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Exhausted - please help
I am 56, 60 pounds overweight, and have a history of hypothyroidism in myself and my family. My lack of energy started after I had my child 29 years ago. It has just become worse over the years. I am exhausted all the time. I feel so helpless and heavy and just walking a mile in the morning exhausts me. I don't wake up feeling rested - just like I need more sleep. No amount of sleep seems to help. My mind is dull. I must work and take care of my home (single mom) and everything I do requires so much effort. My house is messy because I can't bear to spend energy cleaning. I tried taking Armour (60 mg) and initially I felt better and then my energy began to decrease so I increased dose to 90 mg. Now I am back to feeling exhausted. I take the dose in the morning when I get up and try to leave it melt in my mouth. When I put my fingers on my thyroid it feels like it is numb and sleeping and won't wake up to my touch. I thought of taking the homeopathic thyroidium but don't know if I should take it with my armour or stop the armour. I also don't know what dose. My materia medica suggested 6th to 30rd - how often to take it each day, what exact dose, and how long (weeks or months).Pickleplan6 on 2014-05-23
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Patient ID: Sex: Age: Nature of work: Habits:
Please answer the following questions in a descriptive manner after careful analysis and recollection of previous experience and happenings.
1. Describe your main suffering? State the correct location.
2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body?
3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?
4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words.
5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?
6. Which time of the day you are worst?
7. What are the things that aggravate your suffering and those that ameliorate the same? Example: time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing etc.
8. Do you 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)?
9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.
- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times?
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc?
- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
Weeping, talking to one self etc?
- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
12. What do you crave in food items and what are your aversions?
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?
16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?
17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?
18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?
20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others?
21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
22. What major diseases are running in your family?
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.
Please answer the following questions in a descriptive manner after careful analysis and recollection of previous experience and happenings.
1. Describe your main suffering? State the correct location.
2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body?
3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?
4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words.
5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?
6. Which time of the day you are worst?
7. What are the things that aggravate your suffering and those that ameliorate the same? Example: time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing etc.
8. Do you 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)?
9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.
- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times?
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc?
- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
Weeping, talking to one self etc?
- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
12. What do you crave in food items and what are your aversions?
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?
16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?
17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?
18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?
20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others?
21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
22. What major diseases are running in your family?
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.
♡ Zady101 9 years ago
I will answer by the number you gave.
1. Exhausted all the time. I can sleep 8 or 10 hours and do not wake up feeling refreshed. My sleep alternates between nights of restless sleep where I wake for no reason (sometimes going to sleep in exhaustion and waking an hour or two later) and sleeping very deeply. More often I have restless sleep. I have gone through menopause about 5 years ago but sometimes wake in a sweat. These night sweats are worse when I eat sugary food in the evening so I try to avoid that. I get up and walk with my children and a neighbor one mile each morning for exercise but I have trouble just getting through the exercise (I want to lay down and go back to sleep in the road) and am tired when I get home and have to rest. I feel weak and exhausted and don't have muscle strength. It is an all-over feeling not just one area.
2. I have low muscle tone because it is so hard to exercise. Much of my weight is in my stomach. I have migraine headaches which are often due to lack of sleep, too much caffeine (I drink coffee and eat sugar to try to get energy), and sometimes from chocolate. I have high blood pressure which started in my 30s. I take a diuretic for bloating from excess water. My kidneys have been weak since I was a child when I had kidney infections. I had kidney stones 4 times in my 30s and 40s but stopped drinking soda pop and have hd none for at least 10 years. Often my kidneys ache so I hold them (palm over the area) and take an herbal kidney medicine (with cornsilk, parsley, uva ursi, cleavers, cayenne, juniper, kelp, short buchu, queen of the meadow)and these help to reduce the dull aching pain and and get my kidneys working to urinate. I am more tired when my kidneys hurt.
3. I have had two bad marriages in which my husbands became abusive and I feared them so I'm not interested in remarriage - feel safer alone (I still have 4 children at home ages 11 to 15 with me). I do not want men interested in me. My children are adopted from the foster care system and are challenging because they have ADD/ADHD, learning disabilities, and some bad behaviors that require a lot of my limited energy. In my childhood my mother was often sleeping and depressed (she was also hypothyroid) and my father was always working and so my brother and I felt that we raised ourselves. As a child I felt the burden of being an adult and spend too much time thinking of my past mistakes.
