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Dear doctor
I took the Sulphuric acid as you prescribed two weeks ago. I found an improvement. I am less angry and irritable but still find it difficult to things calmly(while I do something I keep thinking about what I will do next and I can't wait to finish), the impatience is till there. Do you think I should repeat it or try something eles?

The sulphuric acid has helped for the anger and the irritability. The impatience is still there, the feeling of having to finish quickly and hrying people is still there. I think the improvement is not fading away, but the great feeling of peace I got with stramonium, the beautiful dreams, they are not there. Stramonium was the one which for the first time made me feel at peace with the world and myself, mature, tolerant and centered. But, unfortunately did not last. It was Stramonium 200. Do you think I should have repeated? Please what does the interjection of the juewish homeopath mean? I am not knowledgeable enough to understand it, but I would like to.

Actually, remebering better, I did repeat stramonium 200ch which was not in a single dose but granules, but when I repested it didn't have the same effect. Do you think I should have gone higher. Stramonium was really magic for me.

I don't know if it is relevant, but I should say that I come from a very hot blooded family on my father's side. People who are very reactive to offenses. There have been homicides to. They were related to offenses done to a relative, and happened in the 19th century. I know that this kind of blood is in my veins too, I feel sometime I want to kill, though i am sure I wouldn't do it; however the spite I feel for people who offend me is sometime very strong and out of proportion. I think also my impatience is genetic and so my proneness to rage.

I will take another dose of sulphur acidum before I change to something else. One thing is certain about this remedy: it allows me to see myself, to think brfore I act and lose my temper and also whilst i have lost it. As for the causticum, it has also many affinities with me. I am an idealist, with a strong sense of justice and i am very intolerant to strong light, noises and smell.
However, I have another serious problem which I don't know whether it is related, though certainly aggravates my irritability, and if it can be cured by th same remedy. I am constantly ill, especially in winter. But also in summer. All it takes is a draft, or someone carrying a virus, or mychildren coughing or sneezing in my presence and I will develop the symptoms of a cold. Often head ache, ear ache, pains everywhere fatigue,and especially pains behind the neck. It happens literally every week, at least, but sometimes I pass from one bug to another. I live in a turistic town and people coming from all over the world bring many viruses. The area is also very humid so it offers a good milieu for the viruses. The actual illness does not last long,half a day or a day. I take an antiinflamatory or two, like paracetamol and the symptoms improve. But it is as if I was never really cured. It can be caused by any type of wheather, it is often caused by changes in wheather, but also, as I said, by the carrier of a bug. It is very distressing, because I am poorly almost all the time. I have three very young children and it is not easy. Do you have any clue? This is also a chronic condition ( more than twenty years.)

tummy bugs, like a gastric flu, are also very frequent in this area, and if there is one going around, I have no escape.

I should also say that I suffer from chronic rinitis from an allergy to mould which is ever present in our area. I would like to know what plan of action I should follow now. Do I repeat the acidum sulfuricum? and in the same potency or a higher one?

I did not experience an aggravation. I took the acidum sul once in the 200ch, single dose. There was no major improvement, maybe a bit more control on my anger. I am still impatient, and certainly there was no change in my frequent colds. I catch everything goes around, cold air, and darafts are also very bad for me. My illness which is quite intense, though generally no fever or very little, only lasts a day and it improves with antiinflamatories, like paracetamol. Should I mention that as a child I suffered from pleuritis at the age of ten and at the age of 13 I had an inflamed spleen which was cured with antibiotics and apparently caused by infected shellfish. I was also born with a stricture in the right ureter which was probably causing a general vulnerability, but was discovered only when I was 39 and I was operated. I had a voluntary abortion at the age of 30, because my iron was too low (as I discovered later) and for that reason I became at the beginning of the pregnancy very depressed and could not bear the idea of carrying a child. By then, I was already suffering from this extreme proneness to colds. I can say with almost certainty that everything started when I got chronic sinusitis at the age of 23. At that point, my health started to deteriorate.

