Urgent Response Requested because I am getting sick day by day and its very hard for me to walk due to this disease

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Gender: Male
Age: 65
Body Type:
Height: 5’ 8”
Weight: 185 lbs
General appearance: Healthy. People have difficulty believing that I suffer from a muscle degenerating disease.
Have you used homeopathic medicines before? If so what, and what homeopathic potencies did you use?
Yes. I have used Aloe Socotrina, Nux Vomica, Ignatia, Arnica, Cocculus, Colocynthis, and others, always in 30C potency.
Descriptive manner after careful analysis and recollection of previous experiences and happenings.

1. Describe your all suffering in your own words?
I suffer from Inclusion Body Myositis, a rare muscle degenerating disease which progressively weakens arm, leg and throat muscles, causing falls because of impaired balance due to weakened leg muscles, and difficulty swallowing food/choking due to weakened throat muscles. Because of weakened throat muscles, excessive mucus accumulates in the throat because of poor drainage .After a fall I cannot get up because of my weakened condition and have to be lifted up with a mechanical lifter to a seated or standing position. Getting up from a seated position is not possible without a mechanical lifter. There is no cure for this progressive disease.

2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body?
High blood pressure, hypothyroid condition and lymphedema (swollen feet )

3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?
Anxiety, fear of falling.

4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words.
Despair, fear of disabled future

5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?
Six years ago. The disease is called Sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis and it cannot be connected to any past event or disease.

6. Which time of the day you are worst?
All day

7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same? (Example- time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing etc)
Nothing ameliorates the weakness in the muscles.


8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)?
No

9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
Weather does not affect the progressive muscular disease.

10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, hurry, impatient, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy, love and affections etc.
I am mild, agreeable, easily offended, impatient, affectionate, perfectionist, helpful to others.

- Do you like being consoled during your tough times? Yes
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc? Yes

- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless Weeping, talking to one self etc? No

- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
Very affectionate and protective.

11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
Being completely disabled. No I do not dream of any situation repeatedly.

12. What do you crave for in food items (sweets/sour/salt) and what are your aversions?
Sweets. No aversions.

13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?
Normal

14. How is your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?
Normal

15. Is there any kind of food which your body can’t stand?
Beef hamburger meat. Causes gout attack.

16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?
Less. Head.

17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?
Constipation. Impacted stool. Gasteroenterologist says weakness of intestinal muscles due to Inclusion Body Myositis may be causing this problem.

18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
I sleep one or two hours at a stretch. I sleep more on my left side and less on my right side.

19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?
I suffer from impotency but not lack of sexual desire.

20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others?
Sometimes I feel a desire for life to speed up. Sometimes I feel like I am outside, looking at myself from outside.

21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
There is no medication for Inclusion Body Myositis. I take Verapamil for high blood pressure and synthroid for hypothyroid condition. There is no reaction to these medications.
23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance.
My appearance is scholarly, serious, neat, presentable.
(For Females)

24. If your menstrual cycles are not normal, please describe the irregularities, like pains, moods, flow type, clots etc.

25. What major diseases have you had in your life and when. Please write them in a chronological manner.
Aortic insufficiency due to a defective aortic valve (bicuspid). Surgery to repair valve in 1990. No complications.
Inclusion Body Myositis 2004.
26. Family Background:
Parents deceased. Younger brother deceased. Two older sisters living.
27. Educational Qualifications of the patient:
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
28. Attached here your photographs of the affected area. (if required/optional):