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I'd like to continue pms free-Would you help me?

Dear Doctors,

I have successfully cured my pms this month and, as I would like to continue pms free, I would like your advice:
As I had fluid retention (only on pms), and a strong craving for salt, I have taken one single doser of natrum muriaticum 30c. After 24 hours, I was cured, but only for 3 days.
After that, fluid retention was back and also pms. So I took 3 doses of natrum muriaticum 30c, during one day.

During the day I was taking it, I got really sleepy and cold (all day long, and the fluid retention got worse), then the next day it was much better, but I still experienced some fluid retention and some melancholy. So I took 1 dose of thuya 30 c and ALL THE SYMPTOMS GOT CURED! With just one single dose of thuya 30 c.

How should I proceed on next month in order to really cure this pms symptoms? Should I wait pms to start in order to take those medicines? Or can I take it in advance? Should I increase its potency? Or not?

Thank you so much for your attention,

Best,

Joana.
 
  abcjoana on 2010-06-14
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Joana

Repeat thuja 30c another dose when you feel this improvement is coming down or there's partial relapse. YOu can repeat thuja 30c two more times. Later if required higher potency may be applied.

Thuja may be acting as an anti-miasmatic, so if you have to change the remedy after thuja, please post your details, then a suitable remedy may be suggested based on your symptoms.
 
maheeru last decade
Hi Doctor Maheeru,
Thank you so much for your response. I really appreciate that!
But I guess, you misunderstood me: since I've already got my period, and I am now really good temper, I meant for the next month.How do I proceed in order to don't experience pms next month? The fluid retention always starts together with a some change in my mood. So, if nat. mur and thuja worked so weel together, should I repeat it?

Best,
Joana.
 
abcjoana last decade
Joana

If you had posted this before you took thuja, i'd have suggested you, to go upwards of nat. mur because it did give some positive effect with 30c. But now you have taken thuja 30c. I think it may not be the remedy indicated for you, but still it gives good effects because it's a complementary remedy to nat. mur and it could also be acting as an anti-miasmatic.

so your next course of action would be to repeat thuja 30c a couple of times when you get those symptoms again(you need not repeat thuja when you're feeling better). And after repetition of thuja in a couple of potencies and yet if the symptoms remain, then a suitable remedy may be suggested....for that you need to post your detailed case based on a questionnaire.
 
maheeru last decade
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Please give as much information as you can. Never feel that you're
'talking too much'.

Sex: Age: Marital status: Children: Occupation: Habits(like
smoking/ alcohol/ tobacco, partying etc):

1) Family Medical History:

Father/Mother:

Grandparents(Maternal and paternal):

Brothers and sisters:

Spouse and children:

2) Patient's Medical History: (Include vaccination history and the
reactions to them if any)

Major illnesses(Chronologically):

Operations(if any chronologically):

Present medication:

Previous medication:

3) a) Present your Complaints in order of priority:(Give as much information as you can in your own words without much reference to medical and technical terms.)

b) Can you connect these complaints to any other events? What was going on in your life personally, physically, emotionally, socially, environmentally when the complaints came on?

c) What are the things, which aggravate your suffering and which are those, which make you feel better? Example- time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing, movement, climate, music, consolation, thunderstorm, exam or other important events, smell, noise,light etc. Are you worse on any particular side of the body ?



4) Physical Profile:

Colour of hair: Colour of eyes: Skin: Complexion: Build: Posture:
Height: Weight: Nails: Other

5) Mental Profile:

a) Describe yourself in your own words:

b) Any grief, broken relationship, any anger/resentment against anybody, any fears, any phobias?

c) Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others?

6) a) If Female:(Describe in detail where ever necessary)

Age of Puberty: Cycle of periods:

Please describe the irregularities in periods, like pains, moods, flow
type, clots, sensations etc if there are any?

Pregnancy problems—before/during/after delivery: Number of pregnancies:

If Menopause—headaches/flushes/sweats/dryness/mood swings/memory?

Any problem with intercourse?

b) If Male:

Any problem with intercourse or sexual organs?

7) Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?

8) What do you crave for in food items and in general and what are your aversions in food items and in general?

9) Describe your thirst and hunger? (Examples: Average or Excessive or
thirstless or loss of appetite or any other associated details)?

10) Describe your sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
Are there any Recurring or significant dreams?

11) Describe about discharges (colour/odour/consistency)? [ Nasal, from ear or sweat (where do you sweat more? head/trunk/limbs etc), stool and urine.]

