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serann

Hiya,
I've never done this before. I have many symptoms, many are very longstanding.I also think that many are connected altho I can't get doctors to see it. Do I give a list of them all or one at a time. I'm not a hypochondriac, Honestly!
 
  serann on 2008-03-19
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
Please present all the symptoms in a historical manner if possible for the prescribers to advise something.
 
srisri last decade
please get hold of the questionnaire being used in this forum for representinmg the totality of symptoms in this forum and fill it up.

this would help the homeopaths here to suggest a remedy which would cure all your symptoms.
 
rishimba last decade
I do not think questionnares are a good method for case taking. This is because the questions in questionnares bias the prescriber towards certain remedies and many times, a person has to give a 'yes' or 'no' answer to things which are only half true.

Describe your symptoms in your own words. That is the best way prescribers can understand the patient.

Sameer.
 
sameervermani last decade
the case taking is complete only when the suffering is described with the exact sensation, location, etiology, modalities and generals.

the case taking sheet gives a guidance to the patient because the patient is not supposed to know what exactly a homeopath requires.

thats why during face to face consultation, a homeopath questions the patient on the etiology, modalities and generals apart from what the patient describes as the sensation.

in long distant case taking, a questionnaire is the only way to get the totality.
 
rishimba last decade
You question the patient only after he has spoken and has nothing more to say.

As long he is speaking , you just listen, and you listen not letting any remedy biases clutter your mind.

So yes you are right , everything is needed but first, just listen to the patient and then ask whatever more you need to complete the information.
 
sameervermani last decade
I’m so sorry for the delay in replying and I have tried to stick to facts without leaving out too much
Bowel and bladder.
1977 at the end of my pregnancy I have had trouble emptying fully when I had a bowel movement. Infact around 1980, during my marriage break up there were times when I couldn’t go to the toilet in that way at all and resorted to laxatives for a few months. Tests showed my bowels were fine. I lived with it and it has ruled my life. Years later I was told that my womb was badly tilted a possible cause. Several years ago, while passing water my womb dropped and for the short amount of time it was out I noticed that the feeling of pressure in my back passage had gone, but returned even worse when I pushed it back. Since my periods finished 3 or 4 yrs ago it’s even worse and my bladder now has to be emptied about every hour during the day or I am really uncomfortable.
When I need to open my bowels now I have to press a bulge in my perineum. My doctor has suggested nothing.
Back, chest and neck pain.
1992 I was in a car which was in a head on accident. I was shocked but unhurt but hours later I had dreadful pain in between my shoulder blades. This pain spread until all my spine felt it was on an elastic band. My shoulders, neck, the back of my head, sides hurt and my right leg used to shoot out uncontrollably. I had lumps all over my back for years. Two x rays showed no accident damage. A Shiatsu therapist said my soft tissue was damaged and since then till two years ago, when I finished work I have had treatments from osteopaths and acupuncture as I reached a plateau with each treatment. They all told me that my work was affecting me possibly due to the weakness caused by the accident.
Now the ache from just above my waist, up the front, back and sides of my body never stops. Sometimes I have severe pain in my chest, between my shoulders, my right shoulder, jaw, throat, roof of my mouth, ear to the top of my head and my blood pressure goes dangerously high and I feel that I am about to pass out. Afterwards I sometimes have a bruised feeling in between my shoulder blades. Tests show my heart is ok. Now I get discomfort in my solar plexus, burning and nausea. No suggestions from the doctors except maybe a trapped nerve. The worse the discomfort in between my shoulders, the worse the burning in the top of my stmach
Stabs of pain or discomfort at the back of my head on the right side.
This has happened since the end of last year when I had a bad attack of vertigo. I awoke on my right side and as I turned over I heard a crack at the base of my scull on the right side, the room spun and I was sick. For four months every time I moved my head in certain ways, I spent the rest of the day afraid to move. I also had pain on the right at the back of my head. Medication helped slightly, acupuncture cured it (the vertigo). I also had stabs of pain in my face.
High Blood pressure for about six years.
Under control with medication although sometimes the readings can be low, the bottom figure being in the high fifties or low sixties. At the moment the lower figure is in the seventies.
High Cholesterol and continued side effects of medication.
This was diagnosed around the time my periods ended, 3 or4 yrs ago. Last year I was prescribed Simvistatin. After a short time I had cramps in my legs, worse on the right which were worse when exercised. My legs were swollen but I thought it was because I put on weight. My hot sweats became dreadful and during the night my legs were so hot they felt like they were bursting. I had nose bleeds, red blood spots on my body and dreadful wind pains in the top of my chest towards my underarms with constant belching.
I still have the belching and constant discomfort at the top of my chest and odd cramping in my right calf.
I am 5 ft 1in tall and weigh 10stones having put weight on since finishing work.
I am an anxious person these days as 3 yrs ago my husband has a serious mental breakdown and became a changed person and is only now returning to normal Also my grandson. Born 2 months ago is still in hospital after an operation at a few hours old.
I hope you can help.
 
serann last decade
I forgot to say, I am told I have spondylosis in two places in my neck, one place being the first vertebra and minor wear and tear in a couple of lower places in my spine. I felt that some was muscular but now if I arch back or lie on a hard flat surface I hear several crunching noises.I am told that the damage is not severe enough to cause these problems
 
serann last decade
Serann to start with, we have to get rid of any lingering effects of the accident you had.

