| Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? |
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| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-11-15 |
Sounds like Staph was good for you.
Are you able to list all the symptoms you originally presented with, and place next to each one Better, Worse, Same or Gone. Also if better or worse try giving a percentage or a score to show how much.
This way we can determine how close the remedy was, and if repeating would be valuable for you.
It is strange though, your language used to describe the reaction to Staph, is most UN-Staph-like.
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| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From starface [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-11-15 |
Thanks for posting what happened with you. I followed your thread before. Nice to read your experience of staphysgaria…. Thanks
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| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From nawazkhan [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-11-15 |
Dear KayLove,
Indeed, very nice to hear from you as I was worried about your health. I kept thinking about you.
What remedies did you take prior to Staph 200C? Did you ever take a dose of Lyssin?
Please give me a little time to revisit your case as I am in the middle of few things and travelling.
Many prayers for your good health.
Regards
Nawaz | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From nawazkhan [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-11-15 |
Hi,
Please go ahead and repeat Staph 200C dose as you took before.
More prayers for you.
Regards
Nawaz | This thread continues beneath the following ad.
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| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From KayLove [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-11-15 |
David - So, there seemed to be a mix of reactions, some good some bad. The nymphomania was pretty intense (though not necessarily unpleasant) and I wondered if it was an aggravation or a proving? And how should I think about that dog-like behavior? Can you tell me more about how one determines if a remedy is "right"? I agree that the assertiveness is a VERY positive development, and one I have needed for a very very long time!
The symptom list is a great suggestion - I'll get on that as soon as possible.
Nawaz - Thanks so much for your thoughts and prayers, I feel pretty special to have someone like you worrying about me! : )
I AM feeling curious and quite inclined to trying another dose, and I really appreciate your confirmation.
Prior to Staph 200C, I took the Lachesis 200c (split dosing according to David's instructions) twice. I have not taken any other remedies.
Do you have a recommendation as far as how to take the remedy (i.e. is split or wet dosing more or less just as good as unit dosing, etc)?
I hope your travels are safe and happy!
Starface - Thanks for your interest in my case. I'm very glad that my posting is useful and interesting to others. : )
This forum is a great help and comfort, and I really appreciate you all for your time, concern and input. It's very sweet to be connected with caring people. ♥ THank you ♥ | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From nawazkhan [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-11-15 |
Hi,
Please take 4 drops of the remedy mixed in 1/4 cup of mineral water. Only one dose please.
More prayers for your good health.
Regards
Nawaz | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-11-16 |
Making a symptom list and assessing each one in terms of improvement or aggravation, is a great way to determine the direction things are going.
Mental or emotional improvements are usually a good sign, but sometimes partial similars can do this without improving the case.
What is important is to look at what exactly has improved, and what exactly is worse. While the direction is good, then you can continue with the remedy. When direction is bad, it is prudent to stop and reassess.
Direction of Cure is a clear and well defined principle in homoeopathy. Despite that I have seen some very odd and irrational statements made by practitioners regarding changes (or perceived changes) in a case.
There are a few links about this guiding principle I can give you:
http://www.homeopathy-help.net/Theory/patients/px_doc.html
http://hpathy.com/homeopathy-papers/homeopathy-understanding...
http://hpathy.com/homeopathy-philosophy/hering%e2%80%99s-law...
Obviously my original assessment of your case was that you may need an animal remedy. Of course that language makes me consider it again. However, it is always sensible to persist with a remedy that has created positive changes, whatever theories a practitioner might have. My ideas about kingdom (and remedy) may change throughout case-taking until the patient gets that right remedy, since the only thing that matters is the result (and not my imagination about it lol).
Direction of Cure is our primary tool for determining that the remedy is actually healing you. Healing should follow specific pathways - from more important areas to less important, from inside to the outside, from above to below, from newer symptoms to older symptoms.
This means that some things can appear to worsen while others improve - where they lie in the hierarchy of the body/mind/spirit tells you if the remedy is healing them or suppressing the symptoms (or just aggravating them).
What does it mean to get the simillimum though? What would a patient experience?
