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Acupuncture has helped reduce my seizures

Sat, 04/01/2006 - 22:19
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: Acupuncture has helped reduce my seizures

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2009-04-17 - 10:45

Please do not refer readers to specific doctors. The site is not intended for this. You may list questions people should ask providers but this site does not recommend specific people.

Epi_help, Resource Specialist

Please do not refer readers to specific doctors. The site is not intended for this. You may list questions people should ask providers but this site does not recommend specific people.

Epi_help, Resource Specialist

Re: Acupuncture has helped reduce my seizures

Submitted by angel_lts on Sat, 2006-04-29 - 09:50
I am looking into homeopathic ways since I tried just about everything. How has acupunture been working for you? How are your seizures? take care Lisa http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/epilepsyapproach/

Re: Re: Acupuncture has helped reduce my seizures

Submitted by scorpio on Thu, 2006-07-27 - 05:41
Acupuncture was the first treatment for epilepsy that completely controlled the complex partial epi I have had all my life. That was twenty years ago. Since then I have found that practitioners can vary – some are better than others. Not surprising, really, in a treatment that involves so much interpretation, judgement and application though that rather obvious fact makes it difficult to 'prove' that acupuncture can be an effective means of controlling epi. I do not have much of it now since I have found an AED (Lamictal/Lamotrigine) that both works well for me and has side-effects that are tolerable: it is cheaper too – in the UK - and less inconvenient to use. However, if the seizures started reappearing I would return to acupuncture like a shot. Chris

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