Weight-Loss Staple

DTfan · 10-01-2007, 09:27 AM

My PHE instructor was talking about this last week. Apparently there are pressure points in your ear and you can go to a TRAINED professional and have then place a tiny staple in your ear on a certain pressure point and it supresses your appetite resulting in significant weight-loss. There are also one's for migraines, stress relief and to help you to quit smoking. The cost is about $75 and it supposedly last for 3-6 months before you have to get a new staple. I know my aunt is getting it done and I think my mom is getting it done also to help her quit smoking. I'm also considering getting it done for the weight-loss effect.

What does everyone else think?

**OffTheHook** · 10-01-2007, 11:24 AM

Keep us up to date on your progress if you have it done.

DTfan · 10-01-2007, 01:07 PM

I doubt that I will just because it's 75 bucks so I won't be paying for it but if it works for my aunt then I may try to sweet-talk my mom into it...not sure how it will work out tho...

**ComfortEagle** · 10-01-2007, 01:43 PM

Yeah, $75 is a little too much to pay for someone to poke your ear.

BurntTires · 10-01-2007, 04:23 PM

Here's a link to the story on it.
http://www.kfor.com/global/story.asp?s=3...v=6uyaaecd

TOMCAT06 · 10-01-2007, 05:31 PM

Looks like that would hurt so bad!

DTfan · 10-01-2007, 10:05 PM

I don't think it would hurt any less than an ear piercing...

TOMCAT06 · 10-01-2007, 10:15 PM

DTfan Wrote:I don't think it would hurt any less than an ear piercing...

It just looks more painful to me b/c of the location of it but who knows!

DTfan · 10-01-2007, 10:48 PM

It's just cartlidge so I don't see it hurting any more than an upper ear piercing like an industrial or something. Plus it doesn't go all the way thru.

TOMCAT06 · 10-02-2007, 01:29 PM

Well youre prolly right we'll know for sure if you have it done though haha!

**Tomcat68** · 10-02-2007, 08:22 PM

My girlfriend's mother had it done several years ago and said it didn't work at all.

DTfan · 10-03-2007, 09:00 AM

TOMCAT06 Wrote:Well youre prolly right we'll know for sure if you have it done though haha!

Yeah I guess we will. I asked my mom about it and she said we would wait to see if it worked for my aunt...