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55 yr old Lady left side paralysis

My wife Anju diabetic having BP and colestrol problems not regular in taking medicines except for suger got messive stroke attack on May 18 2013 the day She arive back from India.

She was provided first aid help within 15 minutes and full fledge medical emergency help in Hamilton General Hospital with in 45 minutes.

Due to messive stroke her brain was swelling too much affecting other part of the brain.
So doctors decided to allow the brain to swell upto its maximum capacity and operated & removed a big piece of skull from rt side.
Still she does not have skull flap on rt side

She remained in hospital about two months during that period many time her position was too critical.

After that she was given rehabilitation phyiothrapy for 3months and she was improving started little walks with help.

In last week of Nov 2013 she got second stroke which was not a massive but her status gone worse. She remained in Hamilton General hospital for three months and then transfered to rehabilatation wing for three months but there was no improvement.

So Finallyy she was transfered to long term care nursing home in last week of Jun 2014.

Presently
She has left vision neglect.

She is weak in lft side of mouth. Food particle come out of mouth from left side.

She complains pain in left arm and left leg.

She had stiffened mussles in both limbs arm & leg.

Her leg remains bend from knee. If we try to straight she feels pain too much.

She cannot stand. If try to make her stand her left leg remain in air at least 3-4' above the ground.
After message for 15-20 minutes it touches the ground but still she can't put her wt on left leg.

She does not have full control over her boul moments (nature's call.

Some time she does not swallow the medicine. She keep the medicine in her mouth for long time with water and does not swallow even our frequent requests.

So it is my humble request that if any body has some solution for these conditions please respond at an earliest. I need to see her normal at least doing her own functions.



I would like thanks Rishimba a lot to show interest in my case and responding prompetly.
In reply to your Quaries I would like to say as under.
1.Main Sufferings
Paralysis on left leg arm mouth and eye vision.
Too much stiffness in mussles of leg.
Too much pain in Arm and Leg specially under the knee joint.

2. Physical Sufferings: Diabetic, Blood Pressure and swelling in the brain so no bone flap on rt side of skull.

3. Mental Sufferings: Home sickness and home country sickenss always willing to visit home and wishing to go back to home country (India. Presently in a nursing home a long term care unit.

4. It is almost stable all the time.

5. A messive Stroke happened on 18 May 2013 and a minor again in last week of Nov 2013. No relevance with past medical history but may be due high BP and High level of suger or high colestrol but it was not declared by the doctors.

6. It is hard to decide.

7. Does not like temperature under air conditioning or lower than 23 to 24 degree celcius. Pain suffering inreases its intensity while some body touch to affected parts of body specially arm and leg and with tight clothing.

8. No external or internal cause. Big blood clot blocked the Artry carrying blood supply to brain and it happened.

9. Feels good in normal cold and dry weather.

10. General mind set is normal, mild, agreeable and changeable
Normal
Yes
Yes
No
My family member and friends are good care-taking and loving one.

11. No fears and no specific dreams.

12. Nothing special.

13. Normal.

14. Little higher than normal.

15. No.

16. Normal. No specific area.

17. Bowel movement are normal stool is like past all the time but lot of time I does not feel the actual sensation of bowel movements.

18. Sleep is good and generall towards left side.

19. I had normal sexual life but had not had since April 2012.

20. courageus, hard working and optimistic lady.

21. No Homeopathic medicine so far in this case nor previously was using homeo medicines. Taking what ever is prescribed by doctors.

22. I am diabetic, my mom died of heart attack, one of my sisters died of blood cancer and other died of kidney failure, my father age 87 free from any disease.

23. I am 5'4' 180lb medium body with hard working habits.

24. No mensuration since last 15 years.

25. I am diabetic since 2001 presently on insulin three times a day. No other serious disease.
[message edited by akgda on Wed, 20 Aug 2014 21:59:50 BST]
 
  akgda on 2014-08-20
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
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 can’t 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.
 
rishimba 9 years ago
I would like thanks Rishimba a lot to show interest in my case and responding prompetly.
In reply to your Quaries I would like to say as under.
1.Main Sufferings
Paralysis on left leg arm mouth and eye vision.
Too much stiffness in mussles of leg.
Too much pain in Arm and Leg specially under the knee joint.

2. Physical Sufferings: Diabetic, Blood Pressure and swelling in the brain so no bone flap on rt side of skull.

3. Mental Sufferings: Home sickness and home country sickenss always willing to visit home and wishing to go back to home country (India. Presently in a nursing home a long term care unit.

4. It is almost stable all the time.

5. A messive Stroke happened on 18 May 2013 and a minor again in last week of Nov 2013. No relevance with past medical history but may be due high BP and High level of suger or high colestrol but it was not declared by the doctors.

6. It is hard to decide.

7. Does not like temperature under air conditioning or lower than 23 to 24 degree celcius. Pain suffering inreases its intensity while some body touch to affected parts of body specially arm and leg and with tight clothing.

