acupuncture

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This is the part of Quincia's letter that I found most interesting and think has a lot of validity:

When I talked to my acupuncturist who is also a internalist and

> have 30 years experience in medical field, he mentioned after stress

> and fatigue are accumulated to a certain level, it will exceed and go

> beyond limit our brain and nerve system can control. That is when the

> disorder occurs. This kind of disorder behaves differently from

> individuel to individual. some are minor like headache; some are

> major lke spasm in stomach. it is pretty rare it is happening in

> esophagus, especially LES. Also, when we are under great amount of

> stress or being affected emotionally for a long period of time, our

> hormone and immune system would go out of balance. some of the

> hormone help to stimulate muscle movement; immune system keep us from

> being weak. Once all above happen at the same time, complication

> starts showing up.

And, I'd like to add that my first thought was that her research showed that the 85-95% effective treatment was the myotomy...this is within what most of us have found in research and Quincia isn't anti-myotomy. But as I re-read it, I think that she is talking about acupuncture and we'll have to see what info she has to provide for us! At any rate, reducing stress would be a great New Year's resolution for all of us, I'm sure! Cindi