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please help- am i proving or aggravated
I came off antidperessants about 4 months ago which i originally took ( unwillingly) for 5 years for generalized anxiety disorder and a general dark mood which led to a severe nervous breakdown. all was going well until life thrw a few curve balls at me and i became angry and disappointed a the universe and just wanted to give up.I have never discovered a single consitiutional remedy but often found Aurum was the closest. This did not work, so about a month later i took a single 200 Arsenicum, as it seemed to fit the picture - particularly the high level of anxiety i was feeling.
Four days later i became very dry and developed a severe cold and cold sores, and I do not know whether i have proved the remedy or if this is part of an aggravation/detox process. how do i know? some schools of thought say aggravations go quickly but others say they can last a long time.and what do i do if it is?
mickonz on 2011-01-20
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♡ Homeopathy International 1 last decade
An aggravation, in a chronic disease, might last a few days to a few weeks. Typically I would not expect to see an aggravation last more than a week except in the most sensitive patients. Long aggravations may be because the potency or dose were not appropriate.
An aggravation is your current symptoms getting worse. A proving is new symptoms you have never had before, or your normal symptoms take on new qualities. An aggravation is followed by improvement if the remedy is curative. A proving is usually meaningless in terms of cure (and again mostly happens if the method of dosage is not appropriate).
If you have developed new symptoms, or your current disease has taken on new qualities as a result of a potentized medicine, then the only way to deal with that is to have the correct medicine prescribed for you, taking into account both your typical symptoms plus the extra ones.
An aggravation is your current symptoms getting worse. A proving is new symptoms you have never had before, or your normal symptoms take on new qualities. An aggravation is followed by improvement if the remedy is curative. A proving is usually meaningless in terms of cure (and again mostly happens if the method of dosage is not appropriate).
If you have developed new symptoms, or your current disease has taken on new qualities as a result of a potentized medicine, then the only way to deal with that is to have the correct medicine prescribed for you, taking into account both your typical symptoms plus the extra ones.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
thanks brisbane
because my symptoms are mostly mental/emotional and pretty extreme and deep my sense is that these symptoms did not get aggravated, but other aspects fitting in with the remedy picture did - such as the dryness which i was not aware of before but may/may not have been there as i was focussed more on the personality aspect.
if i HAVE proven should i just leave it to run its course or should i antidote. to be honest i am getting rather despairing about my symptoms. my homeopath gave up on me. ive put my details down here. Anyhting you feel may help i will be very grateful.
Gender: male
Age: 43
Body Type: slim,
Height: 5 11
Weight: 12 stone (168 pounds)
General appearance: slim, fairly broad shouldered, sallow/pale mediterranean, shadowy eyes, black curly hair, brown eyed, worried/shocked look.
Have you used homeopathic medicines before? If so what, and what homeopathic potencies did you use? Seen a homeopath for 20 years originally for mouth ulcers. He gave up saying I was an enigma . never found a consitiutional remedy but aurum, anacardium and nat mur were the closest, however I have also needed baptisia and bryonia for flu and tried sulphur, mercury, ignatia, staphisagria, lycopodium among others usually at single dose of 200. I am extremely sensitive in reaction
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Please answer the following questions in a descriptive manner after careful analysis and recollection of previous experiences and happenings.
1. Describe your main suffering?General anxiety disorder,depression, despair,disappointment, guilt and feeling of being malformed on a developmental level. Inability to get on with life because of extreme intensity of feeling and feeling of going mad. Had two major breakdowns
2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body? Otherwise fit. Some minor athletes foot, tight chest. Occasionally digestion difficulties and loss of appetite.
3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings? Of not being good enough not AT things but as a human being. As if I am not meant to be here and have to be perfect to have a right to be alive.
4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words. As if my experience of the world around me becomes too intense- on an existential level. I cannot bear it and I just sob in panic. I feel things are not real and my thoughts turn to the sense I should not exist and this scares me puts me in panic. My anxiety makes me pace and I feel helpless and as if it will never get better, that I cannot function like this in the real word and therefore my future is doomed and I should give up all my dreams. I feel that I dont know where anything is coming form and that the answers are not in me as if I have no guide I am just abandoned in life an things just get worse. Very negetive
5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease? All my life I have had a sense of gloom under everything. Ratheer than a spark of light I had a deadness, and I have always had to pull up my bootstraps to create energy and achieve, as If trying to run away form it. It exacerpated as I got older, despite attempts to deal wit it. I suspect I was physically and emotionally abandoned as an infant and grew up with a very critical father and loving but undemonstrative mother.
