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dr sameer plz -son's asperger's

My step son has Asperger's and has answered this questionaire. He is 27 yrs old and has only friends on the internet. As he has gotten older he has become very depressed and cannot sleep. his father never has talked with him about his conidition but i finally did and he asked if your could help him. Here is the questionaire:
Describe your main suffering?

These are my symptoms that I've had for the past year (but have decreased or disappeared as I have taken some herbal medications):
-Trouble sleeping and staying awake at night
-Trouble concentrating(scattered) while working or working under stress.
-Worries about the future
-Tired
-Mild headaches
-Feeling worthless or hopeless
-Sometimes acting different. Restless or anxious
-Loss of interest in activities I used to enjoy or finding it hard of getting into new activities or hobbies (taking flower essence mix for this)
-Feeling sad or down
-Thoughts about dying (last time was probably few weeks ago).
-Finding the right goal in my life (taking flower essence mix for this)
-Feeling of loneliness

2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body?
Occasional back pain from work

3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?
none


4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst?
Depressed, angry


5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?
Latest symptoms started early 2008 or after I had my car accident in May 2008. I've had depression after my parents divorced in the year -1996 and worse after my mother's death in the year 2000. Symptoms have emerged again as I have endured new difficulties or changes in my life. I haven’t thought about it as a depression until this year.

6. Which time of the day you are worst?
during work hours from 8am to 5pm or while trying to sleep.

7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same?
aggravating things: working too much, being late on things, past decisions about life, arguing between parents and having to live in the same household.
Being able to speak about my problems and having a longer break from work helps to ease my problems.



8. Do you think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)?
Moving from place to place, being away from friends, and possibly a internal change in the mental level.



9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
dry and moderate 70f (21c)

10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.
quiet, calm, daydreamy

- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
restless, anxious if it's blowing hard outside.

- Do you like being consoled during your tough times?
yes, if someone close is there for that
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc?
I'm very sensitive to noise and smell. I like it more than dislike

- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
weeping, talking to one self etc?
scratching the skin off the fingers, talking to myself inside my head while working (but not constantly), sometimes weeping while trying to sleep, sometimes shaking my right foot(intentional).

- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
I'm close with few but hardly keep contact with other friends. I feel that the few are supportive and kind.

11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
Fears: Being killed in a car accident, falling from high places, needles, being eaten or buried alive, death of a close one.
I think about my mother’s passing quite a lot ( died in 2000) and if I could have done something to save her. She died from a brain aneurysm. Sometimes I have dreams about her that she’s still alive but in a state that she can’t communicate


12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions?
cravings: burgers, pizza, Mexican, Chinese, aversions: seafood, pickled food(vinegar), herring,

13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?
Normal

14. How if your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?

Normal, sometimes less when I feel tired. I have hard time eating breakfast if I try to eat right after I wake up.

15. Is there any kind of food which your body can’t stand?
Not that I know any

16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?
Sweating is normal, palms when nervous.

17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?
normal, brown, type 3 or 4(bristol stool chart)

18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
I sleep fairly good if there's nothing that bothers my mind (probably six hours). I wake up at least once a night.
My sleeping posture changes from sleeping on both sides, but usually laying on my back.


19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?
Probably not

20. How do you think you are different from others, if at all?
I've always been an anti-social person. As I became a teenager I started to really suffer from low confidence and self-esteem. However, in the past year, I've started to gain a lot more on both. I think that I have a mild case of Aspergers.

21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
rescue remedy for stress (flower essence), Escaloft for depression and flower essence mixes prepared by a essence therapist. Recently, I've tried Kava which helped for the first two days but started having nausea, therefore stopped taking it.


22. What major diseases are running in your family?
One case of schizophrenia on my mother's side(her brother)


23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance
white, slender, skinny, tall (6'4'/195cm),handsome, dark brown hair, green eyes

24. (ONLY FOR FEMALES)
 
  juniebug09 on 2009-08-14
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
Okay, and if you do not mind, can you also ask him to write about his problems and himself without any questionnaire ?

Let us see what he feels are the most pressing issues, and what does he feel rather than we asking specific questions.
 
sameervermani last decade
Dr Sameer, Aleksi is having problems writing about himself without a questionaire. Yesterday he thought he might be able to then today not. Could you ask questions? He has lived with us for a long time and since we came to the states we have struggled financially because Petteri could not get work. this affected all of us. It took Aleksi 5 years before he even spoke in front of me or to me. In about 2006 he just started talking more and we both noticed a big difference. He has continued to mature but at 27 he is more like an 18 or 19 year old in comparison to other boys. This past year he has started to being very conscious of his looks and dress and has met 2 or 3 girls locally via internet. but when we took him to town and dropped him off his meeting lasted a very short time and it was over. he can talk with ones on the internet but face to face he cannot. my older sister visited with her 18 year old granddaughter and we could see he wanted to be here with her in the same room but he could not initiate a conversation. he will answer qauestions but cannot carry on a conversation except with his father and me. to us he is quite normal in our own home. and we are trying to not argue as much over our money problems. And also since i have started talking to him about his asperger's he said he is feeling some better but he is not sleeping and he has tried all rememdies. Everything someone tells him he orders it. but it doesn't help. i do not know what else to do for him.

juniebug
 
juniebug09 last decade
He has tried all remedies? But there are thousands of homoeopathic medicines - how can he possibly have tried them all?

