Accupuncture

This is the fourth time that I’ve visited Carl, the acupuncturist. Carl was referred to me by one of my Black Girl Run sole sistas. She recommended him because of my knee pain. He does more than acupuncture. He’s into eastern medicine and the whole body. He has dealt with a lot of runners, so he understands our unique pain and mentally. When I met him he told me I need to cut out gluten, dairy, chicken and eat more vegetables and nuts. He asked me about my bowl movements and urine and the flow of my cycle.

This was a bit much for me. My thought was, can you talk about my knee and put some needles in it. And this black woman is not giving up chicken, what the hell. He explained his reasoning and methods to me. Some of it I agreed with and others I didn’t. Since I’m in pain, I’ll try anything once. I thought I would give this a try since I’ve never done it. He talked about the connection to my alopecia, liver, and kidneys. He told me to get buffalo meat because it’s good iron. Yeah, Dr. Carl is a lot.

Dr. Carl is not cheap. He charges me $100 per session. Sometimes the sessions have been 75mins and others, like today was 60mins. He’s done the needles, cupping, and more. I love the fact that Dr. Carl is an African- American man from Ohio who is doing this. We’ll give him one more week to see if anything different will happen.

In two weeks I’ll get the results of my MRI and I’ll be curious of the results and what my doctor might say.