Following HI1 advice I have filled the patient form as follows.

1)My main problem now is pronenes to catch a cold, a head virus or a tummy virus. I live in a turistic town by the sea in south of Italy, constantly visited by turists from all over the world and there seems to be more viruses going around here all the time. Almost every week, sometime even twice per week I catch a cold with flu like symptoms. I feel cold, aches, head cold or/and ear ache, slight temperature sometime, or if it is a gastric flu, bad tummy and flu like symptoms. When this happens, I always find out that somebody else has got it. But I get it every time. I am very sensitive to drafts and wet wheather. I have suffered from chronic sinusitis for more than twenty years, of allergic nature(mould). Until 5 months ago, I suffered of another problem, for me more invalidating because almost constant, which also started more or less twenty years ago. A proneness to edema with a sudden listlessness. Complete lack of energy, worst in windy days when more allergens move around. In some days or moment of the day when the wind would start, I felt deprived of all energy and suddenly got bloated everywhere. Then in August, I took a remedy for water ritention: natrum sulfuricum 7ch. After ten days or so I felt my energy coming back, I did not feel tired anymore and I had lost weight, the edema had gone. I stopped the remedy, because i feared making things worse. I could not believe it, for years I have been battling against this tiredness which in summer with the hot humid wheather became chronically unbearable: to move around was so tiring that I hardly went anywhere. Suddenly I felt a normal person again, not complaining all the time about my exahustion. The problem left now is this vulnerability to viruses or whatever. Still, my quality of life has improved so much after the natrum sulf, that I could bear to live with this illness if I have to. Another help I have received from homeopathy, has been the mezereum for infected sinuses. For years I have had a recurrent infection with discharge of yellow-green stringy mucus.Also this was almost constant and worst on windy days, accompanied by a sleight temperature. After the use of mezereum 15ch for few dys and repeated for one day after a month because the symptom returned, also this has disappeared. Now the problem I am left with is this recurring flulike symptoms and a very impatient nature.
2)I don't seem to have any other symptoms. As a child I have had pleuritis, age ten, inflamed spleen from seafoods, and after an episode of kidney stone, I discovered that i was born with a narrow ureter because an artery was pressing on it. So I had an operation to correct this problem. I have also suffered from chronic malaria when I lived in Africa from 1998 to 2000, and this was caused by the bad flow of urine because of my ureter. However I felt no discomfort in that area and it was discovered only accidentally because of the kidney stone. I have had since the age of 23 a problem with water ritention.
3)I don't have mental sufferings except for feeling impatient and intolerant sometime. Worst when I am physically unwel, of course.
4)From a physsical point of view I feel like I have a flu. It can start with aches and a blocked nose or head, or tummy problems like nausea or diarrhea. Or it can start with an unusual tiredness and then cold symptoms come. From a mental point of view, my problem is impatience. I can't wait for people to do things. Especially impatient with my children who are understndably slow in doing thigs for they are 5 and six. I feel this impatience when I eat, because unless I am really enjoying th company, I feel uneasy and want to finish quickly. I never sit at the table if I am on my own and I don;t even cook for myself alone, just pick.
5)My physical problems started at age 23. I think they were caused by both this crushed ureter and by the fact that since a very early age I have been sleeping next to a damp and mouldy wall. This determined the onset of allergic chronic sinusitis.
6) I am at my worst in the morning. And the worst morning are those when there are more mould in the air. They can be very dry windy days or very wet days, it depends.
7)I am at my worst in humid wheather. I feel very intolerant when I am cold. I am amelirated by warmth and by rubbing my skin hard. In fact to feel better in the motning I take a hot bath and rub my skin
8)I am generally better in cities where there is no much pollen and mould. So dry cities, but not too polluted by exahust fumes. This latter might have been the trigger of my edema, because it appeared when I was living in central London after a stressful event.