Without getting the case, in his own words, there is no way to make a proper prescription for him. There is also no way around this.

Considering that this is a fairly complex condition to treat, I doubt treatment on an internet forum will help anyway. I have seen 2 cases cured in my practice, both needed very unusual remedies and took several years to complete (to the point where both patients were diagnosed as no longer qualifying for the condition).

However, homoeopathy is an excellent tool for resolving the situation, if you can find someone to manage his case over the years it might take to cure it.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Well, we will be back in Finland after another year perhaps and there are many homeopaths there that could work with him. I will try some other homeopathic remedies here taht are for sleep and we have just joined an asperger's support group that meets monthly for parents and kids his age so hopefully that will also help. But Sameer, i will also try to get him to write. but i have seen your wisdom on this site and so wish we were where you are so you could spend time with him but i thank you for your help and I will continue with you for my own maladies. Juniebug
 
juniebug09 last decade
Hey Hey....it was not me who wrote the above..(the last post)

It can be helped over the internet..

I will get back to you in a day or 2.

Sameer
 
sameervermani last decade
Oh my goodness, Dr Sameer, thank you so much i was trying to not feel so disappointed and trying to understand. But thank you so much. i will wait to hear from you.
juniebug
 
juniebug09 last decade
Coming back to the case,

juniebug,

Can you please write more about him and his behaviour ?

It will be useful to know your perception about him in detail.
 
