Worry, anxiety, fear, duodenal ulcers, right sided headaches, port. hyp. tension, varic. - Dr. Sameer help requested _{Page 12 of 18}

I have taken Arg. Nitr. lots of times. After duodenal ulcers my previous doctor used to be keen on giving me Arg. Nitr. and Bismuth MET alternately (200c).

Mostly I have taken Arg. Nitr. 200c. Once I took 30c liquid in 2007 (it was prescribed to my mother). It created a tremendous right-sided headache. I was just experimenting.

Once in 2004, I went to another city to my doctor (lots of rains). He gave me a single dose (of something) and then Arg. Nitr. 200 and Chamomilla 200c. I had such a severe right sided headache....nothing was stopping it.

Once I even took Arg. Nitr. 6 perhaps last year. Not sure. This was recommended on abc site for sex problems.

The summary is:
1. It makes me mentally slightly better, but not like Nux and Lyco and Ars.
2. I am now very afraid to take the remedy since it may cause uncontrollable right-sided headache. Not 30c not 1M at all. I can only dare to take a very mild dose of 200c or LM2 perhaps. LM1s are also dangerous!
3. As such I consider myself a chilly person. So Arg. Nitr. doesn't come into that. But I do have severe headaches due to sun/heat. But I have been prescribed Ars. (Sangunaria) and Ars. soothes out the bilious headaches well. Sang. helped not always.
4. Arg. has made stomach comfortable for some days.
5. Brisbane homeopath suggested this remedy (in another case) on basis of peculiar symptom 'feels that building will fall...' something like that. I too do have such thoughts. Vehicles will bang, I will bang or hit into something, I imagine bathroom and the next thought is, the tap will hit my head. But, BUT this type of sudden anxiety hasn't been with me from the beginning. It has appeared in past 4-5 years only. Arg. Nitr. may work to clear a layer but maybe not throughout...

Sorry, wrote too much.

Sameer I am happy that you are asking me questions.
Presently I am not in a hurry like earlier to take a remedy. I am relatively better. But of course, I will need something in 3-4 days, else I have to keep taking Pantodac/Crocin/Alprax/Bifilac as needed.

I will take Ars. LM1. No reporting till 5 d.

Day 1 Sun. I got red urine after eating beet root. Never happened earlier.

Day 2 Mon. Busy exhausting office. Took 1 Gelusil, then another, then Crocin Pain Relief and finally Pantodac for safety. Felt highly excited. Could not sleep till 2 am. Non-stop thoughts indicating severe impairment of liver function. All sorts of next possible options, worries.

Day 3 Tue. Hectic. Took Pantodac anticipating continued work. Difficulty sleeping but took Alprax (not sure which day in 4 days.) Excessive thoughts through the day, through night. Maddening. All sorts of worries.
Took Pantodac.

Day 4: Wed. Worked intensely in office on holiday (26th Jan. Republic Day). Very tired. Very anxious about how to manage lectures in other imp works. Excessive thoughts. Late food. Pantodac on evening 3rd day, not wanting to take any risk.
Some mismatching of matters with boss in evening.

Day5 Thu. today; Quarrel with boss in morning. I try my best and arrange things and still be helpful and accommodate another person's things. But boss not listening...in his own burdens. I feel very upset. Take Crocin Pain Relief. It is 10:15 pm. Wanting to avoid Pantodac now. I have taken Alprax to slow down thoughts.

Change of season causing sinus ache in head and face. I feel the same old problem that expectoration not produced properly but acrid feeling. Left-sided dull headache especially late night and on getting up. Then dies out with right-sided heaviness and dull headache.

