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Hey there. Wondering if this is an aggravation. I took a dose of the remedy yesterday evening just prior to company coming over. It was a little stressful for me because the came really late and stayed late none I didn't really feel like visiting anyway.
So I took a dose preemptively, so to speak, and it had been a couple days anyway since the last one. Today I just feel like I don't want anyone around me, and I feel empty inside. I recalled reading somewhere in one of my herbal books about an 'all gone feeling in the pit of the stomach', so I looked it up online and Sepia came up in some material medical available online. So I know I'm on the right track, but I wanted to know, should I take more or is it likely an aggravation? Or just overdid it yesterday? I went to bed late, midnight, and hyphen Kody woke up early at 6am, and even with a 2 hour nap for me I still feel tired.
Also the last week or two, I have had a little rash on my face, on either side of the nose and down just a bit, just above the upper lip. It seems like I get it when I'm stressed. I have sort of fallen by the wayside with Tapping, and also I did shave off a bit of my antidepressant Paxil. Instead of half, I'm doing a third. It's helping as far as the sex drive goes, and I'm glad to be on less, but oh you know, it's frustrating to feel like I need it, you know?
I also feel like, in general, that whenever I do anything that I enjoy, it ends up turning into something that drags me down or feels like drudgery. So I always have to do stuff that is a very short-term, no commitment project, and in general I'm afraid of commitment and don't like to make plans. Is this all still stuff that will be helped by the remedy? I feel like such a loser sometimes because I can't ever stick with anything.
[message edited by alaskamom on Sun, 10 Aug 2014 02:12:34 BST]
So I took a dose preemptively, so to speak, and it had been a couple days anyway since the last one. Today I just feel like I don't want anyone around me, and I feel empty inside. I recalled reading somewhere in one of my herbal books about an 'all gone feeling in the pit of the stomach', so I looked it up online and Sepia came up in some material medical available online. So I know I'm on the right track, but I wanted to know, should I take more or is it likely an aggravation? Or just overdid it yesterday? I went to bed late, midnight, and hyphen Kody woke up early at 6am, and even with a 2 hour nap for me I still feel tired.
Also the last week or two, I have had a little rash on my face, on either side of the nose and down just a bit, just above the upper lip. It seems like I get it when I'm stressed. I have sort of fallen by the wayside with Tapping, and also I did shave off a bit of my antidepressant Paxil. Instead of half, I'm doing a third. It's helping as far as the sex drive goes, and I'm glad to be on less, but oh you know, it's frustrating to feel like I need it, you know?
I also feel like, in general, that whenever I do anything that I enjoy, it ends up turning into something that drags me down or feels like drudgery. So I always have to do stuff that is a very short-term, no commitment project, and in general I'm afraid of commitment and don't like to make plans. Is this all still stuff that will be helped by the remedy? I feel like such a loser sometimes because I can't ever stick with anything.
[message edited by alaskamom on Sun, 10 Aug 2014 02:12:34 BST]
alaskamom last decade
Did you actually need that dose? Remember the remedy is for actual symptoms, not to 'pick you up'. Any time you take it, it will recreate a copy of your normal disease state, so this should only be done if necessary.
♡ Evocationer last decade
So I've been feeling like my remedy isn't quite working like I'd like it to. Right now I'm doing one drop of remedy in 6 oz water, then stirring and taking 1 teaspoon. Wondering if I should increase? I just took a dose of the remedy last night, after not taking any since before I last posted on the 10th. Before, I would feel better the next day if I took a dose the night before. But not this time.
In general, over the last week or so, I feel like my day to day energy and motivation is pretty good, but interest in sex has dropped off. I feel anxious and preoccupied in mood most days, and socially withdrawn. I feel like I have so much to do, but not much energy or time to do any of it, so I feel like my mental processes are all tied up in worries of things I need to accomplish. Yet I'm not getting anything done (so it feels), so I'm spinning my wheels. I feel like I just want to spend all day on the computer reading about remedies or psychic things, something, anything to help myself to be SOMEone. To figure out who I am, my purpose in life, my calling, the meaning of life, and to find a niche spiritually.
Also, I was reading about Thuja, and seeing a lot of things I felt related to me. Am I just overthinking things and reading too much stuff online?
Here's the link to the article:
http://www.homeorizon.com/homeopathic-articles/materia-medic....
Some things I related to were: feeling like I don't belong in this world. My mom has always said about me, that I 'live on a different plane of existence which only slightly intersects with ours'. I feel like I'm neither there nor here. I don't feel like I synch with reality a lot of times. I feel bored and disillusioned with life on earth--I feel like I don't understand my place here, my purpose, what I am supposed to do. I am interested in mystical type things, yet I feel I do not understand them in the least. It's like I'm caught somewhere in between in no-man's land.
