In pain.

I also vomit if I don't take my anti-anxiety pills. My anxiety is severe.

Thank you. I'll go pick it up at the herbal store. Should I continue my regular meds or should I stop?

I couldn't get it in a dilution so I bought them in pellets. How many should i take and how?

Also, should I get worse before I get better, or should I get some relief right away?

Day 1 -
So far after 2 hours of taking the ignatia I am feeling much more alert and having more interest in life as before I couldn't even watch tv and I had no appetite and when I ate I would throw up. Had a few tics and spasms at first and especially in my jaw and leg muscles, but then they disappeared, the neck twitches are without pain and my jaw has loosened up but still in pain. I am, however, having an upset stomach which feels almost like hunger pangs and I'm wondering if that is not because of my gallbladder stones that I'm supposed to get removed but hoping I can get rid of them naturally. Or maybe it's just because of the fact that I've taken so much medication in the past 3 years that now my stomach won't settle. Thanks.
Vera
P.S. I'm breathing better too.

It's around 4:00pm and my irritability came back again. My stomach won't settle but so far no major nervous twitches. I haven't taken the clonazepam or Epival due to not knowing if it's a good idea since those were the drugs that were affecting me bad. Thanks.

Hi Simone,
Thanks for the information, but in fact I was supposed to be taking a heart medication called propanolol because the doctor saw the dangers behind the meds I was taking. I have honestly tried to wean myself off to find that I'm in pain even on the lowest dosage, so I decided that unless the ignatia is not helping me stay calm then I may have no other choice but even to take a very small dose of clonazepam to avoid going off the wall. Unfortunately I don't get to see my psychiatrist until the end of August so I may have to deal with the tough withdrawals. Sadly.
Vera

Thanks Simone for the concern. I will do what I need to do to get better. So far had no use for it today. I had a mild irritation around 4pm but it was during my sleep as I need to rest a lot now and it went away. My mind is clearing up, the spasms are slowly dimishing, even the lockjaw. I can open my mouth without pain. The pain is only felt in my jaw when I move my mouth or if I get sudden spasms on the side of my neck, my right side. If you read up on side effects from psychiatric meds you will see that they can cause dangerous effects, and even death. (clonic spasms). This is what I'm trying to treat along with the mood disorder that accompanies that. In 3 days I have to report back to Dr. Yogesh. I'm hoping that until then I will be able to get better and if not I'm sure there must be a remedy for withdrawal.

Hi Simone,
I think I understand what you're saying. Today is day too of taking the ignatia and already I feel as if my body is going backwards. The rolling of the eyes and rapid eye blinking is gone, most of my muscles are more relaxed although my jaw is still hurting me and now my left arm (your right) is twitching from time to time. I still feel tense from the anxiety, although I can cope with it and sometimes irritation, no motivation yet to eat, my stomach hurts and now I'm getting these headaches I used to get in the back of my head. No mood swings. I think just plain anxiety and irritation, but without the crying spells and a horrible upset stomach. Food still continues to make it worse so even though I ate a bit last night it only aggravated me. I haven't left my bed except to come to the forum to post my symptoms as it may help the doctor see what's going on from day to day and see if I need to change remedies, go on a higher or lower potency, etc. I appreciate also your concern. Also, the vomitting has stopped and that was a big issue for me when it comes to my anxiety. Still cough a little when I'm anxious, can't stand too much cold or too much hot weather. Still to tense to watch tv. I'd rather sleep for now. The headaches are like those I used to suffer from when I used to suffer from major depression and that was a while back. Maybe I may need a natural anti-depressant without all those side effects that the psychiatric ones cause.

I meant to say that the food causes the irritation and anxiety to get worse and affects my jaw after I eat but I feel good while eating, causing me spasms again.
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I also need a remedy for getting rid of gallstones. I'm wondering if my stomach is not hurting me because of that. I have been burping (belching) quite often and it's bothering me.