General things:
1. Feel very excited. As if I am exploding with thoughts. No calm, no peace. Not restlessness exactly...
2. I am very convinced that liver in not functioning well at all. The red urine showed improper filtering. And then excessive thoughts. Also I talk very strongly to put forward my thoughts. Very extrovert-ed presently.
I am convinced I need organ remedy and immediate help for liver.
3. Feel better with Alprax.
4. Work of Ars. appears to be over.
5. Inclination to severe acidity.
6. Dull right-sided headaches or achy and heavy head.
Final conclusive feelings: Not better after this dose of Ars. LM1. Worse rather.
Excessive, bewildering and almost maddening thoughts, mostly clustered around negative thoughts, hammering of thoughts of others' mistakes, worrying/anxious thoughts of future.
Feel the need of organ remedy for liver.
In spite of being able to do lots of office work that is satisfying, the incompatibility with boss canceling out the good effects and putting undue stress on homeopathic treatment. (Of course Ars. LM1 didn't help further.)

Sameer please advise.

Comment set-1:
I wanted to keep my word and commitment this time, so I did not post till 3 weeks. But Nitr. Acid didn't work and I had many troubles. I took Mox for 3 days first and then again 3 tabs. To me it is established that after no improvement in about 3-4 days it is not much useful to wait. That is my feeling. Nothing forced on anybody. Perhaps a change of remedy in about a week would have been useful. I might have avoided Mox and Pantodac tabs. But I didn't communicate to keep my commitment.

Comment set-2:
My feedback after 3 weeks. Just a day after Nitr. Acid on 28th I drank Lemon juice. Though very mild, the water at room temp. was too cold. I caught throat trouble. After 4 days I decided to try Mox antibiotic hoping that it would help me after long. And it did. I got a lot of relief after 7 tabs. in 3 days.
I faced usual acidity and other troubles. Body has really weakened much. Difficult to concentrate. For the first time I am having much problem with my eye-sight. Far-sightedness. Generally I had problem focussing that would go after rest. But this time the tiredness and worn-out feeling is too much and my eyes cannot focus nearby objects. They ache.

Comment set-3:
Effect of Mox was a typical one. I took it after the same a bit left sided, without mucus 'cold/sinus' type achy head on getting up in morning. Soon the head got more achy and then improved. The feverish feeling went away. Mox also has this strange action of absorbing 'acidity' of stomach. This effect may come because of removal/reduction of H-pylori type of infection. Otherwise how come an antibiotic reduce acidity so clearly? After another 15 days I again took 3 tabs of Mox since I sensed feverishness and to give completeness and it helped again. Now I won't take it again for long. I am sure it won't help for long now.

Comment set-4:
I was so troubled in three weeks that at times I was inclined to self medicate but I didn't due to commitment. But I tried Open Rep and Remedy Finder with many symptoms, including mental ones and in simple perhaps unbiased manner. In both cases the remedy was Phosphorus!
I also think sometimes about Acid Phos. Recently I felt these days that a dose of Aconite 200 would do good. Natr. Mur. 200 has made my mood good and removed lethargy in the beginning of summer earlier and it relates to so many things but there is one mismatch that I have liked to be consoled most of the time. Gelsemium too is on list.
Then Lyco always comes to mind.When I took Lyco 6c, the next day I felt a glimpse of thrust and motivation in office lost long back. I have already posted this. (And then I have taken Lyco earlier.)
I was reading Kent's Lectures on MM and in 'Senega' it is written 'But when we have given up all hope, then we pay more attention to the most painful parts; we pay more attention to the local symptoms, to the group which causes the most suffering and attempt to do patch work.......If the sufferings in the chest and the exhaustion become most severe it is true that Arsenicum will patch him up a little and make him feel more like life, and he will go on to the end with more comfort. If the pains......Yet with these one may take a consumptive patient in comfort to the very grave, by simply patching him up and prescribing for his immediate sufferings. Homoeopathic remedies give these incurable sufferers much greater comfort than sprays and anodynes.' I have started to feel that I should be patched up.

Again in Kent's Lectures on MM I happened to read Silica, '....he feels his own selfhood so that he cannot enter into his subject, he dreads it, he fears that he will fail, his mind will not work, he is worn out by prolonged efforts at mental work....ut he will say that when he forces himself into the harness he can go on with ease, his usual self-command returns to him and he does well; he does his work with promptness, fullness, and accuracy. The peculiar Silica state is found in the dread of failure....If he has any unusual mental task to perform, he fears he will make a failure of it, yet he does it well. This is the early state; of course there comes a time when he cannot perform the work with accuracy and still he may need Silica.
Another case is illustrated in a young man who has studied for years and is now nearing the end of his course. He dreads the final examinations but he goes through them all right, then a fatigue comes upon him and for years he is unable to enter his profession. He has this dread of undertaking anything.....'. This description matches me well at present including the dry falling hair, etc.