12) what is your preference—in climate, weather? (Examples: sun/shade/cold
dry/cold damp/hot humid/not extreme/well ventilated)

13) Other details you want to say or if there are any peculiar things going on in your physical or emotional plane.
 
maheeru last decade
Female, 32, Single, no children, Actress and singer
Like alcohol (wine, vodka, bear in that order of preference) once a week
Hate smoking
Usually go to bed around 5 am because of a inner disability to go back to sleep in normal time when not working (like a jet leg).

Family Medical History:
Mother: glaucoma, deviation in several point of vertebral column (with lots of pain), hair loss (she is almost bald on the top of her head), labirintythis, esophagitis or gastritis (when nervous), astigmatism, farsightedness.

Father: high blood pressure due to emocional stress, deviation in vertebral column (not so bad as my mum), slow digestion, he had a ulcer (not anymore), astigmatism, farsightedness.

Since I don’t know my grandparents, I only can tell few things about them:
Gradma (maternal) died of something related to uterus. Granfather (maternal) died from stroke
Gradma (paternal) I don’t know anything about her. Grandfather (paternal):died from cancer throat when he was 88.

Sister: she has menstrual problems and some skin problems related to stress, but she is a very closed person so I don’t know details.

However I don’t have a spouse my boyfriend is so much more than a spouse that I feel I should put him here: he has a very good temper, no healthy problems. Only a vestige of a not well treated panic attack: he is afraid of die, mostly by heart problems (although he doesn’t have any heart problems), he gets nervous only by talking about it and he has gone to several heart doctors in order to check up his heart. He is 25 and he is very healthy.

2) Patient's Medical History:
All riquered vaccination taken.
Chichenpox
Multiple throat infections
Earache
Allergies
Constipation
Menstrual cramps
Pms
Hepatitis A
Adult acne
Hair loss
Acute gastritis - not from stress, like my parents. It happens when I eat too spice food or eat too much in a restaurant (not at home).
Farsightedness
Some deviation in vertebral column
Chondromalacia on both knees (it doesn’t hurt)
Lombars ache (which is controlled)
Had policystic ovaries (cured)
Had hpv (cured)


Operation: I got a nasal turbinate surgery and, in the same surgery it was taken off a polyp from my nose (it’s a reaction from allergies.

The only not homeopathic medication I take for years is for menstrual cramps: (Carisoprodol 125 mg Diclofenac sodium 50 mg Paracetamol 300 mg Caffeine 30 mg Excipientes q.s.p.)
I took nat mur 30c and thuja 30 for pms which have successfully worked but letting my throat dry.


3) a) Present your Complaints in order of priority:
Pms – fluid retention mostly marked at breast, but I also feel fatter around hips and legs. It begins right after the ovulation is done and it duration is around 15 days. This period I realize I present some hair loss, some acne on face and some constipation. It seems that Nat mur is very good for my fluid retention and thuja for any kind of temper (bad or sad). Belly bloated.

Menstrual cramps –I always had menstrual cramps (since first menstruation) since my uterus is retro reversed but it is worse now after I have tried to use IUD (internal uterus dispositive) – I don’t have it anymore – It has caused me lots of problems during the use of it, so I took it off. But as a vestige, my menstrual flow has increased, causing me lots of menstrual cramp. I have a 4 days period. On the first, second day the flow is immense (also the cramps), in the third it diminish a lot (no cramps), and I would say I don’t have a 4th day, but it comes out around 7 drops of something brown. (I don’t even have to use a tampon). Before I use IUD my menstrual flow was normal on the 1 and 2 day and diminished on the 3 day. I didn’t have so much cramp either.
Never found a homeopathic medicine that could diminishes the pain. I have clots on flow.

I would appreciate if the medicine you’ll prescribe me could cure pms and also don’t damage my voice (like calcarea carb) since I need my voice to work.

b) Can you connect these complaints to any other events? What was going on in your life personally, physically, emotionally, socially, environmentally when the complaints came on?
The first time I have pms was when I begin my sexual life. I was 16. And it got worse after a period in my life when I felt too lonely, too homesick, too sad, too hopeless and also with a very strong felling of being misunderstood and stress.

c) What are the things, which aggravate your suffering and which are those, which make you feel better? Example- time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing, movement, climate, music, consolation, thunderstorm, exam or other important events, smell, noise,light etc. Are you worse on any particular side of the body ?
eating; Tight clothing; Movement – aggravates menstrual cramps.
Heat - Ameliorates cramps.
Strong exercise, sweating – ameliorates pms.
drinking alcohol – aggravates pms

