Tinnitus acupuncture process

Feng Mei, i truly appreciate the thoughtful response. i think i&#39m going to print it out and take it with me to my next appointment, just to see what he thinks. he has had his practice for 11 years and has a good name, but i know he is very open minded and maybe he will read this and make some adjustments. I looked up all of the points you posted and he does either LV3 or LV2.... can&#39t quite tell, Li4 GB2 41, 34 and Si 19. THe other points that you listed, however, he does not do.



I will definitely share this with him and let you know how it goes. Thank you so much for the advice!



Jody

For suddently happen tinnitus is relate to liver problem, and liver control emotion, so I think this symdrone is most because of live pressure, anxiety or emotion problem. Check your blood pressure, if high, that mean Liver fire or yang up, if low, that mean Liver qi stagation or liver yin deficiency. the treatment will be different prescriptions.

Generally speaking your underlying autoimmune conditions tend to come from a condition we call Kidney Yin Deficiency in Chinese Medicine - the very loose equivalent to an overactive and consistently strained nervous system (along with other Chinese Medicine patterns). These patterns would by themselves often lead to tinnitus (i.e. it is a principle symptom of this pattern). All that said, having the incision in your ear drum is a trauma to the body that may lead to permanent scar tissue with can interrupt the function of the ear leading to tinnitus among other issues. This we will see clinically in allergy patients, for example, who get frequent sinus infections and consistent drainage issues - this can lead to scarring in the canal and lead to the same outcome. My point of this is that with your range of underlying issues it is crucial, in my opinion, that you seek treatment from a qualified practitioner (which you are already doing and this is great). The tinnitus may or may not resolve in large part due to the "damage" to the ear drum. Most of the time the myringotomy will heal just fine, but occasionally there is enough scar tissue to cause issues. That said Chinese Medicine has a good track record of healing the systemic issues related to tinnitus and can help promote healing in the area - so since this is all so acute there is a fair amount of hope.

Now onto your particular practitioner - here is just a general opinion... There is an extremely debatable opinion that frequent treatments are required for effective resolution of conditions. My feeling is that this is entirely unnecessary (just my experience)... - with autoimmune conditions you have complicated systemic issues that often simply take -time- to treat not necessarily -numbers- of treatments. This is due to the related chemical and hormonal (etc.) changes that need to happen and cannot be rushed in any way. From my perspective with the little I can gleen from your post, you would be looking at 3-6 months of treatment - but more than once a week will not help you considerably. It would be much better to have treatments over a longer period of time than many closer together... again just my experience and opinion with more autoimmune and complicated medical conditions.

I wish you the best...

I believe I&#39ve already responded to both of your points, however, just to clarify... Yes, either (or both) the trauma to the ear and the possible resulting disruption (i.e. scar tissue, etc.) to the ear can lead to the tinnitus symptoms - which again you were more than likely predisposed to anyhow given your other conditions. With regards to the treatments, again, this is partially why I personally don&#39t treat more than once a week (and even less in most cases) - the body takes time to heal and overstimulation from treatment is probably (again my opinion) a bigger problem than any kind of under treatment for these types of conditions. But fluctuation is normal, probably more so if trauma is a larger part of an issue (drawing increased circulation to the ear may "raise attention" to any possible imbalances until they heal). My general sense, however, is that even though tinnitus can be very, very frustrating, you should stick with treatment as your other range of conditions are fairly serious and possibly may lead to a range of health issues that will make the tinnitus seem less serious. All that said, and again no judgement at all to your current practitioner, but you have an extremely wide range of issues going on and sometimes a different perspective/treatment approach can be helpful. More clearly there is a general timeframe within which you should be more or less steadily heading towards a positive direction (generally this is within the 5/7-10 treatment range) - if you are not, see someone else...