropped to 5.
When I was hospitalized for the second time, I enclosed a copy of Dr. Matsui's book, "Cure Your Stiff Neck and 90% of Your Illnesses Will Disappear," along with the doctor's diagnosis and asked the HR person at my workplace to read it so that they could better understand my illness. Perhaps this was worth it, as the HR person had changed from their previous position and they took my workplace placement after I was discharged into consideration.
"Because you've been hired as a public health nurse, you can't be transferred in the middle of the year, but there are various ways of working, so we'll let you know as we go," she said. It also seems that the consideration given to this was significant, as Dr. Hara's medical certificate at the time of her discharge from hospital had included a sentence that said, "Desk work is not desirable," but I think the HR person also understood why desk work is a bad idea after reading Dr. Matsui's book.
Two years have now passed since my second discharge from the hospital. I have been transferred to a job that involves physical activity outside, rather than desk work. My colleagues are understanding of my illness, and I continue to visit by train once every two weeks (Fridays and Saturdays) to a treatment facility in Omiya City, Saitama Prefecture. Even after being discharged for the second time, I have continued to receive online consultations, and once a year I have Dr. Matsui examine me in person at the Tokyo Neurological Center and follow up with me. Perhaps thanks to that, although my health condition still fluctuates, my medical questionnaire score has remained stable at 2 to 3 points.
Now I can drive my beloved motorcycle or car without any difficulty, and I can go out with friends on weekends like I used to, which also helps me relieve stress.
It has now been four years since the cause of my condition was discovered at the Tokyo Neurological Center and treatment began. If I were to compare it to sieging a castle, after four years the outer moat has finally been filled in and I have just reached the entrance to attack the main castle. I have not given up yet and would like to continue treatment.
What I would like to say to those who are about to undergo treatment is to not give up and continue even if the treatment is long-term. Financially, it may be difficult, as much of the treatment and medical care is self-paid. It may also be difficult to find the time. It may also be difficult to gain the understanding of family and workplace. Even with the same treatment, some people improve in a short period of time, while others take a long time to recover.
Therefore, if I were to continue treatment alone, I would give up. I believe that I have been able to continue this far thanks to the support of my colleagues from all over the country who suffer from the same illness that I met during my hospitalization and treatment, as well as the staff at Matsui Hospital and treatment facilities. I believe that I am in good health today because I never gave up and continued with treatment.
To be honest, neck discomfort will not improve just by sleeping or continuing to take medicine. Taking the first step toward electrical treatment, enduring the pain and discomfort and continuing treatment will produce good results.
It's not something that can be cured by cutting and stitching like surgery, so it's important to make an effort yourself. Don't leave it up to the therapist, but learn about your current condition and which part or muscle of your neck is affected, and your consultation with the doctor will become more meaningful.
There are many people out there who suffer from the same illness and are working hard to treat it. If you feel comfortable doing so, interacting with them and getting various information and hearing about their treatment progress can be very effective in motivating you.
Also, Dr. Matsui's method may not be the only way to treat the neck, but don't trust doctors who only prescribe medication without fully understanding the various ailments that can arise from the neck. I am also trying various methods in parallel with Dr. Matsui's treatment. I still don't know which is the right answer.
There is a condition called orthostatic dysreguratio that has almost the same symptoms as patients with cervical neuromuscular syndrome, and there is no established treatment for this condition either, resulting in many young people wasting their time on pointless medication and treatment. However, I have seen many patients who were diagnosed with orthostatic dysreguratio and admitted to Matsui Hospital, and have returned to school and society in good health.
It will be beneficial for them to return to school after their return, and to devote themselves to junior high, high school, university, and club activities, thereby returning to the normal student life.I also believe that in the long run, being able to work enthusiastically, earn money, eventually have a family, and live a life as a member of society will help address Japan's current problems of labor shortages and a declining birthrate and aging population.
I sincerely hope that more people will become aware of this disease and the treatment at Matsui Hospital, and that the national and local governments and workplaces will raise awareness and help develop a treatment.
Changes in Hearing Level
Course of symptoms