Similar remedies (partial similars, 'almost right' remedies) will typically make you better in some ways, but seem to leave other problems untouched. This will be despite repeat doses and using other potencies of that remedy (which you must do before abandoning it since everything must be right to cure, not just the remedy). Using partial similars often requires you to move to new remedies to keep progress in the case. This can take a lot of skill, and has the pitfall of choosing the wrong remedy and reversing progress instead.
The simillimum on the other hand, is a very different experience. While it can aggravate like any other remedy, cause upheavals and old symptoms to reappear (an excellent indication of cure in homoeopathy), the overall effect is much more exciting.
This is based on my own experience of patients who have had the simillimum compared to those who have partial similars.
The simillimum is like an earthquake! Nothing is left untouched. It reaches in as deep as it is possible to go, reaches back as far as trauma exists in the person. Patterns that the person have held to for years, or even their whole life, break down. The things that used to affect them so much, simply become unimportant. They feel more creative, more connected to others, more calm, more compassionate, more selfless, more assertive. It really is amazing to watch.
Their physical symptoms change dramatically too, pathology will reverse if it has not gone too far. They have more energy, sleep better, have more balanced desire for sex and for food, cravings become just normal likes. Menstrual cycles even out, fertility often rises (something people need to be aware of), dreams become less intense and more related to the person's day-to-day life.
This may not happen overnight of course, but it doesn't take many doses usually. The simillimum doesn't need repeating very often. On occasion I have seen a single dose carry a patient through months or even years.
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| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From nawazkhan [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-11-16 |
Hi,
It was not the aggravation or proving. Your suppressed symptoms surfaced.
Please pour 4 drops of the remedy into 1/4 cup of mineral water. Mix nicely and take the whole thing.
More prayers for you. | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From nawazkhan [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-11-16 |
Staph is a short acting remedy, therefore, one must repeat at this time. | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-11-16 |
A remedy has three actions - two of them really come from you although this often gets mixed up by observers.
One is the primary action, the immediate medicinal effect. This is generally short acting (a few hours, a few days, rarely a few weeks).
Then there is the secondary action, which is actually your vital force reacting to the primary effect. This can be a much longer effect, and is highly individual. It may be opposite to the primary action (so your Restlessness gets worse, then it becomes Sleepiness) or it may just neutralize the primary action(you just feel better). It also greatly depends on the type of medicine you have been given (how 'similar' or homoeopathic it is) and how strong or large the dose was.
The third action of a remedy, or more properly of healing, is where the Vital Force, now healthy and funcitioning correctly, begins sorting out the various tissue changes and damage that has occured over the years of being sick. This might include excreting toxins through the normal channels for doing that, or revitalising atrophied body parts. A healthy vital force can actually produce a number of symptoms to make you well, long after the remedy itself has finished its work. This 'tidying up' is part of the normal functioning of the life energy, although there may be a lot of work to do once things are back in order. | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From KayLove [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-11-17 |
Very helpful information, thank you
I'm trying to do a symptom list/progress evaluation, but it's confusing because I didn't start with a clear list of symptoms, nor did I keep concise notes from beginning to end. Arrg!!! This, of course, is one of my complaints: confusion, lack of linear thinking, etc.. I'm not even going to try to guess percentage of improvement - it's just too nebulous.
