Acupuncture

Hi all! Guess at first just an update that I did feel pretty bad a week or two after playing that gig, however it was no way near as bad as I would've thought and am still very glad I did it and would easily do it again if given the choice.

So yesterday I had acupuncture for the first time in my life. I'd researched it a lot and there has been a lot of scientific studies proving how beneficial acupuncture is to a whole host of various diseases and disorders etc, and Post Viral Fatigue was one of them. I thought it's at least worth a go even f it only helps a little bit it will be worth it. The only thing is the price, 55 pounds for the first appointment (which is an hour and a half long) and the follow up appointments are 42 pounds (an hour long), obviously I'd imagine it's different prices all over the place but the woman, Rachel, who I went to see had a degree in both Traditional Chinese Medicine and Psychology so I guessed it seems worth the money to see someone that qualified. Even then it's not my money, because I've not been able to work for as long as I've been ill which is about 6/7 months now, it's my parents money and I feel bad because of the amount of money it is but they insisted it's fine and said they don't mind paying as long as it helps.

So I went through with it and it was pretty amazing. The majority of it was a consultation where basically I explain what's wrong with me and she asked me questions on that, because as she put it, everyone's different and has different symptoms that need treating etc. That in itself was quite nice because it was essentially just therapy where I spill out all my problems to someone which was cathartic. Then the last half an hour or so was some light acupuncture which she said we'd start off lightly because of how damaged my body is due to post viral, plus I let her know that I'm terrified of needles. It was only two needles, one around my shin on my left leg and one on the right side of my right leg, she said they were supposed to help with healing my system as a whole and I felt quite a weird (but not uncomfortable) tingling in my right leg for the first couple of minutes it was in, which she said was good and that was called Chi which meant energy in Chinese I think. Despite that feeling though I barely felt them go in at all, it is a hard sensation to describe really but it definitely isn't painful, and this is coming from someone whose terrified of even having a blood test. And then she put some acupressure things on my left ear, both of which I still have as of talking right now, which are supposed to help with anxiety and one of them I can press on which gives a calming effect and it really does work! She then left for me 5-10 minutes with some relaxing music to basically just zone out and I felt just unbelievably calm and relaxed. I wouldn't say my headache/brain fog felt any different but I definitely felt better then I usually do and I'd say I still feel abit better then normal now although I don't feel the same as when the needles where in obviously. The main thing it seemed to help was my stress and anxiety, which she said was the main goal of that appointment.

I guess I just thought I'd post this to encourage people who've been suffering for a long time to give it a try! Obviously I understand financially it's quite a lot of money and I'm usually a very skeptical person but I definitely noticed a positive difference immediately and that was only after the first appointment, here's hoping it can have an even more positive effect after a few more appointments!

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