sameervermani last decade
I will try to tell about him. It was a difficult adjustment for us all when he came to live with us at 18. His father never informed me that he had a problem. But he seemed to me like a 12 year old. When we took a trip to the states and traveled across country (this was a year before he lived with us ), and when we would stop at fuel station he would go in with his father and want toys that hung on racks that usually much younger children would want. I was thinking to myself what is going on? As he told in the questionnaire his mom died in 2000 of a brain hemorrhage- he found her on the floor, and they sent him on the train to us, two hours away. After his mom’s death we could not get him to stay in school. He had 1.5 yr left. And due to his problems he was in a private school (Steiner Schools)paid for by the government. The teachers were aware of his problem and he progressed at his own spead. And eventually he was able to catch up with others academically. He is extremely intelligent. He was with us 3 or 4 years before actually speaking directly to me. There was a language difference but most of the time he would not make eye contact. Occasionally he would smile at me. He had never spoken much. He has always been obsessive compulsive and has especially compulsion or cleaning .
One year after his moms death we move d to the states. This was another change for him. (2001) in 2005 we noticed that he all a sudden started talking more. Still obsessive compulsive in most things he does, e.g. He started downloading movies in some format. He had over 400 of them and cataloged them like a library. Whenever he gets interested in things he gets very extreme about them. His is a good boy and works with his dad every day. We are always behind in filling orders and this causes stress for everyone as well as him. Many things with the business bring stress but the whole world is struggling right now.
But until just recently his Aspergers was never mentioned in the family except when I tried to talk to his father about it.
Since last year when the economy turned bad we have had a very difficult time as our income is barely getting us enough to live. We often go weeks with no income. We have no health insurance and it affected us all with much stress. In the middle of all this Aleksi is also changing. It is very much like a teenage boy, hormonal changes I guess. I am only experienced with girls, but have noticed over the past year and half that all of a sudden he is thinking of his looks, he started lifting weights, buying cloths, more than he needs, and trying to meet girls, he has as I mentioned made several dates but when they meet in person , it is the end and the time is only 1 to 2 hours and he is back home.
He does not have the social skills, but of course in our own house he functions well. He cannot make eye contact and he will answer questions but cannot carry on a conversation back and forth like most people. He does with us now pretty good. He is very lonesome. As far as his sexuality I am not sure. He may masturbate but to our knowledge he has not been with a woman or had the opportunity. He is very frustrated and says often he must get his own place and his anger shows sometimes and he can be obstinate.
When he met one girl in another state he wanted to buy a ticket and fly there to see her. In this country everything and everyone is spread out. In Finland he could navigate because the transportation system was excellent, busses every 2 to 5 min all day. and of course everyone is walking. It is not common for young people to have a car. Here you must have a car to get anywhere unless you live inside a big city. He was able to get to school there by himself.
I believe his changing inside himself has brought on the depression and that his obsessiveness causes his sleep problems. Since he has had problems sleeping he talks with people online about it and every week he is buying another remedy. He spends more than he has. Instead of buying one bottle to see if it works he buys 3 because it says, buy 2 get 1 free. And he has bought at least 7 different things.
We visited my sister who lives in another state almost 1300 kilometers, she is a naturopath dr, and she does live blood cell analysis. She did all our blood while there and when he saw his blood he almost fainted and had to go out of the room. He was death white. Since coming back he is buying vitamin supplements and has now become so focused on his health that I am sure that might be part of his not sleeping.
People he writes to do not understand why he is still living at home at age 27. Sometimes they say things to him and then he starts thinking he has to get his own place. We would like him to but worry that because he is so naïve that someone will take advantage of him
Him and I email each other sometimes as it is easier for him to talk this way. When I learned of his depression, that is when I asked him if he knew that they thought he had Autism when he was little. I feared mentioning this as his father and I had many arguments about it. His father did not want to mention it to him. Our son said yes, he knew and that was why he got into that school. So from all my research I was aware that he is too functional to be autistic but he does fit the Aspergers. Since we have talked he told me it helps to talk about it and he also has been reading everything on the internet. I have sent him info where people who have it tell their stories. It also has helped.
Observances: he smells everything.
When you put a bowl of food in front of him and he does not want it he pushes it away and says, no. Normally you might say no thank you but not push it away.
Some areas he is very mature then others very childlike.
Storms, he paces and gets very frightened, especially when blowing hard.
When eating he will eat only one thing at a time. He might put three things on his plate but eat all of one thing then the next and so on. Often he will take only one thing and just eat that if we do not say anything to him to eat something else also. He will not usually think about how much he takes in regards to what is left for others. Recently I made sauce with small meat balls and his father and I each got 4 to 6 meat balls and took all the rest, over 20.
If he has needs he doesn’t know how to wait. That need has to be satisfied right away. If it is hunger, and I am just getting a meal on he must eat food right then even if it is only 5 to 10 minute wait.
When he likes something he will eat it over and over a lot then all of a sudden instead of saying he is tired of it. He says it is not good and he doesn’t like it. This happens often.
As with breakfast if I cook an egg for him and some potatoes. He picks at it and says he is not hungry and will eat them later. I think he doesn’t know he just doesn’t care for that type of food. If we make a toasted piece of bread with a meat and cheese on it and put in on a plate he always eats it okay. It appears that he does not know how to recognize his feelings, maybe.
He picks the skin on his fingers until they are sore and crack.
I have seen small signs of compassion. When I was sad one times he wanted to buy me something. And sometimes he will take my side when we all 3 have a different opinion.
In some areas he is generous.
he went to the Finland army for 6 months.he made no friends while there.
he took a course at our small tech college in 2004. he made no friends there either.
When we eat he sits across from me and he will keep watching me. But if I look at him he looks down. When we have company , my sister comes, she says he is always watching me. I have read that is how they learn.
His mother’s brother has schizophrenia. His grandfather on his mom’s side was very much like Aleksi in his eating one thing only at the table. I sometimes fear that he is going to become schizophrenic because he is sitting at the table sometimes and smiling like he is going to burst out laughing and I think he might be hearing voices. I have asked him what is so funny and then he says nothing and is not smiling anymore. He must have much going on in his head.
Please ask questions for further info.
 
juniebug09 last decade
Okay Junie,

I have a few questions for your son.

1) What is it about blood that makes him anxious when looking at it ? What is his thought process at that time ?

2) What is his thought process when he looks at pins or needles ?

3) Is he in general a very anxious person ?

4)So, how strong is this obsessive desire for cleanliness ?

5) How strong is his anxiety about family members ?

Sameer
 
sameervermani last decade
Here are his answers. they are his words.
1) What is it about blood that makes him anxious when looking at it? What
is his thought process at that time ?

If I accidentally cut myself, I get worried about it becoming more severe.
Just looking at the blood doesn't do it but if someone is explaining at the same time, it really makes me think of having something seriously wrong.

2) What is his thought process when he looks at pins or needles ?

I'm afraid of accidentally puncturing myself with one. Usually I feel fine if a doctor or nurse uses a needle on me. Bigger needles cause more anxiety.
3) Is he in general a very anxious person ?

Usually with someone new or if I'm in a group. I'm afraid to open up when I don't know the other person or to share my thoughts in a group.

4)So, how strong is this obsessive desire for cleanliness ?

It's mostly impulsive. If I start cleaning something, I get excited of it and start cleaning more.

5) How strong is his anxiety about family members ?

Just don't feel like talking about sensitive issues
 
juniebug09 last decade
on his last answer i will ask for more information. i do not think he knows what he feels sometimes. juniebug
 
juniebug09 last decade
Hi Juniebug,

Has he ever taken Arsenicum Album ?

