Category: Acupuncture Testimonials

Michelle is amazing! In Michelle’s holistic approach to healing, she takes into account your diet and lifestyle, and makes recommendations according to the signals that your body gives her. Since making the changes that she suggested, I literally feel like a new person. The acupuncture sessions are equally personalized, and the results are incredible – I leave feeling refreshed, mentally and physically balanced, and happy. Let me describe one of the most remarkable results of acupuncture. I had chronic pain in my jaw since I was 26, and thought that it was something that I would have to live with or treat with strong pain killers. Since the first session, Michelle, using acupuncture, completely alleviated my jaw pain – I find myself more attentive and focused in other areas of my life in absence of pain! I am so thankful to be in Michelle’s care!

I first visited Isthmus Acupuncture a skeptic. I had suffered with planters fasciitis for nearly two years and after failed physical therapy and many months sleeping with a boot and performing heating and ice treatment, I was informed of Isthmus Acupuncture and Michelle. After only two treatments, my feet began to improve and after 4 treatments I was running again for the first time in over 2 years. I’ve become a full believer!!!! Michelle is warm and friendly and does a great job explaining her procedures and making sure that the patient is comfortable and happy with results. I also suffered with fertility issues with my first child and Michelle had informed me that the treatment for my feet was directly tied to my fertility issues and guess what? I conceived my second child while in treatment and am 10 weeks along. I have been to Michelle twice since I found out I was pregnant and she has greatly helped reduce my nausea and fatigue. Thanks to Michelle and her staff for great care and great service. I will be a patient for life!!!

I decided to try acupuncture with Michelle Buchanan for my diffuse symptoms that Western medicine was not resolving well.  At my first meeting I was so pleased to have her understand my complaints and feel confident that she could heal my chronic sinus reactions to foods and pollen, gastric pain, fatigue with lots of sleeping, and my loss of libido. After talking to her at each visit, I feel filled with hope. That in itself is worth the price! Being understood and hopeful are in themselves so healing! My feelings of trust and safety and belief in the treatments is so enhanced by Michelle’s ability to communicate what needs to heal and how the treatment will help the healing in Western medicine terms as that is the society I live in and concepts I understand. It also helps me feel willing to explain my treatment to friends and colleagues in Western terms as I know they will be skeptical. I have tried to understand Oriental concepts and have found it so difficult given my education in Western sciences. Terrell Brock

“I have been working with Michelle Buchanan for over 2 years. Personally, we began using acupuncture and essential oils to cure my debilitating migraines. I have to say the progress we have made has changed my life. Professionally, I have been using essential oils with children who have suffered severe abuse, neglect and abandonment issues. I knew the benefits of the oils, but it was not until I attended a class with Michelle that I truly understood the many ways oils could be used to enhance the lives of my families. Most beneficial to me was learning to test which oils helped each individual given their bodies response. I highly recommend expanding your knowledge in not only learning all you can about the oils, but how to individually test which oils perform the best for you or your clients.” Leah Thompson, BA, COTA

Michelle takes time to get to know you and understand your symptoms and how best to help you. There’s no Band-Aid approach. A lot has to do with what we eat. When she determined my gluten-intolerance, I was surprised at how quickly my body reacted! It was almost as if my body was saying, “Thank you for finally not eating wheat/gluten anymore!” As for the acupuncture, whenever I leave after a treatment, I feel mentally, physically, and spiritually better. I don’t know how else to describe it. I will never go anywhere else for treatment.

What I didn’t know then is that not all acupuncture is created equal! Had I known then what I know now, I never would’ve waited! After all those “other” acupuncture appointments plus two failed fertility treatments (and many dollars down the drain), I realized that I needed something else something more holistic. I finally scheduled my appointment with Michelle and after just one month achieved pregnancy. The very first month! After 2 years of trying! I was stunned, and this was no coincidence. Their style of acupuncture was unlike the acupuncture I had had before. They analyzed everything from my monthly cycle to my diet and lifestyle to my emotional state. – Jill A., Madison, WI