David, I only tried accupucnture once, but...
David, I only tried accupucnture once, but...
..since I didn't notice any difference in my lower back pain / shouler pain and pain in both knees I decided that it wasn't worth it for me.
I paid $65 and gave him a $10 dollar tip hoping that it would work like the Flotation Tank had worked on me before (I couldn't find any Flotation Tank centers in El Paso so I opted for accupucnture.
Th Flotation Tank worked on my right knee pain 100% within 7 days. When I first stepped out of the tank I noticed about a 33% in pain reduction. Gradually the pain diminished completely within 7 days. This after Harbor UCLA Medical Center doctor told me that he couldn't do anything else for me, (had an athroscopy done on right knee in 1985, --broken cartilagefrom job injury) that I would have to learn to live with the pain.
At times I couldn't even sleep because of the pain. I couldn't work much and the pain was killing me. I figured that I was just an obstacle for my family and decided to commit suicide.
I gradually searched for the place and the means and on D Day, just a fraction of a second before I proceeded to 'the site' I was 'instructed' (please don't ask by whom as my idea might not fit your beliefs) to go to the library. I was about four blocks from the library at that point pondering what to do. When I got to the library parking lot I asked myself 'what am I doing here?'
Then all of a sudden I stepped out of the car headed for the library, walked inside and still pondering as to what I was doing inside the library since I hadn' t planned on it and besides, where to and what now?
After trying to figure out why I had driven to the library and why I had stepped into the library 'without a reason' (I was looking in all directions inside the library figuring what to do next as I couldn't understand why I was there in the first place, I was confused).
Then all of a sudden I though, well since I'm here anyways why not look for a book on pain relief?
But then that's the subject on page two.
When later I found-out that you can get aids, hepatites etc., etc. from someone sticking 'dirty' needles into your body (in the name of accupucnture) I though NEVER again!
Chiropractors? NEVER again, one ALMOST killed me with his treatment in Denver. In desperation I went to such though I've NEVER beleved in their type of treatments.
I was so angry at the '100 times' worse pain AFTER I was 'treated' then the pain I had started with that if I had had a gun I would have blown his brains out.
Later I found out that UCLA was 'experimenting' with flotation tanks and I have always wondered why I wasn't 'shoved' into one as one of the tanks' benefits is pain-relief.
God Bless all