Therapy Option - Acupuncture

With my on and off insomnia, I have tried many ways to get myself to sleep. The first obvious choice is sleeping pills. I have too many of them on my counter. It works great when I have one of those off nights. What I hate about it is how groggy it makes me and how dependent I can become of it. For a while, I was taking the maximum level of Ambien 10mg for the tiny 95 lbs me. The effect is that I was tired all day, and my breathing became really shallow. It was so bad that my skin started turning gray from lack of oxygen. I could barely walk without shortness of breadth.

After 5 months on sleeping pills, and one months on maximum dose, I told myself that I have had it. The medication isn't curing my insomnia, it's just masking it, even the doctor told me it'll be like that. While my family doctor has no idea how to cure it other than maybe sent me to the psychiatrist or psychologist, I turned to Eastern medicine. I remember seeing an acupuncturist long time ago for my obgyn problems. I don't want to delve too much into that but herbal medicine worked naturally when traditional medicine had failed me.

My acupuncturist gave me 3 types of treatment: acupuncture (needle from head to toe), massage therapy (getting rid of those knots on my neck and back) and herbal medicine. The whole treatment was expensive! I have to say that after that my sleep problem was much much better. She was even a little counselor and told me to relax as a mom, and said that I may think it's tough as a mom but others have it much worse, and life is too short to spend stressing about stuff. How true is that! I just tend to forget it every once a while.

After a month of acupuncture treatment, I was able to lower my sleeping pills dosage from 3mg. I even slept on my own very nicely for a month without any help, but as most of us with insomnia knows, the problem never totally goes away. Obviously I'm still working on mine or I won't be blogging here.