Well today was an acu day for me, and boy was it a weird one! I told Dr. Liu that I had been feeling tired for the past three days and that in past weeks I'd have off days here and there. At first she said it could be something like the weather, but of course she did the muscle/nutrition testing and found that my thyroid still hadn't responded to the supplements. She asked how I was sleeping, and I told her I have no problem falling asleep or staying asleep but that it really doesn't feel like a deep sleep. It's like I'm unconscious, but my body is still going. Like last night, dh said I was talking in my sleep.
So then we went on to the needles and it was all the usual ones with one new one. This time I got a needle near the knuckle of my ring finger in both hands and I didn't get any needles in my ring finger or middle finger this time.
I stayed on the table for 30 minutes and then she came and got them out.
And this is when it got weird. She came in quickly and said somethng about putting needles in my ears and of course I said O.K. What she did next felt like she was piercing my upper ears and it really hurt, but I thought it was some extension of the acu. Then she puts a whole bunch of cotton balls in my ears and tells me to relax for a few minutes and then I can go.
I got up and went to the front desk. I asked her assistant what had happened, and she explained something about getting blood out of the ears because a lot of the points for the whole body are in the ears and it was necessary to help with the healing of the whole body. She took out the cotton balls and my ears were bleeding where Dr. Liu had stuck me in my ears.
She said Dr. Liu gave me two new supplements to help heal my body. One of them was an herbal remedy that will help me sleep better at night. I looked at the ingredients and noticed it had iodine in it, which I understand is a controversial supplement for people with hyperthyroid.
Honestly, I'm still a little freaked out. I'm wondering if I shouldn't just hold off on the nutrition part of the treatment and wait until I get the results back from the FS.
If anything, this appointment is a signal that something must be wrong with me and if it's not my thyroid then I need to keep on digging.
I guess that spotting was IB afterall. I think it's great you're going to continue acu. I would do the same thing.