So, here's what I came up with:
Symptoms:
Mental:
Anxiety: better
Cowardice: much better
Confusion: same
Difficulty sharing: slightly better
Indecision: same
Inability to imagine future: same
Inability to think linearly: same
Jealousy: better
Lack of assertiveness: much better
Low Self Esteem: better
Mental hyperactivity: same
Physical:
Bruxism: better? not sure, since this happens when I’m asleep – but not
experiencing sore jaw
Stomach Pain: same
Insomnia: cured while abroad, now same (not better)
Lower Back Pain: better, but maybe due to lack of exercise (since exercise can aggravate)
Spiritual:
Underachievement: remains to be seen
Avoidance of Life: better
Cynicism: slightly better
Reliance/Overemphasis on my physical appearance: same
Additional symptoms experienced after taking Staph:
Nymphomania
Cystic Acne on Face (but also could be due trying to clean my face with castor oil twice a day - the breakouts stopped when I stopped applying castor oil)
Nasal congestion and increased phlem in throat
Emotional neediness (dog-like behavior)
Another thing that happened while abroad that may be noteable is that I faced my fear of the dark by deciding to take an hour and a half walk, alone, late at night, on a lonely, unknown, unlit country road. My mind insisted on throwing up images of every scary thing it could come up with - from psychopaths to zombies. There were times I couldn't see my hand in front of my face, and other times when my way was only lit by starlight - so, dim and shadowy at best. I faced things like large, ferocious barking dogs that I couldn't see - not knowing if they were on the street in front of me with safely locked behind a fence, I had to decide whether or not to continue moving forward, and actually did. I also felt like I was passing through ghosts and other presences, and that I had something unknown walking alongside me for some time.
What I think may be of interest to this case is that, 1) I chose to undertake the walk knowing my fears, and 2) that, while there were moments that I experienced as quite terrifying, I felt there was a "grown up" part of my psyche that stood apart from the fear quit calmly, witnessing it without participating. I don't know if this has anything to do with the Staph or not, but felt like it was a positive thing.
I'm going to meet with the homeopathic learning team later today to talk about these results and I anticipate getting another dose of Staph since I think I'll be better able to discern the results of Staph if I take it at home, under normal circumstances. I'll report what happens. As always, I'm interested your feedback as well. | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-11-17 |
It's a good result, widespread changes.
However I would tag the indecision, confusion, problems thinking, mental hyperactivity first up, because these symptoms are higher up in the hierarchy than the ones that are better. You have had a shift emotionally, but not cognatively. I also notice that the few physicals you named are mostly not better either.
That implies the remedy has worked as a partial similar. This might be because the potency is not correct of course, or because it fits one part of the case.
Certainly I would not abandon a remedy that has made significant changes like this, but I would be alert to the symptoms that are NOT changing, as the deeper remedy (more complete simillimum) is going to be found there.
So really there is promise, and the remedy needs to be explored a bit further to determine how far it will take you. | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From KayLove [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-11-17 |
Thanks for that feedback - homeopathy is endlessly fascinating.
I'm just writing to report that the homeopathy team didn't renew my prescription, but said they'd like to meet with me again in another few weeks to see how the Staph is working on me now that I'm home.
I told them that I'd been advised here that Staph should be re-administered because it's a short acting remedy. She said she'd never heard that, and that to take more Staph now might push me into proving.
Seems there are as many opinions as there are homeopaths! What a complex system...
I suppose it probably can't hurt to wait a little longer... can it? | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-11-17 |
That is good advice. As I explained earlier, there are several stages to the reaction you get to the remedy. The second and third stages can last weeks or months. It is important not to be too impatient with repeating as it can ruin the good results. | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2011-11-17 |
Haste often wrecks good cases. I have been guilty of this myself. I actually find it can happen here more often because people have daily access to me, which would never happen in clinic. | This thread continues beneath the following ad.
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| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From KayLove [Log on to view profile] | on 2012-01-12 |
Hello, I'm now in Guatemala. I brought some staph with me and wondering if I should redose.
To back up a bit: The homeopathic team did end up giving me more staph - same strength (200) and I took it.
To be honest, I don't notice much drastic change. I do think I've been bolder, speaking up more when needed. I don't notice bruxing my teeth as much, but again - I'm asleep when it happens.
I'm more confident than i anticipated feeling, being here and readying myself to begin teaching for the first time. I have more calm, more sense of competency than I expected to have.
I'm feeling very needy in terms of my boyfriend whom I've left back home. He has put up the brave face, and I've been all tears. My neediness puts him off, and it's becoming a cycle where the more I cry, the more he avoids my calls, and the more needy and rejected I feel. I've resolved not to call him, and hope I find the fortitude to stick to it, but it sticks a pang of fear in my stomach every time I think about it, about him and what he's doing. Again, there's something dog-like about my behavior, and I hate it.
Any new suggestions, dr.s? Repeat staph? Increase strength? move on to a new remedy?
