Anyone tried Dry Needling or Acupuncture for Pain or Neuropathy?

I tried acupuncture for 8 weekly sessions to no avail. My pain continued. No relief at all.

Which brand ?

I tried dry needling and developed PMR as a result of it, doctors claim that isn’t possible, but I still believe that it was the cause. Also, I noticed that the PT was also doing dry needling to another patient without any handwashing involved, too many things to make me believe otherwise. I would stay as far away as possible!

What is PMR?

I have tried both.

Dry needling did not help my neuropathy. It did help anytime that I had a disc bulge. My PT would dry needle the bulging area and it would be better in roughly 2 days vs 2-3 weeks without the treatment.

Acupuncture I believe is starting to help my neuropathy. I have only had 8 sessions so far but I started to notice reduction in my symptoms (pain, burning, tingling, etc...I have all the symptoms unfortunately) However, make note that I also have been in occupational therapy at the same time. My acupuncture doc and OT kind of tagged team up so they were not doubling up on treatments. For example, if my OT did cupping as part of my treatment that day then my acupuncture doc would do a different treatment (not cupping a second time) after my acupuncture treatment. So maybe the combo of the two started to relieve symptoms.

I am about to start another round of acupuncture and occupational therapy. I took about a month off for resting and getting the next round of appointments approved.

If you're interested I can keep you up to date with this current round to see if I think it continues to help or not? Just lemme know. I am more than happy to communicate with anyone here as we all try to find some relief.

I did needling for stomach and back issues . So painful and received no results from it. It might help some but unfortunately not me.
Accupuncture has not relieved any symptoms either but fit many it does.
Keep trying everything don’t give up!

Your doctors are correct. Needling will not cause PMR. It must have been a coincidence. Im sorry you’re troubled with it. My grandfather had PMR and Giant Cell Arteritis, which may accompany it. After starting predisone his symptoms improved.
If your needling practitioner had poor hygienic practices you would have an infection not PMR.
You could always go to someone else.

I’ve had both.
Dry needling and acupuncture are quite different.
Neither directly treat neuropathy. The acupuncture may help indirectly with pain management by giving a general feeling better, thus stimulating our good happy hormones.
Dry needling is to release tight muscles. I’ve had prompt relief and get dry needling on a regular basis, and in between I’ll have cupping by my chiropractor the acupuncture I had I didn’t feel any different, but that could be because I wasn’t really paying attention to my body enough I’ll be making another attempt as anything I can do to improve vagal tone and stimulate the good hormones gives the body a general sense of better well-being.
I was on gabapentin for nerve pains and slating neuropathy to max doses twice without any undesirable effects. When it no longer lasted long enough, I switched to Lyrica unfortunately it’s not lasting long enough and I’m at the max dose. Even after taking nortriptyline to potentiate its action, I’m going to work more on neuroplasticity also

Hello,

Dry needling did not help at all. Six sessions of STIM acupuncture and did help. I also started taking an over the counter medicine -Nervive. I was not even noticing my feet. However I did aggravate them this week by wearing the wrong pair of shoes. Back to the acupuncturist.

I tried acupuncture for several months, and it helped briefly after a few sessions, but overall did not relieve the allodynia (painful skin neuropathy) in my back. So sad, so out big bucks!