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Remedy Question - Please Help

I have intermittent tinnitus (both ears, worse in the right ear) accompanied by periods (only very occasionally) of ocular (auric) migraine minus the headache.

Lycopodium 30c 3 times daily makes the tinnitus barely noticable and works very well. Problem is, it returns if I stop taking the remedy. I tried Lycopodium 200C as a single does and the same thing occurs.

What would my next step be? Can I take the lycopodium 30C for an indefinite period of time or should I try something else? Please help - thanks.
 
  digitalwizard1 on 2009-09-04
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Please answer the following questions in a descriptive manner after careful analysis and recollection of previous experiences and happenings for a better selection of remedies.

1. What brings you to the forum? Describe all your problems, including those that may not exactly be on the top of your mind now, in as much detail a possible.


2. How do these problems affect you mentally? How does it affect your family life and inter-personal relations with friends and colleagues?


3. What time of the day your problems trouble you the most? Describe the time modalities properly for all your problems.


4. Normally, when you are in a healthy state, what time of the day you are most active and what time you feel lazy and tired?


5. Generally, is there some time in the day when you feel extremely irritable?


6. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease? Give proper details.


7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same?


8. Do your 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)?


9. Which weather worsens your complaints – wet, hot or cold?


10. Which weather do you generally prefer the most?


11. Describe yourself as a person in as much detail as possible. Discuss general personality traits; the way you express yourself in social settings, family and work environment, with friends, etc.


12. Describe in detail if you harbour any negative emotions.


13. How is your memory?


14. Do you suffer from bouts of anger? If yes, which category do they fall in – frequent, occasional or rarely?


15. Which of the following words describe you the best – Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable, Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Irritable, Lazy, Super-active, Tearful, Vindictive, Confused, etc.


16. Please answer the following clearly:
- Do you tend to weep easily?
- How is your memory?
- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times?
- How sensitive you are to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc?
- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
weeping, talking to one self etc?
- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?


17. What are your chief fears?


18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?


19. Is there any pattern in your dreams?


20. What all food items do you crave for what all you simply hate to have?


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


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


23. Is there any kind of food which your body can’t stand?


24. Is there any time or occasion when you feel an uncontrollable urge to eat?


25. How would you rank your sweat as– normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?


26. How is your bowel movement and stool type?


27. How do you respond to tight clothing around your neck and waist?


28. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?


29. How do you think you are different from others, if at all?


30. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?


31. Any major diseases running in your family?


32. Describe your overall appearance


33. (ONLY FOR FEMALES)
If you are not having normal menstrual cycles, please answer the following questions:

- Are the periods early, regular or late in general? How long do they last?
- Do you suffer from any kind of physical or mental discomfort before, during or after the periods?
- Is the flow scanty, normal or excessive?
- Is the blood thick bright red or pale watery?
- Do you notice any clots in the flow?

Regards

Niel
 
Niel Madhavan last decade
Thank you very, very much Niel for responding to my forum post – here are the answers to the questions you sent.

Sex: Male
Age: 59

1. I have been interested in homeopathy since high school and I have been able to keep myself relatively healthy using it. So, since I have great faith in homeopathic medicine, it is usually the first place I turn for help.
I think stress is a big part of my problem. When I become stressed, the first places it manifests are my bowel and and my ears (tinnitus), but I don’t have to be stressed to have tinnitus. Funny thing about this, is that if I am subjected to a stressful situation, the ‘after-effects’ normally will not manifest for a couple of days after the occurrence and then will last for 3 or 4 days after that. This will manifest as stomach cramps, pain and borborygmi the latter which comes and goes. I have borborygmi to a greater or lesser extent most of the time. I have experienced considerable relief for the bowel by using a Heel homeopathic tincture called Nux vomica Homaccord.
I have a hiatal hernia that now does not bother me at all unless I eat just before going to bed. It used to give me a lot of trouble when I was younger. I can’t eat spicy food because it will cause cramps and ‘colitis-like symptoms. I had a colonoscopy done a few years ago and it was diagnosed as ‘non-specific’ colitis, but not ulcerative colitis or anything like that. It is fine if it is not aggravated by stress or spicy foods.

2. I get along really well considering, but I have to extract myself from stress-producing situations when they occur, if at all possible or it doesn’t take long for my abdomen to act up, coupled with an aggravation of my tinnitus.

3. The tinnitus is usually present when I wake up (although mild when I am taking the lycopodium 30c) and then after I am up for a while, it will sometimes subside and sometimes not… all depending upon whether I have taken the lycopodium the day before. If I had to pick a time, I would have to say it is worse at night and upon arising. The bowel problem has no particular time… harmony, peace and no hot spicy food cure that.

4. I am generally feeling most alert and awake in the morning – I get lazy and tired a couple of hours before sunset and continuing through the evening.

