Pins and Needles

Yesterday, I got acupuncture. I was REALLY nervous about it, but I was getting desperate. I always said that I never want to sky dive and I never wanted to get acupuncture, but I have had a headache since V-day. On Friday and Saturday it flared into a full blown migraine. I even had to go to the doctor on Saturday morning to get some narcotics, it was that bad.

Luckily for me, my lovely blog partner wasn't doing much on Saturday and was willing to let me crash her pad while I was in my drug induced coma. Sunday was the narcotic hangover day which was a totally different headache. Monday and Tuesday were still rough, but not bad enough to justify the cocktail of muscle relaxers and harsh pain killers.

Hubby INSISTS that acupuncture is the best thing since sliced bread, so I went. I was laying there, totally unaware as to what was going on when I realized that the weird pounding that was going on, was the insertion of needles. I didn't even feel them! Miraculous. There was a couple I felt, but I told her and she twisted them until I didn't feel them anymore. Then she hooked some of them up to electricity, Hubby refers to this as "your muscles inchworming under your skin" it was weird, but not bad. Then she took and heated the needles with a candle, this made a huge warm spot on your back, which felt incredible. Last, but not least there was weird glass suction cups.

I have to admit, the whole time I was laying there, I couldn't relax. I couldn't stop thinking about holding still or doing whatever I needed to do to make this work. I laid there for over an hour and when I got up, it hit me. I felt like my head weighed 100 pounds and my arms barely worked. She gave me some Chinese herbs to help move my Chi, she was pretty sure it was stagnant, some ginger candy and I have to go back today. I have to tell you, this is the first morning I have woken up without a headache. It may have to do with the alternative medicine or it may have to do with not working on the house last night. I totally don't care, I feel like a new woman.