Comment set-5:
My observations (and feelings) about time of remedy action are still the same. The onset of action is usually few hours, maybe 15-20 minutes most of the time, maybe 1-10 hours. The continued action is for just few days, whatever the potency. The 6c and 30c work for just a day or two. The 200c may work up to 3-6 days. I feel it works for 2-4 days only.
For me the 1M never works, except that when earlier doctor prescribed Natr. Mur. 1M weekly for a month about 8 years ago.
LM potencies work well and there is the additional advantage to change the remedy in 3-5 days so no frustrating patience needed. But again, I am well with LM4 LM5. I have taken LM5 earlier and that is what has gone deep enough and created similar symptoms and perhaps extinguished them to an extent. Of course the same was found with mother tinctures (Hydras. Chel. Berb. together) and with Aconite 200c on one occasion. Of course all those won't be 'similar' now.

Comment set-6:
My latest symptoms as I feel:
1. Liver most affected. Very very poor functioning. I have no doubt. Very convinced. There were so many things, mind, thoughts, reddish urine after beet-root, warm feeling under right ribs,.... too many things.
2. Mox was helpful even in acidity. But I could not have continued it for long without expert advise. I keep taking Pantodac. Recently I have felt better. There are clearly H-pylori and ulcer-direction symptoms.
3. Lack of concentration. Confused. Indecision. I have some lectures to take but first time I was unable to prepare well and half the course is almost over. One of greatest strengths is strength no more.
4. The pain that started on left elbow after playing badminton has become very regular. I can't get my hand straight. It is quite painful.
5. I cannot sleep early by say, 10 pm. Actually I always feel that I am missing something or forgetting something that was to be done. Also whenever I sleep, there are lots of thoughts. Bewildering thoughts of future, anxieties, worries, pending works. Now that I have recognized it, I try to control it by will power but it needs a homeopathic remedy.
6. The burden, stress of 'pending work' is one of my top problems. I always feel that things are pending. At office, at home. File work, other work, some repair at home, cleaning, writing letters/email to people, greeting others, meeting sick people, writing articles, studying, taking notes, and on and on......
7. My boss is obviously not aware of my mental state. But unintentionally he adds to the trouble greatly. He always stresses on doing things immediately and urgently. It puts a great burden on me because I am already trying to do things quickly to please him and to get myself 'off' the pending work. I always want to fight this situation by having tremendous energy. I want to stay late, move around endlessly without tiredness and then finish off. When this is to my satisfaction, I would stop. And then I can say 'no' also. It is well established that there does come such a point when I am satisfied. It is not that this a mania that will go on no matter how much I work. But actually I do not have even 20% of this energy and satisfaction comes very rare.
8. Morning I am able to control my thoughts better. At night before sleep, situation is terrible. I just keep on trying to do things. Then I just drift off by searching something else on internet and some other book or suddenly some TV programme. I mind takes a lot of time to relax and sleep.
9. After Mox and Pantodac, sleep is slightly refreshing but still that achy thing is there in forehead on getting up. Recently it is the harsh weather change.
10. At office, I have been assigned to attend a responsible meeting in morning. That stresses me because other works get held up. I get less time in day and I cannot cover up by doing extra work. Others do not have this problem. It is a typical situation where meeting is very imp when it is to be attended but later it cannot be an 'excuse' for jobs that are pending and also it does not get you any credits. I am like most people in our office who like to avoid meetings and the discussions and arguments but rather prefer the real work.
11. I am conscientious about things of small importance and this can be put to good use but I am unable to do so. I get into some chat too and then consume a lot of time.
12. I cannot take my mind off any topic fast. Any specific, peculiar thought or subject that comes to my mind goes on and on. I am perhaps trying to think all aspects of anything. I stick to one subject. I am speaking to myself as well as I am also planning how to convey something in the best way to others.
