or needle in my ear? yep, you read it correctly, i actually do have a needle in my ear...seriously, why would i lie about that???
so i went to acupuncture today - i go about every fortnight and have been doing that since mid october 2007 when i was 'over' the constant sinus infection that had been plaguing me for nearly a year...
sooo we are working generally on my immunity and trying to get me to a point where i don't catch a cold every time someone sneezes or coughs within a mile of me! and it's kinda working - which i'm a little surprised about but i was at the end of my tether when a friend suggested it and i figured i had nothing to lose!
sooo today is the second time i've come home with a needle in me. the first time i actually had two (one in my lower back and the other on the inside of my left knee). these were to treat bad period pain and could stay in for up to 5 days. didn't need 5 days, pain all gone within a day!! this one, ie the one in my ear, is in at attempt to cure the headache i've had for 7 days - guess i was willing to try anything as i've started to think of nurofen as smarties in that time, and i'm pretty sure that ain't healthy!!!
sooo i have a little needle in my left ear and my acupuncturist tells me it can stay in for up to 7 days! kinda amazing to think that something as tiny as this needle (and it is tiny, and no, i can't feel it and no it doesn't hurt) might be more effective than half a bottle of nurofen...
so i guess we can safely say that i am 'cured' of the needle phobia i had before acupuncture became part of my life...it's so good, seriously, that i usually fall asleep whilst the needles are in and even more exciting is the fact that it actually seems to be working - no antibiotics since mid october and despite having had 2 sinus infections in that time (where previously i had one almost constantly), both were treated with chinese herbs - no nasal spray, no antibiotics and no sudafed...
whoever would have thought that having needles stuck in you might actually be good for you???
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