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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: Re: Re: Acupuncture has helped reduce my seizures

Submitted by RaNae M on Sun, 2007-07-29 - 14:40
Hi Christine, I think it's great that you have decided to try acupuncture!My son has been seeing an acupuncturist for about a year now and has had HUGE improvements not only with life in general, (he was in a vegitative state when we went to go see her for the first time) but YES we are talking about weaning him off his meds and we are confident that it will happen. We already have not increased his meds in over a year, that alone is a weaning procces because as he grows we are not increasing the meds to go along with his growth, this is big for him because in the past EVERY time he went to the Dr. it would be increased. I guess what I'm trying to say is ... it is very possible to get off meds with acupuncture. Good luck.

Re: Acupuncture has helped reduce my seizures

Submitted by RaNae M on Sun, 2007-07-29 - 14:32
Absolutly acupuncture works! My son has been seeing an acupuncturist for about a year now, it has been the best thing that we have tried so far, before he started to see the acupuncturist he was in a vegitative state was not talking or walking going backward in school, immune system was bad, he had really hard time getting over colds and flu's etc. every time we saw the Dr. his meds would be raised, and we had even talked about surgery, he was a mess. He was at about 40+ seizures a month when we started to see her. We started to see improvements quickly for his alertness, and things we had not seen in over 2 years like running or playing or things we had never seen because he had never had the chance. Heres the GREAT NEWS.... He has improved soooo much in the last year his seizures are almost totally gone and we are making a plan of action to start weaning him off of his meds that he has been taking for 7 years now. His immune system is better than most and hardly gets sick, and he is going forward in school. I can't speak high enough on going to an acupuncturist, it has made the biggest difference for him, he's getting his life back because of it. GO FOR IT!!!

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Submitted by mykm20 on Tue, 2008-01-08 - 18:56
would you happen to know what kind of acupuncture it is? I'm thinking of trying it for my son. He has SMEI and seizure control has been tough lately. THANKS.

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