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too many remedies, developed extreme ultra-sensitivity to remedies...
i seriously cannot even touch a bottle containing a remedy without it aggravating me...the remedy i have been primarily over-dosing on the last few months has been nux vomica. before that, some of the other ones were lycodpodium, arsenicum and argentum. it was initially the only remedy that cured my constant retching and dry heaving after a stomach virus 3 years ago, but i eventually found that it started aggravating me, even in the weaker potencies...i reduced all the way down to the LM's, but it still was aggravating.i'm not taking any remedies now, but i'm taking a nosode and sarcode prescribed by my homeopath. however, i feel like the after-effects are still lingering: for 12 hours after waking up, the left side of my body feels 'paralyzed', i have terrible brain fog where i don't feel really present in the world, and the left side of my face twitches. and i'm still retching and dry heaving all day long. it seems to work like clock-work, around 12 hours on the dot, my paralysis in my mind, digestion, everything, will just kind of 'melt' away and I'll feel a little bit normal again, for a little while anyways. it's like i'm not even alive though during those first 12 hours of the day.
i'm really concerned, because i've taken cocculus to anti-dote, mints, coffee, the works, and it only helps relieve a little bit and temporarily for some reason.
ddollar on 2011-10-23
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i should note that i was already extremely sensitive even before i started homeopathy. the first remedy i ever took was natrum mur 30c, and the second i put it in my mouth i started bawling uncontrollably. the next one i took was nux vomica 30c, and within seconds of taking it, my body and stomach relaxed and i felt my retching urge go away almost instantly.
ddollar last decade
also, i've actually only taken the cocculus within the last few hours, it was a 6c dose and i'm going to see how i feel tomorrow.
ddollar last decade
I have spoken about this before I believe. Your sensitivity needs to be cured - it is part of the bigger picture so it will reduce and vanish under the correct treatment.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
thanks for the reply! i do remember our discussions, i'm not sure exactly what the cure was for sensitivity - do you mean just the correct remedy? i am wondering whether sensitivity can be treated another way, whether something like psychotherapy or something else would be good for now instead of trying another remedy. i have read that mental issues should be treated before administering homeopathy, and i have very bad anxiety related to digestion.
ddollar last decade
The correct remedy will fix it. If you remain oversensitive to the remedy you are taking, then it is the wrong remedy.
It is not true about mental issues being treated separately. Homoeopathy's greatest strength is its ability to cure mental and emotional illness. In fact I specialise in mental health cases in my clinic.
It is not true about mental issues being treated separately. Homoeopathy's greatest strength is its ability to cure mental and emotional illness. In fact I specialise in mental health cases in my clinic.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
thanks, that's what i was afraid of. i am a complete loss then. do you do overseas consults? my homeopath is great, and also an experienced neuro-psychologist, but if there is something that we're missing, i'd love to get through this sooner if i can. i have literally been retching and dry heaving from sun up to sun down (or surpressing the urge) for the last two years of my life, and i don't know how much longer i can do this.
ddollar last decade
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[message edited by brisbanehomoeopath on Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:26:26 BST]
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.
We can work from this intake form, see where it takes us.
[message edited by brisbanehomoeopath on Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:26:26 BST]
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Email will be much slower as I cannot access it while I am at work, and I do most of my work here in between clients.
My email address is in my profile though.
My email address is in my profile though.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
here is a link, could you please copy and paste to your computer and let me know when you're done? if you can, then i will remove the link so no one else can view it once you have it.
[message edited by ddollar on Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:13:06 BST]
[message edited by ddollar on Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:13:06 BST]
ddollar last decade
just a quick question, is it possible that anti-doting is a one-to-one ratio? for instance, i probably took several, maybe a dozen, doses of nux a day for the last few months. i haven't taken it in about a week now, and i'm finding the more often i anti-dote, the better i'm feeling. or is it just the time passing?
i just noticed myself turning on my right side during an emotional outburst, which i haven't done for a month or two. it feels like i'm getting back to where i was a couple months ago.
and thank you again so much for helping me with this.
i just noticed myself turning on my right side during an emotional outburst, which i haven't done for a month or two. it feels like i'm getting back to where i was a couple months ago.
and thank you again so much for helping me with this.
ddollar last decade
When you antidote, the total effect of the previous remedy is gone. Antidoting doesn't need to be repeated, once done it is done.
When you palliate the effects of a medicine with another, you will feel better for a short while then need to do it again. Palliating requires constant repeating. Palliating eventually becomes suppression, which will harm you.
