Today I had my first appointment with an Acupuncturist/Chinese Medicine Doctor here in Austin. My left shoulder has been hurting for the last month, so I'm glad I finally got around to making an appointment. The first treatment she did was scraping my skin with a piece of water buffalo horn that looked like a giant toe nail. My uber-sensitive skin turned red right away, then started to look like a hickey. After the scraping she did some cupping---can you tell where that was? After those two treatments she gave me an acupuncture treatment. I have a mark from that too. One of the spots now has a black bruise. At first it was raised and knotty, but it has settled down.
4 comments:
OMG!!!!! That looks awful. People are going to think your husband is beating you!
i didn't do it...
But.....did it hurt during...and after?!?
Reggie--it was kind of uncomfortable while she was doing the scraping and one particular spot was sore afterward--that is the only spot that is still bruised. The cupping didn't hurt, and the acupuncture doesn't hurt either. The good news is that my shoulder feels much better.
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