4. At my worst I just lay on the couch or in a chair in the day and rest and take short naps. Usually when my mind races with thoughts it is at night and wakes me up.
Sometimes I can go several days and get 8 or 9 hours of sleep but still not feel rested.
5. My exhaustion has been since I had my biological child (29 years ago). I think my thyroid changed when my hormones changed after the pregnancy. I actually felt physically good during the pregnancy (not even morning sickness) but was worried about the birth because my husband then had become an alcoholic and was emotionally and starting to get physically abusive in the final trimester of my pregnancy.
6. I am worst in the later afternoon (3 or 4 pm) as well as evening 7 or 8 pm). I feel empty of energy and I know I overeat to try to get energy - especially during these times.
7. Exercises makes my exhaustion worst. Laying around all day and doing nothing makes it bearable but I cannot usually do that as I work part-time and have to live and cook and take care of my kids. I must take a nap each day to make it through the day. I try to keep it short (10 to 15 minutes) because I don't want it to interfere with my night sleep. I sometimes feel better after these short naps but if I nap longer it makes me feel worse.
8. My menopause does not seem to have changed my exhaustion. I have been like this for many years (25+ years) although it is worse lately (past 2-3 months). When I still had my periods I was worse the day before and day of the start of my menses but I haven't had a period in several years.
9. Very hot and very cold weather makes me more exhausted. I cannot tolerate cold but it does not exhaust me. Hot is the worst - especially if it is humid. I feel best in weather in the 70s with low humidity.
10. My basic nature is easy going (not arrogant or easily offended or moody or suspicious or easily offended) but I have been very very angry and impatient with my youngest daughter who is often disobedient. My anger is out of control over this issue.
Right before a thunderstorm I am totally miserable and feel like I am being pressured from all sides and even pressed down. I am irritable and often have a migraine headache. It seems like I am a human barometer. I have no tolerance for even the slightest problem at that time.
I like people to leave me alone when I am miserable or sad.
Sensitive to external stimuli - yes, some smells make me feel nauseous as long as I can't get away from them (especially chemical smells, some perfumes, cigarettes - my father smoked). I cannot wear perfume. Loud booming noises make me irritable - music with a lot of bass. Flickering lights (like fluorescent and strobe at a night club or sign) can give me a migraine.
I do not bite nails but I bounce my leg when I am nervous and sitting. I can weep easily over a sad story. I do often talk to myself and sometimes relive past moments in hopes of saying the right thing or doing something better.
I make friends easily and have several close friends my age and younger and older. I am a loyal friend and don't understand disloyalty in others but my hurt doesn't last long as I have good friends who share my life, good and bad things. I have one biological son who was a wonderful easy child and 4 adopted children from the foster care system who are demanding but only one is excessively unreasonable - my youngest who is a girl. She is moody and cross and it is difficult for me to tolerate this day after day. However, I love all of my children and would give my life for each one of them - even the one who is sour. I was disappointed in my parents as they were not good parents (but not abusive). They neglected me and my siblings. But I have forgive them and moved on with my life. I just don't want to waste my time being angry and bitter. I choose to be happy and content. Most days this is possible. I grew to fear both of my ex-husbands so I won't remarry but I do not hate men. My brother is 2 years younger and a wonderful brother and good to his family. My adult son is 29 and recently married and I am very happy for him. I would like him to live closer to me but he lives in another state and I am content with his choices. I do not hate men - just don't want to remarry. I know there are many god men. I just don't want to take any chances and my life is full with my children. I am friendly with my male and female neighbors and male and female parents of my children's friends.
11. Fears - drowning or suffocating. I remember as a child dreaming of being suffocated and I know this was related to not having childhood but being suffocated by my parents - not being good parents and me having to continually make adult decisions and function more as a parent than a child. My fears of drowning and suffocating usually don't plague me (I can go weeks and months or years without thinking of them) but have increased lately since my energy level is so low.
12. I crave sweets and breads and any carbohydrates. I feel better when I don't eat them but when my energy is so extremely low I turn to these to try to get energy. When I have more energy I can avoid sweets and breads.
13. I am thirsty most of the time. I can drink a lot of water and still feel thirsty.
14. I eat constantly in an attempt to get energy so often don't ever feel hungry (as in my stomach doesn't growl) but I crave food - especially sweets.