4) Physical Profile:

brown hair with some blond glow
Brown eyes
white skin tending to a yellowish complexion
Posture: use to be really good. People used to ask me if I was a ballet practitioner. Now, because of the computer, not so good anymore.
1,70m
61 kg
Nails break easily

5) Mental Profile: Although I am sensitive and tend to suffer with bad news (felling it at my throat, heart and sometimes at my stomach) I usually have a good temper, being really happy and grateful most of the time. I get emotional easily listening to music, watching tv…
Sometimes, I suffer from lack of energy which makes me a little apathy.
I am impatient
I am usually running because I have too much to do.
I laugh for everything. I am always laughing.
I am really idealist.
I think I can make a difference in the world and help lots of people.
I am full of principles.
Fell the universe is abundant and that we have to share the knowledge we have.
Look for a deep spiritualization
Really attached to my parents
I hate futility.
I hate anything that separate people, generating intolerance: religions (when people can’t be open for something new in order to follow whatever your religion says, sex (woman or man), races (black or white), age (young or old), rich or poor and any other type of labels and groups.
Need to shower or exercise in order to feel lively.
Hate , hate, hate traditions. Like people to think for themselves, because I thing when you ONLY want to be socially correct you give up your happiness.

b) Any grief, broken relationship, any anger/resentment against anybody, any fears, any phobias?
I don’t like my sister in law because she is the type of woman that makes the world worse for any other woman to live. She is always picking on me. She is always telling me how much she thinks her brother is more beautiful than me. She will ask me how are our relationship and as I start telling she would say: nobody tells this thinks of my brother in front of me… She doesn’t want to be my friend. She just wants to pretend she get along with me to be socially correct, but she is too jealous of him. And she is too selfish. I don’t appreciate her.

Phobias – if the lock of the bathroom gets stuck, I’ll get claustrophobic. When I get locked in places where nobody can hear me asking for help, or where there is no passage of air (that kind of door that has a space underneath or below it) I got kidnap for 2 days, 15 years ago, and since that event I had this phobia. Sometimes I experience difficulties to breath and it will get better with fresh air, and worse for stuffy rooms.

Phobias – When I will pick up a plate to have lunch, sometimes I have to take the second on the pile or maybe the last one, otherwise I am afraid I will get pregnant (I really hate the idea) or something in my work will get wrong.

Age of Puberty: 11
 
abcjoana last decade
You have mentioned some conditions are cured in brackets, what caused the conditions go away?

when did you take Calc. carb. and how it impacted you overall? How it impacted your voice?

How do you feel about your boyfriend and your family?


what are the other homeopathic remedies you have taken in last 2 years?

Where do you feel fluid retention during pms?
 
maheeru last decade
You have mentioned some conditions are cured in brackets, what caused the conditions go away?
Well, my parents have treated everything allopathically. In my case some conditions have been cured by homeopathy, and others spiritually (by spiritual operation): my uterus used to be increases and my ovaries used to be with lots of cists. It was been spiritually operated and proven by laboratories exams (I have no cists anymore and my uterus is not increased anymore). Also, knee and lumbar back pain has been relieved by them. Other conditions that I may have written it was cured, it was homeopathy.


When did you take Calc. carb. and how it impacted you overall? How it impacted your voice?
Years ago, I used to take cal carb 2000 for pms. It used to work, but it got me really tired, with a very bad voice (I couldn’t sing properly) and a bit chicken. But actually I have taken cal. Carb 200 few days ago for tiredness and dryness of throat and I now feel great. (It was really dry weather, that’s why my throat was dry).

How do you feel about your boyfriend and your family?
I feel, there are no available words to explain the amount of love I feel for them. I really enjoy being around them, their company, their defects and their qualities. I feel I am privileged to have parents as loving, cute and funny as they are. They are the most precious thing God gave me.
I am really attached to them and I know it’s not healthy to be so attached because one day, they will die. I try to practice dettachment and tell myself that I will be ok when this day comes and that I’m privileged have them around for so long. But I do know that is the most difficult thing I will have to go through in life.

My boyfriend – Until I meet him, I thought I would never meet someone that loved me as much as my parents do. I always felt parents love would never be comparable. Then I meet him. He is the love of my life. My soul mate. My partner. My best friend. He is the best thing that ever happened to me.

What are the other homeopathic remedies you have taken in last 2 years?
All the medicines that had worked well and given me some relief or total cure:

Thuja 30c – for bad temper on pms. For dry hair, on left side,on the top of my head.

Nat mur 30c – for fluid retention, pms and salt cravings. For cold sore.

