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breastfeeding/belladonna, aconite
'I have a 3 week old baby and have been suffering with a bout of trigeminal neuralgia (right side) since Sept. Now that the baby is born, I'm hoping to find some treatment options. I'm looking into homeopathics, specifically Belladonna and Aconite, however, we are concerned about these affecting the baby. We were thinking that we would pump enough milk for a day or 2 to feed to the baby on a day I take the medicine. On that day, I would pump and dump the milk. Is this necessary? I'm wondering how long it would take for the medicine to be gone from my milk?I really want to continue nursing, but I need some relief. I can't eat or drink much due to the pain and am rapidly losing weight. I'm concerned about my nutrition because I'm limited in what I can eat. This, of course, concerns me that the baby is not getting her proper nutrition. She is growing well and checks out fine with the pediatrician.
Thanks for any info you can provide.
ncrespo on 2011-02-23
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
Mother and child share a state for at least several months after birth. It is likely that at worst she will be unaffected by a curative medicine for you, and at best will actually be helped by it.
I treat pregnant or nursing women frequently - I rarely see any issue with the baby aggravating on the remedy the mother takes. The dose merely needs to be adjusted to make it as gentle as possible.
If you want advice about which remedy to take I am happy to do that for you.
GUIDELINES FOR GIVING HOMOEOPATHIC CASE INFORMATION
It is important to describe all your problems in as much detail as you are able. One word answers and short sentences are not particularly helpful. Discuss each problem one at a time, providing (as a minimum level of detail) the following information.
1. What exactly happens?
2. Describe all sensations and pains. Each pain or sensation should be described in such a way that allows us to imagine having the same pain.
3. What causes the problem to get worse after it has started occurring?
4. What creates some relief for the problem?
5. What triggers the problem into occuring?
6. What time of the day or night does the problem occur?
7. When did the problem start? What was happening in your life at that time? Did some specific event or treatment take place just before the problem started?
Move from one problem to the next, doing the same thing. IT IS VITAL THAT YOU GIVE A COMPLETE PICTURE OF YOUR HEALTH BY PROVIDING ALL PROBLEMS YOU HAVE, EVEN IF NOT CONNECTED TO THE MAIN ONE, AND EVEN IF YOU CONSIDER IT OF LESS IMPORTANCE.
As well as this, please describe any traumatic incidents that have taken place in your life. Discuss anything that has had a lasting impact on you mentally, emotionally or physically.
Discuss the way that you manage or deal with your problems, or any problems that occur in your life.
Discuss any patterns you have noticed in your behavior.
Discuss any part of your life where you feel stuck or unable to change and grow.
Describe your childhood and the kind of environment you grew up in, with reference to your relationships with your family, your school experiences, and any serious childhood diseases.
If your earlier discussions have not mentioned these already, please describe:
1. The specific foods that you crave (not just like) or hate
2. The specific drinks that you crave or hate
3. What your sleep is like
4. How the weather and the temperature affects you
5. What kinds of things in the environment you are particularly sensitive to
6. What your general level of energy is like
7. What your level of sexual energy or desire is like
Children's Questions:
1. What occured to the mother during pregnancy - new symptoms, illnesses, medical treatments, emotional stresses.
2. What problems occured during the birth?
3. What was happening in the mother's life around the time of conception?
4. What illnesses did both parents have for the 5 years or so preceding conception?
5. Describe the following features of the child
a) Body type and build
b) Skin colour and texture
c) Areas of the body tends to perspire on
d) Odour of sweat, body, stool, flatus, urine
e) Colour of stool, urine, sweat
6. Give any reactions to vaccines or medical drugs.
David Kempson
Professional Homoeopath
I treat pregnant or nursing women frequently - I rarely see any issue with the baby aggravating on the remedy the mother takes. The dose merely needs to be adjusted to make it as gentle as possible.
If you want advice about which remedy to take I am happy to do that for you.
GUIDELINES FOR GIVING HOMOEOPATHIC CASE INFORMATION
It is important to describe all your problems in as much detail as you are able. One word answers and short sentences are not particularly helpful. Discuss each problem one at a time, providing (as a minimum level of detail) the following information.
