Has anyone tried acupuncture to help with lingering symptoms

[formedbrds]

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Edited July 16, 2011 by formedbrds

[eplank]

Acupuncture has helped with some of my son's OCD symptoms and it has decreased his anxiety. He had several sessions before we noticed any improvements but we notice now when he is overdue for an appointment. Sometimes, during a session he falls asleep and that night he sleeps very well, peaceful.

[danddd]

i have been taking dd9to acupuncture for almost 2 years now. we started before we had a diagnosis and i was desperate to find something to help her. she likes it very much, and she really does relax for the 40 or so minutes she is there. sometimes the next couple days are a bit more calm, sometimes not. i dont see any big change in her ocd from it, but maybe a little less anxiety sometimes. my feeling is that it is worth it if she likes it, and she gets a bit of peace, and it cant hurt.

[KaraM]

We tried it to help with my dd7s OCD before we knew she had PANDAS. We gave it about 3 months, then gave up because we didn't think it was helping enough to justify the expense. It did seem to help her relax temporarily - but really did not help the OCD.

 

I've been wondering, now that we know the issue is autoimmune, whether we should give it a try again. I'm not sure how much the accupuncturist takes into account western medicine diagnosis and whether they would treat differently knowing it is an autoimmune issue as opposed to a seratonin issue.. Do they only rely on the pulses they feel??

 

Anybody have any thoughts about that.

 

Thanks,

Kara

[amyjoy]

we have used acupuncture for DS14 on and off, and it does help for some things. Not sure it helped with tics or ocd, though. well, looking back, there have been a couple of times that between acupuncture and an herbal formula called coptis purge heat, it actually did help some tics at night and it helped sleep alot, also helped skin and sinus. i still use that formula when he gets rash-y, or really rattled, a something in the toolkit.

[amyjoy]

ps. the thing to remember is that everyone is different, so while each kid has their own baseline of pandas-related symptoms, the underlying "metabolic landscape" is unique. for example, my son has celiac, and methylation problems, both of which result in additional inflammation on top the pandas inflammation, so whatever helps that part may reduce some of the tics which are inflammatory. he also has structural/cranial issues that add, so when he has an exacerbation, maybe its the pandas, but maybe its the other stuff on top of it. so we of course run the whole circuit, and sometimes the cranial helps this time, and another time, it doesn't, its liver stuff. oy vay.