Dr Nawaz, please suggest a remedy _{Page 3 of 4}

Ok, I'm writing down my current physical and mental state.

Physical symptoms:

- Stools are constipated. Sometimes hard and sometimes very loose. In morning complete evacuation doesn't occurs even after much straining and incomplete feeling remains. As I have already stated earlier that nature of my stools greatly depends on my anxiety and depression levels. More is the anxiety, more loose will be stools. Since past 2 weeks I am heavily depressed and stools are usually loose or narrow and constipated.
- Flatulence occurs all the day. Flatulence occurs more rapidly when I'm anxious with an urge to pass stools.
- Acid reflux extending upto throat which is consistent since 2-3 years. It becomes worse if I lie down or sleep after eating something.
- Headaches are occurring in the same way as I have stated earlier.
- Feeling of mucus in throat in morning. This is sometimes followed by runny nose not necessarily in morning. This doesn't happens everyday but occurs after every 2-3 days.
- Low appetite

Mental Symptoms:

- Extremely depressed, tensed and worried due to some events occurring in my day-to-day life. Sometimes I feel that I am thinking too much and taking tension unnecessarily (although not all of my worries are unnecessary) but I can't keep control on my mind as due to repeated failures I have become pessimist.
- Very lethargic. I am not finding will to concentrate my mind in doing something productive. I have lot of important work to do like studying, doing project work and preparing for interviews as I would be sitting for interviews from next month and my preparations for that are almost nil. I plan everyday to devote my time in completing some important work but whenever I start I get mentally tired and loose my will power. Then I just end up doing pastime activities like watching movies etc.

I might have not explained mental state in direct relation to events in my life as I am feeling hesitation in writing on a public forum.

Dr Nawaz

I have mailed you. Please check your mail.

My blood pressure is also high these days. Two days ago it was 136/98 with 120 bpm and today it was 146/90 with 72 bpm.
[message edited by nnrryy on Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:16:30 BST]

Dr Nawaz

I took Anacardium 200 as you advised. I am reporting after 2 days of taking the remedy.

I think this remedy showed some effect this time. My mind has calmed down a bit and I am not that much depressed as I was before. Although still I am thinking unnecessarily about too many things but I am not that much tensed as I used to be before. Anxiety still remains.
Among physical symptoms, since I have taken the remedy my bowel movement has improved. Now I feel the urge in morning as earlier there used to be no urge in morning. Constipation is reduced but not fully eliminated. Also I think there is also improvement in my headaches as today I did all of those things that aggravate headache in me like I drived for about two hours in morning then after that I am working on my laptop for about 6-7 hours and till now I haven't felt that bad headache. Although I felt slight pain about 3 hours ago but then I took a break for one hour and there was no headache. Right now I can feel slight heaviness in temples but I think it is much better than what it used to be before.

I think I need few more doses or perhaps a higher potency. Please advice.

Dr Nawaz

I am reporting you after one week of taking the second dose of Anacardium 200.

I didn't noticed any effect of second dose. Whatever improvement occurred it was after first dose only.

Please advice.

Physical symptoms-

After first dose of Anacardium, as I told you earlier my bowel movement improved. I am not much constipated now. Instead the stools are mostly narrow and loose or very loose. Frequency of headaches also reduced. I've noticed those headaches only twice since I've taken the remedy. No change in other symptoms and they are same as before.

- Stools loose and sometimes watery (may be because I'm suffering from too much anxiety these days and anxiety levels have direct relation to the nature of my stools).
- Flatulence continues throughout the day
- Acid reflux after meals is still same as before
- Headaches have become less frequent
- No new physical symptom

Mental Symptoms-

Anacardium helped me move out of depression and suicidal thoughts. Although I still think a lot, get tensed, and there is too much of anxiety these days but I'm not badly broken down as I was before. The same lethargic attitude is still there. Also these days I'm more worried as from the next month I would be sitting for job interviews and I'm very much scared of that.

- Extreme anxiety, constantly worrying on thinking that the worst will happen
- Lethargic and not interested in doing any mental activity like studying etc. Even if I try to do so, I can't concentrate.
- Confidence has improved a bit after Anacardium but still not enough for me to face oncoming situations like job placements and interviews.

