What's old is new...

It's been some time since I've made an entry here... I really hadn't much to say. All of that has changed!

At the urging of a very good friend, I made a book purchase. The Infertility Cure by Randine Lewis. I finished the entire book in a matter of 2 days. Upon closing it, I decided finally, that I was going to make an appointment with the Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor just down the road. It was time I made this a priority.

Last Tuesday I met Dr. Xiaoyan Gong. She was Chief Dr. in Shanghai with almost 30 years of experience. I explained all of my digestive problems going all the way back to my gallbladder surgery in 1998. I handed her all 28 charts of temps that I had and we went over the fertility stuff.

She took my pulse and told me it was very weak. She explained that my problem was stomach/spleen. The stomach takes food in, the spleen distributes the energy from that food throughout the body. She stated that my stomach was taking food in, but with my spleen not moving it around, it just leaked through my body. This, she said, explains the diarrhea, malnutrition, poor appetite, lack of energy, etc. She also noted that my tongue had a thick white coating with scallops on the sides from my teeth.

I was then set up in a room for my very first acupuncture session. I'm a needle freak, but was totally calm and for good reason. I didn't feel a single thing! She set an electromagnetic therapy device over my mid-section and hooked various needles up to an electric pulse machine before leaving me to rest for a few minutes. After checking in less than 5 mins later to make sure everything was okay, I was left for the rest of my session.

I was given a week's worth of raw herbs to brew into a tea and take every day. She warned me that they would smell and taste bad, which I already knew from my reading. We went over the herb instruction sheet, I paid her and made an appointment for that Friday morning.

Friday morning I had a wonderfully relaxing hour long acupuncture session where I actually fell asleep. By the time I got home, I was buzzing with energy! I was in a wonderfully upbeat mood, I had a great appetite and both the smell and taste of my herbs had become less unpleasant. The herb instructions say that if you have the right herb formula, the taste and smell will become more appealing and the body can crave them.

We met up again this morning and I had tons to tell her! My appetite over the weekend was fantastic. My food stayed in my system until the following day, the diarrhea has stopped, all of my movements have become solid, no stomach pains, no bloating, no gurgling and my gums have stopped bleeding when I brush my teeth. These, she said, are all good first steps as my body has begun "retaining".

All I know is that I feel better than I've felt in years. What's old is new again!