1. What exactly happens?
2. Describe all sensations and pains. Each pain or sensation should be described in such a way that allows us to imagine having the same pain.
3. What causes the problem to get worse after it has started occurring?
4. What creates some relief for the problem?
5. What triggers the problem into occuring?
6. What time of the day or night does the problem occur?
7. When did the problem start? What was happening in your life at that time? Did some specific event or treatment take place just before the problem started?
Move from one problem to the next, doing the same thing. IT IS VITAL THAT YOU GIVE A COMPLETE PICTURE OF YOUR HEALTH BY PROVIDING ALL PROBLEMS YOU HAVE, EVEN IF NOT CONNECTED TO THE MAIN ONE, AND EVEN IF YOU CONSIDER IT OF LESS IMPORTANCE.
As well as this, please describe any traumatic incidents that have taken place in your life. Discuss anything that has had a lasting impact on you mentally, emotionally or physically.
Discuss the way that you manage or deal with your problems, or any problems that occur in your life.
Discuss any patterns you have noticed in your behavior.
Discuss any part of your life where you feel stuck or unable to change and grow.
Describe your childhood and the kind of environment you grew up in, with reference to your relationships with your family, your school experiences, and any serious childhood diseases.
If your earlier discussions have not mentioned these already, please describe:
1. The specific foods that you crave (not just like) or hate
2. The specific drinks that you crave or hate
3. What your sleep is like
4. How the weather and the temperature affects you
5. What kinds of things in the environment you are particularly sensitive to
6. What your general level of energy is like
7. What your level of sexual energy or desire is like
Children's Questions:
1. What occured to the mother during pregnancy - new symptoms, illnesses, medical treatments, emotional stresses.
2. What problems occured during the birth?
3. What was happening in the mother's life around the time of conception?
4. What illnesses did both parents have for the 5 years or so preceding conception?
5. Describe the following features of the child
a) Body type and build
b) Skin colour and texture
c) Areas of the body tends to perspire on
d) Odour of sweat, body, stool, flatus, urine
e) Colour of stool, urine, sweat
6. Give any reactions to vaccines or medical drugs.
David Kempson
Professional Homoeopath
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
I will do my best to answer your questions. Talking about it actually aggravates it:
1. What exactly happens?
I get a sharp shooting pain along my right cheekbone. Sometimes it feel like fire, other times like someone is ripping my cheekbone apart. Sometimes it radiates into my teeth, or chin or temple or nose. It usually makes my nose run. Sometimes I can feel it coming, sometimes it happens suddenly.
2. Describe all sensations and pains. Each pain or sensation should be described in such a way that allows us to imagine having the same pain.
See the answer to 1.
3. What causes the problem to get worse after it has started occurring?
Emotional stress, cold, wind, touching any part of the right side of my head, neck, chest. Eating, drinking brushing teeth, talking.
4. What creates some relief for the problem?
pushing on it sometimes helps. i took mag phos for a while starting Oct 2009 and it relieved my symptoms until Dec, but I was in a stressful family situation and it all come back.
5. What triggers the problem into occuring?
Emotional stress
6. What time of the day or night does the problem occur?
worse during the day, although sometimes it occurs while I sleep also.
7. When did the problem start? What was happening in your life at that time? Did some specific event or treatment take place just before the problem started?
I was in a car accident in Nov 1998. I think this caused the initial trauma. I was broadsided on the left side (I was driving). At the time, I had extreme pain to the right jaw and had to hold my jaw shut with my hand for about a week. Since then, I;ve had points in my lumbar that feel like bruises. In May 2007, was the first acute attack, although thinking back, I had been having occasional sharp pains in my teeth for over a year. At this point in my life I was extremely angry about an unfinished house project started by my husband. It started in Aug 2004 and basically left a huge mess in the house. That project led to many other unfinished projects over the years so that now we basically live in a state of constant remodeling, but little to no progress is made. It's all a huge mess and I hate it. I'm not angry anymore, but I am anxious and depressed about it. The mess is so big, it's overwhelming and hard to do anything about it. My family hates my husband because of the house and what they believe it has done to me, so I'm stuck in the middle. For the most part, he's been very good with them anyway. I'm embarrassed to have anyone over. I've lost over 40 lbs since becoming pregnant in May. I'm still losing weight. At least I'm not obese anymore, not even overweight. My body looks like a deflated balloon and I've lost a lot of muscle.
