How is it going, @northernlass? I have never tried acupuncture, but it is probably like most things - one has to be patient with it. Have you tried meditation? I find it helps my psyche when I am in trouble.

It's important to find someone who understands MS as well as acupuncture, one without the other won't do a lot. I've been having it done weekly since the start of December last year and I have to say the massage that comes with it does wonders for my relaxation - the man who does it has hands like an East German shot putter of old and the muscles and 'meat' underneath do still feel so it's great if a little ouchy at times :-) The acupuncture has made me incredibly aware of just how far through my body the lack of sensation has travelled. I have no sensation in my skin anywhere but from just under my boobs to the top of my head and in my right arm, everything else is best described as comfortably numb (or annoyingly so) I'm now having electricity applied through the needles as well which is a little like a lot of tiny tens machines plumbed into your body. Some I can feel others I can not even though I can see them jumping around. I have to say though I feel I am 'doing something' while I wait for my DM treatment to start the positivity of doing something helps focus me more on being aware of what I put into my body and how it responds to things and that can only be a good thing. Positivity I think is one of the most important things to us when MS is playing up Good luck xx