Sameer
 
sameervermani last decade
hi Sameer, sorry to not get back to you. i tried to reply and my computer crashed and then things got hectic here and I just didnt get back to you. in answer to your question.
until we moved here to USA, he was in a school that used only homeopathic meds and he does not remember what he was given. i know he was given something after his mother passed because he could not sleep and was depressed. His father said they tried to talk to him with the school nurse to determine what issue was the greatest but could not communicate enough with him so they treated the sleeping problem. but i think back and do not remember what was used and how often as his father delt with him. he did not communicate with me at all and of course the language barrier was a problem. He was 18 at the time. one year later we moved here and he used nothing until now, which as i stated he has tried quite a few things.
I think it is difficult to treat him when he will not state his thinking and feelings.
Juniebug.
 
juniebug09 last decade
One more thing that might be helpful.
He is never sick but has some allergies to tree pollen in the spring. he is physically healthy and lifts weights. he is very strong.
lately he is irritable and stressed but we all are due to our business being so slow and not enough money to meet expenses with the economy so bad. it is affecting all three of us but him more.

juniebug
 
juniebug09 last decade
Okay, so please follow this prescription to the letter..you can buy this remedy at health food stores like whole foods...

Three doses of Arsenicum Album 30c to be taken for ONE single day ONLY as described below.

Dissolve 2 pellets of Arsenicum 30c in a 250 ml spring water bottle. If leave the pellets in water for 20 mins, they will melt. You can shake it gently after they have dissolved.

Give a teaspoon from this bottle using a disposable spoon 3 times, spaced by 30 minutes. This is to be done for one day ONLY.

Let me know in 7 days after these 3 doses.

Restrictions:

1/. Nothing should enter the mouth for 40 minutes prior to, or after taking the remedy.
2/. Do not touch the tablets with your hands, tip them into the cap of the container they came in and then into the water .
3/. Avoid coffee, tea (including green), and other sources of caffeine such as some fizzy drinks and large amounts of chocolate, except where this would cause a drastic change in consumption
4/. Avoid wearing perfume/aftershave, or exposure to anything with a strong smell on the day and 3 days following the remedy administration. This includes any and all essential oils, and incense.
5/. Avoid the consumption of excessively spicey foods
6/. The use of medicinal herbs, either as 'teas' or supplements should be avoided during Homoeopathic treatment, as should the use of over the counter medication, unless this has been recommended by an MD.
7/. Nothing of a medicinal nature should be applied to the skin


Sameer
 
sameervermani last decade
We are going today to get the remedy as we were unable to get it before now. he has agreed to the restrictions. he told me he is changing from hour to hour as to anxiety and i believe he might be having anxiety attacks or panic attacks and just does not know about those. juniebug. i will update after the dosing and 7 dys.
 
juniebug09 last decade
Okay, good.
 
sameervermani last decade
we have made the remedy as you said but do not have plastic spoons. Can we use 3 different metal teaspoons?

Junibug
 
juniebug09 last decade
Sure.
 
sameervermani last decade
dr Sameer, i have not responded as aleksi the first seven days didn't see anything positive as far as a reaction but as days went on the anxiety and lack of sleep increased to the point that he is now in the hospital since friday. today is Tuesday here. We do not know if it was the arsenicum but it seems hardly possible that it would be. he asked me by phone last night to bring the arsenicum to the hospital but they will not allow it as he is in the psychiatric ward and we are not allowed to bring anything in but hope he is home by the end of this week. i thought i should update you.
Junibug
 
juniebug09 last decade
oh, on the friday we took him he thought he was seeing patterns in things. it was frightening to him and us.
 
juniebug09 last decade
Hmm.. let him come back to some normalcy, and then we can re-assess.
 
sameervermani last decade
Dear Sameer, today is Saturday adn we got our son home yesterday from the hospital. he was there since last friday night when he got so overwhelmed. He was thinking crazy things and having some delusions. they have put him on a stupid antipsychotic medication, seroquel used in treating bi-polar and schizophrenia. We do not feel he is as his anxiety level was so extreme, and he hadn't slept in weeks. now we have an appt the 6th with psychiatrist and will try to get them to let us take him off this drug. he does not like it and it makes him feel anger he said and irritable plus it makes him have symptoms of a cold, runny nose, and he does not want to take it. i have read there are even good remedies to treat him even if he was schizophenic, which we do not think he is.

Please advise. we will understand if you think you do not want to help him at this point. but i have found some info on the web that the arsinicum album can even help with schizophrenia problems. there are many natural things to help.
The psychiatrist that saw him knows nothing about Asperger's.
junibug.
 
juniebug09 last decade
' He was thinking crazy things and having some delusions.'

What were they ? Can you describe them in detail ?
 
sameervermani last decade

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