After my oldest daughter was born (July 2004) I was basically taking care of everything myself (new baby, job, cooking, housework, yardwork, etc) and my husband was doing very little. This has changed tremendously, especially in the last 6 months or so. Now my husband is doing all the housework, cooking, taking care of my older daughter, homeschooling her. I've been basically incapacitated by pain since the end of Sept. It seems that any time I even think about cleaning up or doing something with my daughter, I get extremely anxious. It feels like there is some sort of psychological issue because my feelings seem unrealistic. It's as if that time in my life created an emotional trauma that I'm having trouble dealing with.
I don't deal well with issues and problems. I don't handle stress well. I tend to bottle things up and try to talk myself into believing that everything is ok. I'm a 'stuffer'. I've stuffed my feelings and problems all my life. I'm a people pleaser, i don't want anyone upset with me. I was always the 'good girl' so no one would be disappointed in me. I've always been overweight (until now), using food as a comforter. I've always been embarrassed by my weight and felt judged because of it, especially by my dad and first stepmom.
Growing up, I dealt with a lot of divorce. I grew up with my dad. I was always a daddy's girl. He and my mother divorced when I was 3. He married my first stepmom when I was 4. I hated her and her son, they scared me. She was much more strict and stern than my mom. My stepfather was jailed for fondling me when I was 7. They blamed my mom for knowing and not saying anything, but I know she didn't know. Her visitation was severely restricted and she stopped coming. I didn't see her from age 8-12. When I was 10, my dad divorced stepmom 1 and married stepmom 2, but he left me with stepmom 1 because she basically blackmailed him if he took me with him. I stayed with her for 2 years without my dad. Then I went to live with him and stepmom 2, but stepmom 1 had spent the last 2 years poisoning me against her, so I didn't want to move and hated her and her daughter. She was very good to me and eventually I came to love her. She convinced me to renew contact with my mom when I was 12. When I was 20, my dad left her for a much younger woman. She's 7 years older than me. I was very upset because I was really close to stepmom 2 by this time. I've come to love stepmom 3 as well, she's really good to my dad. I can't call her a stepmom, though, she's my dad's wife. I've maintained a relationship with both ex-stepmoms. Stepmom 1, my mom, my dad and I all live in the same general vicinity. It was always hard dividing my time between everyone.
My dad was gone a lot. When married to stepmom 1, he went on lots of business trips. I think that he really didn't like her and tried to be gone as much as possible. When married to stepmom 2, they owned a restaurant so he didn't come home until late at night.
Also this year, I've been dealing with a huge change in my spiritual life. It's caused a lot of strife in my family, they don't agree at all. Since I'm such a people pleaser, it's been very hard for me to deal with.
I was always a very good student. I got lots of praise and attention when I did well, especially by my dad. I did get picked on some because of my weight. I never had a boyfriend until college. I was always very shy, although not so much anymore. I am still very insecure and struggle with worrying about what people think of me. It's very easy to make me feel guilty, even if you aren't trying. I feel really sad about my relationship with my oldest daughter right now. We were always together, she was stuck to my hip until this latest bout of pain. I'm not as patient, I can't smile much, I say what I need to say in as few words as possible or using hand gestures. Now, I have a newborn and pain so it's even worse.
1. The specific foods that you crave (not just like) or hate
I crave ice cream and sweets in general.
2. The specific drinks that you crave or hate
milk, sometimes coffee
3. What your sleep is like
I have a newborn! but otherwise, it's usually ok. I can't lay on my right side and sometimes not on my left either.
4. How the weather and the temperature affects you
cold and wind are hard on me. they can induce a 'spasm'
5. What kinds of things in the environment you are particularly sensitive to
bright sun
6. What your general level of energy is like
low, haven't moved or eaten much in months
7. What your level of sexual energy or desire is like
little to none.
Children's Questions:
1. What occured to the mother during pregnancy - new symptoms, illnesses, medical treatments, emotional stresses.
THe latest bout of pain started in Sept (about 4 months into pregnancy) after my husband insisted that I deliver the baby at home. I was very scared about that. Eventually, though, I was ok with it and even excited. I was just very afraid of being in pain while in labor and while taking care of the baby. I had some spasms during labor, but they didn't really affect me. I've had lots of pain with the baby, but I can manage. My husband has been very helpful (completely the opposite of how he was with the first baby), which has helped my state a lot.