8. No external or internal cause. Big blood clot blocked the Artry carrying blood supply to brain and it happened.

9. Feels good in normal cold and dry weather.

10. General mind set is normal, mild, agreeable and changeable
Normal
Yes
Yes
No
My family member and friends are good care-taking and loving one.

11. No fears and no specific dreams.

12. Nothing special.

13. Normal.

14. Little higher than normal.

15. No.

16. Normal. No specific area.

17. Bowel movement are normal stool is like past all the time but lot of time I does not feel the actual sensation of bowel movements.

18. Sleep is good and generall towards left side.

19. I had normal sexual life but had not had since April 2012.

20. courageus, hard working and optimistic lady.

21. No Homeopathic medicine so far in this case nor previously was using homeo medicines. Taking what ever is prescribed by doctors.

22. I am diabetic, my mom died of heart attack, one of my sisters died of blood disorders and other died of kidney failure, my father age 87 free from any disease.

23. I am 5'4' 180lb medium body with hard working habits.

24. No mensuration since last 15 years.

25. I am diabetic since 2001 presently on insulin three times a day. No other serious disease
 
akgda 9 years ago
Can you describe her overall mental make-up, her nature and personality as you have seen her in the past when she was healthy?

You said she was courageous, hard-working and optimistic lady. Let me know her priorities and prerogatives in her life she stood and worked for. What was her job and what was her passion in life?

What makes her physical pain and sufferings better and what conditions make them worse?

How was the onset of her paralysis? Was it gradual or sudden? Which part of the body started getting affected first?
 
rishimba 9 years ago
First of all I wish to thanks Rishimba for taking keen interest in my wife's case.

We are originally from India migrated to Canada in Aug 2005. Most of our relatives and family members are still in India. Up to May17 2013 she was healthy and on 18th May 2013 she returned from India afterr serving my Mom & Dad who are in their 80es for 13 months continuously.

She was always friendly with all relatives family members and nabours and always trying to help then in their needs. Relative were frequently visiting her and always praise her for her hospitability. Here in Canada
She was calling on their phone regularly. In nutshell she was having friendly nature.

She was really hardworking lady. In her childhood she was working boy of her parents. Almost all outdoor works were performed by her.
After merrage initally she was working woman. lateron she had her own business. In Canada initially worked 12 hours daily 7 day a week & all house hold work she was doing. She go bed around
midnight and wake up at 6 am.
Lateron we bought a convenience store and she was working at store as well as home/kitchen work too.

About herbetter or worse suffering I donot have an Idea.

She got paralysis due to sudden stroke attack on 18th May 2013 the day she arived from India. Since then she is in Hospital or Nursing home. Her case worsen with second attack of stroke in last week of Nov 2013. We came to know from Doctors of hospital that her left side has been paralysed. So we can't say which part got affected first.
 
akgda 9 years ago
Please give her two doses of CAUSTICUM 200C on a single day morning and evening in empty stomach.

Note the changes in her symptoms for the next one week. If things look better, she can repeat it once in three days for a month or two or till she gets benefit out of this remedy.

Change of potency will be considered when this potency ceases to create any further response.
[message edited by rishimba on Fri, 22 Aug 2014 08:43:56 BST]
 
rishimba 9 years ago
Thanks Rishimba for prompt reply and advising to give her 'CAUSTICUM 200C'.

I have alreay started Yesterday and gave her 5 pallets of ' CAUSTICUM 200C' in the morning before her breakfast and 5inthe evening before her supper. Let us hope for the best. I will let you know if therr is any change inher condition. If you feel any other remidy can be tried please let me know. Thanks once again.
 
akgda 9 years ago
Look for changes in her mentals and ask her if she felt better overall after the dose.

Share your notes here after a week and then based on your post, a long term dosage pattern needs to be chalked out.
 
rishimba 9 years ago
Thanks Rishimba once again.

One important condition I forget to add that she feels great tingling feeling when I try to touch her limbs (leg or arm) for massage. She almost starts crying. she can't bear the feeling of tingling. Pl suggest some remedy for that.
 
akgda 9 years ago
I will keep a note of this input of yours during my next recommendation.

Meanwhile, please give her a few doses of CAUSTICUM 200C as suggested above and let me know if it produced a response in the next 2 weeks.
 
rishimba 9 years ago
By the word 'tingling' do you mean her limbs get numb and cold?

What exactly is her sensation on her limbs before and after you touch the affected part?

Any prickly feeling, icy coldness or burning?
 
rishimba 9 years ago
Thanks Rishimba for your note for clarification.
Tingling means when I touch her leg she feels like thousands of pin and needles in her leg or arm. It is the case if any part of our body remains some time under pressure or some kind of weight and we want to move that part it does not move and we feel different feeling in that part but after some time that part again starts working.

Most of the time she remains on wheel chair and leg on left foot rest. So there is no movement in her leg. And she hold her left hand in her right hand and keeps on sitting on wheelchaIR Without any movement. After that when ever I had chance to visit her I try to give her little massage on her leg and arm. My initial touch in her leg and arm give her thin tingling feeling which give her pain and unbearable situation.