13. Throughout the day lot of my thought energy goes into making thoughts on how to convey things in most optimum way on forum so that I do not express too much and cause annoyance to a doctor but at the same time I convey all that is important. This thing burdens and stresses me very much. Whole the time I am worried about it. I am very concerned about getting a good remedy and feel well and then when I write I am very worried and stressed and afraid if the reader will be annoyed.
14. If I am not feeling well (3-4 days) after a remedy, I am convinced that new help is needed urgently but if I have to wait, it burdens me much. I feel I am trapped and feel very helpless. I can show rather scientifically with several experimental evidences that I am not incorrect. That is one more reason why I prefer the LM potencies. At least I can hope to switch over the remedy in 3 to 5 days. Of course, if something works too well and new remedy is not required, that would be the best.
15. This is very important. I am worn out and become aged. Chest has gone thinner and it has 'rough', dry hair. Hair on head and body have gone white/grey. Baldness on forehead side increased much much more. Dull lifeless dry hair.
I have reduced a lot. So much so that the spine and chest centre are one step thinner. On doing slight extra physical work, there is a pulse of pain in centre of cardie-thorasic region o twisting myself indicating that it may get locked stiffened and sort of sprained. Then it is quite a trouble for 2-4 days. (I have faced this earlier.)
This was confirmed when one person met me after a long time and said, 'Oh, you are looking quite 'down' and reduced and worn out....were you not well...?' And I had to answer sheepishly, 'Well, nothing like that....maybe there's more office load...that may be showing up...'
16. I repeat, my eye sight is severely affected in 3 weeks. I focus near objects and thus having trouble in reading. This is very frustrating since I never had eye-sight problems and I am very keen on not having them. In fact I have problem focussing everywhere. Most of the time there is a physical tension and strain on my face/forehead also.
17. I have a habit of plucking my hair on chest, esp. the white hair. This is because I don't like those dull, lifeless hair and also they get plucked out. Earlier I had a habit of plucking hair from beard whenever I did not shave for 2-3 days. I still do it sometimes. I keep on doing the plucking for several minutes before I realize that I have wasted time.
18. I sometimes feel lack of blood-circulation on left side. Also sometimes I have to rub the toe finger with next one. On doing it 2-3 times, I feel very uneasy there, as if it suffocated there.
19. The problem of acidity weak digestion, etc. is there as earlier. To it is added, occasional lack of appetite.
20 Frequent urination at times.
21 Lust for satisfying sex, esp. when body is slightly warm. Yes there is this connection between internal heat, physical heat of feverishness and inclination for sex. If rarely the body is cool (say after Mox or Ars. Alb.), then my interest is diverted to other works and I am able to do them better. (Muhammad had pointed out...)
The right testicle has shrunk so much that I keep feeling it to make sure the ball is there. I have dig it out and upward occasionally as I am afraid of pain if it remains pressed while sitting for long.
Penis has become small.
The most important thing is premature ejaculation that feedbacks to add more dissatisfaction.
22. When I am thinking something intensely or even talking to someone on a subject I suddenly forget the next important point. This frustrates me. When I leave the venue, I suddenly recall it again. If I think of a work and go out or in next room, after reaching I forget why I had come there.
23. I constantly have this feeling that I am forgetting something through the day.
24. In the past 3-4 weeks I have felt that this is nearly one of the most important points. My body is feverish. Before I took Mox, my pulse was rapid (maybe 80) even though temperature was not detectably high. Internally of course I was feverish. After Mox so many things improved and the pulse rate also reduced to normal.
Feverishness is a very key aspect in me. When very rarely I am not feverish, things are obviously well in all respects. (But Sulphur hasn't helped me.)
It may be noted that right from the childhood my palms are warm, much warmer than others. Hundreds of people who shook hands with me would feel that I had fever when didn't have. (Or did I?) They utter, 'Oh your hands are very warm / hot...'

