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Hello Evocationer,

I have been through various homeopaths and remedies and styles that have not cured me yet. I have taken nat m, sepia, lycopodium, clearing remedies (not sure what they were), silica, rhus tox and hepa sulph (olfactory dose). I have taken apis and carbon one plussing dose. I have also taken arsenicum album lm dose and in water and also lachesis in water with succussing. I have also been prescribed another style of remedies which I will post the link, along with past links. Please take my complicated sensitive case would like to heal permanently and avoid too much aggravations.

http://abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/428287/

http://abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/435755/

http://abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php
/440921/

http://abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/457557/
 
  gammyjam on 2014-12-20
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
CASE PRESENTATION FOR CLASSICAL HOMOEOPATHIC PRESCRIBING

General Guidelines:

1. Try to be as descriptive as possible. When describing pains or sensations use descriptions along the lines of ‘feels as if someone is squeezing it with their hand’ or ‘it is like an insect crawling around inside’ or ‘it is as if someone is standing over me threatening to kill me’. Long descriptions are always better than short ones. One word answers are difficult to use successfully.

2. Another important part of symptom description for homoeopathy are the ‘modalities’. These are situations, events, activities or conditions which modify the symptom in some way. We usually refer to this as what makes them ‘better’ or ‘worse’ (amelioration/aggravation). The situation may actually provoke the symptom into appearing, make it vanish altogether, or just increase or decrease it in some way. Modalities are vital information for prescribing.

Modalities are typically related to (but not exclusively) the following situations:

A. Temperature, weather
B. Time (day, night, specific times, frequency, periodicity, season)
C. Position, activity
D. Emotions, thoughts
E. Food and drink
F. Drugs, medication

3. How the symptom is perceived is important too – odour, appearance, sound, touch. What colour is it, what is its texture? For gestures, describe what it looks like the patient is doing, or what you feel you are doing while making the movement eg. ‘they look like they are swatting flies’ or ‘I feel like something is pushing my hand upwards’ or ‘it is like I stick a fork in an electrical outlet which throws my body backwards’. Description – it is key to accurate prescriptions.

4. When did the symptom or set of symptoms start? The apparent cause can be useful in determining the remedy, although it is not of the same importance as the previous factors. It may have been a specific event, a disease, an accident or even an emotional experience.

5. Use your own words. Do not copy phrases or descriptions found in our various remedy pictures. Try not to use other people’s ideas or thoughts or words. If you are reporting on behalf of someone else, report their exact words, however you can also report your own observations of them (not opinions).

6. Does the symptom occur alongside another specific symptom? Do particular symptoms only occur together? Does a particular symptom occur with a particular thought or emotion? For example, a headache that always comes with visual disturbances, or stomach pain that appears alongside anger, or anxiety that makes you feel like running down the street screaming.

7. Each complaint should be described fully before going on to describe another complaint. Try not to mix different symptoms or complaints together. Each modifying feature must be clearly attached to a particular symptom/set of symptoms. Any mistake you make here is a mistake the homoeopath will also then make.

Before moving on to the rest of my questions, follow these instructions for each physical symptom you have.
 
Evocationer 9 years ago
MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL DESCRIPTION



(Please spend the most time on this section and give DETAILED answers - the homoeopathic remedy is very often decided on the basis of the mental and emotional state of the patient !)


1. What are the issues in your life that bother you the most. Not physical issues but mental or emotional ones. List each one separately and describe why each one bothers you so much.

2. What emotions are the most troublesome for you? What situations provoke these emotions. How do these emotions make you act? Do you feel any ill effects from expressing or not expressing these emotions.

3. What incidents in your life have had a deep impact on you? Describe each incident in detail and how they made you feel? What did you do in those situations? What effect have they had on your life?

4. What are you afraid of? Especially important are phobias, but it might be objects, situations or events that just produce a high level of anxiety. How do you manage your fears? How do you react when confronted with these fears? What would be the worst situation for you to be put in that would provoke these fears? You may need to talk about each fear/anxiety separately.

