Anyone tried Dry Needling or Acupuncture for Pain or Neuropathy?

It’s giant cell arteritis

Acupuncture was useless for me too.

I tried acupuncture at the recommendation of a pain clinic doctor. I went to 13 sessions with little or no improvement. I think the acupuncturist was a money grabber after reading in this Chronic pain posts that some practitioners said if it didn’t work after 3-4 sessions to stop coming. I have had thoracic back spasms for 5 years and nothing I’ve tried so far has worked.very discouraging.

Not dry needling no, but I have tried Acupuncture. Acupuncture cut down my Carpal Tunnel syndrome pain to a once-in-a-while thing, and the pain level has not returned to its former levels after shoulder surgery, for which I am grateful. Keep expectations low, Acupuncture does not regenerate nerves-- which is what I was looking for, I have also used TENS electrical stimulation and also Red Light therapy. I would say these alternative medicines are soothing to your psyche and so you feel better. I will give credit for the Carpal tunnel and numbness level reductions through to Acupuncture, So far no surgery is required, and the numbness in my forearm and hands has also receded. I assumed Acupuncture did the job. I was not clinical about how I approached each of these. I just did them all concurrently. So my data on Acupuncture is wobbly, at best.

I did several sessions of dry needling a couple of years ago. It did not help one bit. May help some but not me.

I have idiopathic neuropathy and I tried many, many probably too many things almost nothing worked. The needle acupuncture gave me relief at least when the needles were in, but the best was the needless acupuncture (magnets), the pain was gone for a couple days.

Acupuncture did not work for me. It was very uncomfortable and like some of the other comments I think the therapist was more concerned with the money.

I LOVE Them all and find a great deal of pain relief over the years!!!

I go monthly for dry needling for my torn rotator and FM, my pt is wonderful. He knows what he is doing and listens to me. I had tried tens and ripped it out, it was just plain annoying for my pain. I have also had 2 cortisone shots in my shoulder, they are amazing but can only have them yearly. good luck.

I was told you shouldn’t take gabapentin and cymbalta at the same time. My doctor ordered cymbalta but I didn’t take it yet. Am I wrong. Accupuncture and massage have been very helpful for my pain