She feels cold even in 22-23c temperature. Otherwise no prickly, icy or burning complaints.
Yes before stroke when she was normal often she was complaining about icy cold feet and legs and burning some time in different parts of body.
 
akgda 9 years ago
Dr Rishimba goodevening

I would like to add that as per your advice I gave her two dose of Causticum 200C on 24th Aug and two dosed on 31st Aug. I did not found any major change except muscles of left hand some time looks like little relaxed and over all looks more active.

One adverse thing I had observed that there is lot of swelling in brain, complete left leg foot and complete left arm. There is also some swelling on her face too. Still she feels too much pain under her knee joint.
 
akgda 9 years ago
Based on your input I would like to change the remedy. The one that fits best on her based on sensation and modalities is AGARICUS MUSCARIUS.

Please buy it in 200C potency to start with and give 2 doses six hours apart on a single day.

If this remedy brings about a change, this will be repeated once a week till improvement is noted.

Report to me one week after giving this remedy.
 
rishimba 9 years ago
Thanks Rishimba for taking pain in my case and responding promptly.

Can you please specify the doses how many pallets in one dose has to be served the patient. Or should be in liquid form of pallet form.
Thanks again.
 
akgda 9 years ago
Observing
 
Zady101 9 years ago
Thanks Zady101 for your observing.
Please feel free to ask any further information if you feel it is required. Thanks once again.
 
akgda 9 years ago
One dose would be 2 to 3 drops mixed with some 10 ml of water sipped up slowly in empty stomach.

If you buy it in the pellet form, you can either dissolve 2 pellets in the same quanity of water or keep the pellets under the tongue till they dissolve.
 
rishimba 9 years ago
Akgda: I am keeping track of your case. Will help you at an opportune time.
 
Zady101 9 years ago
I wish to thanks once again Dr Zady101 for you interest and post.
I really need a great help this time. The contraction process is started at her knee joint. It is hard to make her leg straight. But after some massage and making her stand up again and again she touch her feet on the ground. I try to use knee brace/splint to make her leg straight. But I cannot be always with her. She stays at Long term care nursing home. On weekends I bring her home and try to massage and exercise on her leg and arm. Also try to make her stand and walk couple of steps. But she feels too much pain and due to pre-feeling of pain she does not put her weight on her left leg. Rest in week days I visit her for an hour or so I gave her massage therapy and try to make her stand on her feet. But every day I had to start from beginning. Till date I could not get medicine 'AGARICUS MUSCARIUS 200C' suggested by Dr Rishimba. I Ordered but yet to get. I hope to get in one or two days. May be by next week any result if possible I would be able to post.

Thanks again for your time and help.
 
akgda 9 years ago
Hi,

Till you get Agaricus, can you get Arnica 30C from the nearby homeopathic pharmacy.
 
Zady101 9 years ago
Dr Zady
Good morning and thanks for you post.
I Got Arnica 30c wet. Can u please specify about the dose how to use it I mean the quantity to use. Thanks.
 
akgda 9 years ago
Arnica 30C

Bring a small mineral water bottle, approx 250 to 300 ml in size. Empty out 25% from it. Add 2 drops/5 pills of the remedy into the bottle. Let the pills dissolve on their own. For the first dose, turn the bottle upside down a few times and take out 2 capfuls of water and give it to the patient.

For successive doses, hold the bottle in your right hand and hit the base of the bottle against the palm of your left hand 8 times. Hit it hard. Take out 2 capfuls of water and give to the patient. This is one dose. Before every dose you must hit 8 times.

Take a dose every 4 hours for a total of 3 times in a day. Dose for 2 days and update me. I expect her to start feeling better.
 
Zady101 9 years ago
Dr Zady101/Dr Rishimba
Good evening

I gave here Arnica 30c wet dose on last wednesday and thursday and I gave her Agaricus Muscarius 200c wet dose on Saturday two times.

I feel little improvement about 4-5% in pain feeling. But there is no change so far in musle contraction and Tingling feeling. There is too much swelling on her left leg, brain is also has swelling. Feels more tingling on leg than arm.

Afterr massage of couple minutes at leg there is no tingling feeling and streching of leg is possible upto some extent. Leg can't be straight. But I try to make her stand and walk couple of steps after massage but leg still remains bend at knee joint. I try to use knee brace/splint while try for walking and also use at night time when she sleep bearing brace/splint on her leg. But all this does not give much improvement. It helps a lot in her walking couple of steps.

I will give another update after next saturday/sunday. On these I can give her maximum time for excercise and walking therapy.
 
akgda 9 years ago
You are mixing 2 remedies, which is not recommended. Had u asked me before taking Agaricus, i would have told you to take it after doing Arnica for a week. Pls wait for Rishi to guide you further.
[message edited by Zady101 on Wed, 17 Sep 2014 03:34:09 BST]
 
Zady101 9 years ago
Agree with Zady. Now you really don't know which remedy produced a response.

You can try only ARNICA first after a few days and see her response.
 
rishimba 9 years ago

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