5. What hobbies do you have? Why do you like each of these activities?

6. Do you have any persistent thoughts, ideas or beliefs that are difficult to stop or cope with? What are they?

7. Do you have any unusual gestures or movements of the body? Do you feel any unusual sensation or pain throughout your body? What exactly does it feel like is happening in your body?

8. When you experience your fears, persistent thoughts, or difficult emotions, what kind of sensation or reactions do you get in your body?

9. When did you feel at your best in your life? What was that like for you? If you imagine the complete opposite of this feeling or moment, what would that be like?

10. Do you feel like you are stuck in a pattern of behavior, especially when trying to deal with your problems? What is this pattern? THIS IS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION PLEASE CONSIDER CAREFULLY AND GIVE DETAILS.

11. What difficulties or problems do you have in relationships? Talk about your family, your romantic relationships, your spouse or partner, your friends, and your work colleagues. You may need to talk about all of these separately.

12. List 5 positive things about yourself. Are there any situations where this positive attribute becomes negative (is a problem)?

13. List 5 negative things about yourself. Are there any situations where this negative attribute becomes positive (is useful)?

14. Do you have any reoccurring dreams? Describe them in detail, including any feelings that come while dreaming. Dreams are very important in unlocking the deepest truth of a patient’s case, but it is not enough to simply describe them in a sentence. Give as much information as you feel comfortable doing.

15. Did you have any reoccurring dreams as a child, or earlier in your life? Describe those in detail including any feelings that came with them.

16. What were you like as a child, your character, your personality, your fears, your dreams, your problems?

17. What kind of environment did you grow up in? What problems where there at home, with your family, with your parents, with your siblings, with school?
 
Evocationer 9 years ago
GENERAL SYMPTOMS

(Symptoms that don’t fit anywhere else, but are things that tend to affect all of you as a person, but are not emotions or thoughts)

1. Sleep - what position do you tend to sleep in?
- what position can you not sleep in?
- do you do anything unusual in your sleep?
- any problems with going to sleep, staying asleep, or waking up?

2. Appetite - What foods do you crave/desire strongly?
- What foods do you hate eating (have an aversion to)?
- What foods have a negative effect on you or cause symptoms?
- What foods have a positive effect on you or seem to improve your health or symptoms in some way?

- What is the effect of hunger or fasting on you?

3. Thirst - What drinks do you crave/desire strongly?
- What drinks do you hate to take (are averse to)?
- When are you most thirsty?
- When are you least thirsty?

4. Stool - Do you have any problems with your bowels or passing stool?
- What is the shape, color, odor of the stool?

5. Urine - Do you have any trouble passing or retaining urine?
- What is the color, odor of the urine?
- Do you have any sediment or debris in the urine?

6. Sweat - How do you feel about the amount of perspiration you have?
- Where do you have the most sweat?
- What is the odor?
- What color does it stain clothing?
- Does anything in particular cause you to sweat abnormally?

7. Sexuality - Any problems with your sexual desire?
- Any problems with your sexual ability or function?
- Any history of sexually transmitted diseases?

8. Menses (Women)
- How many days is your cycle?
- How many days does the flow go for?
- What is the appearance of the flow?
- What is the odor of the flow?
- What kind of stain does the flow leave?
- Any discharge before, during or after?
- Any pain before, during or after the flow?
- What symptoms come before the flow?
- What symptoms come after the flow?

9. Environment – How does the weather affect you?
- How does the temperature affect you?
- How does the season affect you?
- What physical activities affect you?
- Is there anything else in the environment you are sensitive to?

