Acupuncture is like anything else - a lot of it really depends on the practicioner. If you're not comfortable with the person, it won't work. And I've been to people where it just didn't for me, and maybe that person would work find for someone else. The last three or so years my sweetie and I have been going to someone who is very good, very skilled and very serious about his work as a medical acupuncturist. He's studied in china and the US, and will be going back to Thailand later in the year because he was invited back to teach there. He's only the second acupuncturist my sweetie and i have been to for a substantial length of time in the last 20 years.

So yes, I am VERY lucky. He still has a practice in NYC in Chinatown actually (although he's American) but he happened to establish a second practice in the town I'm living in.