As I told you earlier in that mail that I was undergoing a training, so in the last week the main cause of anxiety was that training only as I was supposed to submit final project report and I was worrying too much that whether it will be approved or not. But finally yesterday it got approved so I'm relieved from that side. So now I'm worried about my job interviews which will be starting from next month. This is because I fear and strongly dislike group discussions and personal interviews which are part of selection procedure of almost all the companies.

The above mentioned things are just recent and currently ongoing. These are not the only things that cause anxiety to me. Many day-to-day events cause of anxiety to me. In fact I was diagnosed with anxiety disorder in 2009 along with IBS. Since then I have noticed many different anxiety symptoms developed in me over time. I have symptoms of both - 'Generalized Anxiety Disorder' as well as 'Social Anxiety Disorder'. But I feel that I suffer from Social Anxiety more.

I am writing down some points that can describe my anxiety disorder problem.

- Excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry about everyday things such as family problems, friend problems, relationship problems or work difficulties. Symptoms that occur include palpitations, fatigue, fidgeting, headaches, dry mouth, difficulty concentrating, trembling, twitching, irritability, agitation, restlessness, hot flashes, inability to fully control the anxiety. Not all of these symptoms occur together but some at one time and some at other time depending upon the situations.

- difficulty concentrating and mind going blank, difficulty in falling asleep, restless unsatisfying sleep

- persistent, intense, chronic fear of being judged by others and of being embarrassed or humiliated by own actions

- overly self-conscious, pay high self-attention, have high performance standards, attempt to create a well-mannered impression on others but unable to do so

- after some event habit of reviewing anything that may have possibly been abnormal or embarrassing. These thoughts do not just terminate soon after the encounter, but extend for some days or longer.

- fear from activities that include any type of social interaction like parties, talking to strangers etc. Physical symptoms that occur are 'mind going blank', tremors, palpitations, dryness of mouth, not able to speak properly.

- ' WALK DISTURBANCE (where a person is so worried about how they walk that they may lose balance) appears, especially when passing a group of people ' This is a VERY IMPORTANT AND MAJOR SYMPTOM from which I suffer.


And at last I forgot to mention that 'she' (as I told you earlier in that mail) is also one of the cause of anxiety for me.
[message edited by nnrryy on Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:33:37 BST]
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[message edited by nnrryy on Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:37:48 BST]

I am awaiting your reply Dr Nawaz.

Thanks for your reply Dr Nawaz. Sorry if I was being very hasty.

I have Argenticum 200C with me but it will take some time for me to get Anacardium 1M. I will report after taking Anacardium 1M.

Dr Nawaz

Sorry for the delay. I was out of town for a week due to some urgent issues. So I was not able to get and take anacardium 1m.

Now I have got both Anacardium 1M & Argentum Nitricum 200. I will take anacardium 1M single dose tomorrow morning and will report you back after few days.

Dr Nawaz

It has been 4 days since i have taken Anacardium 1M single dose as adviced by you.

Till now I haven't noticed any significant effect and conditions are more or less same as before.

Now, when should I start with Argentum Nitricum 200?

Physical symptoms :

- Stools are sometimes constipated. Constipation is usually in morning. Stools are mostly loose.
- Flatulence has reduced but still during anxiety excessive flatulence, cramping pain in abdomen with urge to pass stool occurs.
- Headaches have returned and occur with same intensity as before.
- Acid reflux has reduced to some extent.

Mental symptoms:

- As stated in one of my previous post, anxiety is still present
- Lethargic tendency has reduced
- Memory has improved, I'm able to do mental activities like studying etc. better than before
- Frequently depressive thoughts come in mind
- Overall, I'm somewhat mentally stronger than before.

I took Argentum Nitricum 200C 5 days ago as adviced by you.

Since I have taken the remedy, I am noticing aggravation in symptoms that were associated with anxiety. Cramping pain in abdomen with flatulence and urge to pass stools has become more intense. Also, tremors experienced during anxiety have also become more severe.

Am I aggravating because off the remedy? Please advice.