sharing my excitement

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Hi All,

I just wanted to share my excitement and update everyone on my

experience with acupuncture and combination of therapies. I have

idiopathic chronic pancreatitis.

This is my regimen: MS contin 45 mg/day, protonix, benadryl,

pancrease and acupuncture treatment 1x week. I also use a relief

band as needed (works very well if you haven't tried it!) and am

following low/fat, alkaline diet. The overwhelming nausea, weakness

and pain were not what they were before the acupuncture treatments

and pre-diet.

Today, I am feeling like my pre-pancreatitis days. That is not to

say I don't still feel nauseous at times, but just means that it

hasn't knocked me off my feet in a few weeks.

I work at a prominent research institution and I am surrounded by

western medicine theories and practice. I was skeptical about

chinese medicine, but I have to say acupuncture seems to work.

The diet seemed odd at first but I am getting use to it. Here is

the basic diet: low fat, all types of fish, no wheat products,

nothing cold (not even water), no dairy, no white potatoes, no diet

soda, some grains, rice, berries, pears and apples, no raw

vegetables and all soy-based products. And most importantly--no

sugar. In chinese medicine, sugar is probably worse for the

spleen/pancreatitis than the fat, as explained to me by the

acupuncturist.

The sugar made sense once I thought about, but no one ever told me

that I should not be eating sugar. I love sweets. No sweets and no

diet soda were the hardest.

I know that this might not always work for me, but for now it does

and for that, I am grateful. I hope that by my sharing that this

that it might help others.

Pat