Please help

I notice that you have posted your case earlier which I had agreed to help you with, but for some reason I lost track of it. It may have been a time when I was offline. I am still willing to help you if you wish, and can only apologise for not responding on that last post.

Are you still suffering from all the same symptoms (menopausal, depression, stress etc)?

take conium-cm 1dose ,morning in empty stomach

after 15 days take-
graphites-10 m 1dose fortnightly repeat both medicines regular 3 month
an report me

hi
thank you for your prompt reply. i went back to doublecheck my original post to you, and i need to clarify a few very important facts since then.
first of all, i went to a homeopath and he gave me sanguaria 200 and lachesis 200. very shortly afterwards, all my warts cleared up and they are completely healed. very happy about that. also, my night sweats and hot flashes during the day also subsided.
everything else is same - feeling very down and depressed. and my new hormonal situation is not getting my period for 5 months, and now getting is 2 months in a row, and feeling very bad breast pain and swelling.
does this information change my remedy? i am sorry for the confusion but it was awhile since a originally posted to you.
thank you

i did not realise and i thought i was addressing dr brisbane, who orignally answered me but was not. i guess it doesn't matter anyway.
please reply, thank you

Ok let me look over that old information and I will get back to you.

I was only able to find conium 200 ch and graphite 1M. Can I convert these preparations to the suggested dose?
I also have chronic right lower back pain - feels like its in my right pelvis bone. Recently much worse & burns. Its releived w heating pad & hot baths. Aggravated by cold. I take daily allopathic pain killers as the pain is sometimes unbearable.

I can no longer find your original thread with your case details on it. Without that I cannot make a prescription here. What happened to that thread?

From noosheen ?

on 2011-07-24

menopause symptoms + warts+ fluid retention

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i have been having very bad night sweats and hot flashes during the day for the past 2 months. also, i have had warts on my fingers and hands for the past 10 months. i was given thuja 200 to take for the warts but it did not work. then i was given sepia 200 and natrum mur 200 for the warts and the menopausal symptoms, which also did not work?
i also feel like i am retaining fluid - my fingers are swollen and i am more puffy all over my body.
please recommend something!
thank you

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Re: menopause symptoms + warts+ fluid retention

From brisbanehomoeopath

on 2011-07-25

I am happy to take on your case if you wish, but you would need to give your symptoms in a more ordered fashion. If you are willing to do that, please answer the questions on my intake form.

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.

Please do not answer each of the following questions by placing all your problems in each one. Each of these questions needs to be answered for each problem eg. For you headaches answer 1-7, then for your reflux answer 1-7 and so on.

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 occurring?
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. You should address each problem separately using the above 7 questions as a guide.

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 especially concerning your disease.

Discuss any part of your life where you feel stuck or unable to change and grow, especially where this occurred around the beginning of your disease, or as the disease evolved.

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. Your parents may need to help you answer these questions.

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
8. Describe your menstrual cycle

I will probably have more questions for you after that.

I also need to know what homoeopathic remedies you have taken in the past, and what the results were.


David Kempson
Professional Homoeopath

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Re: menopause symptoms + warts+ fluid retention

From noosheen

on 2011-07-29

thank you for replying.
i will try to give as much detail as i can about my problems. i will separate each condition:
Menopausal symptoms:

I began having hot flashes and night sweats about 2 months after i had an iud (intrauterine device for birth control) placed in me with the hormone progesterone it is called a Mirena Iud. This took place in April of 2008 and i was 42 years old at the time. I have 4 children, with ages ranging from 25 down to 6 years old - the youngest was diagnosed with autism when he was 2.5 years. Up until then, i always used a copper IUD for birth control but my doctor suggested that the Mirena was much better and that there were no side effects. also, i need to say that i am the youngest girl of 4 daughters, all of which still menstruate, and my mother stopped getting her period when she was in her mid fifties. 2 months after the iud was put in me, i began to have hot flashes and night sweats, and did not know what was happening to me. i got a blood test which confirmed that i was in the post menopausal range!! 2 months prior to that i would have been able to conceive a baby if i wanted to. i was the one who made the association of the iud with the progesterone with the menopause. my doctor refused to believe me. i suffered with very bad symptoms, and also gained about 10 pounds, and could not lose it no matter how hard i tried. my periods also stopped. after i insisted that i wanted the iud removed, she did, after 8 months. 2 days after, i got a period, and my symptoms subsided. i got another blood test which stated that my hormone levels were back to normal. since that time, i have been having these problems every few months. i can go for 4 months menstruating and then suddenly, my period will stop and i get very bad hot flashes and night sweats, which are happening right now. the night sweats are getting very bad and waking me up 4-5 times per night. they are random with no contributing factors, like the hot flashes during the day. they come on suddenly. i also feel like i am retaining fluid and i think it must be related to the hormone imbalance. i exercise by swimming 2-3 times per week and do yoga once per week. i was taking Sepia 200 cc and natrum mur 200 for this but i don't think it is helping anymore. maybe it helped a little when i first started taking them.

