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gavinimurthy - please help with antidoting nux, i am desperate
hi dr. murthy, i read one of your posts that was extensive on how to anti-dote with the same remedy. i apologize to everyone else, because i know i've already posted a couple different places about my problem, but i'm pretty desperate and my homeopathy is busy and i won't be able to meet with her until the 18th.a quick overview: i had a stomach virus three years ago and was diagnosed with gastroparesis soon after, which is basically a paralyzed stomach and extra-hypersensitivity along the digestive tract. i lost 40 pounds initially and struggle to maintain weight. my main symptom WOULD BE retching and dry heaving all day long, except for the fact that i have learned to suppress the urge while simultaneously going about the day for long periods of time. it is very stressful, but i do this mainly because i am terrified of vomiting - however, even when i 'let go' of my hold on the urge and i start retching, i usually don't ever feel sick or nauseous like i'm going to throw up. it's just dry heaves without any sick feeling.
the first time i ever felt close to being 'cured' was the first time i took nux vomica 30c - within seconds, the urge to retch and heave went away, and my stomach and body relaxed, and i started to 'feel' like i was going to be sick - a great feeling in retrospect, but i panicked and spit out the remedy because of my vomiting fear.
since then, every single dose of nux i have taken has failed to make me feel as 'good' as the first. i have extreme sensitivity to remedies and anti-dotes. i started out taking 1 dose of nux 30c a day, but quickly realized i was anti-doting (or at least i thought i was) every time i washed my hands or flossed my teeth. so i started repeating nux, trying different potencies, different remedies like they were candy. i knew this wasn't the right way to do homeopathy, but i literally couldn't help myself - i was in such a state of stress and anxiety due to the constant retching and heaving that i wanted it to be over with. i've tried 6c, 30c, 200c, 1m, 10m, LM3, LM4, etc...all kinds of remedies too, arsenic, lycopodium, argentum, natrum, cocculus, vespa, etc.
the last few months i've only been taking LM4 that my homeopath prescribed me, and i'm noticing now that the first 8-10 hours of the day, i am in a state of 'paralysis' - the entire left side of my body is numb - nothing on that side seems to be active, including my brain. i am in a state of 'fog' and confusion, like i'm not even really alive. i can go about doing things, but it's like i'm trapped inside my brain without being able to think my own thoughts or breath. usually near the end of the day, the paralysis in the left side of my body starts to 'melt' and i regain feeling in my brain, stomach, everything. i can then think again, i am aware of the world around me, the fog is lifted so to speak.
i am very, very confused as to whether this is a symptom of my gastroparesis, which is a form of paralysis, or a symptom of the nux. i have been keeping a record of the last week or so, and it seems that on days that i take nux, when the 'fog lifts' and i regain 'consciousness', there is usually a wonderful release of emotions and stress and crying. it's like i'm human again, waking up and my body has all these things stored up that just needed to be released but couldn't due to the paralysis. so far, i've only had this privilege on the days i've taken nux.
i am positive that this 'paralysis' is somehow 'shutting down' my body's actions, because for the last few days around the 8-10 hour mark when the fog is lifted, i've noticed an aggravation return from a remedy called vespa i took a week ago (my legs start to go numb). it's like my body and mind don't even 'work' until the evening.
i've tried all kinds of different dilutions, potencies, and ways of dosing with nux to permanently anti-dote the nux, but they don't seem to do it - most of the time, they actually immediately start to aggravate (the retching becomes very strong, my body goes into stronger paralysis, i can't think) - they even aggravate after i do a 'muscle test' and my body shows that it will make me strong. when i feel aggravated i will go for coffee grounds or camphor and i feel a little bit better.
i just want this feeling of paralysis to go away during the day, because like i said, it's like i'm not even alive. it's like i'm trapped, my body and brain are turned off, and i don't even realize it until 8-10 hours after i get up and the paralysis goes away. again, i'm just not sure if it's from my disease or my provings - if it is from the proving, then i have no idea how to anti-dote. if it's from the disease, then i feel like nux is correct, but i just can't find a way to take it without it aggravating - i can't even touch a bottle without feeling a 'rush'. i'm so sensitive that i feel a change in my energy even touching different foods.
i am so sorry this is so long, i hope you get a chance to read it - also, i would like to say thanks again to brisbanehomeopath for helping me some already with this issue. i'm just very impatient and frustrated because this is absolute hell for me, and am doing all i can to try and figure this out.
thanks so much -
dan
ddollar on 2011-11-02
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
Murthy does occasionally make an appearance here, although it is rare nowadays (which is a great shame).