Sepia definitely still fits for a lot of things, I just wonder if sometimes you need more than one remedy. Or maybe I'm just totally overthinking and need to knock it off.
I was looking at Thuja while on a pig-trail trying to see if Arsenicum was the right remedy for my older son. I'll post on his as well.
Seems like I tend to do well for awhile and not be bothered by my family members, and then when I feel down myself, I see all sorts of things wrong with them. Am I projecting? Or is what's wrong with them real? I just hope I'm not being a hypochondriac and wasting your time.
[message edited by alaskamom on Fri, 15 Aug 2014 21:58:10 BST]
In general, over the last week or so, I feel like my day to day energy and motivation is pretty good, but interest in sex has dropped off. I feel anxious and preoccupied in mood most days, and socially withdrawn. I feel like I have so much to do, but not much energy or time to do any of it, so I feel like my mental processes are all tied up in worries of things I need to accomplish. Yet I'm not getting anything done (so it feels), so I'm spinning my wheels. I feel like I just want to spend all day on the computer reading about remedies or psychic things, something, anything to help myself to be SOMEone. To figure out who I am, my purpose in life, my calling, the meaning of life, and to find a niche spiritually.
Also, I was reading about Thuja, and seeing a lot of things I felt related to me. Am I just overthinking things and reading too much stuff online?
Here's the link to the article:
http://www.homeorizon.com/homeopathic-articles/materia-medic....
Some things I related to were: feeling like I don't belong in this world. My mom has always said about me, that I 'live on a different plane of existence which only slightly intersects with ours'. I feel like I'm neither there nor here. I don't feel like I synch with reality a lot of times. I feel bored and disillusioned with life on earth--I feel like I don't understand my place here, my purpose, what I am supposed to do. I am interested in mystical type things, yet I feel I do not understand them in the least. It's like I'm caught somewhere in between in no-man's land.
Sepia definitely still fits for a lot of things, I just wonder if sometimes you need more than one remedy. Or maybe I'm just totally overthinking and need to knock it off.
I was looking at Thuja while on a pig-trail trying to see if Arsenicum was the right remedy for my older son. I'll post on his as well.
Seems like I tend to do well for awhile and not be bothered by my family members, and then when I feel down myself, I see all sorts of things wrong with them. Am I projecting? Or is what's wrong with them real? I just hope I'm not being a hypochondriac and wasting your time.
[message edited by alaskamom on Fri, 15 Aug 2014 21:58:10 BST]
alaskamom last decade
Yes people may move to needing a different remedy after a previous one has finished its work completely. It is difficult to judge what the next remedy will be, because the symptoms will not be clear until the previous remedy has been exhausted.
Take one dose of 200c now. Remember each potency level can act differently. Going up in potency may also make the next remedy clearer if there is a need for a change.
Take one dose of 200c now. Remember each potency level can act differently. Going up in potency may also make the next remedy clearer if there is a need for a change.
♡ Evocationer last decade
I ain't supprised you felt like had and depresssed or doen... Paxil if one of the hardest sris to get off. it usually has a massive amount of side effects when withdrawing from it. It s to be done slowley.. not a good love at all shipping it cold turkey.
tomthumb123 last decade
OK. When my husband gets home I will need to go and get 200c.
Should I first try succussing 30c more times or using 3 drops, etc?
Tomthumb, thanks, I am weaning off very, very slowly on the Paxil. My practitioner did warn me it would be hard to get off of.
Should I first try succussing 30c more times or using 3 drops, etc?
Tomthumb, thanks, I am weaning off very, very slowly on the Paxil. My practitioner did warn me it would be hard to get off of.
alaskamom last decade
I didn't get a chance to get the 200c yet, but actually I felt pretty good today, especially with my night's sleep being very short and interrupted with Ethan being up at midnight. I wonder if yesterday was an aggravation again? Today was definitely an improvement on yesterday, I had a good day and got a lot done. Felt productive.
alaskamom last decade
I have 200c mixed up, but I was a little nervous to take it. About 3 days ago I took the 30c but put 3 drops in the water instead of 1 as I had been doing, and took 2 teaspoons instead of 1.
