Apparently 10 acupuncture sessions should be available on the U.K. NHS to anybody who cannot tolerate preventatives.
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Yes, like with everything in the NHS these days, you can only have it if youâve tried absolutely all the drugs and drug combinations. Wouldnât it be nice if it could be the other way around: try the stuff with no side effects first, then move onto the pharmaceuticals If that doesnât work!
I thought Iâd share my experience: I went for acupuncture towards the start of my illness and I remember it not making me worse, possibly giving me temporary boost of energy (before I was medicated for hypothyroid) and that was very welcome at the time, canât remember it helping the dizzies so much. I stopped because of cost and benefits lasting only a couple of days.
I went to another acupuncturist last year and felt HORRIFIC after a session of needles, accompanied by cupping on the tense neck and shoulder muscles. I have never felt so weird and out of it in my life. Apparently she was âreleasing pathogensâ. Took a couple of days to recover and certainly no better. The following time she went much gentler and I just felt heavy and sluggish afterwards, again no benefit after. Then she moved back to Mexico, where sheâs from. I often wonder what it might have been like to continue, as clearly SOMETHING was happening. Guess I will need to try with someone new again to see. But I do think all these practitioners are different. Theyâre working with energy rather than science per se, so would figure they all have different levels of skill and sensitivity.
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Is acupressure relative to acupuncture? both do use pressure points of our body. Any helpful thoughts?
I asked my acupuncturist about this and she said itâs nowhere near as effective as acupuncture. Based on the same principles though i think. Plus you can do it yourself to some extent
and there was me thinking that was one possible explanation of how the Pandemic started or could have it been somebodyâs acupuncture session that triggered it after all.
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I did rather post the âavailabilityâ of acupuncture on the NHS rather tongue in cheek. A neurologist suggested I could try it after my husband asked her opinion during my consultation. I doubt sheâd have mentioned it otherwise. Anyway she wrote it up in her letter to my GP with the added note that there is no NHS access currently in this area! So much for the âNationalâ Health Service eh.
Interestingly when interrogating another doctor from my practice I happened on for another matter she suggested that as I am so medication sensitive (I was reacting to Vitamin D at the time) that I quit mainstream medication and tried alternative stuff. She suggested something Which amounted to foot massage, sorry lost the word for the present, and acupuncture. When I said Iâd pursued an NHS trained physiotherapist who also practised acupuncture she told me Iâd be better off with a person trained the Eastern way. An interesting comment I thought. Despite the fact my brother had successful acupuncture treatment for vertigo years ago Iâve never really felt I wanted to try it.
Lol. Iâll bet thereâs a branch of conspiracy theory out there somewhere relating to this! Too many acupuncture sessions to one go and boom.
Interesting what your doc said. And you probably mean reflexology - which I find lovely and relaxing but thatâs really it. I definitely wouldnât dismiss acupuncture, it seems to be very powerful for a lot of people. Maybe it is even worth finding someone a bit âwitchyâ and see what happens. Iâve met a lot of whacky bodywork practitioners like that through my left-of-field therapy training and found thatâs it is not the qualifications that are the most meaningful. Some of these âenergyâ workers really made me feel some weird things. Whether or not itâs going to cure VM is of course another question. I donât think I ever gave it long enough, having probably been a bit freaked out by the experience!
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Reflexology that was it. Thanks for that. I will be able to sleep tonight now I knowđ. Hate losing words.
With your acupuncture experience it might have been the interference with your neck at fault. Iâve written about my experiences with said physio in my PD. She decided Iâd benefit more from physio than acupuncture so I went along with it a while. Sheâd never treated anybody with migraine/VM with acupuncture and didnât think it would work and as I was paying her to turn down work I felt obliged to believe her. I must admit to being way out the habit of taking risks with VM. Six months ENT recommended VRT put me in bed for months legless. The physioâs treatment brought in an eleven day attack which did likewise as did previous physio years back. The risks never pay off for me.
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My physiotherapist has used dry needling (I believe it is similar to acupuncture) for my neck and shoulder pain. It helped with the pain, but did not do anything for dizziness.
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I donât blame you for not taking risks with it. Iâve become very risk averse myself. I did think the cupping had something to do with it. Quite an intense treatment.