IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE - ARCHIVES

October 13th, 2008

ACUPUNCTURE

Trust me I know times are tough economically for most of us right now, but if you can find some extra dough acupuncture is worth the cost! Especially right now with all the stress and lack of sleep that is plaguing most, acupuncture can help with that so you don’t have to be a slave to pills!! I am a firm believer in alternative medicine, not that traditional medicine doesn’t serve a purpose of course it does however too many times the cure is a pill or unnecessary surgery which leads to more surgeries and pills and the cycle never ends.

So anywho….a close friend of mine has been going to acupuncture and loves it, so I thought okay I have had this foggy head thing and sporadic night sweats for like 2 freaken years also this pain I get just above my abdomen really intense and EVERYTHING I have tried has not worked! Exercise, changing eating habits, doing more therapy, meditation, getting more sleep, trying new vitamins, going to SEVERAL doctors, nothing nope nada! At first I thought shit am I perimenopausal? So I went to my gyno and got the tests done and nope I am not. I then went to doctor after doctor just to be told it comes with age to have a foggy head!!! What damn it not expectable and oh yeah here is a pill that might help, no thanks! And the pain I get just above my abdomen, no clue! So then I tried all the above I already mentioned the exercise, nope, the changing of eating habits, nope, doing more therapy, well that always helps in general, but not with the foggy head! Then the mediation, the more rest, blah blah blah! I finally said fuck it I will just live with this fog and I have been! But then that friend of mine was having such good results with acupuncture I thought well that is the one thing I haven’t tried yet, let’s give it a whirl!!!

Okay so you walk in this place and IMMEDIATELY feel the peace! The ladies are Japanese and know their shit! After a series of questions, exercise and what we put in our bodies of course was still very important, but more importantly in a matter of moments after feeling my pulse on both wrists touching my abdomen she knew exactly my problem!! She put the needles where they needed to go on the front side for 15 min, then the back side for 15 min, and during the session so relaxing so peaceful, it felt really awesome! I already felt a difference after and the days to follow and I can’t wait to go again! The organ that she said needed to be healed on me is my spleen, which is just above your abdomen by the way!! Where I have had pain! It also is what helps the blood and nutrients flowing in our bodies which is not flowing properly in mine and also causing that head fog. She also said all processed sugars are out, have them no more! That is my downfall, chocolate!! But I bid a farewell to it because I would rather heal that have that damn processed sugars interfere!! If you can give it a try, acupuncture helps this to be A Wonderful Life!!

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