Neptune - I think Chris' suggestion to find one close to you is a good one. I too believe acupuncture is helpful ... and it is most definitely relaxing - I often fall asleep. I changed acupuncturists between my 1st and 2nd rounds of IVF only because of location - I found it too stressful to try to get to the one I originally saw - I felt that it was defeating one of the main reasons of going. Now I have one that is centrally located between my office and the 2 hospitals where they do retrievals and ETs - and it worked out quite well the 2nd cycle. Also, for my 2nd cycle, I put a request to the clinic that my retrieval be on the late side (they start them at 8am) so that I had plenty of time to go before hand. She did say, that if that didn't work, doing it the day before as dusty suggests would be fine.