Did those that did acupuncture the week of the embryo transfer, when did you go? I keep reading conflicting things on the timing. I've been going once a week since January or so and then increased to twice per week the past few weeks. My Acu says to go the day before and the day of (after transfer for day of). Thank you all!
I’m a freshly graduated acu student :) I have a few questions about scope/ CEUs regarding cosmetic work.
I’ve always been interested in esthetics and am curious if any practitioners have experience taking CEUs/ other trainings which allow them to do extractions (blackheads, whiteheads, etc). As far as I know, this isn’t in the scope of LAcs…would you have to go back to school for esthetics to become licensed to do extractions?
If you’ve completed training in cosmetic acupuncture, which CEUs did you take and have you seen good results from what you learned?
Thanks for your time :)
Hi! I just started acupuncture two days ago due to a yin deficiency that manifests with severe insomnia, excessive sweating, heavy period bleeding and TMJ.
The needles went on my shins, wrists and belly. At first I had to actively relax my muscles but they'd just tense up again, treatment seemed to be working cause I ended up falling asleep on the table after the first 15 minutes. I felt quite relaxed afterwards, but 5 or 6 hours later I started getting a headache, mainly on the right side of my head and eye region, and then it became a dull, static pain located on the back of my head (I could tell it was tensional, right at the end of the nape). When I got on the bus to go back home I was so tired I couldn't keep my eyes open, and while I was nodding off my jaw clenched so forcefully and suddenly I bit my tongue on my sleep, got a nasty wound. I did some grounding and meditation as soon as I got home and the headache went away almost instantly. Is this just my nervous system freaking out, is it OK for it to freak out like that? I'm super apprehensive and I'm thinking about canceling my next appointment cause the discomfort felt like it was too much for me at the moment. The practitioner seemed very careless when inserting the needles (the room had very, very dim lighting too) and one of them left a visible wound afterwards, my worst fear is nerve damage due to malpractice. Should I still give it a go?
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Long post-appreciate any guidance. Hello, I am new to Chinese Medicine and acupuncture after developing daily migraines. I have longstanding issues with insomnia, fatigue, fibromyalgia, anxiety, and depression. I have tried many different things to treat my symptoms over the years. I’ve had some limited success with supplements and functional medicine. I had a bad reaction to Zoloft end of May where I developed daily headaches that turned into a 6 week migraine disorder nightmare. I stopped Zoloft 2 weeks into the headaches and have tried Tylenol, ibuprofen, excedrin, Toradol, amitriptyline, sumatriptan, and nurtec, none of which provided any lasting real relief. I had a normal CT scan and am waiting to get an MRI, hopefully next week.
I started with acupuncture this week and have gone twice. She wants me to take Jia Wei Xiao Yao San, 4 capsules 3x per day. That’s about 720 mg of each herb in JWXYS (240 mg per serving of 4 capsules). At the same time I had a doctor appointment with my PCP and she wants me to do a steroid taper of prednisone for 10 days. I decided to start the prednisone first to hopefully break the migraine and get some relief.
My question is should I mix eastern and western medicine and take the Jia Wei Xiao Yao San while I do the steroid taper for 10 days, or wait until the steroid taper is done? It’s Friday and I don’t see my acupuncturist until Monday. My intuition is telling me to wait a few more days before introducing the herbs and give the prednisone a chance to work. I am on day two and this is often when long migraines break on prednisone. I’m also already taking trazodone for insomnia.
I have had a lot of medication changes recently to support my insomnia and anxiety. It’s been a roller coaster. Out of desperation I have a tendency to throw multiple supplements/treatments at my health problems all at once hoping something will stick. I know it could be making things more complicated though which is why I made this post in the first place.
I’m just looking for some advice and guidance and wondering if anyone has gone through anything similar. Please be kind, as mentioned I am new to TCM and acupuncture and learning as I go. Thank you for reading and for any advice.
Hi- my father is on palliative care, most likely dying and in chronic pain that morphine won’t touch. I’d love a referral for an acupuncturist near windham NH. Londonderry and Salem are close. Manchester is 40 minutes away. Bonus points for house calls.
He has sjorgens disease, AFIB, and interstital lung disease. He says all of those things he could live with but his chronic heads ache makes him want to die (speculated to be pinching of a nerve in his neck due to arthritis but not officially diagnosed). Does anyone have any recommendations? I want to help him so badly.
My city has two acupuncture colleges. Both are good schools, but one in particular has an amazing environment, reputation, and curriculum. You do three semesters of Classical Chinese language study so you can read passages from classical acupuncture texts in their original languages, you do three semesters of taijiquan and can even continue your studies to become an instructor, they incorporate qi gong and meditation every day, and they teach more than just TCM acupuncture, they also cover Japanese and other acupuncture methods. The other acupuncture school in my city is good too, but it only teaches TCM acupuncture, and only has a single term of Chinese. The first school also has a reputation of being a better environment to learn in, and is slightly less expensive. So I know which school I'd prefer to go to.
I applied a couple of days ago, and I've just been invited to come in for a tour, to sit in on a class, and to meet the school's director one on one. I'm feeling pretty scared*.* What if I say something stupid? What if he doesn't like my vibe? I really really want to get into this college. I aged out of foster care, so I don't have a lot of adults to ask for advice about a big thing like starting college. So I figured I would ask all of you!