2. What problems occured during the birth?
I had a few spasms, but otherwise, no problems. However, I didn't feel like I was as in control with the second like I was with the first (labor was very different with the second, much more intense). This caused me some guilt.
3. What was happening in the mother's life around the time of conception?
changes in my spiritual life.
4. What illnesses did both parents have for the 5 years or so preceding conception?
I also have hypertension, otherwise nothing.
5. Describe the following features of the child
a) Body type and build -- newborn
b) Skin colour and texture -- fair complexion, she's still peeling from birth
c) Areas of the body tends to perspire on -- head
d) Odour of sweat, body, stool, flatus, urine -- nothing unusual
e) Colour of stool, urine, sweat -- stool is mustard yellow (breastfed)
6. Give any reactions to vaccines or medical drugs. -- not had any so none
1. What exactly happens?
I get a sharp shooting pain along my right cheekbone. Sometimes it feel like fire, other times like someone is ripping my cheekbone apart. Sometimes it radiates into my teeth, or chin or temple or nose. It usually makes my nose run. Sometimes I can feel it coming, sometimes it happens suddenly.
2. Describe all sensations and pains. Each pain or sensation should be described in such a way that allows us to imagine having the same pain.
See the answer to 1.
3. What causes the problem to get worse after it has started occurring?
Emotional stress, cold, wind, touching any part of the right side of my head, neck, chest. Eating, drinking brushing teeth, talking.
4. What creates some relief for the problem?
pushing on it sometimes helps. i took mag phos for a while starting Oct 2009 and it relieved my symptoms until Dec, but I was in a stressful family situation and it all come back.
5. What triggers the problem into occuring?
Emotional stress
6. What time of the day or night does the problem occur?
worse during the day, although sometimes it occurs while I sleep also.
7. When did the problem start? What was happening in your life at that time? Did some specific event or treatment take place just before the problem started?
I was in a car accident in Nov 1998. I think this caused the initial trauma. I was broadsided on the left side (I was driving). At the time, I had extreme pain to the right jaw and had to hold my jaw shut with my hand for about a week. Since then, I;ve had points in my lumbar that feel like bruises. In May 2007, was the first acute attack, although thinking back, I had been having occasional sharp pains in my teeth for over a year. At this point in my life I was extremely angry about an unfinished house project started by my husband. It started in Aug 2004 and basically left a huge mess in the house. That project led to many other unfinished projects over the years so that now we basically live in a state of constant remodeling, but little to no progress is made. It's all a huge mess and I hate it. I'm not angry anymore, but I am anxious and depressed about it. The mess is so big, it's overwhelming and hard to do anything about it. My family hates my husband because of the house and what they believe it has done to me, so I'm stuck in the middle. For the most part, he's been very good with them anyway. I'm embarrassed to have anyone over. I've lost over 40 lbs since becoming pregnant in May. I'm still losing weight. At least I'm not obese anymore, not even overweight. My body looks like a deflated balloon and I've lost a lot of muscle.
After my oldest daughter was born (July 2004) I was basically taking care of everything myself (new baby, job, cooking, housework, yardwork, etc) and my husband was doing very little. This has changed tremendously, especially in the last 6 months or so. Now my husband is doing all the housework, cooking, taking care of my older daughter, homeschooling her. I've been basically incapacitated by pain since the end of Sept. It seems that any time I even think about cleaning up or doing something with my daughter, I get extremely anxious. It feels like there is some sort of psychological issue because my feelings seem unrealistic. It's as if that time in my life created an emotional trauma that I'm having trouble dealing with.
I don't deal well with issues and problems. I don't handle stress well. I tend to bottle things up and try to talk myself into believing that everything is ok. I'm a 'stuffer'. I've stuffed my feelings and problems all my life. I'm a people pleaser, i don't want anyone upset with me. I was always the 'good girl' so no one would be disappointed in me. I've always been overweight (until now), using food as a comforter. I've always been embarrassed by my weight and felt judged because of it, especially by my dad and first stepmom.
