I was treating this woman for fatigue and back pain. I started with super ming men on her back for 8 minutes. Then did a N, N+1 on the Kidney - Bladder circuit. 30 seconds into the treatment (I hadn't even started the electroacupuncture) she started crying and said that the needles had a very deep ache.

Not knowing what this was about, I took out all the needles and she ran out.

Any thoughts as what happened here?

Very interesting...my guess is that she was soo depleted of energy that may be the super ming men was too much for her for a first visit...remember that we were told that for a first visit you may want to do moxa only without electricity. I don't think it had anything to do with your technique or anything else.

I bought this heat lamp from OMS... I was told that there was a 10-15 minute warmup for the lamp. 10-15 minutes is a lot longer than I had thought. I think if I had to do it differently I would have bought the other lamp.

The lamp I got was the "far infared lamp" - it has no light bulb per se.

The other lamp they carry is the infared lamp with light bulb whatever. So if you're inpatient like me, you might want to skip the far infrared lamp that requires a 10-15 min warmup before it feel warm.

TDP CQ-27 IR Heat Lamp is the one I got (in fact, I got two)

http://www.lhasaoms.com/page.ccml?43,347,147306,o147306,,,Inv,searchres.html
the link to the lamp I got.

man, it was really just your needle technique.

Actually, one of my patients experienced a similar happening - after I finished pulling the needles out, she broke into spontaneous tears. She assured me that it wasn't the pain, but just an overwhelming feeling of a need to cry. I guess that sometimes, the needles just bring out emotion.