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brown spotting 1 week before period?

Hi,
I had my period right as expected, on the 10th of September (it's regular, 26-27 days). It was a little bit strange, normal flow, but as I use mooncup, I've noticed that my blood is rather 'stretchy' as if with some slimy stuff in. It was almost painless and only lasted 4 days instead of usual 5. Then in the evening of the 5th day I felt pain in my left ovary and it really felt like ovulation pain. It only lasted for 1 hour or so. I was actually convinced I must have been fertile during my period & ovulating straight after it. My breast stayed sore even after period.
10 days after my period, one of my friends really upset me as I felt mistreated by her and then completely ignored. For a few days I was feeling a bit angry, disappointed, sad confused and not sure any more who was right and who was wrong. I really needed to clear the air, but my messages were never answered. In the end I felt I was the one who upset her, not the way round...
I took Staphysagria 30 one night and the next day I had some brown light spotting. It lasted for 2 days. I did 2 pregnancy tests (just in case) both negative.
I felt very sensitive, how other people see me, what they think of me, I felt insecure. Conscious even about my looks..
But now, feelings have calmed down. I've realised, some people don't stay in your life for long and that it's all process of learning. I'm feeling grounded again, happy with myself and my actions. I'm calm.
So today it's my 18th day of my cycle and in the morning I've noticed some light dark brown spotting and then a bit of bright blood.
Am confused as my periods are quite regular, more on the scanty side, not painful and I've never had it earlier than 23 days before.
I'm craving sweets (chocolate!) want carbohydrates (pastries, cookies, cakes, pizza) and salty stuff (am dreaming of smoked meat, even though I'm vegetarian!)
I suspect hormonal imbalance, mainly due to my sugar consumption ( I try to stay away from sweets (have a history of recurrent thrush), but still eat fruits daily... and then have a day 'off' and go for chocolate).
Any suggestions?
Thank you!
 
  miaki on 2011-09-28
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Hi there,

The following additional information is required to help you. Therefore, please do the best you can in providing a detailed and accurate data.

1. ID
2. Age
3. Sex
4. Single/Married
5. weight
6. Height Â….
7. country
8. climate
9. List of your complaints

10. Since how long are you suffering from each complaint

11. Diabetic or non-Diabetic
12. Desire sweets/sour/salt
13. Thirst
14. Tongue and Taste
15. Current BP (without medicine and with medicine)

16. What exactly is happening?

17. How do you feel?
18. How does this affect you?

19. How does it feel like?
20. What comes to your mind?
21. One situation that had a
big effect on you?

22. How did that feel like?
23. What sensation do you experience in that situation?

24. What are you showing by that gesture of your hand (Habits or Actions)?

25. Current and previous remedies/medicines you are taking or took in the past?

26. Family Background
27. Educational Qualifications of the patient

28. Nature of work, what do you do for living?

29. Desires, likes and dislikes for food

30. Name of foods which increase your problem

31. Mind-behavior, anger, irritability, hurry, impatientÂ…and so on.. How are you different from other persons, public speaking or not , you can describe all of the details about your behavior, love and affections.

32. Aggravation (increases-time, season,)& Amelioration (Decreases)

33. Attached here your photographs of the affected area. (if required/optional)

34. Location of the disease
35. Side of the problem (Right or Left), (Upper or Lower part of body)
36. Color of the secretions/discharges e.g urine, stool, sputum, Saliva etc.

For Females Only
37. When is the period during the month approx date? Any monthly cycle issues? Regular, early, late, before problems, after problems, pain, any other discharges?
38. Are you pregnant? If yes, please give pregnancy start date? Any current issues?

Regards
Nawaz
 
nawazkhan last decade
Because of the spontaneous way you have associated your emotions with your symptoms, this could be the sort of case that I can deal with.

If you wish I can make remedy suggestions, but the information I need is different to the form Nawaz posted.

Hi Amanda,

I actually treat a lot of anxiety disorders in clinic, so I am happy to try and help you if you like.

I will post my intake form. See how you go answering the questions.

GUIDELINES FOR GIVING HOMOEOPATHIC CASE INFORMATION

It is important to describe all your problems in as much detail as you are able. One word answers and short sentences are not particularly helpful. Discuss each problem one at a time, providing (as a minimum level of detail) the following information.

1. What exactly happens?
2. Describe all sensations and pains. Each pain or sensation should be described in such a way that allows us to imagine having the same pain.
3. What causes the problem to get worse after it has started occurring?
4. What creates some relief for the problem?
5. What triggers the problem into occuring?
6. What time of the day or night does the problem occur?
7. When did the problem start? What was happening in your life at that time? Did some specific event or treatment take place just before the problem started?

Move from one problem to the next, doing the same thing. IT IS VITAL THAT YOU GIVE A COMPLETE PICTURE OF YOUR HEALTH BY PROVIDING ALL PROBLEMS YOU HAVE, EVEN IF NOT CONNECTED TO THE MAIN ONE, AND EVEN IF YOU CONSIDER IT OF LESS IMPORTANCE.