15.I have a family history of alcoholism (Irish and Native American) and decided when I was young to avoid drinking most of the time. I occasionally have a social drink but a drink 6 or 8 times a year in a big year. I don't like the hot feeling that alcohol gives me when I drink it. I generally just drink wine but it makes me hot. I don't like slimy textures - like oysters and slimy cooked greens. I like most food. I avoid fast food restaurants as I always feel terrible after I eat at them. I generally cook at home and buy a lot of organics and grow a few vegetables in my garden. I would like to garden more but don't have the energy and when it gets hot I can't go outside to weed. I feel faint from the heat.
16. Sweat - after I am done exercising I break out in a sweat. We walk 1 mile each morning and when I get home and stop exercising and stand in my house I begin to sweat profusely. I think I sweat too much. I sweat mostly in my trunk area but sometimes the back of my neck - especially at night.
17. I have always always been constipated. Even as a child. I have hard stools often that feel like they are plugged up inside of me and once I can start going then they are softer. I take a colon cleanse or laxative each evening in order to have a bowel movement the next morning.
18. I frequently have restless sleep and often wake up feeling stuffy and wake up suddenly and need fresh air. I turn on the fan or air conditioning to move the air so I can get back to sleep - even if it is cold.I sleep on my sides with a pillow between my legs to take the pressure off my bottom leg and one propped against my chest/breasts - I know this is odd - but it keeps me from feeling like suffocating or strangled. (Perhaps it is a mental comfort.)
19. My sexual desire has decreased in the past few years and occasionally I feel in the mood (maybe once) but take care of this myself.
20. I am not easily offended and I think many women I know are easily offended. I have just trained myself to be a Godly person and know that He does not want me to be petty and worrying about insignificant issues and I don't see this as bad.
21. I don't know what the doctor gave me in my childhood for the kidney infections. I'm 56 and don't know if antibiotics were given in the U.S. at that time. I remember that my small pox vaccination did not take and the doctor was very rough with me and I have a big scar on my arm where he poked me numerous times - very deep marks. I have taken HCTZ and attenol off and on since I was in my 30s for the high blood pressure and sometimes these work and sometimes not. I can sometimes control my blood pressure with care to my diet and deep breathing but I think the increase in blood pressure is generally related to my kidneys not working very well. I was under a lot of pressure to finish college and be a single mother and sometimes I think my adrenals have worked over-time for far too long.
22. My mother died at 64 of a brain aneurism from uncontrolled high blood pressure. My father is 83 and smoked since he was 8 years old and had several strokes and is in a bad condition and has aphasia and wears a diaper and is taken care of in a home. My paternal grandparents lived to be almost 90 and also many of their relatives live to be old. My maternal grandmother was a Choctaw Indian and she and one of her daughters died young from heart damage from scarlet fever. My maternal grandfather died in his late 50s of a heart attack. My oldest sister died at 54 of a brain tumor but she had many psychological problems and I think she was passively suicidal. She even threatened her lazy husband to die of a brain tumor and leave him to take care of everything and she did. Otherwise most of the people live older and there is no CA. My father even has COPD but is still alive despite a body in bad shape. Really nothing runs in my family except alcoholism/drugs and it is a smaller number of people.
23. I am not beautiful but not ugly. Just average in the face. My body is round and flabby with much weight on my stomach. I have always had large breasts. I struggle with eczema - mostly in the winter. My skin is often dry and my hair is dry and I must use conditioner to keep it from breaking. I used to shower and wash my hair every morning but my skin and hair is too dry to do that now. I slump forward so have bad posture. My teeth are in bad shape but I can still smile and look okay. I have many large metal filings from a bad childhood dentist who drilled out our teeth and put in large fillings. One root canal. I need to get the metal removed but poverty prevents this at this time. I don't mind being poor most of the time because it is better to have peace and be poor than live in fear and chaos.
24. When I had menses it was very regular - started at 13 and ended about 51 years old. I had very little cramps (some little back pain as my uterus tips back) and little pain and toward the end I had an increase flow and some clots that many women complain of during the end of menopause. I did notice that I lost a lot of my body hair - I used to be very hairy. (My father is black Irish and many men in our family have a lot of dark hair and hair on their backs and knuckles.) Since menopause is done, I have an increase in facial hair in the beard area and have it removed or I would look very masculine with a type of beard.
25.Kidney infections as a child. Perhaps 6 or 8.
C-section birth of son when I was 27.
Noticed hypothyroid post birth through use of a basal thermometer temperature reading in mornings. No medication started until about 2 years ago - I just lived with it.
Kidney stones as an adult mostly in 30s.
