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Acupuncture has helped reduce my seizures

Sat, 04/01/2006 - 22:19
Topic: Complementary Therapies
I've been receiving acupuncture once a week for the last month and it has made a great difference in the frequency and severity of my Simple Partial Seizures. I just wanted to share this and see if anybody else out there has tried it and if it has worked for them.

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Re: Re: Acupuncture has helped reduce my seizures

Submitted by hailiesdad on Sun, 2007-09-09 - 11:08
my daughter is 10 months old has had complex partial, myoclonic and now atonic seizures... for a little over a month now. She is on phenobarb and klonopin... do you guys think she's too young for acupuncture? and did you tell your "regular" doctors about you going to the acupuncturist... before or after?

Re: Acupuncture has helped reduce my seizures

Submitted by laberenice on Wed, 2010-12-01 - 12:34

Hello,

This is quite an old message, but my daughter is actually 8 months, and has also complex partial seizures, hidden by keppra, and myoclonic seizures that the neurologues can't controle, they don't find any cause neither (normal MR, EEG not showing any typical syndrom). It looks a lot as West, but it isn't.

I would like to have more informations about your daughter, and see if it is very similar, because here in Brussels, Belgium they don't seem to have an other case as her.

She is also seeing an acupuncturist recently, i think it's working, but just two days each time.

Thanks!

Hello,

This is quite an old message, but my daughter is actually 8 months, and has also complex partial seizures, hidden by keppra, and myoclonic seizures that the neurologues can't controle, they don't find any cause neither (normal MR, EEG not showing any typical syndrom). It looks a lot as West, but it isn't.

I would like to have more informations about your daughter, and see if it is very similar, because here in Brussels, Belgium they don't seem to have an other case as her.

She is also seeing an acupuncturist recently, i think it's working, but just two days each time.

Thanks!

Re: Acupuncture has helped reduce my seizures

Submitted by dwaddell on Tue, 2008-09-16 - 15:19
I am an acupuncturist and to answer your question about the age a child can receive acupuncture is as follows:  Infants can recieve acupuncture.  As a matter of fact, pediatrics has long been recognized as an important branch of Chinese medicine.  Chinese medicine and acupuncture, in particular has long been used for treating epilepsy, both during an acute attack and for the underlying cause.  In addition, acupunture is far more useful, particularly in children, than is western medicine.  If the child is under the age of 3 there is a good possibility that he/she may be cured.  Needles in children usually under the age of 10 are not retained but rather the needle is inserted, rotated and withdrawn immediately.  Hope this helps.

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