(blushes)

Sorry Hon, I had to say that.

OK, to the subject of this thread...

My experience with accupuncture is second hand. Back in NOLA, I was involved with a woman who had been badly injured in an car wreck the year before I met her. She had bad chronic low back pain and neck pain. She sometimes had pain down the back of her left thigh.
Like you, she was VERY doctor phobic and hated taking any medicines. She started seeing an accupuncturist weekly, and I went with her several times for "moral support" (and ice cream after)
The treatments LOOK very painful, but she assured me "you get used to it" though she would squeeze my hand almost flat when the needles went in.
The main thing is that she would be hurting, often limping, when she went into the clinic, and could walk more or less normally when we left.
She said that the pain of the needles was nothing compared to her back and neck pain, and she always felt better after her treatments.

I hope this is at least a little helpful Lil.

WW

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