There is one way to antidote, and one way only.
The correct remedy must be given for the state you are in.
I am not sure why you refuse to believe this.
Looking for shortcuts is going to put you in a worse situation. Why do you insist on trying strategies that clearly are not working?
Homoeopathy only ever works, when you use the basic homoeopathic principle - like cures like. There is no homoeopathy without it. Trying to get around that, trying to make our medicines work like herbs or orthodox medicine, is a sure recipe for failure and frustation on your part. And all the while you waste your time this way, your internal disease, your miasm, is eating away at your life.
Nux is the wrong remedy. You have damaged your health with it. The right remedy must be found.
I appreciate you expressing thanks, but it seems an odd form of thanks to let me do all that work on your case and then refuse to follow through. Why exactly do you not trust me?
[message edited by brisbanehomoeopath on Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:36:58 GMT]
There is one way to antidote, and one way only.
The correct remedy must be given for the state you are in.
I am not sure why you refuse to believe this.
Looking for shortcuts is going to put you in a worse situation. Why do you insist on trying strategies that clearly are not working?
Homoeopathy only ever works, when you use the basic homoeopathic principle - like cures like. There is no homoeopathy without it. Trying to get around that, trying to make our medicines work like herbs or orthodox medicine, is a sure recipe for failure and frustation on your part. And all the while you waste your time this way, your internal disease, your miasm, is eating away at your life.
Nux is the wrong remedy. You have damaged your health with it. The right remedy must be found.
I appreciate you expressing thanks, but it seems an odd form of thanks to let me do all that work on your case and then refuse to follow through. Why exactly do you not trust me?
[message edited by brisbanehomoeopath on Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:36:58 GMT]
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
it's hard to explain, but basically like i said, i can't help myself to keep searching - in my paralysis state i can't control my actions - it is complete and utter hell what i am going through, and there are a few different opinions on the matter. it is not that i don't trust you, it's that i am so impatient that my actions are beyond my control it seems like.
i did try the vespa, the only thing i seemed to get from that was numb arms and legs. but if is the right remedy, it should work given time shouldn't it? i am still experiencing the numb arms and legs from it, maybe i just have to wait until they go away before we try again?
sorry, i don't mean to be a pain, but it literally seems like something that is out of my control, especially during the day. it's like my brain is broken. i know that the nux took away my retching and heaving once, and that is the main symptom that torments me, and i just want to be relieved of it.
thanks again for your help -
dan
i did try the vespa, the only thing i seemed to get from that was numb arms and legs. but if is the right remedy, it should work given time shouldn't it? i am still experiencing the numb arms and legs from it, maybe i just have to wait until they go away before we try again?
sorry, i don't mean to be a pain, but it literally seems like something that is out of my control, especially during the day. it's like my brain is broken. i know that the nux took away my retching and heaving once, and that is the main symptom that torments me, and i just want to be relieved of it.
thanks again for your help -
dan
ddollar last decade
i am just now remembering what you said about remedies that temporarily relieve symptoms, but over time if they're not correct they can create palliation or suppression or whatever, but during the day, and up until about this time, my brain is just so broken that that wouldn't even cross my mind.
i can even see things staring me right in the face during the day, but i don't even process them. like, i'll have a reminder in my e-mail to take the dog for a walk, but for some reason my mind just can't accept or process that i should go do that. i don't know if it's anxiety, the paralysis, or what. it's very confusing to me, i wonder if i have to work so hard holding in the retching that my brain just shuts down over time.
i told my homeopath/psychologist, it's the feeling as if you have to be sick, but someone has a gun pointed to your head all day long and is going to shoot you if you let go of your control over your stomach. it's unbelievable stress, and i think my cognitive skills suffer for it.
i can even see things staring me right in the face during the day, but i don't even process them. like, i'll have a reminder in my e-mail to take the dog for a walk, but for some reason my mind just can't accept or process that i should go do that. i don't know if it's anxiety, the paralysis, or what. it's very confusing to me, i wonder if i have to work so hard holding in the retching that my brain just shuts down over time.
i told my homeopath/psychologist, it's the feeling as if you have to be sick, but someone has a gun pointed to your head all day long and is going to shoot you if you let go of your control over your stomach. it's unbelievable stress, and i think my cognitive skills suffer for it.
ddollar last decade
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