View Full Version : Acupuncture- anyone had it?
appollo1
26-03-09, 11:06 AM
My wife has is going for acupuncture this afternoon following a medical refferal.
My question is has anyone on here ever had acupuncture and if so are there any after effects of the treatment?
Thanks
Dave20046
26-03-09, 11:07 AM
ask soulkiss, gets them all the time :(
timwilky
26-03-09, 11:08 AM
They tried it on my knackered shoulder.
it is not painful and no after effect. (including helping the knackered shoulder)
Kate Moss
26-03-09, 11:13 AM
we use it for relaxation here on the clients. Not heard of any after effects. And people swear by it but we are different so what works for one may be a load of carp for someone else!
Yup just makes you feel very tired after....almost giddy. Sorted my back out a right treat
Make sure its a good place. I heard of someone that went to have it done, and the needles were reused...
Dave20046
26-03-09, 11:26 AM
ewwwwwwww
surely urban myth
reminded me of an episode of family guy then...
Na i think it was on this forum it was mentioned.
Paul the 6th
26-03-09, 11:29 AM
yeah I'm sure I heard about that on the news in the past 12 months as well?
I think it does work, definitely. I saw some programme and it had a baby suffering from a lot of pain (from some sort of injury) and the accupuncture worked. You cant say it was just psychological when the baby doesnt know whats going on...
I had it for a knackered shoulder. Absoloutely wonderful, and had the best nights sleep ever after each session
Paul the 6th
26-03-09, 11:58 AM
I think it does work, definitely. I saw some programme and it had a baby suffering from a lot of pain (from some sort of injury) and the accupuncture worked. You cant say it was just psychological when the baby doesnt know whats going on...
aye it's still a bit of an emerging treatment in the 'western' world. Most treatments over here are from a 'clinical' approach whereas alternative alternative treatments and therapies such as accupuncture are from a 'health' approach. Think health treatments are still a bit controversial over here but it has been used in china and other parts of the far east for a long long time.
Stimulating various sensory/nervous/energy points with needles to manipulate pain & other things - slightly whacky but if it only works for a handful of people when everything has has failed miserably, then it can only be a good thing :)
appollo1
26-03-09, 11:59 AM
I had it for a knackered shoulder. Absoloutely wonderful, and had the best nights sleep ever after each session
That sound good - a good nights sleep will help as well.
Make sure its a good place. I heard of someone that went to have it done, and the needles were reused...
It's at the hospital so should be ok.
Yup just makes you feel very tired after....almost giddy. Sorted my back out a right treat
It's for her back so hopefully this will work as nothing else has.
I did it, it didn't help but I had a nice sleep!
My family and I have used it for various ailments, mostly successfully.
We wouldn't normally believe in wishy-washy hippie medicine like this, but the 1st to try it was our cat, which throws the placebo effect theory out the window!
Alpinestarhero
26-03-09, 12:01 PM
A few years ago, Chris Walker (BSB rider for yamaha) had bell's palsy (partial paralysis of his face). He tried alot of treatments but most didnt work. Acupuncture was something that seemed to help sort it out for him
Amanda M
26-03-09, 12:44 PM
Hmmm, this is a good thread and something I might look into more. I've got a hospital appointment in a couple of weeks to look at my shoulder which had got very painful, over a few months. I'd been having physio on it and she gave up because it wasn't improving. She thinks the joint where the collar-bone joins to the shoulder (AC joint) is the problem and I can't reach overhead without a lot of pain. I wonder if accupuncture would help?
Paul the 6th
26-03-09, 12:58 PM
Hmmm, this is a good thread and something I might look into more. I've got a hospital appointment in a couple of weeks to look at my shoulder which had got very painful, over a few months. I'd been having physio on it and she gave up because it wasn't improving. She thinks the joint where the collar-bone joins to the shoulder (AC joint) is the problem and I can't reach overhead without a lot of pain. I wonder if accupuncture would help?