Many thanks! | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2012-01-12 |
When did you take the Staph last?
The advice of the homoeopaths you saw was correct. Staph is not a short acting remedy and taking it too soon can indeed create a proving.
This always needs to be kept in mind before repeating. However, one weighs that up against the suffering currently being experienced. | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From KayLove [Log on to view profile] | on 2012-01-12 |
Oh gosh, I've lost track. My guess is about 4 weeks ago. I took two pellets under my tongue.
I did not experience the same nymphomania as last time.
I should also add that I still have a small growth (like a skin tag) on the inner rim corner of my eyelid.
My main suffering right now is difficulty planning my classes (unclear thinking) and fear of losing my boyfriend. This seems like a lack of self esteem, since he's given me no indication I need to worry, but I"ll be gone for 1o months and worry incessantly that he'll meet someone else and leave me. I cried the entirety of both flights down to Guatemala, and am kicking myself for not marrying him before I left. | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From KayLove [Log on to view profile] | on 2012-02-11 |
I just wanted to update and mention how well I've been feeling this last month. I'm happy and even-tempered, falling to sleep early and waking early with no effort, experiencing an enormous amount of confidence and belief in my abilities, loving my work and my students (independent of whether they behave or not!) experiencing no back pain, and little mental confusion. I'm not worrying excessively about my boyfriend back in the states, and I feel passionate and sustained by my role here as a teacher. I'm amazed by the changes in me, and don't know whether to contribute it to a very positive change in circumstances or the action of remedies, or a combination of the two. Even a stubborn rash on my foot (I believe to be granuloma annulare) has completely disappeared after years of bothering me.
My only problematic symptom right now is that I am clearly clenching my teeth quite a bit at night and wake every morning with a sore jaw, and intermittent hearing loss.
Could someone please advise me?
Much love and best wishes to all!!! | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2012-02-11 |
So two months since that last dose is that correct?
Remember that repeat doses must not be as dry pillules. You need to make up a dosing bottle and dilute the medicine into water to get the best ongoing result.
Has anything else apart from those two physicals remained untouched? What else is not 100% better?
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| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From KayLove [Log on to view profile] | on 2012-02-13 |
Just one physical untouched: the teeth grinding. Everything else is much better. I'm still not a linear thinker, but that may not be a "disorder."
I highly doubt it's all staph - more likely this plunge into animated life has created movement and fresh air in an otherwise suffocatingly stagnant existence. | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2012-02-13 |
The hearing loss too right?
Do you mean cured or just improved for all the other symptoms.
A person can feel 'better' and still have their symptoms, which means they are not cured.
When you are not cured then you can consider repeating the remedy that last worked.
The state must be the same though. If all the symptoms that lead to that remedy are now gone, but it left behind one or two physicals, then the case needs to be reassessed.
Since the homoeoepaths you saw did so well, can you not go back to see them? | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From nawazkhan [Log on to view profile] | on 2012-02-13 |
Hi KayLove,
Thanks to our creator for his blessings to give you good health and more comfortable life.
I don't see any harm for repeating a dose of Staph 200C.
For your Teeth Grinding, you may explore Cina 30C.
More prayers for your healthy and happy life.
Regards
Nawaz | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From brisbanehomoeopath [Log on to view profile] | on 2012-02-13 |
I would not advise takin a new remedy at this point. This is not good practice. The remedy that has helped needs to be exhausted before doing so. You may need a further dose, or a higher potency. It is even possible that you need no remedy at all, and that your vital force, now working in a much more healthy way, will eliminate the symptom on its own. You would expect this from the Simillimum.
However it is always best to have the prescriber reassess, to make sure that your state has not changed in some way.
Taking a remedy only for the local symptom runs a risk of suppressing it, and creating imbalance at a deeper level. This can reactivate the disease that has been quietened.
Second prescription takes a lot of skill, and is often more difficult than the first one. There are guidelines to how it should be done so that the process of cure is not interupted. | | |
| Re: Prescription for mental confusion and anxiety? | From lycopodium [Log on to view profile] | on 2012-02-26 |
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