[ SECRET POST #2384 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2384 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Does acupuncture work if you don't believe in it?

[lynx]

Look, take me seriously here: I was the biggest non-believer you could have found, before. I dismissed it as bullshitty pseudoscience, what with the chi and stuff. I was a dirty postitivist westerner on that.

But acupuncture /gave me back the mobility of my left foot/.

On October, 2010, I had an accident that damaged that one nerve that goes from the big toe to the hip, all along the leg. I almost had to get amputated, spent a month in bed and two in a wheelchair. After that I was able to stand and used crutches, but I couldn't move anything from the ankle down. Everyone, and I mean absolutely every doctor I could find, told me I would be forever in chronic pain (in a level high enough to keep me on Trams, which are INSANELY HARD TO GET PRESCRIBED on this country), and that I would never have any sensation on the foot again, for the nerve was irreparably damaged.

My mom sent me to an acupuncturist because she has holistic friends who believe in that kind of therapy.

Slowly, with three sessions a week and on the space of four months, I was able to regain sensation in the foot, then mobility in the ankle. After a year, I was able to wiggle all my toes including the thumb. I have to add: It doesn't hurt anymore. I don't have the same amount of sensation or mobility than in my right foot, but it's healed now.

IT'S NOT AUTOMATIC, NOR IT'S MAGICAL. It's slow as hell and you need to cram as many sessions as you can on the time you have. But fuck me, it works and I will forever swear by it, and eat my previous heathen words with ketchup sauce every time. I owe it to acupuncture, big time. Do it.