Acupuncture

I have not talked about my acupuncture sessions yet so I figure its time to share how that is going. I have had 3 sessions now. Each session lasts about 30 minutes. 5 minutes is them placing the needles and hooking them up to a low level electrical stimulation. Technically this is called Electro-acupuncture. Once everything is set they put on nice soothing music and let me be for 25minutes. The sessions really are relaxing which is the main goal of doing it. Each session consists of about 16-24 needles depending on what she wants to do. My first session there were needles all over, the next one seemed to focus more on my belly and these last one there were alot more in my legs. Supposedly the ones she added this last time will help me develop nice thick and receptive uterine lining for implantation. Who knows, but figure it cant hurt! The needles or electrical current dont hurt at all.

One cool thing that happened was when I was coming in today there was a woman there who came in to tell them she was pregnant. She had been trying for 6 years and this last attempt at IVF she added in acupuncture for the first time and she got pregnant! My acupuncture doctor was so excited, she said it is her 4th pregnant lady this year (not sure out of how many). So it was a nice success story to hear heading into my treatment.


Totally weird angle here but that's me, hard to see the needles but I have 3 in each foot, 1 on each calf, 3 around each knee, 4 in my belly, 2 on each arm and 2 on my head.
(you can click on the picture to see it larger and see the needles)