Skip to main content

Eastern Medicine Rocks!

Caution this blog is personal in nature so don't read if you don't like personal.

So for years, about as many years as I have lived in California, my stomach has hurt me in one way or another. I am thinking perhaps Los Angeles water is poison because I never had this problem in Haslett. Hum? Anyhoo, about 10-11 years ago I had emergency surgery for endometriosis and the over the years I have found out that I am possibly lactose intolerant and probably have IBS aka irritable bowl syndrome. I say possibly because no one has ever given me a straight answer.

Pretty much everyday of my life I feel bloated, burpy, gassy and have varying degrees abdomen pain. Sometimes when I have to have a period, no amount of vicodin really helps. I call my problems the "Trifecta of Stomach Anguish." Now you are probably saying "Why don't you go to the doctor?" Well, I have been several times and to several doctors. And they either don't listen to me or don't care. Some have given me drugs that really don't work at all. They all want to give me the same tests and they never really find anything wrong with me. I have been pricked and prodded and scanned by machines and had cameras in places I have never been before, yet no one can tell me anything but "Don't eat diary or don't eat beans." No one has ever given me a list of things not to eat. How the heck am I supposed to know what I am not supposed to eat if I don't know what is wrong with me?

I Google these diseases and take lactose pills, tried soy milk (which gave me more gas, I tried not eating cheese, stopped eating ice cream etc...yet, no relief. Sometimes I can eat dairy and sometimes I can't. The most perplexing thing to me is....Can anyone tell me why I can eat nothing all day, drink a bottle of water and still have enough gas in me to float the Goodyear blimp? Nope, all I get is maybe celiac disease? Perhaps stupid doctors you might test for that! Anyhow, about 3-4 years ago I gave up on those stupid doctors and decided that this is my lot in life. Thank god my hubby doesn't mind my burping.

After I gave up on the doctors, I just happened to switched birth control. The minute I got off those stupid square patches back to pills my intense stomach attacks quit. It didn't take a genius to figure out that I was having some kind of bad side effect to the patches. So with the really bad stomach pain gone I was still left with gas, bloating and constipation. I went to one last doctor and when he ordered the same tests that the other guys did I skipped the appointment figuring these stupid guys were never going to fix my problems. I was done. I keep telling those dummies that my problems had something to do with food and something to do with ladies problems they would never go further than to say perhaps you are lactose intolerant.

If I were a doctor I would be quite certain I am allergic to food or have some kind of digestive problem. But I am not a doctor, so I do not have the time nor the patience to figure it out on my own. Plus, I eat whatever I can get my hands on most of the time due to weird work hours. I am really certain that my girly parts are interfering with the stomach parts because sometimes I feel good and sometimes I feel like crap. I just never know.

Anyway, I am sure you are tired of me complaining so I will move on to what this blog is about... it's about acupuncture and believing in some Eastern Medicine. Over the years people told me to get acupuncture but I am afraid of needles so I never went. Then two weeks ago a friend of mine said her good friend (the same lady who is her feng shui expert) is an acupuncturist and she was hosting a good health day at her house. All she had to say was feng shui and I knew I had to check it out since feng shui had worked so well for me lately.

So I signed the hub and I up for two hour long sessions with the acupuncturist. The friend hosting was inviting her friends to her house and then her acupuncturist friend would perform an hour long session for $25. All I can tell you is that I went yesterday and got a million needles stuck in me and it was the best $25 dollars of my life! Not only did the needles not hurt but I never felt so relaxed in my life! My stomach feels so calm today. I have yet to burp all day now. Do you know how incredible cool that is for me???

The lady gave me some Chinese herbs to try for my liver and I am going to start on those in a couple of days. I checked out my health insurance and they cover 20 sessions. I just have to see if that is before or after the deductible and make sure this miracle worker lady is in-network. I sure hope she is. I have never had more hope than I do today that she can help me. This seems silly but what I would give to be able to go through the day without pain or gas. Today is the first day in a long time I don't feel like there is a gigantic balloon in my tummy. Thank you lady and thank you to my friend Rhonda who hosted the day long event at her house.

Do you ever feel like God sends angels to help you out in life? I think he has sent Rhonda to be my angel. She has not only helps me with work and the hubs work but she has been a friend and has introduced me to so many things. I should have listened to her years ago and went to the acupuncturist. Chinese Medicine Rocks. So my friends if you have problems that Western Doctors can't seem to fix, you need to call up this miracle worker lady and let her stick some needles in you for an hour!

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Buffalo Wild Wings

When I was going to Michigan State University, my friends and I would always go to BW3's for hot wings. They always had a variety of flavored wings from Honey BBQ to steaming hot, hot, death wings. Wings and a beer were just the thing to satisfy a busy student's appetite. When we frequented BW3's it was a dive bar but by the time my brother graduated from MSU they swapped locations for a building across the street and turned the name to Buffalo Wild Wings and the restaurant became more like a chain thing. Well, color me shocked the other day when we went to the movies and I saw a Buffalo Wild Wings being built in the AMC Burbank 16 complex. Apparently, after looking on their website they are one of the fastest top 10 chains in the US. So of course I had to introduce the hubby to one of my favorite college treats. I don't think he is so much a fan of chicken wings so we got boneless chicken wings a.k.a. tasty little chicken chunks in two of the flavored sauc...

Behind Door Number One

Have you ever watched those TV Game shows where they have a couple of doors and behind one is a grand prize? Well, this weekend the hub and I found out what was behind our Door #1. The hubby and I are starting the beginning phases of landscaping our backyard. Our first step, was to clean out the area behind our garage. When we moved in, there was about 2 feet of walking space behind our garage the rest of the area was covered in vines. Vines were growing on the roof and generally it was a mess. Not wanting the vines to take over the roof, we I started to clear out the vines last fall. But after we cut a million vines with only a pair of clippers we gave up and decided to clean out the rest in the spring. Spring came around and we didn't do much until one day when I was sick a few weeks ago, I ran into our gardener. I showed him the mess and asked if he knew of anyone who could come clean it out. I could tell he was actually, quite happy for me to broach the subject of ...

The Lost Art of Letter Writing

This week I was the recepient of two postcards. In the age of e-mailing and blogging this is a rare occurrrance. It's not that people don't write anymore it's just they are doing it in different forms and I think in less personal forms. It's kinda sad when you think about it. For me, there is nothing better then getting a hand written letter in the mail because it means someone was specifically thinking about you. Writing a letter these days takes a lot of effort when GMail is so near. I mean a person has to pick out stationary (if they even have any on hand), find time to sit down and compose a letter (and who has a spare half hour these days?), find or buy a stamp and actually walk the letter to the mailbox. With all this effort, no wonder people email these days! My girlfriend Becky and I joke that the United States Postal Service has become "Snail Mail." Most times before a letter gets to us these days we already know the information inside ...