Diagnosed with high blood pressure in 30s. It fluctuates a lot.
I am 56.
Note: When I touch my back I notice that the area outside my kidneys is often cold. I leave the palm of my hand on them and warm them when I notice this odd thing.
I'm sorry this took so long. Thank you for listening to my problems.
1. Exhausted all the time. I can sleep 8 or 10 hours and do not wake up feeling refreshed. My sleep alternates between nights of restless sleep where I wake for no reason (sometimes going to sleep in exhaustion and waking an hour or two later) and sleeping very deeply. More often I have restless sleep. I have gone through menopause about 5 years ago but sometimes wake in a sweat. These night sweats are worse when I eat sugary food in the evening so I try to avoid that. I get up and walk with my children and a neighbor one mile each morning for exercise but I have trouble just getting through the exercise (I want to lay down and go back to sleep in the road) and am tired when I get home and have to rest. I feel weak and exhausted and don't have muscle strength. It is an all-over feeling not just one area.
2. I have low muscle tone because it is so hard to exercise. Much of my weight is in my stomach. I have migraine headaches which are often due to lack of sleep, too much caffeine (I drink coffee and eat sugar to try to get energy), and sometimes from chocolate. I have high blood pressure which started in my 30s. I take a diuretic for bloating from excess water. My kidneys have been weak since I was a child when I had kidney infections. I had kidney stones 4 times in my 30s and 40s but stopped drinking soda pop and have hd none for at least 10 years. Often my kidneys ache so I hold them (palm over the area) and take an herbal kidney medicine (with cornsilk, parsley, uva ursi, cleavers, cayenne, juniper, kelp, short buchu, queen of the meadow)and these help to reduce the dull aching pain and and get my kidneys working to urinate. I am more tired when my kidneys hurt.
3. I have had two bad marriages in which my husbands became abusive and I feared them so I'm not interested in remarriage - feel safer alone (I still have 4 children at home ages 11 to 15 with me). I do not want men interested in me. My children are adopted from the foster care system and are challenging because they have ADD/ADHD, learning disabilities, and some bad behaviors that require a lot of my limited energy. In my childhood my mother was often sleeping and depressed (she was also hypothyroid) and my father was always working and so my brother and I felt that we raised ourselves. As a child I felt the burden of being an adult and spend too much time thinking of my past mistakes.
4. At my worst I just lay on the couch or in a chair in the day and rest and take short naps. Usually when my mind races with thoughts it is at night and wakes me up.
Sometimes I can go several days and get 8 or 9 hours of sleep but still not feel rested.
5. My exhaustion has been since I had my biological child (29 years ago). I think my thyroid changed when my hormones changed after the pregnancy. I actually felt physically good during the pregnancy (not even morning sickness) but was worried about the birth because my husband then had become an alcoholic and was emotionally and starting to get physically abusive in the final trimester of my pregnancy.
6. I am worst in the later afternoon (3 or 4 pm) as well as evening 7 or 8 pm). I feel empty of energy and I know I overeat to try to get energy - especially during these times.
7. Exercises makes my exhaustion worst. Laying around all day and doing nothing makes it bearable but I cannot usually do that as I work part-time and have to live and cook and take care of my kids. I must take a nap each day to make it through the day. I try to keep it short (10 to 15 minutes) because I don't want it to interfere with my night sleep. I sometimes feel better after these short naps but if I nap longer it makes me feel worse.
8. My menopause does not seem to have changed my exhaustion. I have been like this for many years (25+ years) although it is worse lately (past 2-3 months). When I still had my periods I was worse the day before and day of the start of my menses but I haven't had a period in several years.
9. Very hot and very cold weather makes me more exhausted. I cannot tolerate cold but it does not exhaust me. Hot is the worst - especially if it is humid. I feel best in weather in the 70s with low humidity.
10. My basic nature is easy going (not arrogant or easily offended or moody or suspicious or easily offended) but I have been very very angry and impatient with my youngest daughter who is often disobedient. My anger is out of control over this issue.
Right before a thunderstorm I am totally miserable and feel like I am being pressured from all sides and even pressed down. I am irritable and often have a migraine headache. It seems like I am a human barometer. I have no tolerance for even the slightest problem at that time.
I like people to leave me alone when I am miserable or sad.
Sensitive to external stimuli - yes, some smells make me feel nauseous as long as I can't get away from them (especially chemical smells, some perfumes, cigarettes - my father smoked). I cannot wear perfume. Loud booming noises make me irritable - music with a lot of bass. Flickering lights (like fluorescent and strobe at a night club or sign) can give me a migraine.