You should address each problem separately using the above 7 questions as a guide. Do not put all your complaints into each of the 7 questions. Discuss one problem at a time. If you have, for example, a headache with nausea, do each component separately too (what makes the head pain worse or better, what makes the nausea worse or better).

As well as this, please describe any traumatic incidents that have taken place in your life. Discuss anything that has had a lasting impact on you mentally, emotionally or physically.

Discuss the way that you manage or deal with your problems, or any problems that occur in your life.

Discuss any patterns you have noticed in your behavior especially concerning your disease.

Discuss any part of your life where you feel stuck or unable to change and grow, especially where this occurred around the beginning of your disease, or as the disease evolved.

Describe your childhood and the kind of environment you grew up in, with reference to your relationships with your family, your school experiences, and any serious childhood diseases.

If your earlier discussions have not mentioned these already, please describe:

1. The specific foods that you crave (not just like) or hate
2. The specific drinks that you crave or hate
3. What your sleep is like
4. How the weather and the temperature affects you
5. What kinds of things in the environment you are particularly sensitive to
6. What your general level of energy is like
7. What your level of sexual energy or desire is like
8. Describe your menstrual cycle

9. Also give these details

a) Body type and build
b) Skin colour and texture
c) Areas of the body tends to perspire on
d) Odour of sweat, body, stool, flatus, urine
e) Colour of stool, urine, sweat

10. Give any reactions to vaccines or medical drugs.

I would really like you to expand that emotional reaction you had. To me it seems like there would be valuable clues in there to finding your remedy.


David Kempson
Profesional Classical Homoeopath
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
36
female
married
68kg
180cm
I'm quite well proportionate,normal bone structure. My legs are probably more thicker then my upper body. I've quite thick ankles.
Skin, I'm European white, easily tanned (brown). Hair straight light ash brown, green/grey eyes. Oval face with high forehead. I've slightly hooked nose. Quite a few moles on my lefts side of the face and neck.
Energy levels vary. Some days I feel like having a good workout and really enjoy it, I love walking. I enjoy yoga, but feel quite drained after a proper 1,5 hour class. I get breathless quite quickly from running...but am slowly improving.
I perspire easily. My face, forehead, armpits, my chest. If it's a hot day or I exercise - my face turns red.
I live in UK
maritime climate

I've recurrent thrush, excessive appetite, this month period too early, pms (sore breasts. I seam to loose more hair then say a year ago. They're dry tangle easily.
2 treated root canals infected.

Thrush - had it last year around September (for a month), this year - September again... so once a year so far.
Appetite - for quite some time, 1 year or so.
Too early period - only this month, my cycle is 26-27 days *this time it was just 18 days.
Pms (sore breasts - for a year and a half.
Loss of hair - 6-8 months.
1 root canal infected for the last 4 years. Symptoms: occasional left sided mild headaches, mild nagging discomfort in the tooth area (left upper side)
2nd root canal right opposite, on the lower left side. Also treated before, with no symptoms, only x-ray showed infection that has apparently been there for at least a year.

11. non diabetic
12. desire for sweets and salt
13. changes, mostly not thirsty
14. tongue light yellow coating
15. normal

16. I'm more self concious than before. I want to like myself, I need to be liked. I'm more concious about my body. Want to loose weight, but am struggling finding balance in my diet. I'm vegetarian and eat mostly healthy food, but also have a tendency to binge on sweets, especially chocolate or salty potato crisps and regret it. I can stay away from sweets for some time, without much of a struggle, but once I give in, I eat quite a bit of it in one go...
I could eat more than I do. I crave for something sweet after my normal meal. I can resist it, but it's a daily battle.
I feel that my appetite almost rules my mind and my body. I feel bigger than I probably am. I want to regain the love for myself, my body.
I know that eating 'comforting' food (sweets) in my case is a way of filling myself with that kind of love. But it's short lasting.
I'm in a very happy, healthy loving marriage. My husband is lovely and supportive, only maybe more busy at work than I would like him to be. He worries about our finances and I feel I need to earn more than I do now to simply bring more financial support for him. I'm working on that.