Over the last few days, I've felt like I have a bunch of internal energy (tension) but not sure what to do with it. Not much interest in doing the usual housework, but I do it anyway, and have a lot of energy to get it done. I felt like something big was about to change in me but not sure how to help make that happen. I felt annoyed with all the limitations I have allowed to be imposed on myself, like I want to break free of all of that and just be whatever I want to be. That went on for 2-3 days, and then today, I feel just tired. I had 1 cup of tea today instead of 2, because of feeling so tense the last few days, but I just felt tired all day and apathetic. Over all I've still felt kind of antisocial and haven't much felt like going out. But at least I felt like something was happening, and now I just feel exhausted at the end of this day. I feel like nothing is happening and it was all for nothing. What should I do next? More of the 30c or try the 200c?
Over the last few days, I've felt like I have a bunch of internal energy (tension) but not sure what to do with it. Not much interest in doing the usual housework, but I do it anyway, and have a lot of energy to get it done. I felt like something big was about to change in me but not sure how to help make that happen. I felt annoyed with all the limitations I have allowed to be imposed on myself, like I want to break free of all of that and just be whatever I want to be. That went on for 2-3 days, and then today, I feel just tired. I had 1 cup of tea today instead of 2, because of feeling so tense the last few days, but I just felt tired all day and apathetic. Over all I've still felt kind of antisocial and haven't much felt like going out. But at least I felt like something was happening, and now I just feel exhausted at the end of this day. I feel like nothing is happening and it was all for nothing. What should I do next? More of the 30c or try the 200c?
alaskamom last decade
You feel that I think because you actually need a higher potency. Take it - the 30c is finished from the look of it, and will only aggravate you now.
♡ Evocationer last decade
OK good to know.
I have been having PMS symptoms simply with ovulating. It's really annoying. I get bloated, cramping/pinching feelings, weepy/moody/irritable, feeling like all of life is doom and gloom. Basically the same things I get with my menstrual cycle, but instead it's just at ovulation. Is this something Sepia can help? It seems like it's something I didn't have before, either that or it could be I didn't notice it, since I never used to keep track of ovulating or my cycles or fertile periods or anything.
The moods are just awful to live with. It makes me feel like God must hate me.
I will take the 200c tonight. It's all prepped and ready to go.
I have been having PMS symptoms simply with ovulating. It's really annoying. I get bloated, cramping/pinching feelings, weepy/moody/irritable, feeling like all of life is doom and gloom. Basically the same things I get with my menstrual cycle, but instead it's just at ovulation. Is this something Sepia can help? It seems like it's something I didn't have before, either that or it could be I didn't notice it, since I never used to keep track of ovulating or my cycles or fertile periods or anything.
The moods are just awful to live with. It makes me feel like God must hate me.
I will take the 200c tonight. It's all prepped and ready to go.
alaskamom last decade
I'm wondering if what I'm feeling lately is something that can be helped by my remedy, or if it's something I have to deal with on my own.
I suppose being on my menstrual cycle could be contributing, although the feelings would still be there, just not as intense.
I recently cut my dad out of my life again. Possibly thanks to Sepia, helping me regain some boundaries. Anyway, sort of related to that is still feeling stuck spiritually. On the one side, I have my husband's wishes, for me to go back to the faith I used to have, whereas I feel I can't fit with that anymore, and yet I'm not sure where to go from here. The prospect of the unknown is scary. I don't really know where to begin or how to frame out my belief system.
Anyway, does any of this sound like something that the remedy can help with? Or just something I'll have to work out on my own? I'm probably going to take another dose of the today or tonight. It's been about 4 days since the last one. I feel like I got a bit of an aggravation on the 200c the first time I took it, so last time, I just did 1 drop and 1 teaspoon. Still felt like it either took 24 hours to do anything, or I had an aggravation for the first day.
[message edited by alaskamom on Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:06:13 BST]
I suppose being on my menstrual cycle could be contributing, although the feelings would still be there, just not as intense.
I recently cut my dad out of my life again. Possibly thanks to Sepia, helping me regain some boundaries. Anyway, sort of related to that is still feeling stuck spiritually. On the one side, I have my husband's wishes, for me to go back to the faith I used to have, whereas I feel I can't fit with that anymore, and yet I'm not sure where to go from here. The prospect of the unknown is scary. I don't really know where to begin or how to frame out my belief system.
Anyway, does any of this sound like something that the remedy can help with? Or just something I'll have to work out on my own? I'm probably going to take another dose of the today or tonight. It's been about 4 days since the last one. I feel like I got a bit of an aggravation on the 200c the first time I took it, so last time, I just did 1 drop and 1 teaspoon. Still felt like it either took 24 hours to do anything, or I had an aggravation for the first day.
[message edited by alaskamom on Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:06:13 BST]
alaskamom last decade
Well, it is not unusual to see people begin reassessing their lives once a medicine begins to change them. It might become part of a new picture - people rarely stay in one remedy for the whole of treatment. Once the first remedy changes things, something else may come up to be dealt with.
