Poor you! On the acupuncture treatment just beware it won't do anything to address the cause of your injury. But it might help in the pain management. I bust a couple of discs in my neck a few years ago which was really painful and I was in agony for months. I had traction and physio etc but in the end gave it up because it just seemed to make things worse. When you're in acute pain you'll try anything and I gave acupuncture a go. I have to say it did provide some short term relief which I was grateful for but don't expect miracles. In the end it takes rest and time (sometimes a long time) for the inflammation to go down. What you have sounds a lot like footballers disease - osteitis pubis which might be what your doc diagnosed only under a different name. A rugby playing mate of mine had it when I worked in Hong Kong. I don't know a lot about it other than it's hard to treat and he ended up being treated in Australia by a specialist physio. Good luck!