needle in a haystack: part two

Ok, so I had my second appointment with the acupuncturist yesterday ... and it sucked. I hate needles to begin with but the first round wasn't so bad, but this time she put a needle in my affected cheek! I thought I'd cry. Then she connected the needle in my cheek to the needle in my right knee and said that that would help channel the pain from my face to my knee ... I didn't buy it. The needle in my cheek felt like all it was doing was waking up the lightning attacks in my face and making it extremely painful for me.
I don't know why, but I signed up for another session. As much as this last visit hurt, I still have hope that it's going to work ... that somehow my face is going to get better ... that somehow this whole past year of pain and doctors and frustrations will go away or even disappear entirely ... I can have hopes, right?