Anyone in private practice have alternatives to Google Voice? The scam calls every day are driving me insane. I’ve had literally nothing but 20+ scam calls since setting up the account. Is it even worth it? Do I just need to set up another phone entirely for work? 😭
I had my first acupuncture session ever on Monday evening and the practitioner was working on my upper neck/shoulders. She did a few needles and it was ok, but then she did ones at the base of my skull where there was a load of tension.
It felt veryyy weird. Like, a bit of a sting then just a really dull aching. The practitioner was amazing and checked in at every stage, so I was quickly able to tell her that I felt weird. My vision started shaking, I got really hot, then I felt so nauseous I was worried I was going to be sick. She took all the needles out, and after a glass of water and a few minutes the feeling passed and I drove home. The whole treatment barely lasted 5 minutes I reckon.
Fast forward to Tues night/Wed morning and I feel dreadful. I had the worst sleep ever, weirdest stress dreams, and I have a low fever, aching neck/back, sore throat and feel a little nauseous. Is this due to the acupuncture or has it just timed poorly and I'm just sick?
Genuinely just interested to hear the perspectives on my experience! The practitioner said I was the first person she's treated to react in this way. Do some people just react more strongly than others?
Check out this substack to see what is happening now that the earnings premium Do No Harm Metric has been published.
Are there any recent graduates from Yo San that have an understanding of the school's finances? Or anyone who is able to decipher what to look for in the public 990 non-profit tax returns?
My initial calls with them went great and was told they're in a very good financial state because of an endowment, etc etc. I'm hoping to confirm this from someone who doesn't work there.
I got accepted and will be transferring in many classes which will help offset the crazy cost you really can't escape in this field right now. But still want to make sure I'm not walking into another school that's on the brink of collapse. Thx ~
If you want to know what is going on with acupuncture education, I highly recommend you listen to Dr. Bex Groebner, DAc, LAc from Oregon and Washington state.
She works in Nepal doing front line care with acupuncture (and talks about that here) and was a long time educator at NUNM and OCOM and talks about OCOM closing and how students are being harmed by these programs.
She has ideas for how we can move forward and it’s definitely worth listening to this. That’s the link on Qiological and it’s also on Apple Podcasts.
Hi im wondering if anyone attended Pacific College of Oriental Medicine for acupuncture school? If so, how was your experience, how long did it take, and your tuition? Im thinking of taking the doctorate route but want to learn more about the career path and school.
For people raised in the West, we mainly know biomedicine, which is separated from spirituality.
There is psychotherapy, but it's also separated from spirituality.
Can spirituality and/or psychotherapy complement TCM?
Hey everyone, hope you all are doing well.
This question is going to be divided into two parts
firstly i want to know if you guys have any insight on acupuncture’s capacity to heal sensoneural hearing loss. I am currently doing corticoid treatment, but thinking of doing acupuncture as well. It generally works well with many problems i have now and then, and a have a therapist i trust.
The only problem is that i would have to give um a trip i already made a reservation for and paid a big part of it.
Does anyone know if much as with corticoid, time is of the essence?
The second question is to present a hypothesis i have as to how it started.
one week before the hearing loss started i went to do acupuncture because of some emotional/psychological issues (excessive stimulation had caused a qualitative shift to how i feel about life, feeling much more attachment to the mind’s narratives and a worsening of insecurities).
this was on a thursday. saturday night i felt the mind beggining to go back to how it felt before.
The monday morning i took (prescribed) ritalin for a maths class, and in the afternoon i felt as if it had “messed” up somehow the process and that the mind was once again attached and insecure.
So tuesday i went to acupuncture again, to try to put things back in order again.
wednesday i came to a meditation retreat, and the on thursday the symptoms of hearing loss started.
tinnitus increased on the left side, ear feeling muffled, and the left ear seems to not be picking up high pitched sounds as well.
an examination i did yesterday found an actual drop in the left ear’s capacity to pick up high frequencies, but the physical examination found nothing wrong with the ear, strongly suggesting that the loss is sensoneural.
which makes me wonder, could it be an excess of varied stimulation that messed up something? i’ve heard that people should be careful when switching acupuncturists, but never heard about interactions with traditional western medicine in that sense.
What do you think?
we did a lot of moxa work especially around my feet, now my whole legs are twitching in many places
is this normal or am I having an adverse reaction to the mugwort?
I'd love to hear anyone's experience with the school. They offer a three year (or two year accelerated, with no summer break) acupuncture diploma program, and a one-year Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner post-diploma program. I'm strongly considering applying, and would love to hear about any experiences anyone has with the program. They're the only accredited acupuncture program in Atlantic Canada.
Hi All, I have been going to an acupuncturist for many years with much success. I'm wondering if acupuncture is helpful for my 6 year old son for regulating his nervous system? Giving their body is growing and changing, is it still safe for them to try acunpuncture, if they aren't scared of the needles?
Has anyone tried acupuncture for irregular periods or endometriosis? I have a family member with prolonged periods and so far no diagnoses of the cause. We did a lot of tests but all came out normal. This prolonged (months on end) has caused low iron and also fatigue/hairloss.
If anyone used acupuncture for above, would love to hear your experience. Thank you!
Anybody else have celiac and use acupuncture? What did it do for you?