Quite a lot of problems

Hey Homeop1975, how are you doing?

Hypoglycemic symptoms are relieved promptly by the administration of carbohydrates. When the patient is conscious, he can take a mint, orange juice, or crackers.

The definitive treatment of hypoglycemia depends upon its cause, once the acute form of hypoglycimia is corrected. For patients with reactive hypoglycemia, a diet high in protein and low in carbohydrate taken at frequent intervals n small servings is generally effective.

If hypoglycemic reactions occur because of an overdose of insulin or oral hypoglycemic agents, the dosage must be decreased.

For excellent patient education resources, visit eMedicine's Diabetes Center. Also, see eMedicine's patient education article, Low Blood Sugar.

Best wishes,

Hey bkdaniels....you got a lot to say with no suggestions for treatment. A lot of useless knowledge for the adverage person...aren't you just a great person??? Don't break a wing. Sabra

Sabra - I'll second that !.

Sorry - looking at this seriously -- she cant have NO blood pressure -- is it hi -low- or normal?.
Also cant have no sugar - again hi-low-norma?.
Yje only mrdication that seems appropriate is arg nit , which relieves stress .
But the wheezing suggests the immune system is under par.

Night waking together with varicose veins seems to suggest the Tubercular Miasm.

Cramps could be a calcium deficiency [ or cup met]
Does she like boiled eggs. Is she fat or thin.
How does she eat, and when.
Is there any TB in her family history- what did her ancestors of the last 4 generations die of?.

This is a lengthy treatment due to age and length of conditions.

She should not be taking several homeopathic remedies at once.

Please try this one, alone for at least two weeks.

CALCAREA ARSENICA 30C. One dose each week for several weeks. Do not hurry along. Give time to work. Maybe as long as 8 weeks, one dose each week.

This woman is too young to be this "old" at this time in her life.

Please report any progress.

Blessings, Sabra

Sabra is older than 55 and pretty fit , considers your mother 'young' !.
Yes stop all other medicines
[ Courageous - you can say that again] -- ? how much help does she get? . Probably not enough!.

I think the remedy Bacilliniom may be very helpful here , but follow Sabra's advice and post results we need all the info we can get .

I am sorry that you are waiting. My server went down twice in one week. My geek finally called me and we did it on the tele. She is a genius!

I agree that all other homeopathic remedies should be stopped to use this one to see how she responds.

As she is not responding to them anyway, I would suggest setting them aside for now.

I totally respect Passkey's knowledge and would follow his direction when something like my not answering is present.

Please keep us posted.

Blessings, Sabra

I am not sure the allopathic should be stopped at this time. It is more difficult to come off of, while homeopathy can just be stopped at will.

Blessings, Sabra

Take Sabra's advice and stop all allopathic medication!.

Use the remedy she suggested , but the option is yours you can chose whose advice to follow.

I think it was in answer to my post that you saw the comments from Joe de Livera on arnica for sleep and bryonia for headaches and Nat whatever for whatever.

My layperson feedback on that as follows:

1) not good to make multiple remedies at same time generally

passkey and sabra are trying to give you a single remedy for her to use, rather than treating each individual symptom individually. And this is generally the preferred approach. So if you can go with something they suggest try to move in that direction asap.

2) the arnica did --surprisingly -- help with sleep. If you've got it, you could have her try it while getting together the other remedies suggested, but I personally wouldn't do two or more diff. things at once. Poor sleep itself could run the body down for coping with all else, though, and one dose of arnica 30c at bedtime def. did get me to sleep.

3) stop coffee. stop coffee. stop coffee. can be a headache trigger. It interferes with homeopathic treatment and sleep both.

3.5) Look at all the aspects of "sleep hygiene" that are regular to do... like darkness and quiet in bedroom, warm bath half hour before bed etc.

4) the bryonia did not help for my headaches. look at mat med to see if headaches fit whatever remedy you are considering.

For me the Gelsemium did work, and if her headaches should happen to be affected by food or drink (possibly including if they get worse when she stops coffee) it might fit her better too.

5)If you try something like the Arnica for sleep before trying to go with a single remedy for whole picture and it makes her symptom picture changethen there might be a diff remedy to suggest as the single remedy to address the whole picture.

6) allopathic meds are generally not good. But sometimes it is hard to get off them without tapering off or so forth, so in general she should get off asap bec. she is basically just getting more and more burden on her system by taking them. And also bec. they can interfere with homeopathy.

But asap may not be cold turkey, depending on particular situation. No one wants to be responsible or have homeopathy blamed for a problem caused by a too precipitous ending of allopathics.

I think that's why you got a little diff on that from Sabra and Passkey. Ultimately the decision has to be made by you and your mom.