WARTS:

i got a wart about a year ago on one finger and went to dermatologist to have it removed. she did cryotherapy, but i think she spread it, b/c after the wart looked like it was healing, there were also 5-6 in it's place. also i have 2 on both my thumbs. i was given thuja 200 pellets and liquid, which did not help. after i was given the natrum mur but they are still very bad. they are growing much bigger than before. they are flat, and itchy/burning.

PAIN KILLERS

I have had lower back pain for approx. 3 years, and i have been taking pain killers for that problem daily. it began shortly after the IUD was inserted and i have tried many remedies to cure it ie. massage, chiropractor, lazer therapy, acupuncture. just recently the swimming is helping but i still feel the need to take these pain killers daily.


my life generally is very stressful, with my 4th child on the autistic spectrum. he has taken alot out of me in the past 6 years. Also, my husband is out of steady employment for the past year or so, which also contributes to stress a great deal. i also quite depressed of late, and i don't know if this is related to my hormones or my stressful life. i do not enjoy the things i used to and don't want to partake in very much. i grew up in a very strict household and was very scared of my father. my mother was very passive and was also a victim of his abuse. She passed away in november of 2009. he did abuse me and my siblings verbally and physically. We were not allowed to show any emotion growing up and were stifled. i got married when i was 19 years old.

Foods i like are sweets, after a meal, especially dinner meal. i do prefer sweet over salty foods. i prefer to drink water and most of the time drink water over soft drinks, although sometimes i drink the occasional coke. i don't drink much coffee, and i prefer tea over coffee.

i am not a good sleeper, even before these menopause symptoms, meaning i am a very light sleeper and wake up very easily to noise. i wear earplugs every night.

i prefer the hot weather to cold, except lately when i get a hot flash during the day, i need the cold fan on me.
my general level of energy is ok, but since i am not sleeping well, i am not feeling as good as i usually do.
sexually, i think i am ok, i have no complaints regarding that.

thank you for reading this very long reply and i look forward to hearing from you soon,
noosheen



also, i forgot to say, i have very bad cellulite on my thighs. i have noticed that it has gotten worse over the past 2 years or so.
[message edited by noosheen on Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:38:52 BST]

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From noosheen

on 2011-07-31

please reply! i an suffering so much!

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From noosheen

i copied and pasted my original post, but please note my post that i wrote on november 28th, and how my warts healed and my menopausal symptoms subsided from lachesis and sangunaria.
i have general muscle soreness and feel a constant ache in my shoulders, neck, arms, and lower back.

i finished my period 2 weeks ago, and my breasts are so swollen and painful already.

There are two different posters here. Are Zoopa and Nosheen the same person?

Yes so sorry for the confusion. I changed my user name b/c my posts were getting very personal & I didn't want anyone to recognize my name.

Yes so sorry for the confusion. My posts were getting verypersonal

Do u have any recommendations for me? I'm feeling very depressed already

Ok then we need to expand and clarify the symptoms you have mentioned.

Give more detailed explanations of each symptom in this list, giving as a minimum of detail

1. What exactly happens, what does it feel like, describe the sensation or pain so that I could imagine having it.

2. What makes it worse

3. What makes it better

4. What appears to trigger it

5. What symptoms occur just before, just after, or at the same time as it.

Hot flashes

Lower back pain

Stressful life

Depressed

Light sleeper

Also, please describe how your upbringing feels to have affected you as an adult.


It appears that you have been given what I call 'lazy' homoeopathy so far - remedies given for general complaints rather than the symptoms. To get genuine cure real effort must be made to choose a medicine from the thousands we have with some precision.

Ok thank u I will try to explain as well as I could.
1.Hot flashes have subsided due to the 2 homeopathic remedies that I was taking which I mentioned already. Now instead my periods are very regular the past 3 cycles & the breast pain & swelling does not subside after I finish bleeding as it should. I feel like I still have hormones inside me which I cannot release monthly - as if they are building up & staying in me.