How do you feel since the 200c though - has it had a positive effect?
How do you feel since the 200c though - has it had a positive effect?
♡ Evocationer last decade
I think it definitely had a positive effect. Prior to taking it, I was feeling really really irritable, and just major bad attitudes. After 24 hours I felt I had a lot more patience and was more 'centered'.
alaskamom last decade
Excellent. Then we are still on the right path for you I think.
One of the great strengths of homoeopathy prescribed in the classical manner is that it helps people to change life-long patterns. That could be happening for you now. Classical homoeopathy's real benefits may not be seen for months or even years, when people have made a full transformation. This does not happen when the case is just treated symptomatically.
One of the great strengths of homoeopathy prescribed in the classical manner is that it helps people to change life-long patterns. That could be happening for you now. Classical homoeopathy's real benefits may not be seen for months or even years, when people have made a full transformation. This does not happen when the case is just treated symptomatically.
♡ Evocationer last decade
It seems like this most recent dose of the 200c isn't helping much. I took it night before last, and while I do feel a bit less irritable, I still feel exhausted (probably largely due to Kody), antisocial, and depressed about the future. I am going to be having company over later today and I'm dreading it. I have been dragging my feet on housework and it's been piling up.
My desire for sex has been non-existent for awhile now. I feel kind of depressed.
My desire for sex has been non-existent for awhile now. I feel kind of depressed.
alaskamom last decade
This could be the aggravation. It is within the normal period that aggravation happens.
However, it is often tells us how appropriate the remedy is once me move up to 200c. Many remedies at 30c or lower can work more broadly. At 200 and higher you need to have a much more precisely chosen medicine.
However, it is often tells us how appropriate the remedy is once me move up to 200c. Many remedies at 30c or lower can work more broadly. At 200 and higher you need to have a much more precisely chosen medicine.
♡ Evocationer last decade
OK. Well, I guess we'll find out. I did do just one drop instead of three to try to reduce any potential aggravation. So just watch over the next 3 days I assume?
alaskamom last decade
Is there anything else I can do to reduce the aggravations? I am getting 2 days of aggravation after taking a dose, followed by 3 or 4 good days, then declining into needing another dose but not being really sure I want to take it. During the aggravation I get really really irritable, and end up making my husband miserable for a couple of days from me saying things I regret later.
What I'm doing now is one drop and one teaspoon.
What I'm doing now is one drop and one teaspoon.
alaskamom last decade
I wanted to update. I haven't taken a dose of remedy since the 1st of this month--I haven't felt like I needed to. I did have a few days where I thought I was going to need it, and then I felt OK without taking more. I feel like things have definitely turned a corner. I've been more hopeful about the future, also starting to feel hopeful about a spiritual connection, and feeling like I may be finding what I am supposed to do in life. Constipation is no longer a problem at all. Headaches are infrequent, usually from being overtired.
I guess I'm just really surprised to be doing so well! Especially with the baby being so wakeful the last few nights, I thought for sure it would affect me. Yes, I was a little cranky, but I feel like it's more manageable.
My husband seems to be more attracted to me. I have lost some weight, but that's been awhile now. I think I feel happier with my body, too, so perhaps that shows. A little more confidence.
I feel like I still may have a ways to go, but for now I am happy to be seeing progress! It's the beginning of better things, I'm thinking.
I guess I'm just really surprised to be doing so well! Especially with the baby being so wakeful the last few nights, I thought for sure it would affect me. Yes, I was a little cranky, but I feel like it's more manageable.
My husband seems to be more attracted to me. I have lost some weight, but that's been awhile now. I think I feel happier with my body, too, so perhaps that shows. A little more confidence.
I feel like I still may have a ways to go, but for now I am happy to be seeing progress! It's the beginning of better things, I'm thinking.
alaskamom last decade
That is such good news, I am glad to hear it. This is the kind of long term positive change I am always talking about on here. You only get this from proper constitutional treatment.
♡ Evocationer last decade
Hi there!
I was reading a book called Homeopathic Psychology, and saw Natrum-Mur referenced in the Sepia section. So I started reading about Natrum-Mur, and really felt that it was a good fit for me. I feel like it fits for my childhood and growing up years. Would it do any harm to try it?
I was reading a book called Homeopathic Psychology, and saw Natrum-Mur referenced in the Sepia section. So I started reading about Natrum-Mur, and really felt that it was a good fit for me. I feel like it fits for my childhood and growing up years. Would it do any harm to try it?
alaskamom last decade
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