I do not bite nails but I bounce my leg when I am nervous and sitting. I can weep easily over a sad story. I do often talk to myself and sometimes relive past moments in hopes of saying the right thing or doing something better.
I make friends easily and have several close friends my age and younger and older. I am a loyal friend and don't understand disloyalty in others but my hurt doesn't last long as I have good friends who share my life, good and bad things. I have one biological son who was a wonderful easy child and 4 adopted children from the foster care system who are demanding but only one is excessively unreasonable - my youngest who is a girl. She is moody and cross and it is difficult for me to tolerate this day after day. However, I love all of my children and would give my life for each one of them - even the one who is sour. I was disappointed in my parents as they were not good parents (but not abusive). They neglected me and my siblings. But I have forgive them and moved on with my life. I just don't want to waste my time being angry and bitter. I choose to be happy and content. Most days this is possible. I grew to fear both of my ex-husbands so I won't remarry but I do not hate men. My brother is 2 years younger and a wonderful brother and good to his family. My adult son is 29 and recently married and I am very happy for him. I would like him to live closer to me but he lives in another state and I am content with his choices. I do not hate men - just don't want to remarry. I know there are many god men. I just don't want to take any chances and my life is full with my children. I am friendly with my male and female neighbors and male and female parents of my children's friends.
11. Fears - drowning or suffocating. I remember as a child dreaming of being suffocated and I know this was related to not having childhood but being suffocated by my parents - not being good parents and me having to continually make adult decisions and function more as a parent than a child. My fears of drowning and suffocating usually don't plague me (I can go weeks and months or years without thinking of them) but have increased lately since my energy level is so low.
12. I crave sweets and breads and any carbohydrates. I feel better when I don't eat them but when my energy is so extremely low I turn to these to try to get energy. When I have more energy I can avoid sweets and breads.
13. I am thirsty most of the time. I can drink a lot of water and still feel thirsty.
14. I eat constantly in an attempt to get energy so often don't ever feel hungry (as in my stomach doesn't growl) but I crave food - especially sweets.
15.I have a family history of alcoholism (Irish and Native American) and decided when I was young to avoid drinking most of the time. I occasionally have a social drink but a drink 6 or 8 times a year in a big year. I don't like the hot feeling that alcohol gives me when I drink it. I generally just drink wine but it makes me hot. I don't like slimy textures - like oysters and slimy cooked greens. I like most food. I avoid fast food restaurants as I always feel terrible after I eat at them. I generally cook at home and buy a lot of organics and grow a few vegetables in my garden. I would like to garden more but don't have the energy and when it gets hot I can't go outside to weed. I feel faint from the heat.
16. Sweat - after I am done exercising I break out in a sweat. We walk 1 mile each morning and when I get home and stop exercising and stand in my house I begin to sweat profusely. I think I sweat too much. I sweat mostly in my trunk area but sometimes the back of my neck - especially at night.
17. I have always always been constipated. Even as a child. I have hard stools often that feel like they are plugged up inside of me and once I can start going then they are softer. I take a colon cleanse or laxative each evening in order to have a bowel movement the next morning.
18. I frequently have restless sleep and often wake up feeling stuffy and wake up suddenly and need fresh air. I turn on the fan or air conditioning to move the air so I can get back to sleep - even if it is cold.I sleep on my sides with a pillow between my legs to take the pressure off my bottom leg and one propped against my chest/breasts - I know this is odd - but it keeps me from feeling like suffocating or strangled. (Perhaps it is a mental comfort.)
19. My sexual desire has decreased in the past few years and occasionally I feel in the mood (maybe once) but take care of this myself.
20. I am not easily offended and I think many women I know are easily offended. I have just trained myself to be a Godly person and know that He does not want me to be petty and worrying about insignificant issues and I don't see this as bad.
21. I don't know what the doctor gave me in my childhood for the kidney infections. I'm 56 and don't know if antibiotics were given in the U.S. at that time. I remember that my small pox vaccination did not take and the doctor was very rough with me and I have a big scar on my arm where he poked me numerous times - very deep marks. I have taken HCTZ and attenol off and on since I was in my 30s for the high blood pressure and sometimes these work and sometimes not. I can sometimes control my blood pressure with care to my diet and deep breathing but I think the increase in blood pressure is generally related to my kidneys not working very well. I was under a lot of pressure to finish college and be a single mother and sometimes I think my adrenals have worked over-time for far too long.