Growing up, I dealt with a lot of divorce. I grew up with my dad. I was always a daddy's girl. He and my mother divorced when I was 3. He married my first stepmom when I was 4. I hated her and her son, they scared me. She was much more strict and stern than my mom. My stepfather was jailed for fondling me when I was 7. They blamed my mom for knowing and not saying anything, but I know she didn't know. Her visitation was severely restricted and she stopped coming. I didn't see her from age 8-12. When I was 10, my dad divorced stepmom 1 and married stepmom 2, but he left me with stepmom 1 because she basically blackmailed him if he took me with him. I stayed with her for 2 years without my dad. Then I went to live with him and stepmom 2, but stepmom 1 had spent the last 2 years poisoning me against her, so I didn't want to move and hated her and her daughter. She was very good to me and eventually I came to love her. She convinced me to renew contact with my mom when I was 12. When I was 20, my dad left her for a much younger woman. She's 7 years older than me. I was very upset because I was really close to stepmom 2 by this time. I've come to love stepmom 3 as well, she's really good to my dad. I can't call her a stepmom, though, she's my dad's wife. I've maintained a relationship with both ex-stepmoms. Stepmom 1, my mom, my dad and I all live in the same general vicinity. It was always hard dividing my time between everyone.
My dad was gone a lot. When married to stepmom 1, he went on lots of business trips. I think that he really didn't like her and tried to be gone as much as possible. When married to stepmom 2, they owned a restaurant so he didn't come home until late at night.
Also this year, I've been dealing with a huge change in my spiritual life. It's caused a lot of strife in my family, they don't agree at all. Since I'm such a people pleaser, it's been very hard for me to deal with.
I was always a very good student. I got lots of praise and attention when I did well, especially by my dad. I did get picked on some because of my weight. I never had a boyfriend until college. I was always very shy, although not so much anymore. I am still very insecure and struggle with worrying about what people think of me. It's very easy to make me feel guilty, even if you aren't trying. I feel really sad about my relationship with my oldest daughter right now. We were always together, she was stuck to my hip until this latest bout of pain. I'm not as patient, I can't smile much, I say what I need to say in as few words as possible or using hand gestures. Now, I have a newborn and pain so it's even worse.
1. The specific foods that you crave (not just like) or hate
I crave ice cream and sweets in general.
2. The specific drinks that you crave or hate
milk, sometimes coffee
3. What your sleep is like
I have a newborn! but otherwise, it's usually ok. I can't lay on my right side and sometimes not on my left either.
4. How the weather and the temperature affects you
cold and wind are hard on me. they can induce a 'spasm'
5. What kinds of things in the environment you are particularly sensitive to
bright sun
6. What your general level of energy is like
low, haven't moved or eaten much in months
7. What your level of sexual energy or desire is like
little to none.
Children's Questions:
1. What occured to the mother during pregnancy - new symptoms, illnesses, medical treatments, emotional stresses.
THe latest bout of pain started in Sept (about 4 months into pregnancy) after my husband insisted that I deliver the baby at home. I was very scared about that. Eventually, though, I was ok with it and even excited. I was just very afraid of being in pain while in labor and while taking care of the baby. I had some spasms during labor, but they didn't really affect me. I've had lots of pain with the baby, but I can manage. My husband has been very helpful (completely the opposite of how he was with the first baby), which has helped my state a lot.
2. What problems occured during the birth?
I had a few spasms, but otherwise, no problems. However, I didn't feel like I was as in control with the second like I was with the first (labor was very different with the second, much more intense). This caused me some guilt.
3. What was happening in the mother's life around the time of conception?
changes in my spiritual life.
4. What illnesses did both parents have for the 5 years or so preceding conception?
I also have hypertension, otherwise nothing.
5. Describe the following features of the child
a) Body type and build -- newborn
b) Skin colour and texture -- fair complexion, she's still peeling from birth
c) Areas of the body tends to perspire on -- head
d) Odour of sweat, body, stool, flatus, urine -- nothing unusual
e) Colour of stool, urine, sweat -- stool is mustard yellow (breastfed)
6. Give any reactions to vaccines or medical drugs. -- not had any so none
ncrespo last decade
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