10. Anything else you feel is important that hasn’t been covered by previous questions?
 
Evocationer 9 years ago
Anxiety-Due to known/unknown and increasing sensitivities to environment
Depression-Seemimgly hard to find faith that this condition will turn around even though it has somewhat before
Fear-How I may respond to treatments and trying to stick to them
Impatience-Being patient with ups downs of everyday
Panic-Feeling that an extreme seriousness is happening and may take an impulse decision and go other routes

The most troublesome are fear and panic and allowing suppression surface without feeling it is dangerous for me. I feel blocked. They leave me nearly debilitated for days

Adverse allergic like events have mad an impact on me and feel like I did not fully recover from them. Adverse event after marijuana at age 17 with anxiety sense of doom panic and heart and bp very high. Felt like something was seriously wrong. Event kept repeating on a milder level, stuck. Developed asthma allergies to food too and started medications then gerd set in. Started supplements. This seemed to plateau then had adverse event with high hr and bp and dyspnea after local anesthsia at the dentist which mad me anxious and kept repeating. Medications given. Then another after drinking tea with high hr and bp with some throat spasiming tightening after. This gave me panic. Medications given. Another with throat tightening mainly on right with swollen lip and tongue thickening and throat spasms. Made me feel real panicked kept on repeating and still repeats. Medications given. Recent one with severe burning in toungue mouth and body with toungue swelling and mouth with rashes and red marks on legs that epi used for continued for months. Made me think I was going to die. Resolved for a few months was able to eat then gain weight. This left me anorexic as I was unable to eat. Medications given and line fed at hospital. Bile vomited. Resolved after several bouts of diarrhea. Made me depressed and have hopelessnes although I still prayed. Felt relief and renewed after resolve but now panicked and fearful with anxiety and depression again and can only think about myself as this makes a return.

I am afraid of food chemicals environment as I seem ultrasensitive to them. I feel like something builds up everyday that I have an event to. I manage by medicating and distracting or trying to sleep. Afraid of interacting as I am too worried about myself.

No hobbies currently feel too weak to engage in much alhtough wish I could walk much relieving.

Yes always have thoughts that interfere with positive healing processes. These are hard to stop and when a hint of normalcy appears do I think more positively. If any regress then a negative thought follows.

Yes I tend to lay on my left side and at times yawn to destress my thraot and jaw. I feel my throat tighten with burning with drainage that seems to burn and worse with certain foods and substances. Feel like a ball moving up and down with liver area poking that seems to choke near thyroid area with tongue thickening and being pushed up. Electric pains and difficulty eating against a block feeling occurs. With saliva drainage collecting at back of throat there must be cleared coughed and swallowed. There is also a pain in this area by the right thyroid area. Voice quiets or goes away. Palpatations and fear anxiety sometimes panic occur. Feels like the throat becomes more hollow with teeth marks on tongue.

I get the urge to cry along with fast heart rate and tightening in my throat with lump and urge to go to bathroom diminishes.

Felt best at adolescent it was a period of good health and academics and played sports. The opposite is despair now as activity is greatly reduced and home bound mainly.

Yes I feel I am stuck. I feel like it is hard to engage or participate in treatment as I am desperate for quick results and to be treated gently and have to move on at times id I feel like there is not enough tailoring of treatment to me or support.

I have had problems communicating with others and have antagonized or cease to talk to them until things got out of control. Then a grudge ensues and then sometimes the relationship improves or avoidance becomes necessary or occurs.

Listener yes some take advantage of this and can go on with details about themselves. Soft spoken being talked over makes this hard to deal with. Generous can run out of resources if this not watched. Tolerant will give the wrong idea that I can handle more until i protest than viewed as antagonistic. Conscientious will notice more than I want to notice.

Impatient. Lazy. Over analyzer. Neurotic. Hard headed could get my concerns heard again.

I had dreams about people following me or shooting at me. I could not see them at first they were black figures and white monster looking ones with white figures helping me fight them. I now see faces and am fighting them off they were wanting to get me to ingest a poison. I ended up getting away from them but they went after others and was desperately looking for my son to warn him although i had warned him beforehand and a friend as they napped outside at a school somewhere, did not know what happened to him. Woke up. I also have food dreams where I eat certain types of foods. Sometimes chocolate or pizza or soup or corn well alot more food than i eat now or I am moving more actively than I am now. I also have dreams of demonic forces attacking or following me and I pray and plead to God to help me and sometimes they are removed and I wake up scared.