You can only be under the effects of one medicine at a time, because our remedies change the shape of the vital energy. So either the last remedy, the strongest potency, or the one to which you have the greatest sensitivity, will be the one that is in effect.
It is a very messy situation, to be taking one remedy, then another to deal with the after-effects. Who knows what is being done to you? It is possible your vital force will be battered back and forth in different directions, each time trying to push back in different ways. Eventually it will come up with a third strategy to survive it, changing the whole nature of your disease.
[message edited by brisbanehomoeopath on Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:14:30 BST]
When you palliate the effects of a medicine with another, you will feel better for a short while then need to do it again. Palliating requires constant repeating. Palliating eventually becomes suppression, which will harm you.
You can only be under the effects of one medicine at a time, because our remedies change the shape of the vital energy. So either the last remedy, the strongest potency, or the one to which you have the greatest sensitivity, will be the one that is in effect.
It is a very messy situation, to be taking one remedy, then another to deal with the after-effects. Who knows what is being done to you? It is possible your vital force will be battered back and forth in different directions, each time trying to push back in different ways. Eventually it will come up with a third strategy to survive it, changing the whole nature of your disease.
[message edited by brisbanehomoeopath on Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:14:30 BST]
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
thanks, that makes sense! did you get a chance to copy my intake form? i'll remove the link once you have.
ddollar last decade
Strange I thought I had said I had copied the form. Well I have so yep remove it.
How did you want to progress, in terms of me asking clarifying questions? Can I do that here or no?
How did you want to progress, in terms of me asking clarifying questions? Can I do that here or no?
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
i think that would be fine, if it's something too personal i can always remove it after we're done. thanks so much!
ddollar last decade
i should probably also mention that the closest i ever felt to 'cured' after my initial dose of nux was when i diluted nux LM4 in a cup of water a BUNCH of times...i'm talking like dozens of dilutions. it felt a lot different, but the aggravation was still there i think, because i would still take another dose an hour or two later when i wasn't completely cured.
ddollar last decade
That isn't cure, that is palliation. When you need to repeat a remedy very often, it is only palliating your symptoms. Over time this becomes suppression, and it can actually make you incurable.
I thought I had emailed your intake form from work to my email address at home, but it didn't come through. Can you email it to my hotmail account please so I can work on it today?
I thought I had emailed your intake form from work to my email address at home, but it didn't come through. Can you email it to my hotmail account please so I can work on it today?
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Ok got it. I will get to work on it today. I have a few cases I need to work on but I will post some questions as I go through yours.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
This is not Nux-vomica, not by a long shot. There are vague similarities with the paralysis and shock, but it does not resemble the deeper more pecuilar aspects of your case.
Can you expand on the following words, statements, images, sensations for me. Don't just give me your symptoms again, but help me to understand the experience of it, and use examples that are not you, your body, your disease.
Not present in the real world.
Paralysis
Stuck or stopped
Constant flow
Melt
Can't breath, stuck, can't come out
Sense something moving in my gut
Hold on, Release
A dead sack
Movement
Patterns in nature that resemble disease
Ugly, unattractive
Can you expand on the following words, statements, images, sensations for me. Don't just give me your symptoms again, but help me to understand the experience of it, and use examples that are not you, your body, your disease.
Not present in the real world.
Paralysis
Stuck or stopped
Constant flow
Melt
Can't breath, stuck, can't come out
Sense something moving in my gut
Hold on, Release
A dead sack
Movement
Patterns in nature that resemble disease
Ugly, unattractive
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
here you go, some of these things are very hard to articulate, but i did the best i could. i can expand more if you like:
Not present in the real world.
for the first 9-10 hours in the day only. its extremely loud inside of my head, maybe kind of like a rock concert, only its not guitars and drums that are loud, its all my thoughts, and theyre so fast and so many i cant control it - multiple trains of thoughts, and i dont even have time to distinguish thoughts from one another, thats how fast they come and go. its like im only a mind, and not a body.
everything seems distant - like a fog or a dream or a haze. all sensations in and against my body, my spatial relationship to the world around me, all sounds, smells, etc...they all seem muted or very vague and far away. after the 9 or 10 hours, the left side of my body becomes unstuck or relaxed, everything quiets down, and then i suddenly am aware of where i am, i can hear again, i can smell again, and i am aware of my breathing.
Paralysis
the left side of my body feels numb, dead, stuck. kind of like in a state of shock or terror on another level? no feeling in that side of my body.
Stuck or stopped
like my mind is broken, like a car in the snow trying to drive, but its wheels keep spinning in place. paralyzed really is the best word for it, but paralyzed in my mind, not my muscles. my mind like a deer in headlights.
