Hi kendyll, I have been doing acupuncture for a number of years off and on. In the past 3 years it has been regular. From my experience you should not be having headaches if all is ok....for sure not all the time. I had a bad head after the first time I went to see mine. But after that it didint happen.

Mine is a family doctor from Asia who offers this as part of his practice now. I tried to go to a chiroprator as it would be more affordable and regretted it greatly. I was so mentally altered after the smaller treatment I barely got home and I was driving. I had never had that happen before. My family doc is older and is ver ver experienced. He has patients with MS and myasthenia like me. I live in the midwest...dont know where you are but I highly recommend this doc. The chiro had a mind set that I was toxic and if he treated that I would get better. That should have been a red flag. This fella also is limited to doing only places he can get to when a person is dressed so that is the smaller treatment I mentioned. My doc has me undress and does a number of points on my abdomen which are very key.

Have you told the doc about your headaches? If you have and he hasnt changed something or suggested something like hydrating really well before and after then you a new acupuncturist. For any body work like this or massage it is really important to drink alot of water before and after to help the body flush. Most of these people I have interacted with will tell you this or offer you water on the spot.

Annie59