Does acupuncture sway?

[leap_of_faith]

Hi ladies,

I am planning to start acupuncture next month to try and make my cycles a little more predictable before my d/IUI next year. I've read tons online about the benefits of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for TTC and a lot of the success stories I've read end with little blue bundles, so I THINK it should be ok. Just wondering if anyone had any swaying-specific info on this?

[Sassy]

I'm from the pink side, but would love to know of any evidence to support accupuncture in swaying - maybe different points could help different things??? Wouldn't it be great it there was a point for pink and a point for blue lol!

[zanacal]

Wouldn't it be great it there was a point for pink and a point for blue lol!

Wouldn't it just - job done

[begonia]

So interesting! I only have one friend who has used it for TTC and it did REALLY help ... she had unexplained infertility, they had been trying 2.5 years, and w/in 3 months of regular acupuncture she was pregnant. It was actually at an acupuncture appointment that her person told her to go home and test, that her energy was clearly pregnant. And she was. Crazy stuff.

Anyhow they had a boy that time. She started doing it again when he turned one and again got pg in the 3rd month, but this time with a girl.

I *think* I remember reading on IG that they don't believe it sways in and of itself, but that potentially the ions in the environment of the office (if there are waterfalls, etc) could have an impact.

[LolaInLove]

I don't think it sways much, but if it does at all, it would be the waterfalls, etc like Begonia said. It could have a relaxing effect on you, which would be pink, no? But then again, it boosts fertility, which may sway blue? I've heard of so many of both genders coming from accu patients, I just think it doesn't matter, personally.

[atomic sagebrush]

Hi ladies,

I am planning to start acupuncture next month to try and make my cycles a little more predictable before my d/IUI next year. I've read tons online about the benefits of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for TTC and a lot of the success stories I've read end with little blue bundles, so I THINK it should be ok. Just wondering if anyone had any swaying-specific info on this?

For TTC a boy, acupuncture will only help. Just do the "fertility boosting" acupuncture.

[atomic sagebrush]

I'm from the pink side, but would love to know of any evidence to support accupuncture in swaying - maybe different points could help different things??? Wouldn't it be great it there was a point for pink and a point for blue lol!

I think I answered this on your other thread already but if you don't see it, I am much more wary of acupuncture for TTC a girl. Acupuncture for boosting fertility really does seem to work but I just don't believe (or if there are, I'm not sure I "buy" it) that there are diff. spots for a baby girl or a baby boy. So acupuncture will prob. just make you MORE fertile and that is not what we want for TTC pink unfortunately.

ETA - I found this argument on IG and I find it very logical and rational. Most likely, acupuncture does NOT sway for the reason mentioned below:

"Mine said the same thing. She actually said if there was a way to select gender with Accupunture that the chinese would of figured it out by now given how that culture heavily values boys over girls. It made for interesting conversation at my appointment. TJ"

[shouldihope?]

What about chiropractic adjustments. Do they sway. We go once a month.

[atomic sagebrush]

So interesting! I only have one friend who has used it for TTC and it did REALLY help ... she had unexplained infertility, they had been trying 2.5 years, and w/in 3 months of regular acupuncture she was pregnant. It was actually at an acupuncture appointment that her person told her to go home and test, that her energy was clearly pregnant. And she was. Crazy stuff.

Anyhow they had a boy that time. She started doing it again when he turned one and again got pg in the 3rd month, but this time with a girl.

I *think* I remember reading on IG that they don't believe it sways in and of itself, but that potentially the ions in the environment of the office (if there are waterfalls, etc) could have an impact.

Well, my take would be that sticking needles into one's skin (and the cascade of endorphins that triggers), would have to have more effect on the body than the presence or absence of a waterfall.

[atomic sagebrush]

What about chiropractic adjustments. Do they sway. We go once a month.

I think the same rules would apply...it PROB. doesn't sway either way but if it does, it's because it boosts/reduces fertility in some way. You might want to ask your chiro if his/her treatments are good for fertility and then decide on that basis...I ~personally~ don't believe that an adjustment can cure diseases (other than back pain) but I do know that chiropractors DO believe that and they may have evidence for that, that I haven't looked into yet.