I HAVE HEARD GOOD THINGS ABOUT ACUPUNCTURE. IT WAS USED ON A SOFT TISSUE INJURY IN MY FOOT AND IT LESSENED THE PAIN.

A SWOLLEN TONGUE CAN INDICATE DISEASE SUCH AS B12 DEFICIENCY, AND A COATED TONGUE MEANS SOMETHING TOO BUT I CANNOT REMEMBER WHAT IT IS.

I HAVE HEARD POSITIVE THINGS TOO. HOPE IT HELPS YOU!

ITS QUITE STRANGE THIS WEEKEND. HAD BOTH KNEES OPERATED ON ABOUT A GOOD 20 YRS AGO. NO KNEE EEPLACEMENTS. BEEN SWOLLEN ANKLES AND FEET SINCE THEN. DR DIDNT SEEM WORRIED, SO THOUGHT THIS MUST BE HOW IT GOES. CHANGED DRS, HE DIDNT LIKE THEM FROM DAY ONE, ALL HE COULD DO WAS A FLUID TAB. GREAT WAY TO GET WALKING IN YOUR DAY. EVEN BETTER WHEN DOUBLED. WASNT REALLY HELPING. SO TRYING THIS. AND DOING THINGS TO KNEE THAT HAS REMOVED THE PAIN THAT WOKE ME AT NIGHT. DOING A LOT OF THINGS. BUT ON WEEKEND A THIN WHITE LINE APPEARED AROUND BOTH ANKLES, AND SOME SWELLING HAS GONE. LINE STILL TNERE, CAN ASK AT APPT THIS AFTN.

THAT IS STRANGE. I HOPE YOU GET SOME RELIEF, THAT SOUNDS PAINFUL!

I AM GOING TO CHECK INTO THAT BUT BET MY INS DOESNT COVER IT. WLD BE BETTER THAN PT.

HE SAID PT IS NOT ALWAYS THE ANSWER. TRIED THAT. EXERCISES JUST TIGHTENED CALF MUSCLE, WHICH TIGHTENED ROUND VEINS CAUSING THE CLOTS AND MINI STROKES. SAID AS NOT AN INJURY WHICH CAN HELP OF COURSE. WORRIED THIS MORNING AS WHITE SPOTTY RASH GOING UP THROUGH RED AREA ON LOWER LEG. GOOD, MEANS CIRCULATION IS COMMING RIGHT AGAIN FROM THIS. TIME WILL TELL.

WONDER WHY WE DONT USUALLY HEAR OF THIS HERE. OR IS IT ME?

MOST DRS JUST USE WESTERN MEDICENE AND DRUGS AS HAVE BEEN TRAINED TO. AND DRUC G COMPANIES MAKE BIG MONEY. CHINESE AND EASTERN MEDICENE HAVE USED THIS FOR YEARS AND YEARS. THIS DR IS FROM FIGI. TAKES A LOT OF STUDY TO LEARN.

HOW ARE YOU DOING AUST? SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO TRY THINGS. YOU ARE RIGHT. DOCTORS HERE RARELY SUGGEST THINGS LIKE THAT, ALL THEY KNOW IS TO WRITE A SCRIPT. UNFORTUNATELY, MANY PEOPLE SUFFER SIDE EFFECTS THAT ARE INTOLERABLE. THERE ARE SEVERAL MEDS THAT I HAVE HAD WIERD REACTIONS. I WISH YOU SUCCESS WITH THIS.

THANKS CAROLINE. SEEMS TO BE WORKING AS TO PLAN, BUT SAID GOING TO TAKE LONGER THAN THE NORMAL 12 TREATMENTS. NO SIDE EFFECTS LIKE DRUGS. BUT AM DEVELOPING A FOOT FETTISH, SEEM TO BE LOOKING A COUPLE OF TIMES A DAY AS CHANGES SHOW. HUBBY IS NOW TRYING FOR PTSD RASH CAUSED BY NERVES, HASNT ITCHED OR BLED SINCE FIRST TREATMENT, AND HE IS GETTING MORE RELAXED. ULERS ON HIS LEGS ARE HEALING WHERE HE WAS BLEEDING. THINK I HAVE AN OLD PIC OF THEM IN MY PHOTOS, TAKEN ON A GOOD DAY.

THAT IS WONDERFUL NEWS AUST.

THERE IS A SIDE EFFECT TO LOOSING BUILT UP FLUID IN BODY. I AM FEELING LIKE A SCAWNY
CHICKEN ON SHOULDERS AND ACROSS TOP OF CHEST. CLOTHES FALLING OFF. SO BOUGHT A COUPLE OF SMALLER CHEAP T SHIRTS A MONTH AGO. GLAD I DIDNT GET EXPENSIVE ONES AS ALREADY TAKEN UP ON SHOULDERS. I NEED TO LOOSE A BIT MORE WEIGHT, SO NOT COMPLAINING, BUT HAVE LITLE TO WEAR AT PRESENT. AND COOLER WEATHER COMING AT LAST, SO HAVE TO SEE HOW WINTER CLOTHES FIT.

I HATE BUYING CLOTHES AND PUT IT OFF AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. IT WILL BE NICE FOR YOU, THOUGH WHEN YOU FINISH ACUPUNCTURE AND YOUR BODY HAS SETTLED DOWN, TO CELEBRATE WITH SOMETHING NEW.

HOPE PROGRESS CONTINUES. I USED TO HAVE A LOT OF DOUBTS ABOUT ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES AT ONE TIME, NOT ANY MORE. THEY BOTH HAVE THEIR PLACE. OVER RECENT YEARS, I HAVE TRIED SEVERAL DRUGS AND HAVE HAD UNUSUAL SIDE EFFECTS, ESPECIALLY CHOLESTEROL DRUGS. I FIND IT AMAZING THAT ACUPUNCTURE CAN OFFER HELP TO A VARIETY OF HEALTH ISSUES AND LIKE YOU SAY, NO SIDE EFFECTS!