I only remember flying dreams and hallucination type dreams or being asleep in a dream. Felt confused mainly.

As a child I was reserved and bullied. Did not speak up much until my mid teens. I was afraid or did not know how to speak up. I actually let others do this for me.

I grew up with my parents not wanting to hear us express ourselves it was be quiet and listen. I bullied my siblings yet played with them at the same time. At school I was in problems with other peers sometimes being punished outside of school room.

Sleep on right although end up on back, towards left at dawn hours. Cannot really sleep on back. Have to be upright. I seem to moan in my sleep or mouth is open. I have problems with all going and staying asleep. Hard to wake up too.

I crave salty sweet creamy foods like pizza or brownies. I do not like shrimp or oysters. All foods seem to have negative effects on me with varying degrees. I eat he least impacting ones as to not starve. I am weak if i fast and I get burning in my mouth either eating or not.

I crave juices coffee tea
Not really into cow milk
I am thirsty at night and least during day or if increased symptoms

Yes very constipated and when passed it is green with a foul smell musty could be balls or a log or both sometimes dark brown.

Sometimes during the day I retain urine. It is yellow with some debris noted. Odor is like vitamin smell.

I feel like I do not perspire enough I sweat at armpits with chills or in between breasts. Odor is musty like. Does not stain clothing.

I have no sexual desire since over 5 years and no sexually transmitted diseases. Was painful last time.

I have no cycle right now. When I did July was painful lasts 5-7 days every 30-35 days heavy flow with clots and strong odor musty too. Leaves a dark stain had whitish yellow curd like discharge before not much after. Pain with first few days of cycle. Anxiety moodiness anger allergies right upper abdominal pain fatigue before and after cycle.

Too cold or hot temperatures affect me with too warm or chilly feelings. The season seems to cause blocked feelings that increase symptoms like spring and fall. Physical activities fatigue me and increase symptoms and also being sedentary.

My tongue has a white coating with redness at sides and tips at times when it shrinks again raw throat and palate and gums with redness purple and teeth marks on tongue. yellow discolored toenails and thickened with scaly red feet. Relief with hayfever and when symptoms move to bowel and flushes of diarrhea.
Face puffy looking with redness of lips and over cheeks especially after eating. White spots and redness on legs periodically and red pimples on legs. Feels like burning steam is going from throat to nose. Lymph noses feel tight and hard especially underneath chin or mandible. Relief when they pop and drain although it burns. Right sided pain at times at liver area and jumping feeling. Bowels do not seems as noisy they seem to quiet most times.
Feel like I am swallowing against a ball at base of throat. parotid gland swelling. Throat clearing coughing when improved otherwise lack of this. Tingling feeling all over body some stinging at times. I have a right thyroid nodule and react to fruits veggies. I have gallstones too. Sometimes an echo voice or high pitch or tongue stuck when talking. Hopefully I have entered enough symptoms.
 
gammyjam 9 years ago
Ok, thank you for answering all my questions in detail. I will begin working on your case.
 
Evocationer 9 years ago
Thanks much
 
gammyjam 9 years ago
Hi Evocationer. Did you get to work on my case and find a remedy?
 
gammyjam 8 years ago
I had lost track of this thread. My apologies. Always add a comment to bump it back up to the top of the forum so I can see it if you haven't heard from me within a reasonable amount of time (a few days).
 
Evocationer 8 years ago
Great excitement
Full of apprehension of terrible things happening
Depression and despair
Ailments from hurry
Impatience
Dreams of being pursued
Frightened easily
Greatly excited and sure she is going to die
Anxiety with fear
Anxiety with palpitation
Extreme sensitiveness - often to an astonishing level
Great excitement leads to physical exhaustion
Utterly unable to banish the thoughts that flood the mind

Sensitive from drugs

I think the remedy COFFEA could be useful here. I had a hard time deciding between Coffea cruda or Coffea tosta - the above list is actually a combination of the two remedies. Perhaps get both and we can try the other if the first doesn't give a good result.