6. Which time of the day you are worst? In bed before sleeping. 5 pm. Sometimes on rising if I dont have anything to do.
7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same? Example- time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing etc. ameliorates: coffee, walking in fresh air, aggravates: concentration, computer, fiddly mental work (accounts), trains and planes, stuffy heat.
8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)? Looked at food allergies and diet, and am adjusting to period of coming off SSR!s (4 months now)
9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather? Cold , dry. Often have a fan on at night even in wnter.
10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc. moody, intelligent, quick, changeable, funny, unsure, polite with a bite, resentful of the universe and people, aloof, compassionate.
- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm? Excited, In need of relief. Hate it if it does not actually happen.
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times? I fantasize of being consoled but rarely like it as it is disappointing.
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc? Sounds make me jump and go though my brain
- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
Weeping, talking to one self etc? Cry once a day, fast and jerky moving, touch my face a lot, talk to myself when angry, hard to settle.
- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife? Single. Can be aloof with friends disappointed because they cannot help me. They rely on me. Rather like they are pointless.
11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly? I fear being nothing. Of never achieving anything long lasting. and the illness makes that more likely. I fear authority figures, always thinking I am below them, but get angry and militant about them in private. I fear heights and spiders.
12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions? Crave: coffee. Aversion: anchovies
13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?
14. How is your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?
15. Is there any kind of food which your body cant stand? Milk
16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs? Normal
17. How is your bowel movement and stool type? Regular, knotty
18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping? Well. Racing thought before going to sleep. Some panic. Start on back, turning to right side. Wake with covers off,
19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general? No, extremely averted to sex and intimacy
20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others? No sexual relations. Often contrary - I will always look a the other side of the argument even if I dont agree with it. A sense that there is something wrong with me. That I am malformed on a soul level. I cant seem to cope with everyday , mundane activities without getting very anxious.
21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication? SSRI cyprolex which I was on for 5 years and had every side effect under the sun when going on them - screaming, suicidal, panic, vomiting, depersonalization etc. this leveled out and I started ot feel better, but slightly one step removed form everything.
22. What major diseases are running in your family? Heart disease. cancer
23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance.
(For Females)
24. If your menstrual cycles are not normal, please describe the irregularities, like pains, moods, flow type, clots etc.
25. What major diseases have you had in your life and when. Please write them in a chronological manner.
Childhood: chicken pox
Mumps
Measles
Mouth ulcers
Conjunctivitis and hayfever
Teenager
Allergy asthma
depression
Age 22; Hepetitus A, pneumonia , tonsiltitis ( all at the same time)
35 : major nervous breakdown. Genral anxiety, depersonalization, depression.
because my symptoms are mostly mental/emotional and pretty extreme and deep my sense is that these symptoms did not get aggravated, but other aspects fitting in with the remedy picture did - such as the dryness which i was not aware of before but may/may not have been there as i was focussed more on the personality aspect.
if i HAVE proven should i just leave it to run its course or should i antidote. to be honest i am getting rather despairing about my symptoms. my homeopath gave up on me. ive put my details down here. Anyhting you feel may help i will be very grateful.
Gender: male
Age: 43
Body Type: slim,
Height: 5 11
Weight: 12 stone (168 pounds)
General appearance: slim, fairly broad shouldered, sallow/pale mediterranean, shadowy eyes, black curly hair, brown eyed, worried/shocked look.
Have you used homeopathic medicines before? If so what, and what homeopathic potencies did you use? Seen a homeopath for 20 years originally for mouth ulcers. He gave up saying I was an enigma . never found a consitiutional remedy but aurum, anacardium and nat mur were the closest, however I have also needed baptisia and bryonia for flu and tried sulphur, mercury, ignatia, staphisagria, lycopodium among others usually at single dose of 200. I am extremely sensitive in reaction
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Please answer the following questions in a descriptive manner after careful analysis and recollection of previous experiences and happenings.
