acupuncture and migraines
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acupuncture and migraines
My migraine cycle for the last few years has been a 3 day migraine every ten days. This is a great improvement over my previous 18 days a month lost to migraine for 40 years. I had been unable to shift the every ten day cycle so I tried acupuncture.
November, 2012 - January 2013 I had acupuncture twice a week for 3 months and my cycle of a migraine every 10 days stopped. It took 3 weeks of 2 x a week acupuncture sessions for the migraines to stop but they did stop. I had a month without migraines after I stopped acupuncture. I know acupuncture will make me migraine free. If I continue the 2x a week acupuncture, the cycle would eventually become 2x a week acupuncture for 2 weeks, skip a week, then back for 2x a week. Of course, not insurance covered. Not medicare covered. The benefits far outweigh drugs. The downside, I have to have acupuncture on schedule or it doesn't work. And, I have to live in an area with quality trained acupuncturists, I think China trained. Painless acupuncture done 3 different occasions over my 64 years fighting migraines did not work. The $60 per treatment would be for the rest of my life, just like drugs. I want to be independent of drugs and doctors.
I live in Iowa but have been going to Chicago (3 hr drive) for treatments. I am looking for an acupuncturist that would be flexible enough to train me on doing self acupuncture. This may not even be legal but if I can just get a dot placed with a ball point pin at the exact spot for the needle, I can manage after that.
Any good tips on acupuncturists in the Chicago or Iowa City, Quad Cities, Dubuque area? I need someone not too rigid and willing to give up the $ to help me be independent in living with migraines. I don't mind paying for treatments, I do mind paying for the rest of my life.
Thanks all!
November, 2012 - January 2013 I had acupuncture twice a week for 3 months and my cycle of a migraine every 10 days stopped. It took 3 weeks of 2 x a week acupuncture sessions for the migraines to stop but they did stop. I had a month without migraines after I stopped acupuncture. I know acupuncture will make me migraine free. If I continue the 2x a week acupuncture, the cycle would eventually become 2x a week acupuncture for 2 weeks, skip a week, then back for 2x a week. Of course, not insurance covered. Not medicare covered. The benefits far outweigh drugs. The downside, I have to have acupuncture on schedule or it doesn't work. And, I have to live in an area with quality trained acupuncturists, I think China trained. Painless acupuncture done 3 different occasions over my 64 years fighting migraines did not work. The $60 per treatment would be for the rest of my life, just like drugs. I want to be independent of drugs and doctors.
I live in Iowa but have been going to Chicago (3 hr drive) for treatments. I am looking for an acupuncturist that would be flexible enough to train me on doing self acupuncture. This may not even be legal but if I can just get a dot placed with a ball point pin at the exact spot for the needle, I can manage after that.
Any good tips on acupuncturists in the Chicago or Iowa City, Quad Cities, Dubuque area? I need someone not too rigid and willing to give up the $ to help me be independent in living with migraines. I don't mind paying for treatments, I do mind paying for the rest of my life.
Thanks all!
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