21. A couple of our family friends(not even somebody close, just lovely friends that we would get together from time to time with and got on with very well) were getting married & I've told future bride we might not be able to be part of their wedding due to my husbands work commitments & me not wanting to be at a wedding on my own, not knowing most of other people & not having my loved ones by my side to share the lovely occasion & I really was looking forward to the big event my husband was being part of on the same day. The wedding was a spontaneous one, with short notice and I felt good being honest with my friend & telling her that as happy as I was for their big step & day - I would want to really spend the special day with my family. It wasn't even a definite 'no', just a possibility as we were not able to give an answer a week before. My friend took it very personally. She didn't answer to my messages, my calls, my apology for upsetting her. She's very strong domineering person, quite an angry one, but loving and caring at the same time. She's also a few years older than me & the way she reacted to my possible 'no' made me feel like a child, who's mum doesn't like people having their own opinion or views and instead of talking about it just stooped talking all together. I felt guilty, that I've upset her, I felt angry, that she chose to better cut me out then maybe think how she would make choices have the situation been the way round... I felt insecure, how I'm seen, what other friends think of me (THAT'S OFTEN MY WEAK POINT, I want to be liked and popular, but I don't want to just please everyone. I want to be liked for who I'm. And far too often I forget, we do attract what we are... So the insecurities are about myself, am I treating other the way I expect to be treated).
I felt angry at the time that she showed me how she feels, while I couldn't . I took staphysagria 30.
Then after Staphysagria, I felt stronger again. It's not like I've wanted to deliberately upset somebody, I was honest with myself and our friends.
We still don't speak, (the wedding happened last weekend). But I'm at peace. With myself, with her. I've learned. It's a positive outcome. No angry feeling, no regrets.
25. I took Psorinum 200 one dose 16 days ago, as it has been prescribed to me for my coldness.
Staphysagria 30 one dose about 7 days ago.

Arnica, hypericum and phosphorus 30 yesterday (before & after my root canal treatment)
26. my mum became very religious about 14 years ago. She lives a very strict life, strict vegan diet, daily long prayers... as a result to her kneeling for long periods, she can't walk without support at the moment, but refuses any medicine (even natural), any help, apart from my dad helping her walk to the church, shop and back. She believes it's for the better after life. I've learned to support and respect her needs and way of living.
My dad lives in the same flat with my mum, but has his own private life. I do not know for sure, but i suspect he has a loving woman and is happy. He's a reiki healer, loving father, but we're not very close.
I've learned over the years, to not get emotionally too attached to my parents situation. It's their lives. Their choices. I support them both.
I've an older brother, we live far away from him and his family, but we stay in touch and support each other.

28. I'm a creative person. i make clothes, toys and other things. I've my own little business.
29. apart from chocolate and cookies, crisps, I crave grapefruit, orange juice, pizza, potatoes, smoked meat.
Dislike bread (at the moment),apples.
30. sugar. I get gas, constipation, sometimes itchy skin. I get irritable, moody, inpatient.
31. i love attention, I don't like having to go to new places on my own (like first time going to yoga class, or going to a new town on my own. Second time around - no problem. I don't have fear of public speaking or performing.
I can be impatient, don't like being hurried, hate being late. Don't like to be dominated. If I'm convinced somebody is using me for their own benefit - I'll let that person go. I'm determined. Affectionate, I care about others, I like helping. I'm not ignorant, will interfere if I see someone is mistreated or hurt or needs help. I need reassurance. like consolation. Like company, but love being on my own.
I love travelling.
I get emotional, music, film, book - can make me cry.
I'm optimist.
32. Worse evening.
Better for fresh air, walking, eating, exercise, talking.
Better for warmth, but not stuffy rooms and not hot weather. Can's stand cold home, always dressed in layers, covered in blankets.
Don't like washing myself. Have to consciously decide to have a bath or take a shower. Don't like getting cold after washing myself.
Am sensitive to smells. Strong perfume or cleaning products can make me feel nauseous. Some cooked food smells really bad to me, especially raw onions! I have very sensitive nose.
I get car sickness.
Sleeping is fine.
Libido not so high at the moment.
I like my environment to be clean & tidy. I don't like chaos and mess. Even if I'm unwell, I always clean up around or ask somebody to tidy it up for me as I like to feel I'm in a calm space and no not distracted by misplaced things. I'm not after sterile environment, just a tidy one.
Tendency, symptoms changeable. Moves from side to side.
37. my periods are very regular, always start in the morning on the 26-27 day. Not profuse, starts with brown blood, last about 5 days. Moderate pain on the 1st day.
This month as mentioned, had some light brown spotting on about 12-13th days of my cycle. Then my period came yesterday, on the 18th day of my cycle. Started with dark brown, now its bright red. Almost no pain.

We would very much like to conceive! And yes, I do get angry with my body (am really working on changing that), with myself, for not giving up in order to gain. I know that if I would give up sweets a lot would improve, including my hormonal balance, but it's like holding on to something that I'm used to holding, rather then need.

thanks for your time!
 
miaki last decade
Hi,

A bundle of thanks for the detailed info. and sharing the wedding story.

You are a very nice girl! Please stay blessed!

You must stop all remedies except Staph 30C as one must be careful taking remedies during monthly cycle.

Staph 30C is safe during menses, please take a dose, 4 pills/drops nicely dissolved and mixed into 1/4 cup of mineral water, only one dose please.

Please go ahead and purchase Pulsatilla 30C and Alumen 30C to be taken after the period is completely over. These remedies will address your early periods and brown spotting, by God willing.

Report progress after a couple of days.

Many many prayers for your good health and happy life.

Regards
Nawaz
 
nawazkhan last decade
Thanks a lot Nawaz, for warm words and your advice! It's very appreciated!
I'll do as advised and will report in a few days.
 
miaki last decade
You are more than welcome! Good Luck!
 
nawazkhan last decade

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