Arsenicum 30c + Nux vomica 30c + pulsatilla 30 – because I ate too much pepper. I really exaggerated. So I had one episode of pain on my stomach (I had never had before). After this 3 medicines, I got cured.

Chamomile 6 c – To stop traces of bledding between periods.

Calcarea phosphorica 30X – When I was 11, I had 1.71 (the height I have today) when I got a disease in my knees. Taking this medicine, I felt more courageous to talk to people (If I have to talk to not closed people, I will do but suffering, since I don’t feel so comfortable talking to not closed people) Nobody will realize, but I guess it’s a type of small fright. It also made me physically stronger with more energy and peacefull. My intestine was working better. But after a month taking it, it got me bored and with intestinal gases. So I stopped.

Coffea 30c – to sleep

Gelsemium 30 – for stage fright

Aconitum 30 – for stage fright

Hydratys + Aconitum – for difficult to breath when in stage fright. For difficult to breath at the exact time I go to be and lay down (it is worse in the summer), for difficult to breath when I get locked up in a bathroom (for example).

Medicines I didn’t appreciate:
Pulsatila 30c – for menstrual cramps (which I think, make it worse. And turned me into a chicken. I got afraid of everything. Really insecure. I didn’t like to fell like that).

Coffea 12c – to sleep

Ruta 6c – 3 doses a day. Made me depressed and my intestines stop working and it gave me a cold sore.

Ferrum phosphoricum 8X – for ferritin deficiency.
First day - First I got a bad effect, than a good one, than bad again: got my faeces black; first dose had produced a sore throat, but this has been totally cleaned after the second dose.It had produced too much gases, but then it stops. After first dose I felt no strengths, but after a few hours my strenghs are back.
Third and fourth day - Middle - flatulence stopped; sore throat stooped; tiredness stopped. Mentally and physically stronger. It has cured an light itchy on my throat I had for 10 years. (it usually was felt every time I went to bed)
Fifth day - a very bad ear ache, very bada sore throat, and a little bit of a headache. It hurts to swollow and also to move or talk. Lots of acne on face. So I stopped.

Calcarea carbonica 30 – 3 doses a day - 3 days before period - made pms worse. I got more tired. More sleepy. More hungry. More bad temper…

Ruta – for my knees (don’t felt weel and had to stop taking it)

Where do you feel fluid retention during pms?
I feel fatter when in pms. Breasts are the most affected, but I also feel (and see) ass, legs and belly bigger as well.
Although my belly doesn’t suffer from fluid retention, I guess it gets swollen.
 
abcjoana last decade
joana

Please take causticum 12c thrice daily(maximum upto 9 doses) next time when you get pms symptoms and report how you feel after that.
 
maheeru last decade
Hi Doctor,

Thank you for your precious help and time. I think it's very kind of you to spend your time with a total stranger. I have 2 other things to tell you about me (that I forgot and I think it's really important) and 1 question about the way I have to take causticum 12c.

I forgot to tell you that when I take calcarea it causes me back pain and my intestine works really bad.
And I also forgot to tell you that, when I fight with my boyfriend it seems I forgot about the love I have for him for a couple of hours (because of my angryness), I think about breaking up and feel our relationship is a waste of time. He says he can't understand how I can go from giving my life for him and then when we fight I tell he is the worse boyfriend ever. I feel it's because of my angryness that doesn't make me think properly. And with my parents is the same thing. When we fight, I always get disappointed with them and feel very hurt and alone. I, sometimes, fell I am much more mature them my parents are, they usually behave like child.

Ok. Let's see if I undertood how to take causticum properly: I will take causticum 12c - 3 times a day - maximum for 3 days, right? What I don't understand is: I have to take causticum only when I get pms symptoms? Or I have to report you when I get pms symptoms? Can I take causticum right now?
Thank you so much for your help and knowledge.

Best,

Joana.
 
abcjoana last decade
Joana

Not an entire stranger though :) I have already given suggestions for your mother's wrist fracture.