Dear Sameer I hope this helps for next action. Just in case you prescribe something and it doesn't help, I will be inclined to take something else or maybe bio-chemic, etc. Kindly forgive me once or twice or thrice in that case. But let us hope that next remedy/dose will really help me.

Thanks.
Kindly see email too.

Kindly see another email. Sorry, couldn't avoid.

Feedback after Calc. carb. LM4.
1. Day 1 end I had to take Crocin and Pantodac. Just couldn't avoid.

2. Day 2,3 I had aching in heart region (left chest). It was very disturbing and I was slightly frightened too. One night my sleep was very bad. Some ache and palpitation in heart through the night while I tried to get better sleep. Signs of heart trouble were there.

3. The sinus type of ache hasn't gone in the sense it has come up twice in these 4 mornings. Doesn't feel like cured. But I had some relief. And I have felt lighter in head by 9 am.

4. Today (day 4 end) I had to take Crocin Pain Relief so I took Pantodac too. I was stressed due to office matters and further exchange of words with wife at home on that matter. I am feeling tired, upset, disappointed, depressed today. Occasional left chest pain.

5. Today after being stressed in evening, my left eye was red in corner. This has been so otherwise too.

Overall:
Not feeling better after Calc. Carb. LM4. Only the head felt slightly lighter in late morning. I am almost sure, my condition won't change much in one more day on Day 5 and since i am so tired, depressed, I just wrote the post.
[message edited by sci_spi on Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:25:42 CST]

Taken Nitric Acid on 28th January.
Calc. carb. LM4 on 19th February.
Lach LM2 in evening on 24th Feb.

And now over to Nataly.
Thanks Nataly first of all for commenting and suggesting a remedy. That shows your concern towards me and my sufferings and also shows good observations with respect to similarities with your husband.

Well, if you see earlier posts you will find that I already took Ars. Alb. 6 as prescribed by Sameer. And then a much deeper potency Ars. Alb. LM1 twice. 2nd time it did not benefit.

Also note that I have already taken Ars. Alb. 30 and 200 multiple times. In fact Ars. Alb. 200 doses have helped me many many times. I also conveyed it here and my mental frame and perhaps that is what you might be referring to.
Well, it is okay to think that way. But we must remember 3 things:
1. Sameer is an expert. If I were better expert, I should self prescribe and get well on my own. Even if Sameer thinks that my evaluation on Ars. is reasonable, he will perhaps say so and we have to let him say that. Otherwise he is sure Ars. isn't the best and we should follow him (even though we may persuade him to our thoughts for other possibilites).
2. Though Ars. was helpful almost all the times at 200 potency, I did not get very long term relief.
3. LM potency is deeper but the two doses did not make me feel great. And then it may still be indicated later.

So let us see.

No Nataly you are not overoptimistic.

You are very right in being highly optimistic about homeopathy. You are also correct in thinking that one good (and we mean the most 'similar') remedy can cure everything.
(Many times there are layers and levels of disease in us when more than one remedy shall be needed in a correct sequence.)

The only thing is there is lack of expert homeopaths around us.

This is end of 3rd day. But I must post.
1. My head was slightly lighter next day but no other improvement at all in 3 days. I am almost sure my state will NOT change suddenly in 2 days.

2. Day 2, was constantly walking and standing to show students different exhibits for several hours. By afternoon after 9 hours I was totally 'off'. Though I managed to 'drag', I am totally tired and worn out. There are few problems in taking holidays till March end. Otherwise I surely need holidays.

3. No enthusiasm for any work. I am feeling sick. No desire for sex but any short act out of habit further makes me tired. I am feeling sick right now.

4. Latest problem: Only one day after Lachesis dose I feel that 'meraa pet chhil gayaa hai', stomach feels bruised and pared and inflammed causing me to take Pantodac.
One or two loose motions. So I sense my stomach is going towards loose stools. They are typical gravy type and less sticky (and less dysenteric) indicating impairment of liver function.
Rumbling/tumbling in stomach.
(Situation spoiled by highly delayed lunch today. Delay was not in our hands.)


