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Hi there, do you mind if I ask for help on another one? I appreciate your help with my baby.
My oldest son used to do well on Pulsatilla 30c, and does still seem to fit that mental picture, but the remedy stopped helping him a few months ago. I tried 200c, well diluted in water, but nothing.

Right now his biggest problem is with stool. He seems to be holding it back, and small amounts will escape in his pants, and he is all day wiping in the bathroom and needing showers, yet not fully evacuating the bowels at any time. He says he ignores the urge because he feels it all day long, every few minutes, and doesn't want to spend all day in the bathroom. We're having to keep him home from school today because he had to go home early yesterday because he had an accident. He didn't tell the teacher and kept insisting nothing was wrong when she was trying to ask him.

From the beginning of potty training, which he did late (almost 4 years old), he seemed afraid to poop in the toilet. He always preferred the diaper and wanted to poop standing up. We finally forced him to poop on the toilet and he seemed to get over his fear of it.

Starting kindergarten was somewhat stressful for him and he would seem to come home exhausted and morose. He is normally a very friendly guy, wants the whole world to love him, and works hard to make people like him. Has a great memory, remembers everyone's name, likes to hold hands and give hugs and snuggles. Has things that bother him or thatbhes afraid of but doesn't like to talk about them. Seems insecure. Very smart, verbal, people always comment on how mature he sounds. Yet at home he seems to act like a 2 year old. Has to be reminded of directions at least 3 times before he will complete the task. He's an air-head! Can't keep hia mind in common-sense tasks like cleaning up after himself or putting things away, yet focuses obsessively on his interests. Excels at things that hold his attention, and everything else suffers for it.

We pulled him out of kindergarten because of his moodiness and because he said there was a kid who was hitting him, so we thought that was the problem. Last week we found out that kid had been removed from the school, so we re-enrolled him. Since then he has complained of stomach hurting when hungry and after eating about half a meal. And the pooping problem began again. In the past, Pulsatilla would help and he would have a normal bowel movement right away after giving it, and that would be the end of it. But now it's not helping.
 
  alaskamom on 2016-04-22
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
Yes I will be happy to provide help your other kid as well.

Just answer few questions here
1) How does he behave with younger siblings?
2) Describe his behavior with teachers and other kids at kindergarden.
3) Have you or your husband been dominating him over somethings?
4) Does he like to keep his things organised or not?
5) Please explain this sentence - "Excels at things that hold his attention, and everything else suffers for it".
6) How does he feel better when the pooping problem arises? What you would do to make him feel better?
 
homeodr 7 years ago
1) He is very loving toward the baby, always cooing to him and trying to make him smile. His 2 year old brother seems to be a source of irritation for him. He always tries to tell him what to do.
2) So far as I know, at school he tries hard to please, though occasionally will try to argue with the teacher when he has to move from one task to another, for example if he was drawing and it was time to read, and he didn't want to do it. He generally though works hard to do well at school work and tries to follow directions (I assume so people and kids will like him). He gets upset about perceived injustices, whether against him or another classmate.
3) My husband and I both feel we don't have a lot of patience forbhim
 
alaskamom 7 years ago
3) Sorry, hit send too soon. We don't have as much patience for him as we should, and as his younger brother is generally better at following directions, we get frustrated easily when the oldest can't even follow simple directions. It's like he acts stupid on purpose sometimes. That especially angers me as it was something my father would do to get pity and have people take care of him. So I get instantly angry when my son does it, especially when I know how smart he is in other ways. So my husband and I tend to yell at him sometimes for the stupid things he does.
4) No, he would leave every item exactly where it fell to the point of mountains of mess if we let him. Another source of frustration.
5)I feel that if he spent less time obsessing about the things he is interested in, he might have some mental energy left over to remember to do the everyday little things like putting things away without being told, etc. He loses himself in the thing he is currently obsessing over. He is also very artistic.
6) He feels very embarrassed, and feels guilty and sad. I try for awhile to be patient, understanding, and tell him I know he's not trying to do it on purpose, and that it's OK, but after almost a week of it I have no patience and just get mad. As for making himself feel better, he is not very good at this and needs consolation. He often asks for sugary foods when sad, which we usually day no to.
 
alaskamom 7 years ago
Something else that came to mind, he always has his hand in his underwear to scratch his anus, which he says itches. He has his fingers in his nose all the time too. And craves sweets. Argues a lot when told to do something, and always asks "why".
 
alaskamom 7 years ago
Sorry to keep adding things. I'm remembering also that his ears always seem blocked up, he always is asking "what", yet tested fine on hearing at beginning of school year. Just recently he started saying he is hearing things that aren't there, like crackling, roaring, growling, popping sounds. He makes a lot of brown earwax and we have to clean his ears frequently. As a baby, he was extremely fussy and slept horribly, waking every 45 minutes all night long crying. He didn't sleep through the night until 4 years old, and now sleeps great, rarely waking.
His skin has small white pimples up and down his arms and legs, they have been there since he was about 6 months old. He tends to run hot-blooded, always warm, but since his most recent cold/illness he complains of being cold a lot. He will be cold when I am comfortable in the room, and I'm the one who usually is cold
 
alaskamom 7 years ago
He still looks very close to Pulsatilla.

