Progress...

I just finished my 6th session yesterday. It seems like we are making progress dealing with dampness, qi deficiency, and blood deficiency. My acupuncturist needed to increase my herb dosage last week because she wasn't seeing enough of a difference. It now seems to be working better and I am maintaining this new herb dosage. Yesterday, she also sent me home with a moxibustion stick to warm my navel area, the area just below both my knees, and the point above my left and right ankle bone. I am to do this at least once day from cd 1-14. For the first time since I started treatment, she said we can focus on making me more fertile. Prior to this, we were focusing primarily on building up my immunity.

Dizziness and Nausea

I wish it were pregnancy symptoms...but they were the after effects of today's acupuncture treatment. After being face down for about an hour for today's treatment, I got up too fast and suddenly felt dizzy, light headed, and nauseous. She said it was also partly because I am blood deficient. Therefore, she recommended that I decrease my carb intake and increase my protein intake. She also increased my dosage on the herbs she gave last week and added another herb formula too. This session she began with an abdominal massage before moving to my back side. She asked if I had been experiencing dizziness, blurry vision, and neck pain. It was exactly what I had experienced off and on for a while. After doing skin rolls up my spine, she massaged my shoulder area, and began applying the acupuncture needles. There were too many to count. She put them in areas that were different than the previous weeks - in the back of my head, all over my back - especially my lumbar area which had an uncomfortable sensation in the beginning. Once the needles were inserted, she did moxibustion up and down my back. I'm hoping that I feel as energized and good as I did this past week. I was excited because I haven't felt like this in years.