Constant flow
its like i hear the thoughts coming in my brain, but i see them and shut them down before they even can complete themselves. i see them coming from the left side of my head. its like i already know what theyre going to be, and i cant let them finish because letting a full thought finish and taking the time to acknowledge a thought in my head would release the paralysis over the left side of my body and my stomach. so its just a barrage of the beginnings of thoughts that i never let finish, and they still produce more thoughts that i have to anticipate and bat away.
Melt
the left side of my body is literally tense and rigid and being held up, and after 9-10 hours, it relaxes and sinks lower.
Can't breath, stuck, can't come out
i feel like i dont take any breaths until i come out of the paralysis, then im instantly aware of my breath going in and out of my nose.
Sense something moving in my gut
i have a raw, sandpaper like feeling in my bowels (and stomach after 9-10 hours). like nerve pain. and its like my brain follows along my digestive tract and feels things moving from the left to the right, and when i for some reason anticipate that something might hurt, i shut down that part of my sensation and go into a momentary shock where i shut my brain down so i dont have to feel the pain.
when i do feel the pain and dont avoid it, sometimes it makes me lightheaded, my stomach muscles usually twitch and twist and spasm. its like being stuck with a needle in that part of my digestive tract. or being hit in the funny bone down there.
Hold on, Release
i am in paralysis mode all day, im not sure how much is my own doing, but my stomach is constantly going through the retching process - my stomach muscles go into my belly, and they push up towards my stomach and ribs like theyre trying to puke something out. i am in two places at once right now - one part of me is typing this stuff out to you, and the other part of me is monitoring those stomach muscles and keeping them in place so they dont start the retching process. its very stressful and difficult to do for long periods of time...eventually if i dont let go, i end up in paralysis mode almost again. when i release my hold over those stomach muscles, i retch and dry heave violently, but no vomit and no nausea usually. the only time i felt like i was going to vomit was after taking the nux.
its like a button that keeps popping up and you have to keep pushing it down, but it wont stay down.
A dead sack
like all the food im eating isnt going anywhere, it lands in my stomach and my stomach fills up like a bag but doesnt do anything with it.
Movement
its like i feel something in the left side of my stomach, its really faint and i almost sense it travel from left to right, in front of my body and not actually anywhere near it. then i feel something land on the right side of my body, faint, slightly nerve pain tingly.
Patterns in nature that resemble disease
a bunch of holes or circular things all in a symmetric pattern or group. something like honeycomb or a bunch of bugs eyes in their eye. for some reason it makes me nauseous to look at and think about. it also frightens me. like it could start crawling or something.
Ugly, unattractive
i have a really big face and head with big lips. i feel like i look like an animal, maybe a donkey.
Not present in the real world.
for the first 9-10 hours in the day only. its extremely loud inside of my head, maybe kind of like a rock concert, only its not guitars and drums that are loud, its all my thoughts, and theyre so fast and so many i cant control it - multiple trains of thoughts, and i dont even have time to distinguish thoughts from one another, thats how fast they come and go. its like im only a mind, and not a body.
everything seems distant - like a fog or a dream or a haze. all sensations in and against my body, my spatial relationship to the world around me, all sounds, smells, etc...they all seem muted or very vague and far away. after the 9 or 10 hours, the left side of my body becomes unstuck or relaxed, everything quiets down, and then i suddenly am aware of where i am, i can hear again, i can smell again, and i am aware of my breathing.
Paralysis
the left side of my body feels numb, dead, stuck. kind of like in a state of shock or terror on another level? no feeling in that side of my body.
Stuck or stopped
like my mind is broken, like a car in the snow trying to drive, but its wheels keep spinning in place. paralyzed really is the best word for it, but paralyzed in my mind, not my muscles. my mind like a deer in headlights.
Constant flow
its like i hear the thoughts coming in my brain, but i see them and shut them down before they even can complete themselves. i see them coming from the left side of my head. its like i already know what theyre going to be, and i cant let them finish because letting a full thought finish and taking the time to acknowledge a thought in my head would release the paralysis over the left side of my body and my stomach. so its just a barrage of the beginnings of thoughts that i never let finish, and they still produce more thoughts that i have to anticipate and bat away.
Melt
the left side of my body is literally tense and rigid and being held up, and after 9-10 hours, it relaxes and sinks lower.
Can't breath, stuck, can't come out
i feel like i dont take any breaths until i come out of the paralysis, then im instantly aware of my breath going in and out of my nose.
