LeftyS7

Thanks for the names of the studies. According to the radio and TV and even phone messages from my power company, it looks like the high winds from "Frankenstorm" Sandy are going to knock out my electricity sometime tonight or tomorrow. We are on a sub sub grid with only a few houses so our restoration priority is at the botton. (And that's fine, I'm all for getting power back first to hospitals, nursing homes, then main grids with hundreds of people - sucks for me, but it's the fair thing to do)

So it may be a while before I get to those as the time with power I'm making scans of my insurance forms to send to my hospital which while it's a great medical provider has totally screwed up my transition to Medicare as a primary provider and blue cross Blue shield as secondary. Of course the switchover date was right before the first Cyberknife but after the others. Same with chemo, what a me

If it turns out that acupuncture does work for dry mouth , I'd be happy. Heck, even a broken stopped watch is right twice a day so for our subset, an otherwise placebo procedure may surprise me. I'm still troubled by the fact that even the "neutral" Mayo clinic 5 page summary admits that it works best for those who believe in it. You don't have to believe in radiation or chemo or surgery or prescription drugs for them to work. Thanks again for taking the time to just gather the information without poking me. Trust me, it gets a better response.
Charm