i share your frustration I certainly wish I could have a new body your health is your wealth and without it life has the edge taken of it but I guess on the plus side no one is dying from this condition,

What interesting information, thank you for posting. I've been doing lots of reading on our 'delightful' condition and I'm learning just how 'toxic' the muscles and tissues with the trigger points are. And it's not good news. So reading your post about feeling better after this treatment makes perfect sense, as it more than likely helped discharge some of these toxins which in turn will help your whole body feel better.

very interesting

This looks wicked! But also interesting.

Asunda...... exactly.

Yes, at first I thought that I wouldn't do it, but after reading about it I would do and have a feeling it would help.

I really believe that the tiredness and weakness is from the muscle toxins that just can't escape with them being so tight.

So.. The initial aftermath of the treatment looked a whole lot worse than it felt. My skin all over my back and neck was bruised pretty bad but fortunately, wasn't that sore... and to be honest, if this makes me feel better, I will be badly bruised forever, I really wouldn't care...
Now that I have had a couple days for it to set in, I think that if it did anything at all, it definitely helped and didnt hurt. I also had a massage the day after and although my skin was a little sore to massage, it was not too bad.
I feel like the knots in my traps that have been slowwwwwwly decreasing in size the beginning of this year, are starting to break up more and become more movable. I am also taking Savella and getting 2 -3 hour massages 2 x a week so it is hard to tell exactly what is helping.
If anyone has the chance to try Gua Sha (my acupuncturist did it) I would recommend it based on my very little experience so far because the important thing is that it did not make me worse.

I just realized how sad it is that I am on here posting at 9:30 on a Saturday night... :(

That last comment did make me laugh! My life is no better, perhaps even worse. Today I expect to do no more than snuggle under my blanket and watch crap tv and thoroughly enjoy wallowing in my misery. I can't do anything else whilst I'm letting the latest flare up settle so I may as well give in and enjoy it!!

I had an acupuncturist in California who did this on me. He just did it a little bit and I can't remember where. One place the little red dots did show up and that meant something. I don't remember what. It did not have any bad consequences, nor good results that I remember so I think it was not done in a very concentrated fashion.

Sorry, not very informative, I know. I guess the upshot is that there was no downside at least in my experience.

I decided to get this treatment on my neck and upper chest yesterday because I do think it had a positive effect on my back and back of my neck. The stubborn trigger points that decided not to go away with dry needling are really finally starting to break up and feel more movable I have noticed that the trigger points in my traps feel better than they did last week. It is hard for me to tell what is working now because I am currently receiving 2 -3 hour massages twice a week (by a very skilled massage therapist), acupuncture/Gua Sha, and taking Savella. My neck skin is sore today but it really is not bad. Maybe I also like the Gua Sha because I can actually see the effects from it on my skin so it makes me think that something actually happened and something was released from my muscles..