I always have them use the smaller needles, no. 32. Problem is I'm very sensitve, I often get what feels like an electric shock when they insert a needle. It causes me to jump and it scares the lady doing it.
@whiskeyify feeling the electric current is a good thing. It means that the body has accepted the needle effectively and the healing process has just begun. Ideally an expert acupuncturist is one who is able to make the patient feel the tingling current sensation on every needle insertion. it seems your acupuncturist was an amateur since she did not know that.
@dclx5i I've been going to AMU here in calif. thats American Medical University, it's a school. The doctors who oversee the interns doing the acupuncture also teach here at the University. Two are Chinese and they studied in China, I think 6 years or more and I keep asking them why I'm getting these big jolts of electricity, they only ans. that I am sensitive to the needles.
@dclx5i but it's not a tingling, it's like getting a big shock, it will go through my legs, sometimes it feels like my whole body touched an electrical wire.
@whiskeyify ... maybe sensitivity, but maybe the electric jolt you feel could be the "moving of qi." Is there a particular path that the electric jolt seems to follow. for e.g. they needle on the knee and you feel a jolt that runs down the leg. Or does the jolt simply encompass your entire body together?
I always have them use the smaller needles, no. 32. Problem is I'm very sensitve, I often get what feels like an electric shock when they insert a needle. It causes me to jump and it scares the lady doing it.
whiskeyify 1 year ago
@whiskeyify feeling the electric current is a good thing. It means that the body has accepted the needle effectively and the healing process has just begun. Ideally an expert acupuncturist is one who is able to make the patient feel the tingling current sensation on every needle insertion. it seems your acupuncturist was an amateur since she did not know that.
dclx5i 1 month ago
@dclx5i I've been going to AMU here in calif. thats American Medical University, it's a school. The doctors who oversee the interns doing the acupuncture also teach here at the University. Two are Chinese and they studied in China, I think 6 years or more and I keep asking them why I'm getting these big jolts of electricity, they only ans. that I am sensitive to the needles.
whiskeyify 1 month ago
@dclx5i but it's not a tingling, it's like getting a big shock, it will go through my legs, sometimes it feels like my whole body touched an electrical wire.
whiskeyify 1 month ago
@whiskeyify ... maybe sensitivity, but maybe the electric jolt you feel could be the "moving of qi." Is there a particular path that the electric jolt seems to follow. for e.g. they needle on the knee and you feel a jolt that runs down the leg. Or does the jolt simply encompass your entire body together?
dclx5i 1 month ago
@dclx5i one time they inserted a needle into my leg...I felt a huge electric shock that went through my whole body.
whiskeyify 1 month ago
what are short acupuncture needles used for as opposed to long acupuncture needles?
poomerduck 1 year ago
@poomerduck shallower nerve endings
peypeyneekin 4 months ago
What if I want to reuse my needles?
suzuki15 1 year ago
Very informative thankyou!
lucasfan18 2 years ago
a healer I know used to practice with needles only to realize he had the energy to do it without them.
kryzdion 3 years ago
did you know acupuncture comes from when healers didn't have enough energy to affect the points? then they used needles!
kryzdion 3 years ago