Acupuncture helped me enormously. I have CP related osteoarthritis of the neck and acupuncture combined with proper seating and swimming keeps me pain free. - Bob Segalman, PhD ----- Original Message ----- From: lawrence keplinger <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 5:25 AM Subject: try something > <P>Last night I went for my first acupuncture treatment, I did not get > stick yet. My friend Jody is > almost finished his Master's in acupuncture and offered me to be his > last paitents as a student. The > first appointment was more of an interview and evaluation session. He > ask everything from how I ate > and how it comes out, to how I sleep and if I keep company during that > time. The next thing Jody was > to poked around my body at different points. Then he did a test to see > how balance my body is, or > something like that. For this Jody used a instance stick to see how > close it could get to each finger > and toe before it was painful. Jody decided the first thing we will try > to work on through the > treatments, is my sleeping patterns. I just do not sleep good, infact I > hate sleep maybe it is from > my C.P. > > <P>Posted 11/18/99 > > <P>I went for my second treatment of acupuncture and this time jody > broke out the needles. He is > working my back for now, this first time was see to witch point work and > witch did not. These test needle > also pulled out the "porstion", around the test needle got read I do > not really know what this means. > The needles did not go in too far, in fact they kept falling out. > During the insertion of the needles > I felt some more then other. In addition while they were in the feel of > have them in me come in waves. > During the treatment felt very relax and still, I almost fell to sleep. > I think I sat there a hour > with the needles in me, Jody said I would be so tired after the > treatment. I did not think I was tier > than usual, but I did notice that my move was decreased for the rest of > the night. > > <P>Posted 11/26/99 > > <P>Third week of treatment, boy this one was pain. Jody did a few things > at the same time plus he used > bigger need, so this week the pain was consent and not waves of stings > like last week. Because of the > pain I was not as relax during or after the session. Although it still > slowed down my movement after > wards. Last week I did have a few nights of better sleep. I found out > that the needles were falling > out because of my movement, this week they were falling out like crazy. > I was so lucky, last night > when went to change close, I found a needle in my undies. Can you > imagine how ugly that could have > been? Did you know that acupuncturist do not always leave the needles. > If they want decrease the > energy to that point, the needle stays in. When the energy needs to > increase at the point, they only > stick the point with the needle. > > <P>Posted 12/1/99 >