On Pins and Needles

First off...I want to say thank you to everyone for their super sweet and supportive comments on my last blog!  I have the best family and friends EVER!

Now back to our regularly scheduled blog...LOL...

Two weeks ago I began acupuncture.  Right after the first session, I got really sick with a viral throat infection!  So not cool, considering I thought this stuff was suppose to make you HEALTHIER and not sicker...and secondly I hadn't been sick in OVER a year, until I had acupuncture. LOL Geez!  She told me it was just a coincidence.  We shall see....

So I went again on Friday and this time I didn't get sick and it was a better experience, but I still just don't know what I think about it all.  I'm not real crazy about this lady even though she is very trained in Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture as well as Western Medicine. But she just doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies and that is something I need if I am going to her for relaxation and re-balancing of my system. I don't need anxiety about going when the whole point is to relax.  So this Chinese acupuncture lady doesn't say a whole when I go other than did you follow the diet... which by the way is very strange... most of the stuff on it you can't get at the grocery store or it isn't a part of the normal diet of an American. Granted I know I don't always eat the best, but on this chart she gave me for the foods you can have breast milk is listed! Yes, you read right!!  Say what?  I think it was there as reference to show that we as humans need a more alkaline diet and as we know breast milk is the most nutritious of all foods, so if it is alkaline then we should be eating that way.... but it just REALLY grossed and creeped me out.  I since ditched that diet and have just tried to stick to healthy organic food.  People have been getting pregnant since the beginning of time eating all kinds of crap, so I think I will be fine if I just put good nutritious food into my body.

So... I'm think I am going to look into possibly seeing someone else.  I don't want to give up on acupuncture just yet because I know there are proven studies that show it really helps IVF success rates.  Most of these studies that have been done are more about using acupuncture right before and right after the embryo transfer. It's suppose to help blood flow to the uterus and help calm the uterus and not have it contract during the transfer.  So I want to make for sure I do everything I can to make this IVF a success, but I just don't see this lady being part of the equation.  So I'm off to find another acupuncturist....I'm going to check out one a friend uses that is American, super friendly, and charges less!  Sounds like a win/win already....