When Western Medicine Can't Help…Acupuncture Centennial

Have you ever had some kind of health issue that is really debilitating, but none of your western medicine doctors can figure out what is going on, or how to help?

Our family is in the midst of one of those situations at the moment. Our daughter has had severe lower right abdominal pain for 11 days, along with exhaustion and a low-grade fever. We’ve been to Urgent Care, the ER twice, and now a pediatric GI specialist trying to figure out what’s going on, and how to help the poor kid. She is really suffering.

At first, it looked like a textbook case of appendicitis.

The ER got her right in, and got tests going immediately. She’s had an ultrasound, CT, and an MRI (those should be fun bills….), along with bloodwork, flu test, strep test, mono test, urine test…. Then… They couldn’t find anything. Idiopathic Abdominal Pain is the official diagnosis (aka I Don’t Know). But, hey, at least they ruled out any rupturing organs!

It’s frustrating when you don’t get answers, and even more frustrating when you don’t get any relief from your symptoms.

So…what’s next? Was all that a waste? Not at all.

Now I know I can safely treat her from a structural and Chinese medicine perspective. Many people who come to see me have been through a similar maze of tests and doctor appointments. Often, for a longer time and more appointments. The good news is, they’ve ruled out the really dangerous stuff, which is so important to know.

As with most tricky patients, my daughter probably won’t heal overnight, but we’ll see steady progress. It’s not just about treating the symptoms in this kind of medicine. We want to help her pain go away, and we also want to find the root of WHY it happened. We will treat that, too, so we can help it go away for good.

Sometimes, the problem is something that doesn’t totally goes away, like Celiac or Crohn’s disease. With acupuncture, herbal medicine, supplements, nutrition, and bodywork like visceral manipulation and craniosacral therapy, we can still manage the illness well, reducing symptoms, frequency and duration of flare-ups.

If you’ve ever been in this situation, book a consult and see if we can help.

We offer free 15-minute consultations so we can give you a better idea of how we can help you. We are your partners in regaining your health, helping your body to heal, teaching you better ways to take care of yourself.