1. Describe your main suffering?General anxiety disorder,depression, despair,disappointment, guilt and feeling of being malformed on a developmental level. Inability to get on with life because of extreme intensity of feeling and feeling of going mad. Had two major breakdowns
2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body? Otherwise fit. Some minor athletes foot, tight chest. Occasionally digestion difficulties and loss of appetite.
3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings? Of not being good enough not AT things but as a human being. As if I am not meant to be here and have to be perfect to have a right to be alive.
4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words. As if my experience of the world around me becomes too intense- on an existential level. I cannot bear it and I just sob in panic. I feel things are not real and my thoughts turn to the sense I should not exist and this scares me puts me in panic. My anxiety makes me pace and I feel helpless and as if it will never get better, that I cannot function like this in the real word and therefore my future is doomed and I should give up all my dreams. I feel that I dont know where anything is coming form and that the answers are not in me as if I have no guide I am just abandoned in life an things just get worse. Very negetive
5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease? All my life I have had a sense of gloom under everything. Ratheer than a spark of light I had a deadness, and I have always had to pull up my bootstraps to create energy and achieve, as If trying to run away form it. It exacerpated as I got older, despite attempts to deal wit it. I suspect I was physically and emotionally abandoned as an infant and grew up with a very critical father and loving but undemonstrative mother.
6. Which time of the day you are worst? In bed before sleeping. 5 pm. Sometimes on rising if I dont have anything to do.
7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same? Example- time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing etc. ameliorates: coffee, walking in fresh air, aggravates: concentration, computer, fiddly mental work (accounts), trains and planes, stuffy heat.
8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)? Looked at food allergies and diet, and am adjusting to period of coming off SSR!s (4 months now)
9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather? Cold , dry. Often have a fan on at night even in wnter.
10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc. moody, intelligent, quick, changeable, funny, unsure, polite with a bite, resentful of the universe and people, aloof, compassionate.
- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm? Excited, In need of relief. Hate it if it does not actually happen.
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times? I fantasize of being consoled but rarely like it as it is disappointing.
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc? Sounds make me jump and go though my brain
- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
Weeping, talking to one self etc? Cry once a day, fast and jerky moving, touch my face a lot, talk to myself when angry, hard to settle.
- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife? Single. Can be aloof with friends disappointed because they cannot help me. They rely on me. Rather like they are pointless.
11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly? I fear being nothing. Of never achieving anything long lasting. and the illness makes that more likely. I fear authority figures, always thinking I am below them, but get angry and militant about them in private. I fear heights and spiders.
12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions? Crave: coffee. Aversion: anchovies
13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?
14. How is your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?
15. Is there any kind of food which your body cant stand? Milk
16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs? Normal
17. How is your bowel movement and stool type? Regular, knotty
18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping? Well. Racing thought before going to sleep. Some panic. Start on back, turning to right side. Wake with covers off,
19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general? No, extremely averted to sex and intimacy
20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others? No sexual relations. Often contrary - I will always look a the other side of the argument even if I dont agree with it. A sense that there is something wrong with me. That I am malformed on a soul level. I cant seem to cope with everyday , mundane activities without getting very anxious.
21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication? SSRI cyprolex which I was on for 5 years and had every side effect under the sun when going on them - screaming, suicidal, panic, vomiting, depersonalization etc. this leveled out and I started ot feel better, but slightly one step removed form everything.
22. What major diseases are running in your family? Heart disease. cancer
23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance.
(For Females)
24. If your menstrual cycles are not normal, please describe the irregularities, like pains, moods, flow type, clots etc.
25. What major diseases have you had in your life and when. Please write them in a chronological manner.
Childhood: chicken pox
Mumps
Measles
Mouth ulcers
Conjunctivitis and hayfever
Teenager
Allergy asthma
depression
Age 22; Hepetitus A, pneumonia , tonsiltitis ( all at the same time)
35 : major nervous breakdown. Genral anxiety, depersonalization, depression.
mickonz last decade
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