5. I do not feel irritable with any regularity, and when I do, I can’t say it occurs at a certain time of.

6. I have had tinnitus for a considerable time and used to think it was because of working in a factory which cut and grinded metal parts, but although I do have some hearing loss, it was not deemed sufficient enough to warrant a hearing aid or anything like that. As mentioned earlier, it seems to be getting worse as I get older.

Although stress has always attacked my abdomen and bowel first, there was never a problem with spicy food until after my bout with the ‘non-specific- colitis.

The auric migraine doesn’t seem to be triggered by anything, but will just show up. I think stress probably has a hand in that also.

7. Stressful situations make the tinnitus worse and calm and peaceful situations make it much better. If taking the lycopodium 30c, stress will still cause mild tinnitus, but not to the extent it would be without it.

8. I don’t know… it is possible of course.

9. Definitely cold, and cold and wet make me the most uncomfortable. I don’t know if weather changes (other than barometric pressure changes which aggravates the tinnitus) have any affect on the conditions mentined. Strangely, i’ve noticed the tinnitus seems to get worse just before and after the full moon.

10. Warm. I prefer it to the cold anytime. I do like thunderstorms, particularly if I don’t have to go out in them.

11. I do enjoy being the leader, although I respect everyone’s opinion and position. I am tolerant of things as long as they don’t harm anyone else. I am not a social butterfly by any means, but I think I fit in well when I am in social settings or in the work environment.

12. Nothing that I dwell on or that I would consider abnormal in any way.

13. Long term memory is not bad at all, short term memory could definitely use some improvement. I am bad a recognizing people I haven’t seen in a while and I am very bad at remembering names.

14. It takes a bit to really make me angry. I believe I am a very tolerant person in most situations.

15. Changeable, nervous, easily stressed, easily offended if coming from certain people.

16. Please answer the following clearly:
- Do you tend to weep easily? Depending upon the situation. I wouldn’t say I am excessively prone to weeping, but I am moved by injustices to innocent people and animals or tear-jerker movies.
- How is your memory? Long term is good – short term and I guess you would call it ‘cognative’ , remembering faces of those I have not seen, names, etc. is not so good.
- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm? I like thunderstorms, but I prefer to be indoors.
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times? Well, I don’t like pity parties, but I don’t mind a bit of support when needed.
- How sensitive you are to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc? Smell, nothing unusual, I dislike loud noise and at at times I am sensitive to light, particularly during the rare auric migraine episodes.
- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
weeping, talking to one self etc? No, nothing habitual
- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
I have no problem at all with my wife, she is a wonderful person. My family (and this is not meant to be offensive to anyone) is a loud Italian family who like to talk over each other, etc. This can be very stressful at times.

17. Nothing specific that I can pinpoint.

18. I wake up several times during the night. Usually around 12:30, 2:30 and 4:00, not necessarily to go the bathroom, I just wake up. No trouble going back to sleep. I sleep on my right side most of the time, but I alternate between the right and left sides, never on my stomach and rarely on my back.

19. No. I don’t have a lot of dreams that I remember, but I do dream.

20. I used to love hot, spicy food, principally Chinese, Indian and Thai dishes, but I have been unable to eat any of that for about 7 years. After I got the ‘non-specific’ colitis thing, which was caused by an incredibly stressful week moving my parents to Florida, I can not eat anything like that except for very mild seasoning.

21. I am not often thirsty and I know I don’t drink enough water.

22. I would say my hunger is normal.

23. Hot and spicy … my abdomen can’t stand it, but my head loves it.

24. No

25. My sweat is normal, mostly on the head and trunk, but I sometimes don’t stop sweating as fast as I think I should once I am in a cool and non-exerted state.

26. I have a daily bowel movement, but I attribute that largely to my taking apple pectin tablets… the stool itself is generally hard ,dry and often in balls.

27. Can’t stand it, particularly around my neck. I am claustrophobic also and dislike confined spaces.

28. Yes

29. I think I pay more attention to things than a lot of people do.

30. I have tried all sorts of herbal medications, ear drops, etc. in the past. The only thing that helped at all is the homeopathy. Regarding homeopathy, I have taken a Colitis combination (works well, particularly in conjunction with the Heel medication mentioned above) and have tried Nux Vomica single remedy as well which seemed to be indicated for a number of my complaints, but it didn’t seem to work as well as the lycopodium for the tinnitus. For the tinnitus, the only thing that helped to a very noticeable extent was the lycopodium.

31. No

32. 5”11, about 198 lbs. Average build.
 
digitalwizard1 last decade
Hi

Please take three wet doses of Sulpher 30c separated by 20 minutes each on a single days. Please note it is just three doses, that too on a single day. NO FURTHER REPETITIONS.

To prepare wet doses, allow 2-3 drops from the medicinal solution or 3-4 pills to dissolve in some 100 ml of filtered water. One teaspoon from this solution is one dose. Throw the solution after you have taken the indicated three doses.

Regards

Niel
 
Niel Madhavan last decade

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