Sense something moving in my gut
i have a raw, sandpaper like feeling in my bowels (and stomach after 9-10 hours). like nerve pain. and its like my brain follows along my digestive tract and feels things moving from the left to the right, and when i for some reason anticipate that something might hurt, i shut down that part of my sensation and go into a momentary shock where i shut my brain down so i dont have to feel the pain.
when i do feel the pain and dont avoid it, sometimes it makes me lightheaded, my stomach muscles usually twitch and twist and spasm. its like being stuck with a needle in that part of my digestive tract. or being hit in the funny bone down there.
Hold on, Release
i am in paralysis mode all day, im not sure how much is my own doing, but my stomach is constantly going through the retching process - my stomach muscles go into my belly, and they push up towards my stomach and ribs like theyre trying to puke something out. i am in two places at once right now - one part of me is typing this stuff out to you, and the other part of me is monitoring those stomach muscles and keeping them in place so they dont start the retching process. its very stressful and difficult to do for long periods of time...eventually if i dont let go, i end up in paralysis mode almost again. when i release my hold over those stomach muscles, i retch and dry heave violently, but no vomit and no nausea usually. the only time i felt like i was going to vomit was after taking the nux.
its like a button that keeps popping up and you have to keep pushing it down, but it wont stay down.
A dead sack
like all the food im eating isnt going anywhere, it lands in my stomach and my stomach fills up like a bag but doesnt do anything with it.
Movement
its like i feel something in the left side of my stomach, its really faint and i almost sense it travel from left to right, in front of my body and not actually anywhere near it. then i feel something land on the right side of my body, faint, slightly nerve pain tingly.
Patterns in nature that resemble disease
a bunch of holes or circular things all in a symmetric pattern or group. something like honeycomb or a bunch of bugs eyes in their eye. for some reason it makes me nauseous to look at and think about. it also frightens me. like it could start crawling or something.
Ugly, unattractive
i have a really big face and head with big lips. i feel like i look like an animal, maybe a donkey.
ddollar last decade
to expand on that idea of movement out in front of my body, it feels like sometimes there is something invisible just in front of my stomach spinning in a circle.
ddollar last decade
Ok try to do this without directly mentioning your symptoms, disease, your body.
Just describe, as a concept, using similies, and avoiding using yourself as the example:
Paralysis
Stuck
Shock
Terror
Dead
Deer in the headlights
Barrage
Bat away
Rigid
Shut down
Honeycomb
Bug's eyes
Crawling
Something invisible spinning in a circle
Just describe, as a concept, using similies, and avoiding using yourself as the example:
Paralysis
Stuck
Shock
Terror
Dead
Deer in the headlights
Barrage
Bat away
Rigid
Shut down
Honeycomb
Bug's eyes
Crawling
Something invisible spinning in a circle
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
sorry, some of these don't mesh well with each other:
Paralysis
like being stuck
like a deer in headlights
like being detached and apart
like having your finger caught in the door forever, but without any pain
or, when something distracts me and i snap out of it momentarily and my body starts to dry heave and retch, its like trying to hold back lava erupting from a volcano
Stuck
like a broken record
like tires spinning in place
Shock
like having the lights switched on
like a jolt of electricity
Terror
like a deer in headlights
Dead
like your foot falling asleep, without the tinglies
like being numb
like being asleep
Deer in the headlights
like being stuck in place
Barrage
like a never ending slideshow of thoughts
like a speeding train
Bat away
like avoiding, shutting off
Rigid
like being in shock
like being hung up on a hangar
like a knot
Shut down
like turning something off
Honeycomb
like a bunch of round things all together next to each other
Bug's eyes
same as above
Crawling
like the round things might start moving
Something invisible spinning in a circle
like a jet fighter circling around my stomach and preparing to dive into it
Paralysis
like being stuck
like a deer in headlights
like being detached and apart
like having your finger caught in the door forever, but without any pain
or, when something distracts me and i snap out of it momentarily and my body starts to dry heave and retch, its like trying to hold back lava erupting from a volcano
Stuck
like a broken record
like tires spinning in place
Shock
like having the lights switched on
like a jolt of electricity
Terror
like a deer in headlights
Dead
like your foot falling asleep, without the tinglies
like being numb
like being asleep
Deer in the headlights
like being stuck in place
Barrage
like a never ending slideshow of thoughts
like a speeding train
Bat away
like avoiding, shutting off
Rigid
like being in shock
like being hung up on a hangar
like a knot
Shut down
like turning something off
Honeycomb
like a bunch of round things all together next to each other
Bug's eyes
same as above
Crawling
like the round things might start moving
Something invisible spinning in a circle
like a jet fighter circling around my stomach and preparing to dive into it
ddollar last decade
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