Joan Fisher
New member
Well, Tiika had her 14th acupuncture treatment since May today - 62 needles - the most yet at one time. She's in her 5th acute bout of Masticatory Myositis since last October. She also had TENS treatments on her head yesterday, today, and tomorrow morning before we leave for NewfStock. I'm so discouraged. We've tried absolutely everything to try and beat this and nothing is working! Tiika can barely open her mouth wide enough to take a spoonful of cream cheese with her meds in it. She sure uses that tongue to lick her plate clean though. But she couldn't manage her piece of lamb bone. She tried, but was not able, to pick up her dumbbell this morning and hung her head when she couldn't because I'd sent her for it just to see if she could. Since yesterday she's had her own blood mixed with Traumeel injected back into her, plus about 10 neurotherapy injections on her head, plus injections of homeopathic remedies yesterday and today. She was an angel for every single one! She's also on a whole new bunch of supplements plus traditional Chinese herbs. On top of all the alternative therapies, she's back on prednisone for at least a week and her cyclosporin has been increased to 3 x 100mg capsules a day. Yesterday and today cost over $1000.00 not counting tomorrow's TENS treatment. Granted a lot of that is for supplements which will last at least a few weeks but still! :darn: NewfNet prayers badly needed by all of us!