5. I also felt that my Hb may be decreasing. I also remembered (later) that at the onset of summer my Hb would go down quite an amount. This starts in Feb. mid to March mid.

6. I would have self medicated with China 30 for a 2-4 days relief but I am waiting for some reason. Also I feel that China may not help too long. Sameer, what about going with Lycopodium again? May be that was always good. Just that LM doses should have been controlled.

7. Body not exactly aching but stiff. Right-sided neck pain.

I am feeling quite tired to write post. And anyway lengthy stories are not required (perhaps)...

Kindly suggest a remedy quickly for lack of enthusiasm, rumbling/tumbling/diarrhea in stomach, body stiffness/lethargy, some sort of fever/warm body, very sick feeling.

I have observed that I would stay late till 11:30 or 12 at night and do many works in the silence and peace of night.

In the past few months I do not even do that. I go to bed much earlier. I do not have energy, for one, and I tried to avoid ill effect on health, for two, but in vain....

This is 28th Feb. noon in office.
I took Crocin in morning yesterday and Calpol at night.(Calpol is again Paracetamol but feels stronger so I took. Twice I had loose stools too.) I got very good relief with Calpol. I am okay here since morning. I also took Bifilac for prevention.
So I will wait till evening and then only go for Arg. -Nitr. 30c. I am quite afraid of the possible right sided headache after Arg. N. I will use at least 250 ml water!

Thanks Sameer. Very kind of you.

I took Arg-n 30c on 28th.

Mental state today:
Not feeling well. Body slightly hot. I just want to come out of work and relax for few days. External factors, actual overload, say, 30%. My feeling that I am overworked, worn out, tired, ~70%.
Please try to understand what is my state and feeling(s).
Difficulty getting up fresh. Then I feel very 'dry' and start feeling 'heat' or 'somewhat hot from inside'. The outer body is very dry and slightly hot. To the extent that I feel quite a discomfort on taking hot or cold water on body. Face very dry. Difficulty shaving. Then in office I just drag things. I may take Crocin if I feel unfresh and dull due to a 'heat' of body. Not much appetite. Office canteen is bit far. Due to slightly hilly terrain, it becomes hot from 9 am onwards. I find it difficult to tolerate.
Now as summer is picking up, I have to transit from AC (air-conditioned) rooms to non-ac rooms or outside in sun frequently. Everybody complains a bit but others tolerate it and even if they fall ill, they are able to get well. I am neither comfortable for even few tens of minutes nor I can concentrate. There is great discomfort and chill in AC and whole the time I am highly anxious if I would fall ill. At other times, I cannot tolerate transition to sun or very warm rooms. I feel extremely sleepy then. Even if I keep wanting to go to warm places, when I do, the change of cool to warm makes me sick, causes a state of fever.
It take several hours to stabilize thermally in the evening.
I cannot tolerate the air flow also. Be it a pleasant March air or be it not. I get feverish or have fever. The cold is caught but not in usual way. It gets viral.

In evening I feel extremely tired. In these two days, I felt that I must throw my body on bed and just lie down. I just couldn't get up even as there was no body ache. It becomes like low fever.

The whole day I cannot concentrate and collect myself, nor am I able to motivate myself to cross hurdles. This is due to a continuous LOW GRADE FEVER. I just pray to avoid difficulties...

Physical state:
1. Left eye is very red in the corner. Might be higher BP but still higher locally.
2. Felt slightly better in stomach after Arg-n but had to take Pantodac again today.
3. One outer blood vessel of left hand from shoulder to back of palm is aching.
4. I was having a slight bulge on forehead on the right in last 2-3 years. Others used to notice it sometimes. After Arg-n, it just shrunk down a bit.
5. Luckily I did not have right-sided headache.
6. Physically tired, dull feeling. Unable to carry out normal tasks.
7. Loose motion re-started. Farting.

Sameer, kindly suggest any other remedy at the earliest. I am trying to get info on what medicine my earlier doctor gave 3 years ago. Maybe Lycopodium. If I knew it, I would have tried it.
Anyway I need a medicine URGENTLY. Kindly suggest.