Take 1 single dose of Arnica 1M on an empty stomach in the morning and do not eat anything and no brushing of teeth for atleast 1 hour after the dose. Please report back in 10 days after this dose.

Sameer

Sameer
 
sameervermani last decade
Thank you I will get some Arnica ASAP
 
serann last decade
I noticed that people are taking Nat Phosx6 for digestive problems so I've been taking it for a couple of days.No change yet but I personally think my discomfort is connected with my upper back problem. Do I stop taking it when the Arnica arrives? I ordered it today.
 
serann last decade
Yes, stop Natrum Phos now.

Homeopathy is about one medicine at a time.

Just take 1 dose of Arnica 1M as mentioned.

Sameer
 
sameervermani last decade
nobody uses a questionnaire during a face to face consultation, just ask the same questions once the patient has described his sufferings.

after taking the full case, some remedies do come up in the mind of the homeopath based on the overall disease picture and the pathogenesis involved.

its for the homeopath to pick up the most suitable one based on generals, modalities and some PQRS symptoms.

this is what i do during my consultancy hours in the evenings.
 
rishimba last decade
Interesting,,, but that still does not justify asking questions eveb before the patient describes his troubles in his own words.
 
sameervermani last decade
I have ordered the Arnica 1m and expect it to be delivered in a few days due to the Easter holidays.
I want to thank all who are involved in this particular forum about me. I just want to say that I looked at the questionnaire on the ABC website and felt overwhelmed by the lists of questions. As I have several complaints I was being led to more and more questions. Sometimes there is no definitive answer and I am the sort of person who likes to give a definate answer or non at all. For example, I drink red wine a couple of times a week. On the first night after one glass I will sleep ok. On having two drinks I may or may not sleep. The following night if I drink even one glass I won't sleep.
I sleep for the first hour and then am wakeful for the rest of the night. I love nuts, if I eat a few I am ok, if I eat too many my stomache is uncomfortable the next day. Some nuts affect me more than others. Things then become complicated. I am not a Homeopath so I respect all of you because I think that like me, people turn to you as a last resort, probably because of costs involved during face to face consultations (I aren't working at the moment) and are helped. I am just saying that there are probably many more people like me who feel overwhelmed by long questionnaires.
However I have just found the 'guide to posting medical questions' and It seems reasonable to me. Better than ticking boxes.I suppose there are things I missed out looking at it but I didn't think you would like a book so questions are welcome. However I am firstly going to try the arnica. Thank you all xx
 
serann last decade
'Sometimes there is no definitive answer and I am the sort of person who likes to give a definate answer or non at all.'
This is the exact point I was trying to make.

Thanks, Serann. Your feedback is extremely helpful.

Sameer.
 
sameervermani last decade
read the first post of the patient in this thread and you will understand that the patient was confused as to how he would present his case.

thats the reason i suggested him to use a questionnaire. the questionnaire doesnt stop him from describing his sufferings in his own words but on the contrary, encourages him to cover all aspects of it.

its a pity that you are making an issue of a non-issue.
 
rishimba last decade
Hiya,
Well it's ten days since I took the Arnica so I am reporting back as requested.
I actually have some improvement but I daren't get too excited.
My spine feels so much better and I can sit and travel in the car now without too much discomfort inbetween my shoulders and my chest. I feel less tense in someways also.

Now I am left with discomfort on the right side of my body' much of it caused by my job, which I have now left.
My ear has a hissing sound which is worse when the back of my neck hurts although my neck is improved in some ways since the Arnica. Mainly trouble on the right side of my neck now. My right shoulder, under my right shoulder blade, the right side of my back, right hip and right arm and hand.
Since the Arnica, my blood pressure has been an average of 103/75 without medication. I decided to leave off my medication as my readings were good. I am being careful. The only time my B.P went high was when I had to drive to a strange place a few days ago because since the accident I have a fear of driving and going to strange places, because the accident happened in a strange place. both numbers were over 100 so I took a pill. I was a passenger in the accident but I am actually afraid of causing an accident now because my mind sometimes goes blank when I get stressed when driving. Also, my bowels and bladder are slightly better, if not right.

Just to add more information. I have always been insecure and anxious but people think I am so capable and push me foreward for things which I hate. There have been times in my life when I felt capable and could rise above everything but at the moment I have had so much worry I can't. My parents tried to abort me before I was born and I felt unloved and afraid of my parents as a child but I bear no grudges at all. I add this because I understand that it may help.

