Lotus Spring Acupuncture

I didn’t start out a believer in acupuncture.  I was skeptical but the urging of a good friend who had success with it, I thought I’d try it.

I had been in a serious car accident 6 1/2 years prior.  As a result of the car accident i have permanent damage to my back that is not surgical due to where the injury is.  Since my pain level is normally between 4 and 8 (with an occasional 10 that leaves me incapacitated), I have been living off mild pain meds during the day and narcotic pain meds at night.  I was also seeing a chiropractor once or twice a month to help.  After my first two weeks of treatment, my pain level was down to a 2 which I had never had before and I was able to go without my pain meds during the day and cut down on my pain meds at night to once or twice a week.  After a month of acupuncture, I was able to go off my pain meds at night because the pain was gone.  With all the physical therapies, chiropractic therapies, pain meds and other treatments over the past 6 1/2 years,  I have never had a pain free day until I started acupuncture. 

I also have stress headaches on a regular basis.  Since starting treatment on those they have decreased to almost nothing.  I also have a severe case of acid reflux that I not only took a daily medication for but Tums throughout the day as well.  We haven’t really focus on treating that but with a few points added in with the rest of them, I have been able to walk away from my bottle of Tums.  I suspect that if we focused on the acid relux, I’d be off the daily medication as well.

With the pain free days I’ve had over the past few months, I am a firm believer with acupuncture.  I just wished I had started it years ago.

LJ

American Fork, UT

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