Trying Acupuncture for Fibromyalgia

Acupuncture stimulates the body’s ability to resist or overcome illnesses and conditions by correcting imbalances. Acupuncture also prompts the body to produce chemicals that decrease or eliminate painful sensations. Find out here how I am going with my acupuncture treatments for fibromyalgia.

The ancient art of acupuncture has been used in Asia for centuries to treat many conditions and relieve pain. It's now being used in the United States and other Western countries to ease everything from low back pain, to nerve pain (such as painful shingles rashes), to headaches, fibromyalgia, and menstrual cramps and more. HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL

Well, I've had 5 acupuncture treatments now over 5 weeks.
I don't even feel the needles go in.
They are in my arms. legs and feet.
I enjoy the peaceful lying still even though I cannot move much. (I have to keep really still as I don't even really know where the needles are specifically, just generally)

I feel better in myself after the 4th treatment - a well-being, positive, happy feeling like I know I can get better.

Here are the improvements I've seen in 5 weeks:

My blocked head feeling halved after the first treatment.

I have not had the severe pain in my shoulders or hips for 5 weeks and I was getting it usually once a week.

My aches and pains in legs and arms feel distant - still there, but distant.

I am not taking any medications (not even ibuprofen or Paracetamol).

I am not as tired. That extreme exhaustion has gone.

I no longer feel cold all the time

I have started sweating - I have not perspired for 20 years - so this is a good thing.

My sore throat - usually constant - is sometimes gone.

So all in all, to me. these are amazing improvements from doing acupuncture.

I will definitely be continuing.

           

There are hundreds of acupuncture points (called acu-points) along the body’s 14 major meridians (energy-carrying channels). Sixteenth-century Chinese doctors used the term “Qi” (pronounced “chee”) to describe the energy that flows through meridians. The belief is that illness is caused by a disruption of Qi, which leads to an imbalance of energy. Acupuncture can correct this energy disruption. CLEVELAND CLINIC

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