Now only you have taken thuja so no med. now. when the pms symptoms start you will be taking causticum 12c doses. If the symptoms go away with a few doses or if you notice any discomfort you will stop the doses otherwise you will take upto maximum of 9 doses. Depending upon your observation after causticum, it shall be given in higher potencies or a suitable complementary remedy may be suggested.
 
maheeru last decade
It's true. I have forgotten! But you don't.

ok doctor, I will take causticum 12c. Thank you so much!!!
Joana.
 
abcjoana last decade
Just so you know, the last medicine I took wasn't thuja. I took calcarea carbonica 200 last saturday (4 days ago), for lack of energy and also for pms (maybe it will work, I don't know). It has worked for lack of energy, but I am having nightmares, backache and my bellie aches: I think I have too much gases wich only makes my bellie aches (it doesn't come out). Backache and the bellie ache are similar: I feel both parts constricted.
 
abcjoana last decade
Joana thanks for letting me know, but please hold off any other medicine. We'll not be able to ascertain and assess the effects if energy medicines are taken so quickly. Also there's a risk of obscuring the symptoms.
 
maheeru last decade
Ok. I am not taking anything. I only took calcarea because I didn't know you would answer so quickly. Otherwise I wouldn't have taken. So... What should I do about causticum 12ch? Should I take it IF (I am being optimistic) I get pms symptoms or not? Let me know.
Best.
Joana.
 
abcjoana last decade
Yes joana go ahead with causticum when the pms symptoms appear. If the pms symptoms don't appear, you can take causticum 12ch after sufficient gap(4 weeks) has elapsed after the last dose of last medicine.
 
maheeru last decade
Every month, since more than a year I am bleeding between periods. It begins with ovulation and last about 4 days. Right before the pms symptoms begin. When it happens I feel weak, more sensitive than usual and sometimes I realize my hands shaking a little bit.
I thought it was something really important to tell you.
Thank you so much,
Joana.
 
abcjoana last decade
Ok. Go ahead with my earlier post.
 
maheeru last decade
Hi Doctor,
I am not taking causticum yet since I have no signs of pms.
But I am experiencing a earache in my right ear. I also feel some discomfort in the link between ear and throat when I swollow.
Can it be from calc. carb.? Does it mean I need a complementary medicine?
Does it mean I shouldn't have taken calcarea in the first place, and maybe it's a sign to antidote it? (But I have no signs of pms, and maybe calc.carb is curing it?)
Or it means I have to take a higher potency of the same medicine?
Or maybe it doesn't mean anything, and it is just a flu.
What are your thought about that?
Let me know.
Best,
Joana.
 
abcjoana last decade
Joana, There's a likelihood of it being flu(but one can't be sure, think about what started this). Unless the symptoms are worse and they persist anti dotes may not be needed.

If they persist and annoy you like an acute after a few days just put them in a perspective of cause, location, sensation, worsening and ameliorating factors, an acute remedy shall be suggested.
 
maheeru last decade
Dear Doctor Maheeru,

Causticum is a success!

Calcarea was horrible for me, since I had a horrible (and unusuall) pms!
Calcarea made me felt no desire to live; no desire to talk; I thought my life was worthless; I was ungry with lots of people... and got really depressed for 1 entire day. By night I start felling fluid retention on both breasts. So I took one dose of causticum 12ch (7 drops under my tongue).
After 30 minutes all mental symptoms were cured!
It was different from Thuja.
With Thuja, I felt happy but with Causticum I fell calm. Really calm and serene.
So, I start talking again, laughing and I woke up on next day with almost no fluid retention, just a little bit on the right corner or my right breast.
So, by night, I took another dose of causticum.
When I went to bed, I felt my heart beating too strong and fast but I fell asleep soon.
That remaining pain is still there. I fell great and this pain doesn't bother me at all, but I don't know if I should take other doses of causticum or not.
Let me know what are your thoughts about that.
Also, I read that causticum is good for ear buzz. Can my mum take it? She hears a buzz in her right ear for about two months.

Thank you so much!!!
You have increased the quality of my life and I am really happy for it!!!

Best,
Joana.
 
abcjoana last decade
...Please, read my last post since I am only updating it.
I realize causticum made me go back in time and remember some events I have forgoten. Some good events, and some bad, but nothing intense. It doesn't make me feel bad or happy. Even things that had happen 24 years ago.
I thought you should know that.
 
abcjoana last decade
Joana that's wonderful. Do not repeat the doses as long as improvement is continuing. Unnecessary repetition can spoil the good work.

You will know intuitively when to repeat when the improvement ceases or lessens. Only then repeat the doses.

Regarding your mum, i don't know her symptoms so i'm not sure about causticum helping her.
 
maheeru last decade
In order to know her symptoms better, should she answer the same questionnaire I did? Or it is not necessaire?
 
abcjoana last decade
Joana, more information based on a questionnaire would be good to choose a remedy that covers her as a person.
 
maheeru last decade
Dear Joana,
I get very happy when i see musician or music lover on this forum i am also a music lover,musicians are always under the blessings of god.Do you sing light or classical?
 
bapu4 last decade

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