How many doses of Pulsatilla have you given him?
 
homeodr 7 years ago
Well actually, yesterday he complained of a headache,
 
alaskamom 7 years ago
So I gave him a dose of Chelidonium 30c, because when he was 4 years old he had a few headaches that were cured by that remedy. As a happy side effect it seems to have cured the stool issue as well.
As for Pulsatilla, I had given the 30c dose perhaps 3 times, for his mental state. He had seemed out of sorts and irritable, so I'd given him the remedy, but it seemed to aggravate instead of help. So I thought perhaps he needed the next potency up, because I had noticed I had to hit the bottle more and more times on the 30c to make it effective (it was a water dose). The 200c as a water dose seemed to aggravate as well. At that time I felt his mood was directly related to mine,I have been struggling with post partum depression and my remedy stopped working. My oldest is very sensitive and started mirroring my emotions. His remedy didn't help with that, and I sort of gave up on it for awhile. At this point I don't know if he needs anything at the moment since he's pooping normally again.
 
alaskamom 7 years ago
If he is feeling better then there is no need to give any other remedy.

At this point just wait and see how the remedy is acting. No need to give any other remedy.
 
homeodr 7 years ago
Sounds good. Thanks.
 
alaskamom 7 years ago
Hi again. I'm wondering about trying the Pulsatilla on my oldest again. It does seem to still be a fit. The things in him that seem to bother him right now are: hearing noises in his ears; telling me his ear canal feels swollen inside and pressing in it with a Q tip makes it feel better; feeling cold often when he is normally a hot-blooded boy; having a lot of worries and anxieties about school; complaining of headaches, starting at the nape of the neck and traveling up onto the scalp. The headaches just in the last week since starting school back up, after we had taken him out. The ears have been a problem almost all winter until now. The hearing noises in ears for about 3 weeks. The coldness seems to happen whenever he's sick, which I'm sure is normal, but seems to not have gotten better since he was sick last. He got sick again without warming back up so I wonder if his system has weakened. It's been an awful winter for illnesses in the community and my kids have caught every one that has come along. Feels like they are sick every week. They get better only to get sick again a few days later with something new.
 
alaskamom 7 years ago
Start with Pulsatilla 30c water dose.. Add 2pills in half cup of water and give him only one spoon.. Store the remaining liquid away from sunlight.
Report back in 5 days.
 
homeodr 7 years ago
OK will do.
 
alaskamom 7 years ago
I know it has not been 5 days yet on my oldest son since the Puls, but I just wanted to note a few things so I don't forget them. The last few nights he has seemed a little fearful about going to sleep. Tonight he told me he is feeling sad about something. He wouldn't say at first so I told him to come snuggle with me because he seemed to need it. He will often ask for me to lay in his bed at bedte but I don't often have the chance because I have to get the baby to bed, and then I'm just worn out myself.
Anyway, so tonight I was trying to get him to say what was bothering him. At first he said he was too embarrassed but I convinced him it was OK to talk about it. Here are the things he finally told me.
He says he has bad thoughts overtaking the good ones in his brain. He has quite an imaginative way of "seeing" in his mind's eye how this happens. He imagines there is a popsicle stick in his brain that blocks the good thoughts and sends out bad ones. He says the popsicle stick is almost 300 degrees below zero and has a cold atmosphere around it. This keeps the good thoughts from being able to grow connections through the popsicle stick and break it, so the cold keeps it in one piece. He says it lights up when it sends bad thoughts, but that if we went to the doctor and they could see into his brain, that it would be invisible.
When I asked what kinds of bad thoughts he has, he gave me a couple examples, that he's worried the other boys in kindergarten will fight with each other and that he will get hit. He said he's worried the older kids will fight each other and that they will accidentally break a kid's neck. He say he gets about half good thoughts and half bad thoughts in the course of a day.

