My acupuncture experience...good or bad?

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Hi,

 

A long time ago, someone with the nickname Judy F was posting about

TCM at Dr Stoll's board. Because of her posts, I decided to visit a

TCM practioner here in Holland. She is chinese and worked at a

university hospital in China before coming to Holland. That was very

important in my choice to visit her practice.

 

Anyway, I've visited her once a week for 5 weeks now. The things we

are working on are constipation and dizziness. I can honestly say

that the dizziness is getting much better but the bowel problem is

another story. After visiting her last week, I ended up with diarhea

on saturday....I had visited her on wednesday. She told me today that

the diarhea I had probably came from what she had done and she made a

note of when I had visited her and when I had the diarhea. I saw her

again today and when I got home, I had a small bowel movement and the

rest of the evening, I've been feeling nauseous and bloated. Seems

like its coming UP instead of OUT! Now that I think back on it, I had

this same reaction last week but I didn't associate it with her

treatments because it happened on friday and I saw her on wednesday.

I took some peptobismal and chalked it up to eating soemthing that

didn't agree with me.

 

Anyway, I'm wondering if this is normal or if I should contact her

tomorrow. I'm not taking any herbs...she's only doing acupuncture on

me. She doesnt tell me much but I did hear her say to her student

that my tongue showed spleen/stomach and that was the reason for my

constipation. The needles I get are under my left rib, around my

belly button and a few spots on my legs.

 

So, can anyone out there tell me if this is a normal thing to

experience and it'll pass or should I call her?

 

Thanks,

Barbara