2. My right sided lower back pain started about the same time as I got the IUD with progesterone in me in april of '08. (I gave detailed report of that in my previous post). It is worse when in a sitting position ie. Driving a car or when getting up in the morning. It is a sharp pain that I feel ALL the time. Temporarily releived by stretching the muscle. I am on daily allopathic pain medication for it.
I need to state that I think I have an addictive type of personality. I am addicted to diet pills, pills with caffiene, (if I don't take them I keep getting headaches). Diet pills are not helping me lose weight anymore but I take them for energy. But I don't have any energy but am scared to stop taking them cz when I did stop in the past I gained weight from eating almost nothing! I feel like I am stuck & don't know what to do. I feel very unwell most of the day ie. Very achy all over, have frequent headaches all day, no energy, feeling depressed about my life.

My life right now I can divide into 3 main stresses:
- my 7 year old autistic son. He is the youngest of 4 kids. My husband did not want another child but I insisted & stopped taking my birth control & got pregnant. My husband was very upset throughout my whole pregnancy & I was so sad about that. I was also on diet pills when pregnant with ephedrine. Could not stop. After baby was born my husband was very happy & changed his attitude but baby was difficult & crying non stop in the beginning & I became so angry at him & disgusted with myself. Why did I insist on having another child & now I could not manage him? His behaviour became so difficult & he would cry, tantrum, meltdown when other children his age were not doing this. He was diagnosed with autism at age 2.5 years.

2. I have an 18 year old son who was diagnosed with bipolar this past summer. I also had to stop working at around the same time as my boss became ill & I got laid off. My time now is spent being around the house caring for my son right now. I like being w pple & miss getting out of the house every day.

3. Financially very hard for my family right now. I am not working & my husband does not make much money either.

Regarding my childhood, I am the youngrst of 6. Very bad growing up. My mother was always depressed & on many medications. My father very abusive physically & emotionally. But I think was the worst was that my mother got very sick after I was born & almost died of toxemia. I always felt that my father blamed me for her sickness & wished I wasn't born. I felt like I had no existence & I did not matter at all to him. He even admitted it to my sister so I know its true. He always put value in how someone looks on the outside & not how they really are. I think that's why I'm obsessed with wanting to be thin no matter what the cost.
Right now in my daily life I feel like I am depleted of energy& happinwess. Maybe I feel like I deserve all the pain I feel - physically with my achess & back pain & emotionally. I don't know what it feels like to feel good & healthy.
I also take sleeping pills nightly .
I have given u so much information! Maybe I expect too much from homeopathy!

Atten dr brisbane: Do u need more info from me still?

i wanted to add a few things that i have been thinking about since i last posted.
you said that it looked like i had been treated with 'lazy homeopathy' from what was recommended to me from other practitioners, one of the remedies that was suggested to me was conium. i did some reading about it, and i found myself identifying with it, especially the part where it stated that the person has one part of her life that is unwell and the rest of her life seems to function just fine. i seem to be like that - all the pain and suffering that i am enduring one would never tell by looking at me that there is anything wrong with me at all. i look well, healthy, am attractive (although i have put on about 10 pounds in the last few months with i can't seem to lose), but then i keep a side to myself that is very unhappy and painful.
physically, i mentioned already that i have so much muscle soreness in my shoulders, arms, neck. today i am in so much discomfort that when i do a little housework, i need to lie down to rest. when i rub my own muscles in my arms, it releives my pain a little. deep massage is very comforting for me. i feel like i have inflammation in my body. i really suffer in private and my family, including my husband does not know the extent of my pain.
another issue is my addiction to pain medication. my constant headaches. i wake up with them, and immediately need to take a pain killer. i take many throughout the day, and i don't feel that they are working anymore. i still feel pain in my temples constantly which makes me very tired also.

i don't find myself enjoying my life anymore. i seldom want the company of others, and would rather just stay home. on the rare occasion when i do go out and socialize, i don't enjoy myself like i used to. this started when my 7 year old son was born and going out with him was very difficult b/c of his constant crying and meltdowns. because of that i just avoided situations where i would have to socialize and go out, and eventually stay home most of the time. now i would prefer to stay home, even though he is much better. in my younger years i was a very fun loving, sociable girl, and i find everything so meaningless and false when i mingle with people. i think everyone is just putting on a mask.

i know what i need to do to get healthy and feel well - eat a balanced diet, stop taking the pills etc. but as soon as i start doing something good for myself, i sabatoge what i know i should do, and fail. what is wrong with me? why do i feel like i need to suffer so?

Ok you haven't really answered the questions I posed.

You need to describe the symptoms, sensations, pains, feelings associated with the problems I picked out.