9)I feel better in hot dry weather
10)I am sensitive, I like company but I also need to be alone because I am a philosopher, so I write and read a lot, I don't like to talk with my children much, nor play with them, but I am very warm as a mother, always kissing and hugging them, though. I always require an explanation for what is done or thought by people. Very analitic and also able to compromise when the other is also ready to give in. But I can be very stubborn.
Before the natrum sulf, I was very bad before a thunderstorm, felt extremely tired and also depressed. Now I am affected much less. I love a thunderstorm, it makes me feel happy, energysed and calm.
I like consolation, tough I am not the person who talks about her problems to people. i only like consolation from my partner.
I am very sensitive to light, to noses and smell, I don't like too much of them.
I don't think I have unusual habits'
I am very protective mother, I worry a lot. I am affectionate in general as a person, but also very selective. I don't have many friends but inly few people I am truly fond and close to.
11) I have a phobia of mice and in times of stress I have dreamt about them. I used to dream of taking the lift to the wrong floor and be very scared, or that I was on a shaky stairflight, or that I was lost in a place. When I took Stramonium I had beautiful dreams about homes where I would like to live.
12)I love chocolate, I often crave cooca in general. I don't like nor dislike particular food, some food like milk, fish and some vegetables are not good for my tummy. But I don't dislike them. I don't like very cold drinks because they disagree with me.
13) I would say my thirst is normal
14)My hunger is normal
15)I don't think so.
16)My swet is normal. Mybe under the arm and the pubi area
17)If I am Physically well my stool is normal, but when I am not well or there is a lot of mould, it is soft and can be watery.
18) I sleep all through the night, but I could not sleep without earplugs. The slightest noise even the crackling in the furniture or the soft breathing keeps me awake
19)I don't think I have sexual desires
20)I like pressure on my body, what would make most people feel pain, it gives me pleasure. One peculiarity about me is that when I see people cleanig or arranging things, I feel as if they were touching me and feel a wave of sleepiness. Very nice. When in a dark room I feel I am in danger so I have to reach for the light immediately. As a child I would wake up at night if the electricity went off.
21)I have seen many doctors for my edema and allergy. I have been prescribed cortisons and antibiotics, quite a lot, for my sinus problems and they have not helped. I have taken some vaccine enzime for the allergy, but no good result. I have taken some remedies: Natrum sulph 7ch. Stramonium 200. I have described the reaction to them. From this forum I was prescribed for the impatience and tried nux vomica, arsenicum album, sulphuric acid, but my situation is stable.
22)In my mother's family there is diabetes (old age type) and cardiovascular diseas. On my father's side there is cancer and a bit of xsenile dementia.
23) I am medium height, dark hair, pale skin, I have always been the same weight, except for fluctuations due to water ritention. My weight is normal for my height.
24)I am 48 and my period has parctically gone, with no discomfort so far.
25) I have already answered this question

I would like to add that when I wait for some member of the family to come back I become very anxious and I start anticipating bad news. I can easily get a nervous tummy problem

I have not repeated it, should I? I didn't really get any improvement from it the first time. I mean, when a remedy has worked for me, like the natrum sul, or the mezereum, it has been quite dramatic and stable. I was surprised about the stramonium because at first the reaction was so strong, the beautiful dreams, a sense of calm and not feeling impatient anymore, almost a sense of maturity, as if I was free of my faher's influence, whatever that means, is what I felt. I can't say why. One of the reason I thought that stramonium was my remedy is the fact that the noise of pouring liquid at the table can make me feel very uneasy, embarassed, if it is a formal situation. Even that has to do somehow with my father, I feel he is in the picture, but I don't know why. However, the effect of stramonium 200 did not last and when I repeated it, did not work.

i created a new thread stramonium2, with the QA answers:
http://www.abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/255542/

I would like to try a higher potency in that case. What do you suggest?