Watch Where You Stick Those Needles!

Just stumbled onto a thread where an acupuncturist seems to think that a woman's choice of "injection site" might be interferring with her fertility.

The thread is here:

Question: today doc. give hormone shots around the bellybutton everyday ,sometimes the woman is instruted to give her self or her husband. --? a needle at CV5 is said in many ancient text to cause infertility. can this be the problem. i recently have 3 cases of women that for 3 yrs. have been through this , now they came to me . thank you for this site ,:Larry

Answer: Yes it is possible if it is given near Ren-5 a point which does have a history of use to cause infertility. However, the reason is also the hormonal manipulation itself which damages the ovaries. Giovanni

Actually, I've seen instructions from Dr. Z's office that say that you should place your injections in a semi-circle around your belly buttom so as to not overuse an single injection area. Using this instruction, one would eventually wind up hitting a few acupuncture spots here and there...even ones that might cause infertility or even miscarriage. I guess I'll be seeking the advice of my acupuncturist team at East-West to get a "body-map" of where I can inject safely. Damn...just ONE MORE THING to be aware of. Who would have thought?