On top of that you need to answer each of the questions for each problem (what makes it worse, what makes it better etc).

I don't need to know what happened to you. I need to know what it felt like when it happened. I need to know what it is like when it continues to happen.

Your story does create more questions though.

Describe more on :

Something inside that you cannot release

Sharp pain

Addictive personality

Felt like I had no existence

Depleted

Suffer in private

Pain in temples

Everyone is putting on a mask

Describe more on :

Something inside that you cannot release
i feel like i am 'stuck' regarding my hormones. my breasts feel sore, and full even after i am finished with my monthly cycle. my thighs are full of cellulite and are loose, and i cannot rid them of the fat that i would like, even though i have exercised to do so. i am holding onto my pain, my tension and feel very afraid to let go.

Sharp pain: in my lower back, but more lately both sides of my hips and outside bones of my thighs. that is where the pain is most. it is a dull pain most of the day, but sharp just on the right side, where most of the pain settles. i feel sad and angry about this constant pain of mine. i feel resentful that it keeps me from doing the things that i need to get done ie housework and other responsibilities that a mother and women of the house has. also, i feel very sad that i do not want to go out and be with other people b/c of my limitations.


Addictive personality:

i need to take a pill for every little thing wrong with me. ie. for my headaches, for my body pain. i feel very ashamed of myself and embarrassed. my family does not know the extent of my addictions, and if they knew i would feel even more ashamed. i am an 'all or nothing' person. if i start a diet, and eat something i shouldn't i just stop the whole thing and usually binge. i set myself up for failure - i have alot of self hate and disgust.



Felt like I had no existence:
this has to do with my father's treatment of me when i was younger. i felt i had no value, my opinion never mattered, and i was never asked about anything important. my wants and needs never were addressed as a child. when i married 26 years ago, i met a man who valued me and that was what i fell in love with. to this day he is very good to me and values my opinion, although i don't value my own worth.

Depleted:

i am totally emotionally, physically, mentally exhausted. i cannot give from myself as i used to. i just 'exist'.

Suffer in private:

i feel like i am suffering and in so much agony and nobody even sees it. i don't complain very much and when i do, it's only when it is very very bad. i have my own little game that i guess i am playing and have a secret life of my addictions to pills. i am very good at this 'game' - i take my son to doctor appts and can hold down a very responsible job. i think it makes me feel special that i could do all that and have a secret. but now it has gone too far and i feel i cannot do this for much longer.

Pain in temples:

pain is in the front of my head and also my two side temples. it is a pressure ache which gets worse if i don't take pain pills with caffiene. as soon as it wears off, i feel the pain coming again. it is a dull, throbbing pain and i have a hard time having my eyes open completely. when i wake up in the morning i am in alot of pain and must take a pain killer right away.

i also have acid in my stomach for which my doctor prescribed heartburn medication. if i don't take it i constantly feel burning in the pit of my stomach, and it doesn't matter what i eat. everything i eat makes the burning come on.

Everyone is putting on a mask:
i feel that everyone is so two faced. they are just being polite and sweet but really they don't care about me. i feel they are not 'real' at all. it angers me when i am with pple and they are like that.

I looked at some other ppls posts & see that u want to know about my personality & how I handle things. When I am at work outside of the house I am very good with multitasking & stress. I am also very friendly to pple & seem very easy going & funny. I have the type of personality that pple like to be with. Funny, friendly, compationate.
When I'm at home I am not like this. I get upset easily, raise my voice, moody with my mood changing for no apparent reason.
I am not a jealous person usually but I am envious of others regarding their life compared to mine. I don't envy material things really - just the freedom that others seem to have in regards to going on holidays or with their healthy children - so I don't think I am really shallow, but I do like to look good when I go out & put together. I want my husband to be proud of me when we go out & I enjoy when he compliments me.
I sometimes feel an overwhelming feel of sadness about my lot in life & feel sorry & pity myself.

i also feel tremendous anger at my body for what i feel is a betrayal - my breasts which are so painful and sore, and i feel their discomfort all day long, especially when i remove my bra - i feel like ripping them off of me. and my shoulders and arms, i am so angry that i feel so much soreness for a task so easy and mundane like picking up a laundry basket. things i feel are so much harder for me than the next person.

my sexual life with my husband though is very healthy and rewarding. we have no problems at all and are both very happy and satisfied with our sex life. it's as if when we are together all our problems disappear and i don't feel any pain on a subconscious level, or any pain in my breasts or other parts of my body that prevents me from enjoying our sex life.