22. My mother died at 64 of a brain aneurism from uncontrolled high blood pressure. My father is 83 and smoked since he was 8 years old and had several strokes and is in a bad condition and has aphasia and wears a diaper and is taken care of in a home. My paternal grandparents lived to be almost 90 and also many of their relatives live to be old. My maternal grandmother was a Choctaw Indian and she and one of her daughters died young from heart damage from scarlet fever. My maternal grandfather died in his late 50s of a heart attack. My oldest sister died at 54 of a brain tumor but she had many psychological problems and I think she was passively suicidal. She even threatened her lazy husband to die of a brain tumor and leave him to take care of everything and she did. Otherwise most of the people live older and there is no CA. My father even has COPD but is still alive despite a body in bad shape. Really nothing runs in my family except alcoholism/drugs and it is a smaller number of people.
23. I am not beautiful but not ugly. Just average in the face. My body is round and flabby with much weight on my stomach. I have always had large breasts. I struggle with eczema - mostly in the winter. My skin is often dry and my hair is dry and I must use conditioner to keep it from breaking. I used to shower and wash my hair every morning but my skin and hair is too dry to do that now. I slump forward so have bad posture. My teeth are in bad shape but I can still smile and look okay. I have many large metal filings from a bad childhood dentist who drilled out our teeth and put in large fillings. One root canal. I need to get the metal removed but poverty prevents this at this time. I don't mind being poor most of the time because it is better to have peace and be poor than live in fear and chaos.
24. When I had menses it was very regular - started at 13 and ended about 51 years old. I had very little cramps (some little back pain as my uterus tips back) and little pain and toward the end I had an increase flow and some clots that many women complain of during the end of menopause. I did notice that I lost a lot of my body hair - I used to be very hairy. (My father is black Irish and many men in our family have a lot of dark hair and hair on their backs and knuckles.) Since menopause is done, I have an increase in facial hair in the beard area and have it removed or I would look very masculine with a type of beard.
25.Kidney infections as a child. Perhaps 6 or 8.
C-section birth of son when I was 27.
Noticed hypothyroid post birth through use of a basal thermometer temperature reading in mornings. No medication started until about 2 years ago - I just lived with it.
Kidney stones as an adult mostly in 30s.
Diagnosed with high blood pressure in 30s. It fluctuates a lot.
I am 56.
Note: When I touch my back I notice that the area outside my kidneys is often cold. I leave the palm of my hand on them and warm them when I notice this odd thing.
I'm sorry this took so long. Thank you for listening to my problems.
Pickleplan6 9 years ago
Sepia 6C
Dissolve 2 pills in 3 tablespoons water in a disposable cup stir a few times with a disposable spoon and drink all the water.
Do this twice a day and update me in 1 wk.
Note: You may use the same cup and spoon but keep it separate and throw it away after Sepia course is over.Please cut down on Coffee if you can't leave it, as it interferes with homeopathy.
Dissolve 2 pills in 3 tablespoons water in a disposable cup stir a few times with a disposable spoon and drink all the water.
Do this twice a day and update me in 1 wk.
Note: You may use the same cup and spoon but keep it separate and throw it away after Sepia course is over.Please cut down on Coffee if you can't leave it, as it interferes with homeopathy.
♡ Zady101 9 years ago
I have taken the Sepia 6C for 1 week and am reporting back to you. I can't say that I feel less exhausted. I continue to want to go to sleep whenever I sit down. My symptoms have mostly remained the same - except, I have been much more able to tolerate my youngest daughter's behavioral problems and have not really been angry at her - her behavior is the same - constantly challenging. Mid week a storm front came in and I had severe (migraine) headache for 3 days - it let up when the high pressure left. Otherwise - all is the same.
Pickleplan6 9 years ago
Please take Sepia 6C for 1 more wk.
♡ Zady101 9 years ago
I'm sorry to delay. I could not get to a computer before today.
I actually do feel better. I have more energy. This was my major complaint - being exhausted. I'm actually surprised that such a small dilusion could help me. Thank you so much. I wonder if I should continue to take it or stop at this point.
I actually do feel better. I have more energy. This was my major complaint - being exhausted. I'm actually surprised that such a small dilusion could help me. Thank you so much. I wonder if I should continue to take it or stop at this point.
Pickleplan6 9 years ago
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