The first time I met Dr. Liu was when my son’s waist was injured while playing badminton in 1999. The injury caused him to walk with one shoulder up and the other down. I took him to see many doctors and massage therapists. When he looked normal, he would play badminton again. However, the pain would come back right away when he played! I had to ask him to stop playing. One day, one of his friends asked him to play but he replied that he could not as his waist was injured. “Don’t worry, please come and I will take you to see a Chinese doctor… Dr. Liu”, his friend said to him. Actually I had had enough of doctors and did not believe in them anymore. The first time my son went to see this Dr. Liu was without me. The next day, he told me that he felt much better and asked me to bring him to Dr. Liu’s clinic for a return visit. This happened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
During that visit, I told Dr. Liu that my neck did not have a problem when he asked at the beginning, but I was actually suffering a killing pain there 24 hours a day. I could not fall asleep. The pain confused me. I could only sleep a maximum of 4 hours per day. My head was unable to move. While talking to someone, I had to move only my upper body but not my head. If I forgot to move my body, my head would be unable to move back after 1-2 minutes. That is the reason why I still move my eyes a lot when I talk to people. It was the easiest way for me. While driving, as I could not turn my head, I could not look towards the rear of my car. I had to rely on both the rear-view and the side-view mirrors.
Dr. Liu suggested to me, “How about I give you only one needle? If you feel good, then we can discuss it more.” After a treatment with just that one needle, I slept for at least 6 hours that night. I had not had such a good and prolonged sleep in more than 20 years!
Before seeing Dr. Liu, I had been visiting all the doctors I could find. There were no more doctors I could see. Among the other doctors, Dr. Koh was the only one who persuaded me not to undergo surgery. He was the best western medicine doctor I have met so far because he told me the truth. His parents have been my friends since a long time ago. All the other western medicine doctors had advised me to try surgery. They told me that my pain came from the cervical cartilage pressing against nerves when it was swollen. It caused nausea and vomiting when I felt a lot of pain. I tried my best to take painkillers as sparingly as possible, but I still needed them.
I believed my life would be shortened because of my neck problem. I felt pain all the time and I could not sleep! I knew even doctors could not find a way to solve this problem. Surgery was the only solution the other doctors could think of but Dr. Koh told me that this kind of surgery is very dangerous. The key point was that my neck would not recover back to normal even after surgery and there would be lots of side effects! That was the reason why I did not want to see any more doctors. I was deep in despair from doctors and my neck disease! Traditional Chinese medicine doctors (TCM) also had no solution for my neck. I had tried countless TCM doctors. This unfamiliar TCM doctor… Dr. Liu, I thought he was just one of them. How good could he be? How could he help me?!
In fact, when his first needle was put inside my muscle, the feeling was so different from what I had with other TCM doctors. My neck and head felt loose right away! It was so amazing that I still remember that feeling! The other TCM doctors I had tried never gave me any feelings that resulted in me feeling so much better! Dr. Liu is totally different from them! Dr. Liu was the last doctor I saw. I felt the significant effectiveness of his first treatment. He continued giving me treatments later on. Now my head can move to different angles freely.
After taking treatments from Dr. Liu, I quit taking painkillers. I can drink now which is something I could not imagine doing before. Gone are the pulling and spasms that would accompany a sip of drink. Those symptoms would cause me to stay overnight!
Knowing Dr. Liu did not just make me feel happier but also changed my life. He helped me so much! Before meeting Dr. Liu, I had been bothered by an intense sense that my life would be short! I felt that I would be lucky if I could bring up my children. The end of my life felt like it was coming soon. I deeply believed that! But now it is different! As I no longer have problems with health, I really should enjoy my life!