Thanks for your help so far !!!!

Ps A few hours before I took the Arnica I had vertigo with sickness again after a click at the base of my scull on the right side, but the next day it had gone. Within a few days I was back to normal.
 
serann last decade
Dear Serann,

Good to know about the improvements.

Do you feel, there is improvement happening still ? Or do you think you have reached a plateau of sorts in terms of the improvement level ?

Sameer.
 
sameervermani last decade
I think I have reached a plateau
 
serann last decade
Take another dose then, 1 week from now, this time of Arnica 10M.

Report status 2 weeks after this. The dosing guidlines are same as before.

Sameer.
 
sameervermani last decade
hiya,
Just to clarify. Is it another dose of 1m followed 2 weeks later by 10m?
 
serann last decade
no more doses of 1m.

just one dose of 10m, 1 week from now.


sameer.
 
sameervermani last decade
Sorry I made a mistake. Please read 1m followed by 10m 1 week later?
 
serann last decade
Thank you very much. I will get some
 
serann last decade
Hiya Sameer
I am reporting back as you asked.
Two days after taking the 10m Arnica I had the most awful anxiety attack. I felt that I couldn't go out of the house and felt totally useless and incapable and wondered where my confidence and outgoing personality had gone. I was in such an anxious state I didn't know where to turn it depressed me. The next day I was much better but it was a few days before the anxiety settled down, tho I always have underlying anxiety these days. A couple of days after that my neck, the back of my head was painful in a way I can't describe except to say it was a hard sort of pain and the hissing in my ear, which is always there more when my neck is bad got worse. The top of my spine eased after the first dose of Arnica (1m) but has gradually returned and I am doing exercises for my neck and back again.The complaints don't stop me from doing things but I may get worse after. For example, after looking up for a long time I may get vertigo or bending forward gardening or sitting at a desk can make the top of my spine worse. I generally feel better after physical exercise until the after effects start. Standing is better for me than sitting.

When I had the anxiety attack all sorts of things went through my mind as I was searching for a reason as things at home were calmer so there didn't seem a good reason for such an acute reaction unless it was the Arnica.

I realised that I was an anxious child as I never felt loved by my parents.
I married and felt better for a time, even though my husband was jealous and violent and I think it was because I felt more in control and freer for a while. I also had what I always wanted, a family. However after several years and three children life became more oppressive and I became fearful for my life and I divorced my husband.

As I was so fearful of my life I was very anxious and depressed for a while, then, although I was always feeling insecure because of money worries I started to feel better. Life was very hard but I made a good life and was very sociable and had many friends. Anyone was welcome to my house. It was a constantly open door.I could at last be myself.

After a few years I wanted to settle down again with a husband and looked for a man who would love home life and family.

I met someone who was so insecure I gave up my friends for him so we could make new friends together, but we never did. I gave up a good job for him and sold my home to have a new start.I put all my trust in him. We split for family reasons and I had a nervous breakdown. I had trusted him and so gave up my independence for him.He expected more from me than I could give and my children were suffering.

A few years later we got together again and married.

3or 4 years ago he had a mental breakdown due to his employment and did some terrible things which he can't remember tho I can.
He left for a while and came back home when he started to feel better but he has changed. Life is very difficult, he is unreasonable and has rages. He makes it difficult for me to see my children as often as I would like and makes me on edge because I never know when he is going to have another rage.He isn't violent but I feel that he could be if his rages get any worse.
Then I realised that since we married he has had mental problems, but because I was so understanding I just tried to please him and didn't judge. I now feel under his control.I now realise that despite my hard upbringing and failed first marriage, my anxiety, lack of confidence in my ability and many fears have really become a problem gradually over the years with my husband. It is brought to a head since his continued bad treatment of me since his mental breakdown.

I would like to leave but it isn't possible. I have no job, I gave it up and spent time helping him to get better and also I needed a rest myself. I don't have the confidence to do anything now and I am so stressed. I get dreadful apprehension when I have to go anywhere, even the shops. I feel isolated and lonely.
I even feel uneasy in the dark as if some evil is around.I would have no where to go and selling our home wouldn't buy two. My husband, who is very good to me when in a good mood says he would fight me for everything when he is in a bad mood and being a Christian now, I couldn't live with myself if I divorced.
I realise that my physical problems may be worse because of the stress.

Do you think I maybe need something for the stress first?
Sometimes I think that I'm too sensitive because I can sense a change in the weather.In the Autumn I get up one day with anxiety in my stomach just before the season changes. Even in summer, dull days make me feel low. I can't stand too cold or too hot temperatures either. Also, I can sense an atmosphere when people are troubled and it bothers me.

I hope I haven't gone on too long but I think I am maybe expecting too much.
Thank you
 
serann last decade

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