He says when he is about to fall (loses his balance), that he gets a funny feeling (his hands traced from his head all down his body). He says it feels like bumps inside his body. I asked if it felt like when he gets goosebumps, and he says yes, only inside his body.
He says when he closes his eyes, he sees the popsicle stick. He says it's shaped like a T-Rex's leg bone, long with rounded ends, and it kind of moves in his vision. He says it's green mixed with white.
I told him it could be something like what I get sometimes, where I get colors and patterns behind my closed eyes sometimes.
He got up to go to bed after we talked, and we have a curtain over the windows since it is light late up here in the northern latitudes. He said he could see a star through the curtain, but it was too light outside to see any stars yet. From across the room he described a round, bright white light on the curtain. We went up to the curtain and he said he could still see it, and pointed to the spot and showed how big with his hand. I didn't see anything that could account for something like that.
He says often, during the day or night, he will get confused and think he is in Australia.

I'm worried my son is losing touch with reality. And I figure if anything can help, homeopathy would be able to. Should I be taking him to a mental health therapist? I'm worried that I did something wrong as a parent to have him and the middle one both be somewhat neurotic and that it must be because of me.
 
alaskamom 7 years ago
Don't worry , no need to consult him to any therapist.

Also no need to repeat the dose right now..

Homeopathy should surely help him.

Update me in few days..
 
homeodr 7 years ago
ok. thanks.
 
alaskamom 7 years ago
Update on the oldest here, he does not seem to have made any improvement, and in fact seems worse since dosing the Pulsatilla. At school yesterday evening they had a short musical recital, and afterwards hebtold me he was seeing dots in the air that were really there. He's still been sick, runny nose, stuffy, starting a cough tonight. Today he had a headache (although he did have a short night's sleep since the recital was at the end of the day). He also had another problem with bowel movements again last night until today when I gave the homeopathic Chelidonium again. It fixed the problem again. He's been complaining of his tummy hurting after a few bites of food sometimes, and then will get ravenously hungry later. He seems out of sorts emotionally, really bossing his little brother a lot and talking to him in a mean to be of voice. He also seems to be doing naughty things at home just for the heck of it. Just little things, in a passive-aggressive way (which has always been his preferred mode, although it irritates me).
His sense of smell seems to have been gone for several weeks. He can't seem to smell that he needs to wash his hands after using the bathroom even though he reeks of stool (he seems to have sloppy habits in hygiene). He still seems to have trouble hearing or plugged ears. It seems all his senses are going haywire. Today he also complained of dry skin on his legs.
 
alaskamom 7 years ago
Would it be possible to send a small video clip of your older son? I just wanted to see the way he speaks and he behaves.

If possible email me.
 
homeodr 7 years ago
Ok. I should be able to do that later today.
 
alaskamom 7 years ago
Ok sorry for the delay, I have sent it now.
 
alaskamom 7 years ago
Thanks for sending over the video.
Quick questions-
1) Does he score good grades in the school?
2) Does he always interested in pleasing other people including you?
What kind of things he would do to please you and others in the school.
3) Have you given him any dose of Carcinocin before?

Please do let me know about it.
 
homeodr 7 years ago
1) Yes, excellent marks in school, he's very smart and at the head of his class.
2) Yes, I believe pleasing others takes up a large part of his attention. I think it's part of why he comes home so tired and moody from school. He uses up so much energy trying to make people happy with him, to enamor them to himself, to make everyone like him. He seems very sensitive to when people or kids don't like him.
As for pleasing me and his dad, I think he is very sensitive to our displeasure, but seems unable to help himself for doing things that irritate us constantly. Sometimes I think he spends so much time worrying about what others think about him that he has no energy to pay attention to the rules when he gets home. He seemed to start being more moody and acting out more ever since he started kindergarten in the fall. He had never previously been in daycare or preschool. It's like he thrives on the social contact and craves it, but it wears him out so much. Perhaps because his goal is to have 100% of people like him 100% of the time and he is constantly frustrated by failure on that regard.
3) No, I have not given him any Carcinosin before, but I obtained it at one point in the past. I have 200c on hand. I can't remember who it was going to be for, but I do recall my husband being nervous about using it because of what it's made from. So I never ended up using it, but wouldn't be opposed to trying it.
 
alaskamom 7 years ago
Actually, looking back on his old case from here, we did try Carcinosin on him briefly. Seems like I didn't give it much of a try, though. Here's a link to his old info in case it helps. http://abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/423964/
This was from about 2 years ago. The Carcinosin was mentioned on page 4.
 
alaskamom 7 years ago
ok I will take a look at the previous case and come back to you.
 
homeodr 7 years ago
Thanks--sorry I didn't think to post it before.
 
alaskamom 7 years ago

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