Due to your sensitivity, I do not want to start too high. 12c at the most. I will get you to dilute the dose to the Fifth cup in an attempt to minimize the reaction.

If you have obtained pillules or pellets, you will need a small bottle and a dropper to make your own liquid dose. Mix water and alcohol into this small bottle to the ratio of 5:1. Dissolve 3 pillules/pellets into this bottle. All doses will be made from this bottle.

If you already have a liquid dose just start from step 1.

1. Hit the bottle 5 times firmly against the palm of the hand

2. Place 3 drops into 100mls of clean fresh water

3. Stir very thoroughly

4. Take 2 teaspoons out and place into another 100mls of fresh clean water. Stir again.

5. Take 2 teaspoons out and place into another 100mls of fresh clean water. Stir again.

6. Take 2 teaspoons out and place into another 100mls of fresh clean water. Stir again.

7. Take 2 teaspoons out and place into another 100mls of fresh clean water. Stir again.

8. Now take 2 teaspoons out and place in the mouth.

Do this once, wait 48 hours, then take another dose if nothing much has happened. Continue to do this until 5 doses has been taken or a reaction has occurred.


If any old symptoms reappear, or any current symptoms worsen, this is a GOOD sign in most cases. DO NOT SUPPRESS them with other kinds of medication unless you are in real danger (which is a highly unlikely reaction to a remedy).

However, if you are on regular medication it is also important that you do NOT stop taking this unless it is perfectly safe to do so. Once it is determined the medicine has acted beneficially, we can look at reducing such medication. Regular medication in this instance is NOT defined as other homoeopathic medicines which MUST be stopped. Tissue salts are the same as homoeopathic medicines and are in this category, as are Bach Flowers, Flower Essences, and Bush Flower Essences.

Start with Coffea cruda first as the most well known one.
[message edited by Evocationer on Mon, 27 Apr 2015 07:31:54 BST]
 
Evocationer 8 years ago
I have 6c coffea cruda no dropper bottle but have an 8 oz pour bottle. Is this okay to use can we adapt this somehow?
 
gammyjam 8 years ago
Can you pour out the equivalent of a drop?

Why do you have this remedy? Have you tried it before?

6c is quite low - there will be molecules of the bean still left in it. I prefer to start at 12c, but if you haven't used it before, then we could test out 6c.
[message edited by Evocationer on Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:23:26 BST]
 
Evocationer 8 years ago
Yes seems like I can
 
gammyjam 8 years ago
I edited that post with more questions, just in case you read it prior to my doing that.
 
Evocationer 8 years ago
Oh just noticed your questions. I had bought it earlier on a whim actually but have not used and glad I did not. Should I get 30c since 12c is not readily available? Is this okay?
 
gammyjam 8 years ago
Start with 6c. It is low enough to avoid overpowering your vital energy IF low vitality is an issue here. Get hold of 12c though because I would want to try that even if 6c doesn't help a lot.
 
Evocationer 8 years ago
Okay will do
 
gammyjam 8 years ago
I tried the 6c coffea cruda and some things happened right away like bowels and urine moving being able to drink more water and felt my right thyroid nodule drain and shrink. Although i had a hard time sleeping real restless and jumping out of sleep when i finally slept. Also had these sensations underneath my rib cage on both sides as if i went on a roller coaster ride. I felt stimulated now feel like i need a sedative. Not very strong right now to be going through like I drank too much coffee. What does this mean?
 
gammyjam 8 years ago
Hi Evocationer did you get my question prior to this post?
 
gammyjam 8 years ago
Evocationer please look at my posts I have gone into a flu like response with laryngitis and anxiety with some dyspnea after taking the remedy how do I get out of this?
 
gammyjam 8 years ago

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