my mum used to have something like that, a "Frozen shoulder" or an "impingement" or something? I'll ask her which therapy she eventually got for it as I think she's been better for a while now :)
Amanda M
26-03-09, 01:08 PM
my mum used to have something like that, a "Frozen shoulder" or an "impingement" or something? I'll ask her which therapy she eventually got for it as I think she's been better for a while now :)
Cheers Paul, that would be great. The physio tried all sorts and every week thought it was something different, then she finally settled on the AC joint. She wouldn't believe me when I said that I'd not had an injury that had started it, it's just something that has got worse over time. At least it doesn't hurt when I'm riding the bike :)
Interceptor
26-03-09, 01:14 PM
no problems when I had it (from my own GP) it seems to work quite quickly initially, and is supposed to stimulate the body into producing it's own natural repair systems.... :rolleyes:
Paul the 6th
26-03-09, 01:20 PM
Cheers Paul, that would be great. The physio tried all sorts and every week thought it was something different, then she finally settled on the AC joint. She wouldn't believe me when I said that I'd not had an injury that had started it, it's just something that has got worse over time. At least it doesn't hurt when I'm riding the bike :)
right, apparently it happened in around 1999 when she was (stupidly) trying to dig up a conifer root in the garden. Her shoulder clicked and then it started hurting over the following weeks. It got to the point where she couldn't raise her arm higher than chest height, so washing her hair or getting out of the bath became a real problem.
She tried months of physio with no success, and for a long time the doctor thought it was a "frozen shoulder" (not sure what this is), but it turned out to be an impingement. It sounds like the doctor thought my mum was a moaner and that there was nothing really wrong with her, until she went to the doctors with my dad and ended up in tears.
Doc finally & relucantly referred her to the hospital where she was given a steroid injection directly into her main shoulder joint.... then it all went away.
That was in 2002 and she's been fine ever since, but is quite bitter about the fact that it took the doctor 3 years to get his finger out and send her for the injection, when the specialists at the hospital said she could have had it much earlier on & saved a LOT of suffering.
Hope some of this helps, although it's not related to the accupuncture as in OP :)
Amanda M
26-03-09, 01:32 PM
That sounds familiar somehow! Thanks a million for that :D I feel more optimistic about it all now!
gettin2dizzy
26-03-09, 01:36 PM
As resident woo and non-science basher here ;) In short. No.
It doesn't work, at least not significantly more than a placebo (there's a bit of evidence to support that the stimulus from the needles detracts from the pain you already suffer from, a bit like rubbing your arm if you bash it).
Just look at the mechanism; it 'rechannels' the energy flowing around your body (your chi flow through your meridians). What utter tosh.
Kilted Ginger
26-03-09, 01:42 PM
Had it a few times, no real effect on any ocassion except for making me very dizzy and woozy on one ocassion ( no I'm not name dropping) however my brother has also had it and swears by it for anything from sports injuries to constipation.
Of it works for her great, each to their own.
timwilky
26-03-09, 03:18 PM
As resident woo and non-science basher here ;) In short. No.
It doesn't work, at least not significantly more than a placebo (there's a bit of evidence to support that the stimulus from the needles detracts from the pain you already suffer from, a bit like rubbing your arm if you bash it).
Just look at the mechanism; it 'rechannels' the energy flowing around your body (your chi flow through your meridians). What utter tosh.
Like I said, it did not work for me. But, I still would not dismiss it. I was looking for a solution for my shoulder pain, when I tried it. It did not work, neither did 12 months of physio and I would not dismiss physio as a treatment beacuse it did not work for me. Now chemicals do work. The pain goes but I hate doping myself on god knows what
Paul the 6th
26-03-09, 03:37 PM
"that crack is really more-ish".
I hope I never have to endure long term pain. I think I'd try pretty much anything if it lasted long enough
After a long line of "bone cruncher" appointments my own chiropractioner(sp?) used Acupuncture alongside his own treatment to help.
I have to say that he used it only where certain muscles refused to release. The idea behind it was that the body´s muscle´s have a self preservation mode, and when a needle is inserted rather than contract and tear itself, it would release and then the inserted needle would be easy to pull out of the muscle.
Well I have to say that this treatment was highly uncomfortable for me. It left me feeling incredibly bruised, whilst they say you’re not supposed to feel it, I did. Every treatment made me feel sick afterwards. (Although that wasn’t helped by the sound of my own bones crunching!)
appollo1
26-03-09, 09:51 PM
well we went to the hospital today and I took time off work to drive my wife home in case she was feeling dizzy or any other effect.
Turns out it was only an assessment today and she will be getting appointments through for 4 sessions.
She suffers from Fybromyalgia and is in a lot of pain most of the time so reading some of your comments it may or may not work - I just hope it does work for her and it some how makes her life a bit easier.
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