Warren man reclaims his life from chronic pain with chiropractor's help

BOARDMAN

For many patients living with chronic pain, daily doses of pain medication are measured in tens of milligrams.

When Troy Mazur, 47, of Warren, visited local-pain management physician Dr. Shawn Donatelli and chiropractor Dr. Michael Lyons last year, Mazur’s daily morphine-equivalent dose was a whopping 600 mg.

After numerous surgeries to repair multiple hernias, Mazur was living with both the chronic pain that stemmed from a 17-year-old injury, and the crippling side effects of opioid addiction.

For much of the previous decade, Mazur’s circumstances had robbed him of the will to live. Unable to walk, incapacitated by his excruciating pain, Mazur rarely left his house. He lost his teeth, has a persistent ringing in his ears, and battled severe depression as a result of the drugs.

“I was ready to die,” he said. “I was ready to give up.”

To see Mazur today is to see an entirely different person.

He walks his dogs. He goes fishing. He smiles.

Read what happened in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.