ecleea - Help for 5 years of daily headaches

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Could you please let those of us unfamiliar with the

ETPS device know what it is.

Thank you,

David

 

--- ecleea <physician wrote:

 

> Hi Andrea:

>

> I agree with Majid. The head with all its cranial

> bones, cervical

> bones, cartilage, etc. is a huge three dimensional

> puzzle.

> Surgically removing one of those elements is going

> to throw

> everything off. Certainly taking glands out is going

> to cause subtle

> bone movement.

>

> I never realized this until I recently started

> wearing invisalign

> retainers to straighten my teeth. I wear each

> retainer for two weeks

> and then switch to a tighter pair. Well . . . I have

> experienced

> serious tinitus (sounds like standing in front of an

> aircraft) and

> some very painful sinus, temple, occipital

> headaches. Once my teeth

> are moved to the position designated by retainer I

> am wearing, all

> symptoms go away. But, I did find a way to treat

> myself for those

> annoying symptoms of " blockages " caused by subtle

> bone movements. I

> use the ETPS device on negative(-) to disperse the

> blocked energy.

> It works instantly. You can use directly on the

> cranial points,

> temple points, or anywhere along the channels

> involved. Definitely

> want to use negative, though, to disperse. I am not

> sure a regular

> electro-stim unit with electrodes attached to

> needles would work.

> Needs to be " direct " current.

>

> Also, if you know cranial-sacral manipulation, try

> that on your

> patient.

>

> Eceela, AP, Florida

>

> Hi All,

> >

> > I have an 18-year old female patient who has had

> constant

> headaches for the last 5 years. She has seen all

> the western docs,

> had all the tests done, and nothing is conclusive.

> Her neurologist

> referred her for acupuncture.

> >

> > Her history is most interesting. Prior to her

> headaches, she

> had a bout of mononucleosis at age 13, followed by

> removal of her

> tonsils. After the surgery, her headaches started.

> One of the

> things I am wondering, is whether is might be a

> long-lasting side

> effect of the anesthesia?

> >

> > On her first visit, she appeared morose,

> depressed, lethargic,

> and extremely, ghastly pale. She wears sunglasses

> and a hat

> indoors, because light aggravates her headaches.

> Headaches are also

> aggravated by exposure to humid weather and cold,

> damp weather.

> Other symptoms included achy joints in her hands and

> fingers, knees,

> and hips, which also worsened with the same kinds of

> weather that

> aggravates the headaches. Other complaints also

> included difficulty

> sleeping - restless tossing and turning; profound

> fatigue, and loss

> of appetite. In addition, her hands and feet were

> extremely cold

> and damp, with her abdomen feeling burning hot and

> sweaty on

> palpation. Note that she wore gloves and thermal

> underwear

> underneath her clothes and heavy jacket on an

> 85-degree day. Yes,

> she complained of feeling cold all the time.

> >

> > 6 acupuncture treatments have not impacted her

> headache in the

> slightest. I have worked to raise yang, release

> muscle tension in

> the neck and shoulders, downbear liver yang, and

> tonify qi to no

> avail. However, her sleep has improved to the point

> that she is now

> sleeping soundly through the night and does not need

> to spend her

> days languishing exhausted in bed. Her appetite has

> improved with

> digestive enzymes. Her energy has increased to the

> point that she

> has taken up skateboarding on warm days! Her mood

> is greatly

> improved, and she laughs and smiles when she comes

> for her

> appointments now. She is interested in learning

> what she can to do

> help herself heal.

> >

> > Part of her problem is that she has been a

> vegetarian most of

> her life, and has not eaten any red meat since age

> 3. Her muscles

> are very weak and droopy, without shape or vigor.

> She has an issue

> about eating anything " that has eyes " . She is

> thirsty all the

> time. There are no complaints about digestion,

> defecation, or

> urination.

> >

> > Her MD's have suggested that she might have

> Epstein-Barr, or

> fibromyalgia, or " mono in her bones " .

> >

> > Last spring, she had a rare form of pneumonia

> caused by

> Chlamydia in her lungs, which caused her to lose a

> great deal of

> weight. She was severely ill for 5 months before

> coming to see me.

> She had been gaining 10 pounds per month prior to

> the pneumonia,

> with no cause diagnosable by her doctors. Her

> mother claimed she

> had not increased her food intake.

> >

> > Her tongue is pale pink with a slightly red tip

> and sides, and a

> wet, thin, sticky yellow coat.

> > Her pulse is weak and fine on the right, soft

> and weak on the

> left, medium depth, at 70 beats per minute.

> >

> > She has dark circles under her eyes.

> >

> > Before having mono, she says her health was

> great.

> >

> > Her headaches are mostly onthe right

> temporal-vertex region of

> her head, and slightly on the left side also. They

> are there all

> the time, varying only in severity. At their most

> severe, her right

> eyelid droops and her vision in her right eye is

> impaired.

> >

> > I have diagnosed her with a shao yang disorder,

> also with spleen

> qi deficiency generating dampness, and kidney qi

> deficiency. There

> is also a wei qi deficiency. I'm not sure about the

> latent pathogen

> axis. I could benefit from some guidance at this

> point.

> >

> > I have given her two different herbal formulas -

> Si Ni San, for

> the possibility that she did have heat constrained

> in the interior

> all this time, as reflected by her hot abdomen, with

> her cold hands

> and feet. The coldness in her hands and feet

> improved only slightly

> with this formula. I also gave her Tong Qiao Huo

> Xue Tang for the

> headache, on the basis that any 5-year headache

> would have stagnant

> blood as part of its disharmony. The headache did

> not change with

> this formula.

> >

> > I am now looking at Xiao Chai Hu Tang, and

> wondering if there is

> something I am missing. One of the things I am

> wondering about is

> her inordinate sense of cold. Could she have a cold

> pathogen lodged

> in her head causing the headaches? And what about

> the possibility

> that this is somehow due to some damage from

> anesthesia during her

> surgery - how would we treat that?

> >

> > This young woman has been home-schooled during

> the

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