Entire my wonderful mother who said she would pay for it and I took her up on the offer. Yesterday was my first session and it was super interesting! She talked to me for about 30 minutes about my overall health history and my concerns which brought up a concern of mine. She hasn't had a fertility patient since she has been in school. I was recommended to her by a friend of my parents and I just figured she had seen fertility patients before but I was wrong. I went ahead with the appointment just because I wanted to experience it.
After looking at my tongue she had me lay down on the table, told me to relax as much as possible and then told me about the needles and what she would be doing. Before we got into it all I asked her why she looked at my tongue and she said that it tells us everything about our organs. HUH?! She said I have a swollen tongue and asked if I was a thinker. Um yes, my mind is always running no matter the subject is. I literally have zero stress in my life but that doesn't mean my mind just stops working. Of course I think! Well she said that I think more than the average person. LOL! Good to know!
She also said something about my Spleen Qi and my dampness. Again, HUH?! My dampness? I guess I should have paid more attention when I read the book The Infertility Cure by Randine Lewis! LOL! I read that book about 3 or 4 years ago and nothing really made sense to me but I got it off the bookshelf today and I can't wait to read about my dampness and figure out what in the world that means.
After she stuck with me with needles in my head, ears, face, hands, arms, legs, and feet, she proceeded to light what looked like a giant crayon. No idea what that was but it stunk. I am not big on incense in the first place so this was a bit much. She took the crayon down by my feet and was trying to warm them up. Oh yeah I forgot to mention that during the questions she asked me if my feet and hands were ever cold and I said well sometimes they are but most of the time they are cold when they should be cold, i.e. the winter. Well she felt my feet and was shocked at how cold they were so I guess that required some warming up with the crayon.
She was down there for about 20 minutes and I laid there with my eyes closed to make it look like I was relaxing but I couldn't quite get there. I will say that it was beyond relaxing after she stuck the needles but since it was my first time I couldn't fully relax and enjoy the moment like she wanted me too. The crayon thing was super hot at times and there was one time where she got a little too close but I liked it.
After she was done with my feet she gave me a pressure point massage on my head and shoulders to help with my migraines. Now that was my favorite part! I generally hate being massaged because it hurts but this was different. It was like light touching with random pressure which felt great!
She pulled all of the needles out slowly and then talked to me about what I should do each night to help me with my issues. She wanted me to do the pressure point massage, meditate to get my brain to stop thinking, and to soak my feet in a super hot tub of water each night before I go to bed. Um it is 100° plus out right now, not sticking my feet in anything hot. LOL! She then said she was going to put seeds in my ears. Again, HUH?! Seeds in my ears? WTF?! She shows me these little black seeds stuck to tape and puts them on the top part of my ear and told me to press on them if I feel stressed or my mind is thinking too much. Okay at this point it is getting to be a little weird for me but I roll with it. It is good to experience something new right?! Well this morning the seeds came out of my ears, it hurt to talk on the phone with them in. ROFL!
All in all I enjoyed the experience and I am looking forward to seeing the Acupuncturist that deals with fertility next. I won't go to them for another few weeks because they are a little bit pricier and I don't want to make my mom pay for a TON of sessions. I also liked that she concentrated on stuff that has to do with weight loss as well as cravings. I just wish she knew more about fertility since that is the whole purpose of going.
So there was one thing I didn't enjoy and that was walking out of there smelling like I had just smoked a ton of pot or swam in a pool of incense. So gross. :)