I'm glad to have someone to help me get through this as you have Simone, because even though it's like a miracle cure, it's been painstaking, but then so are psychiatric drugs. A long time ago I was on Paxil and I suffered for 5 weeks because of it. At the time it seemed the better approach because I had seen a homeopathic doctor and he had not prescribed me the right remedy. He had me on avena sativa and that did nothing for me except increase my sexual drive which is not what I need or need. However, once you overdose on psychiatric drugs then you're pretty much screwed and until recently I was taking 6 different types of drugs to control my condition. It was a nightmare. My self-esteem went down dramatically as I went from 160lbs. to 245lbs overnight, and I'm only 5'3. Imagine that! Then I started trying herbal stuff without any medical advice and suddenly all drugs stopped having a positive effect on me. 3 years of constant suffering. Only now I finally found help and I may even lose the weight, I hope, because right now I'm still overweight. I'm suggesting to anyone on here not to give up on homeopathy. If it wasn't for this right now I would probably be stuck into a mental hospital undergoing electric shock therapy since the drugs stopped working. I'm never taking that garbage again. I just went outside for 1/2 an hour. I haven't left my room in days. I'm current 231lbs. just for having stopped taking anti-psychotics.
[message edited by veralucia1980 on Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:56:21 BST]

I'm very thankful to the creator of this site and the doctor who prescribed me the Ignatia. It's been a very long road to recovery. I was first diagnosed as having major depression at the age of 21, later on panic disorder at 24 where I was introduced to those horrible anti-anxiety pills that cause such a dependency, borderline personality disorder because I started cutting at one point, and recently bipolar, anxiety, and suggested (Tourette's), which is just the doctor's way of saying that I have clonic spasms due to overdosing on pills so they can't possibly be sued. My family gave up on me all these years, my friends left me, the nurses in the hospital, most of them, very rude and I was like a frightened little girl, not knowing what was happening to my body. I can now talk about it openly in this forum as I feel that here I have support. I lost 3 children to Children's aid because of my mental health, and after my overdose had 3 miscarriages that lead to a temporary iron deficiency anemia. That is gone now! My children luckily have my parents to care for them but it was because of that loss that I didn't want to live anymore. It was the wrong step but I was tired of being ill. I still have trouble bringing up phlegm but I believe this remedy will fix the way my throat works. I guess that should fix the gallstone problem then. I'm slowly getting the understanding I need concerning this remedy. It is my understanding that I'm only to take it again tomorrow and then stop, or maybe the doctor will suggest I take it for a longer period of time since I've been ill so long. That I don't know, and also I had no clue that you had helped psychiatric patients. It's very sad what I saw when I was last hospitalized. The only hospital that I was in and had an excellent psychiatric ward was one in Hamilton, Ontario. There they are patient with their patients and don't give them a hard time. Of course, though, not all nurses are bad either. Had some nurses who were very encouraging and helped me a lot during my first hospitalization. The second time around I felt like I was in prison, but I really don't look forward to a third time. I hope to never see a hospital again for a very long time.

Thanks Simone,
I was very scared when the clonic spasms started. I didn't feel normal anymore and the doctors seemed puzzled at first.
Anyways, I had a rough night last night. I couldn't sleep again because my neck muscles felt very tight and I did have a bit of rolling of my eyes after I ate dinner late last night, so again I keep feeling sick whenever I eat. However, today I found myself feeling almost irritation free, although my anxiety is still pretty bothersome and especially in my sleep. My stomach is not bothering me as much anymore either. My neck and jaw is what is afflicting me the most as expected since I've had really bad anxiety affecting those areas for a long time. This is the last day I was told to take the ignatia so now I need to know if I need to continue it since my symptoms haven't all disappeared yet or if I should stop it now and wait and see. I was thinking that maybe I should take it at night since it seems to relax me and help me sleep since night time seems to be so hard for me. Thanks.

Hi Simone,
I sent an e-mail to Dr. Yogesh and he hasn't gotten back to me yet. Maybe he'll get back to me tomorrow so I guess I should hold off on taking anymore Ignatia Amara until I speak to this person. Anyways, I just saw on a thread that the pill form is the same amount as the liquid form. I didn't know this and no one had gotten back to me so I followed the label and took five pills in the past 3 days. I hope this will not cause me problems because I was only told to take 2 or three drops and since I got pellets instead of liquid I just followed the instructions on the remedy, except that it says there to take it 3 times a day and I only took it once a day in the morning as Dr. Yogesh suggested.
My jaw is almost without pain and my neck stiffness decreased since my last post but it's the anxiety that comes with it that is putting me in a frenzy. I so hate having this problem. I hope I can have the patience to get through this because I don't know what else to do. I'm tired of being in pain. I hope I can continue to have you around to give me encouragement even though I've noticed how many people here are suffering and also need help.
Thanks,
Vera
P.S. I meant to say 5 pills per day.
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