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Re: TCM Acupuncture HELPS!!!
Lizbeth,
It was VERY fascinating!! I was like the Karate Kid and he was my sensi (sp).. 
And you are exactly right my; The earth (spleen) disharmony and The water (kidney) are deficient which in turn causes VERY LOW ENERGY which he repeated all through out 2.5 hours of my visit!! My pulse is faint and my tongue is pale and that is low energy!!
He said we will work on my pain first. I laid on my side and he would insert a needle then wiggle it around until it made me say "ouch" for a brief second. He repeated that process I don't know 5 or 6 times, turned lights off and left me for 10 minutes to relax. Every once in a while I would feel like feather light sensation as I was laying there. He came back in and wiggled them again and another 10 minutes laying on the table. I kept reading the chart on the wall because I wasn't supposed to move so that became my focal point. Of course after that 10 minutes he came back, and I had questions.
After he pulled the needles out he put something on each area that felt like a vaccum suction type thing where each needle was and left those things on there for a couple minutes and we discussed the elements.
What are the exercises???
I go again on Monday!! What really SUCKS is my insurance will not cover it, but I will go anyway if I can have great results!!
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IDC breast cancer
7/2012 diagnosed with multiple solid lesions
7/20/12 biopsy done. ER+ 30 PR -, HER+++,k167 80% Grade 2
9/2012 biopsy on lymph node - showed malignant
9/2012 Pre-adjunctive TCH chemo.
12/6/12 MRI after Pre-adj.
Results: Modest Decrease in size of left breast malignancy As well as the associated satellite lesions and auxiliary Adenopathy compared to prior study. Doctors hoped for better but good response it didn't grow.
12/18/2012 left masectomy with axillary nodes
Size 3.2 CM, Nottingham score 9/9
Grade 3, no evidence of in situ carcinoma
Areas of angiolymphatic are identified
Carcinoma is 0.5 cm from inked deep
Margin of excision
Attached axillary lymph nodes: metastatic
Carcinoma in 6 of 8 nodes.
Size of largest node 1.5 cm
Extracapsular
ER + 73%, PR+2%, HER2+
2/27/13 6 weeks of IMRT radiation finished
2/2013 Started on Tamoxifan 5 years.
8/2013 will take last Herceptin, 17 treatments total every 3 weeks.
BRCA1 & BRAC2 - Negative
August 28, 2013 DIEP flap on the left breast.
February 2014 Nip & Tuck
March 14, 2014 nipple reconstruction and removed port.
August 14, 2014 lump in lymph nodes under arm and above clavicle. Stage IV
August 28, 2014 herceptin And projeta starting and port put back in.
3/18/15 stopped arimidex.
3/18/15 progression....Tdm1
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