Digest Number 1193

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Yes, I am currently treating someone who was diagnosed with FM over a

year ago. She was taking many medications to help deal with the pain,

and to help her sleep. After a few treatments, she began feeling better,

less pain, and was starting to sleep on her own. After 2 months she was

off of all her medications, the pain was greatly reduced, and her sleep

had improved greatly. Now, it's been about 4 months, and her

Rheumatologist said she does not need to make any more appointments. She

is fine. He was curious as to why she was feeling better, and not on any

more meds- and she told him it was because of acupuncture. He was

impressed with her results. A month ago she went to a chiropractor,

who tested her for the pressure points for FM- and he said she did not

have enough points to qualify, and asked if she really had it to begin

with!

Now her case in particular did show some signs of cold/damp syndrome,

but the major underlying factor with this patient was blood deficiency.

She was patient, came for regular treatments, and is very happy with

the way she feels now.

It was a great experience, I am really happy with how things have

improved with her.

Treat FM like you would any other disorder- look at the patient, check

their signs, symptoms, tongue and pulse,history- and go from there!

Good Luck!

Lauren Fortuna, M.S., L.Ac.

 

On Sunday, October 3, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Chinese Traditional Medicine

wrote:

 

>> Does anyone know how fibromyalgia translates into

>> TCM? Or has

>> anyone successfully treated it with TCM?

>

> Often cold-damp syndrome with spleen weakness and

> kidney weakness sometimes complicated by hollow heat

> and or liver and gallbladder heat. But we'd have to

> know the actual presentation to do anything but

> speculate.

>

> Hugo