Peripheral Neuropathy

How is this possible, that 6 months after 3 accu session I ended up with a list of issues with no previous history of such, symptoms or complaints.

In short, it’s simply not. That is giving a medicine that many are still arguing does anything at all a ridiculous amount of power. But I can easily see how you would think that seeing the timing, but it’s just not possible. Some minor localized tissue irritation, yes, maybe but what you are describing is something much broader that simply cannot happen from a medicine like this (assuming it was properly applied).

Now while you say the practitioner is reputable, that doesn’t mean a whole lot to me, particularly when his answers are “meditate” and “take b12”. So I would definitely find an acupuncturist in your area besides this person. Also a GP that would take a patient saying when they walk it feels like glass and tell them “it will pass” needs to never be seen again - ever… That said the type of diagnostic work you need is not going to be done in the ER either, so you will need to seek out a specialist - ideally an infectious disease specialist and a neurologist and let them work out what is happening with you.

Options of what could have happened: First, -no one- can that quickly develop CTS, peripheral neuropathy, plantar fascitis, etc. So you either had some of these issues lurking before and just ignored the relatively minor signs or your problem is a different strong inflammatory response from possibly a bacterial or viral infection of some kind, a parasitic infection of some kind, diabetes, lyme, or less likely the spawning of a autoimmune condition such as lupus or many others (again a proper specialist would be able to rule in or out most of these issues fairly easily).

I know that’s probably not the answer you are wanting, but all of the conditions you are describing are not just commonly treated with acupuncture, they tend to be some of the easiest conditions practitioners treat and resolve. So for this to come on timed with acupuncture by all statistical and clinical accounts leads towards it being entirely unrelated.

Yes, some of the point descriptions were definitely off as well, I’ve seen that, unfortunately, with many “multiple generation” practitioners, particularly in countries where they are not strictly licensed. I am also not a fan of deep needling techniques and find them incredibly counterproductive in most situations.

I’m glad you are consulting with another practitioner. I wouldn’t, however, give up on the western examinations either - I would particularly check (if they haven’t already) for the presence of H-Pylori ( ). Now technically, proper acupuncture should clear up your issues (as well as the deeper ones), but the benefit of western medicine is the diagnostic process . I’m only emphasizing that because whatever was brought out in you, again, is very unlikely related to a few acupuncture treatments, even with what sounds like poorly performed acupuncture.

It may be that the acupuncture created some sort of movement internally that brought an infection or something to the surface, or the poor needling technique aggravated something dormant, but the treatments themselves won’t create something out of nothing, it’s just not what acupuncture does physiologically. And please don’t misread this as being supportive of acupuncture just because I’m a practitioner - I’m extremely critical of practitioners like the one you are describing. I just think you have something deeper happening and the real way to deal with that is all or nothing - that is, in fact, how Chinese Medicine works. Properly you are dealing with root of everything and resolving from the deepest causes out - not from the symptoms down in as is the case often with western medicine and with poor quality practitioners of Chinese Medicine.