Dr Anuj help please: 11 years old boy with anxiety

Gender: male
Age: 11
Height: 5”1
Weight: 120 lbs

Physical Characteristics:
He has quite broad shoulders, a quite solid stature, quite tall, fat on the torso and belly.
Feels sometimes hot, especially while falling asleep in bed, sometimes sweats in the face. Also feels easily hot and sweats as soon as he does sports.

Emotional and Mental Traits:
Anxious child, but he is quite calm outside especially when he is with people, he is not familiar with. He is very careful about his image, he doesn’t want people to think he is not behaving well, so usually everybody tells me that I have a child that behaves very well, who is very reasonable. He has many fears: darkness, loneliness, robbers, diseases, planes…
He is very talkative with people he is familiar with, especially in the evening.
When he is very nervous, he needs to urinate more often.


Describe your general mood and temperament:
He cannot stand it when a friend is touching his toys without having washed his hands. He is very easily disgusted by his brother when he sees him eating (he is still learning how to eat properly, he is 29 months old). He used to have times where he was washing his hands quite often but it’s better now.
He is very sensitive to what he can hear and even more to what he is watching. He almost never watches any movie because he is very easily scared or saddened by what he sees.
He is seen by his friends as a calm kid, reasonable and kind.
He has hyperacusis, he hears a little too well, he is also very sensitive to smells.


Sleep Patterns:
He always falls asleep quite late, never before 11:30 pm and wakes up at around 8:30 am. He doesn’t sleep enough. He has difficulties focusing on his school work during the day. He often dreams about things he talked about during the day or that he heard.


Appetite and Cravings:
He has a good appetite, and some days, he just wants to eat very often, especially when he is just at home. He is a bit overweight, the fat is mainly on the belly and torso. He loves soft bread and pasta.

Energy Levels:
I just feel like his nervousness is what keeps him going during the day but I think he is sometimes tired and needs more sleep.

Weather Preferences:
He sometimes says that he likes when the sky is grey. He doesn’t stand the heat very well.


Ailments or Health Issues:
his blood sugar is a bit high but still within the normal range.

Behavior and Habits:
My son loves having specific interests and he just learns everything about it: animals, cars, chess game….
When he is not into something, he feels empty and almost depressed. Having a passion is very important and almost central for him.

So I gave my son phosphorus in 30ch once. I saw improvments in his behaviour, he is less shy and more daring, I also find that his mood is more stable, I didnt really see any down moments.
But we still have one big problem that just got worse the last 3 nights, its the sleeping difficulties. His hyperacusis got much worse, he hears every little sound, especially in the evening and during the night, and he is even scared of hearing sounds, so he is falling asleep very late and wakes up very easily if , for example, I try to enter his room to switch off his light. Last night, some cats were fighting outside and he got so scared, he jumped out of bed screaming.
So at this point I wonder what is best to do. I am a bit nervous about giving him phosphorus in 1M, I am afraid of the impact it might have on his sleep, but at the same time I am quite convinced that its a good remedy for him. It would take me a few days to get 1M potency and I dont even think I can get it in a liquid form.
Thank you for your help.

Ok thank you for your reply, I also forgot to mention that when his sleep was getting worse I gave him phosphorus in 200k, I realize it was not a good idea. But the problem now is that he is afraid to sleep alone, so it is really difficult.
So if I understood well what you said, I should give him 1M in a few days?

I disagree. In homeopathy dosing is very much depending on who is prescribing. Some homeopath are repeating a dose three times in a row. It depends how each person is working. I have been using homeopathy for 10 years, some people would say its irresponsible to go as high as 1M, but I am not judging and willing to try different potencies, including the ones I usually dont use. I repeated once when I saw an agravation to make sure it didnt need a repetition. I think a good homeopath knows how to stay humble.

So I feel like my sons sleep only got worse since taking this remedy. He overhears sounds in the evening and he is always afraid to hear somebody knocking at his window or sreaming at night. So he is falling asleep very late and he is full of anxiety. I dont know if I should now repeat Phosphorus in 30ch because it helped him for other things or if I should change remedy?
I would also like to have Dr Anuj opinion on this please?
[Edited by Laura1 on 2024-02-12 22:40:12]

Thank you very much Simone, yes as you advised, I will wait for Anuj to answer. I didnt repeat phosphorus anyway, since this aggravation is just not disappearing, so as you said very well in this case, he might need something else.

I gave my son camphora, but we still have the same problems, especially for the bad sleep. He falls asleep very late and wakes up several time during the night. In the symptomps I described so far, I dont think I mentioned that he drinks quite a lot of water, he often complains about having a dry mouth.