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My physiotherapist who does my acupuncture told me that there is a new lady starting up in the village where she works, now this lady is a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Dr who does acupuncture and acupressure massage.
Now my physio does western acupuncture but would love to learn TCM acupuncture as she is so impressed by the results she has achieved just with her limited knowledge.
So she told me that even thou she would hate to lose me as a patient she would love to see me better and as such recommended I go see this TCM Dr as she may be able to help me in more ways than my physio ever could.
I must admit I was a bit sceptical as after all I don't know anything about acupuncture or how it works (or why), so how could someone doing the same thing help me any more?
Well I went and saw her, and WOW, she was amazing.
I sat down and filled in a form with my name and address, date of birth, and what was my current complaint.
Well in my exact worth’s I put "ME/CFS, IBS, Low Moods"
I stated that I don't suffer from depression and I had done in the past so I knew the difference, but that was it. Hubby mentioned a couple of my ME/CFS symptoms and I just said that they where part of the ME/CFS not a separate thing, but only a couple of bits like poor memory and brain fog, but nothing else.
She then took hold of my wrists to feel my pulse, I thought she was after my radial pulse (from your heart) but she was feeling six Chinese pulses, not my blood flow but my Chi flow (I believe).
Then came the amazing part, she described my symptoms to the letter, right down to the different features of my IBS which are unique to me as I don't suffer the same as 80% of IBS sufferers, (I'm not always constipated) and she knew this. This description was more in-depth and accurate than any doctor or specialist has ever been, I couldn't believe it, she even told me aspects of my personality which she couldn't of ever known. I live over 20 miles away from her practice and she has only been in the area since May of this year, there is no way she could have know this stuff about me before I walked into the room.
Anyway she is working on getting my digestive system to work properly so that I can benefit from all energy my food is supposed to be giving me, that I'm not getting at present, she is also working on my low energy as without energy the body can not work or repair it's self.
I have been feeling more clear headed since this appointment and I do feel like I have more energy, but I do think my digestive system is rebelling in anyway it can find, lets hope it behaves very soon, mind you she did say that we have years of bad health to undo, so it won't happen overnight.
Roll on tomorrow & feeling better.