Me, I stopped all allopathic meds. and am glad I did.

Dear homeop1975,

One dose means one dose in a day. Morning or evening does not matter. Just make sure that your mother does not eat or drink anything for 15 minutes before and 15 minutes after taking the medicine. If you have got the medicine in liquid form, then two drops on tongue is one dose. If it is the form of small globules, two or three globules at a time is one dose. If it is the bigger globules or pellets, one globule or pellet is enough.To ensure one dose each week, you can choose any day of the week, say Sunday and then give the medicine on that day each week. Take the medicine for a few weeks and then post the results on this forum so that the experts here can help you. Get your mother off the allopathic medicines if possible to give homeopathy a chance.

With best wishes.

Rajiv

Also, I am reading the Organon which is the book by the person who started homeopathy, Samuel Hahneman. He points out that the causes of illness in the environment should be addressed by the physician and stopped (this assumes the doc makes a housecall).

I keep noticing that people expect homeopathy (like allopathy) to be a "magic bullet" to solve problems without changing anything about lifestyle.

I guess the issue of whether she has enuf help around house was already made.

I noticed that your mom seems to eat very little and very rarely.

Eating every 2 to 4 hours starting when she gets up in morning, even if it is just a little snack might help her a lot. I realize that as a vegetarian it is hard to balance out proteins and carbohydrates, but as best she can do that it would be a good idea.

She doesn't seem to eat much fruits and vegetables as a vegetarian I notice, just once each day. And is anything raw and fresh for the benefits of enzymes and vitamins, or all cooked? and how is it cooked?

If the bean curd is soy, lots of people have intolerances to soy. And she doesn't seem to go for much variety, so if anything is deficient in anything she wouldn't make it up with diff foods in the next few meals.

And does she eat anything at all with healthy fats, Omega 3's?

No need to answer just for you (and her) to think about.

As far as what to expect after taking homeopathic rem, instead of expecting, it might be a good idea to keep a diary of how she is feeling including little changes noticed. and then finally to compare after a couple months to now as the baseline.

The diet is usually creating problems.
Know for this type of diet, is lycopodium, lachesis..mag c.
Lycopodiums lack essential fatty acids, (vitamins a, d,e, and k.,and they may also have serious lack of vit b 12,and other b vits, what may explain the low bloodpressure.
There are in fact two types of cholesterol, you dont mention what type is one the border, or if both are at the same level.
The diet is a culprit, here too, as when you dont eat food that contains cholestrol, the liver start producing its own, to fill up the lack..and it may ,if the diet is a on and off cholestrol diet, make the liver go haywire, and it wil produce to mutch.
If starting to eat eggs, once pr day, the levels normalize within 14 days.
No remedie will be of help,even if it should happen to be the correct one,.. if the maintainig cause is the diet.
Proper homeopathy advices also on the diet, and the enviroment factors..and all other circumstances that may be the source of the problem.
Bad homeopathy,..
Its as urinating in the pants when cold, one feels warm/saved, for a short while.then worse..or one freezes to death..

While diet is important it does not CAUSE the problems.

The correct remedy at the correct potency WILL help the patient.

For the best advice on diet AND homeopathy read NATURE DOCTOR a paperback by Alfred Vogel

Keypass, Are you saying word "cause" is wrong word to use for effects of poor nutrition on health?

Aside from claim of airetarians to survive on air, which I have never seen any substantiation of that seems credible, if someone does not eat anything he or she will die. Failure to eat may not be direct cause of death, rather something like organs shutting down, but would be the proximal. ????

Or are you saying that in the presence of a sufficientcy of available foods, the patient's state of illness is what causes the choice of foods--including choice to be vegetarian to eat rarely and little?

This latter makes more sense to me, and the idea that if the body were to start to heal itself with help of homeopathy choice to eat better might come relatively effortlessly. Assuming conditions allow it (not a famine, not overwhelming poverty, not in a concentration camp, so forth)

Or do you mean something else?

ADD:

I didn't mean that nutrition alone would necessarily solve this person's mother's problems. But I do believe--and what I'm reading in H to me indicates that he believed-- that homeopathy (however well chosen a remedy) in absence of sufficient nutrition would not solve all.

Hahnemann was working in his particular time with the understandings and environment of that time.

Hippocrates had already said let your food be your medicine. That would have been understood as a basic framework upon which to work from and add to with homeopathy.

What is your understanding of the aphorism to which I was alluding? I think it might have been 24thish but am not able to check that right now.

Add: I am not criticizing vegetarianism BTW. I think that can be done in a healthful way, perhaps can be more healthful than meat eating.

I am arguing that a cup of coffee is not a good nutritious breakfast.