The kind of treatment where they do electricity at the acupressure points instead of sticking a needle in works just as well, according to a study I read about in Skeptic Magazine (which concluded that acupunture did indeed work). So if you don't like needles, there is another option with the same effect.
I also
strongly
recommend that you do not try to use a muscle that has a needle stuck in it. That experience is definitely right up there in the pain-I-have-undergone list.
Murk: But you're a God! The Sacred Glorificus! Glory: I'm a God in exile. Far from the Hellfires of Home and sharing my body with an enemy that stabs my boys in their fleshy little stomachs!
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Ouise - Sep 20, 2003 7:58:18 am PDT #3731 of 6793
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
§ ita § - Sep 20, 2003 7:59:14 am PDT #3732 of 6793
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My treatment involved both electricity and puncture -- electricity was shot down some of the needles.
'Twas weird.
Sheryl - Sep 20, 2003 8:41:57 am PDT #3733 of 6793
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
My treatment involved both electricity and puncture -- electricity was shot down some of the needles.
That's the type I've been getting, along with massage.
'Twas weird.
That it is...
Ouise - Sep 20, 2003 9:27:43 am PDT #3734 of 6793
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
I just had the needles, but they felt tingly and electric on their own. (And excruciating, when I tried to sit up to look at the ones in my stomach.)
MechaKrelboyne - Sep 20, 2003 10:05:51 am PDT #3735 of 6793
... and that's a Pantera's box you don't want to open. - Mister Furious
My treatment involved both electricity and puncture -- electricity was shot down some of the needles.
Uh, did they make you talk or did you escape?
Megan E. - Sep 20, 2003 11:43:30 am PDT #3736 of 6793
I am now afraid. Very afraid. Though I feel that after having cortisone injections directly into my sinuses, I can do anything.
Trudy Booth - Sep 20, 2003 11:45:06 am PDT #3737 of 6793
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Megan, from what I hear they barely hurt.
Megan E. - Sep 20, 2003 11:46:07 am PDT #3738 of 6793
I'm willing to try anything so I hope the hurty is minimal.
§ ita § - Sep 20, 2003 12:44:51 pm PDT #3739 of 6793
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
One needle in 8 sessions hurt me, Megan. And he took it out and put it in again slightly differently.
The electricity was weird, because it made the muscle twitch. But it's not much different from the sensation you get when they do that for physical therapy.
The stone weirdest was the needles in the forehead. Just where I could see them, and I spent the time thinking "What are they sticking into, though? That's my skull!"
Elena - Sep 20, 2003 4:08:49 pm PDT #3740 of 6793
Thanks for all the fish.
Let me know how the acupuncture goes, Megan. If the massive surgery doesn't help Brian we'll go that route.