Acupuncture on the Gold Coast

Acupuncture for women’s health

A lot of women come to us because they know something’s off with their cycle but they’ve been told their blood work is fine. Or they’ve been given the pill and told that’ll sort it. Sometimes it does. But when it doesn’t, or when you want to understand what’s actually going on underneath, that’s where we spend a lot of time in clinic.

We look at the whole picture, cycle length, ovulation signs, what each phase is like, where the symptoms cluster, because a period that’s late every month is a different thing from one that’s short, and pain at ovulation is different from pain on day one. That detail changes what we do in a session.

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Fertility acupuncture on the Gold Coast

A lot of the women we see for fertility are partway through an IVF cycle, or getting ready for one, or they’ve had a cycle that didn’t work and are trying to figure out what to do next. We work alongside your fertility specialist, acupuncture is something we offer as support alongside IVF, and because the timing around transfers and procedures matters we coordinate around your clinic’s protocol.

For women trying to conceive naturally, the focus tends to be on cycle regularity, ovulation, and the luteal phase, that second half of the cycle where progesterone needs to hold up long enough to support implantation.

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PCOS

PCOS is one of the most common things we see and it looks quite different from woman to woman. Some have irregular cycles or none at all, some have the classic blood sugar stuff, you crash after a meal, you crave carbs, the weight goes to the middle more easily than anywhere else. Acupuncture is something we offer alongside diet and lifestyle changes as part of a broader approach to cycle regularity and nervous system support, and we work closely with Hannah, our naturopath, who works online, for women who want to combine acupuncture with herbal medicine or functional testing.

Endometriosis

Endo is one of those conditions that tends to get dismissed for years before someone actually looks into it properly, and the pain can be really significant, it often doesn’t respond the way you’d expect to standard pain relief. Acupuncture is something we offer alongside your specialist’s care as extra support, and a lot of women with endo see us regularly for that.

Perimenopause and menopause

The lead-up to menopause can start years before your period actually stops, and for some women the symptoms in that window are quite significant, hot flushes, waking at 2am, mood changes, a brain fog you can’t quite pin to anything specific. Acupuncture is something we offer women through that transition, and because it’s a slow process treatment tends to be ongoing over that period.

Pregnancy

During pregnancy, we see women for a range of things: nausea and general health for mum and bub throughout the first trimester, pelvic girdle pain and lower back ache in the later months, breech presentation from around 34-36 weeks (using moxibustion), and labour preparation from 37 weeks. We check in with your midwife or OB before we start, particularly in the later stages.

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Postpartum

The fourth trimester is something we take seriously, recovery after birth, especially a difficult one, takes longer than most people expect. We see women for postpartum depletion (you’re bone tired, there’s nothing left in the tank and it’s more than just broken sleep), for pain recovery, and for the mood shifts that come with the big hormonal changes after delivery.