Possible LPR/GERD and short of breath!

I have read about Nat Phos and Arnica about lpr/gerd. Just assumed that would be a treatment to try. Didn't know that was not 'correct' homeopathy. All I just want is to get better from this shortness of breath, that is my main distressing symptom :/
I would love if you could take my case and help me get better :)

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?

Throughout the day I get a feeling from stomach/chest as if I cant get a full inhale from my lungs. It feels like the stomach is 'in the way' for the chest to fully expand. And my stomach is bloated in the solar plexus area. I feel a little relieve if I burp or stand up. Sitting makes it worse.

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.

Same as above.

3. What causes the problem to get worse after it has started occurring?

It get's worse if I don't burp or stand up.

4. What creates some relief for the problem?

Same as above. Also get a little relieve with gaviscon. But I try not to use antacids because they messed up my system up once before. Also get some relieve if I eat.

5. What triggers the problem into occuring?

I don't know what triggers it. It comes and goes through the day as it pleases.

6. What time of the day or night does the problem occur?

It happens throughout the day. But tends to happen more on the evening. Not in the morning.

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?

It started Feruary 2011. I began to feel heaviness in chest and feeling of breathing distress. And I got a full blown panic attack and a trip to the ER. Thinking I had a hearth attack. Using SSRI medication now and have gotten anxiety and panic attacks under control after much breathing distress. But reathing distress isn't going away.

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.

Nothing particullary, except what is going on with me now, healthwise.

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

See light on everything, it will always get better is my life saying :) I always trying to see positive on everything even how hard it is.

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

Social withdrawn because if I am someplace I tend to think over the breathing distress more, and more stress, more messy stomach and breathing.

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.

I can't grow in any way, because this is eating up my life at the moment.

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.

I have had a perfect childhood, good relationship with family, school and everything. Also been perfectly healthy before this.

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

1. The specific foods that you crave (not just like) or hate

Don't crave anything special, or hate anything special. All food is great, not picky :)

2. The specific drinks that you crave or hate

Crave Chocolate milk, beside that I try to drink mostly water.

3. What your sleep is like

I sleep pretty good. But have bad sleep cycle, because I use to need to sleep when breathing distress have settled.

4. How the weather and the temperature affects you

I don't like it to hot. Like more cooler temperature.

5. What kinds of things in the environment you are particularly sensitive to

Haven't noticed any particullary there.

6. What your general level of energy is like

Not good. Low energy.

7. What your level of sexual energy or desire is like

Sexual energy is good, a little decreased libido. But the SSRI medication plays a role in that.

8. Describe your menstrual cycle

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9. Also give these details

22 year old male.

a) Body type and build

Slim body type, 192 cm height, and 78 kg

b) Skin colour and texture

Pale white, texture overall good, but a little eczema and dry skin her and there.

c) Areas of the body tends to perspire on

Under arms mostly.

d) Odour of sweat, body, stool, flatus, urine

Normal smells there.

e) Colour of stool, urine, sweat

Normal

10. Give any reactions to vaccines or medical drugs.

No
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Describe more on 'stomach seems to be in the way'.

My stomach gets bloated and I can push out the stomach up in the rib cage area. And when I get short of breath through the day I feel a pressure up in the beginning of the rib cage, like the stomach sits higher than normal. And it feels kinda like I can't fully expand my stomach because of that. And it feels like there is stomach juice in the way of my breathing when this happens.

When you say your anxiety and panic is under control, is it still noticeable?

My panic attacks is under control. But I feel alot of anxiety because of the shortness of breath. Because it happens every day, and just a little stress aggrivates it.
But I feel that if the shortness of breath problem had been eliminated that problem would go also.

What was the anxiety and panic like before you took medication for it?

I did never have panic attacks on the day. I would wake up 1-2 hours after I went to sleep with choking feeling in throat of what I felt was stomach acid. And got a feeling that my breathing was gonna stop and I was going to die. And had great anxiety where I could go and think of it every minute while awake. Had to go and walk around the house and almost shaking because of short of breath. Was better to stand up, because sitting made stomach bloat and belching more frequent.

There must be other health issues - are you sure? Go through each part of your body, head to toe, and reconsider the question.

Shortness of breath, ear congestion with impaired hearing, stuffy nose, red and sore throat, alot of mucus,low energy, blurry vision, dizzy when standing up (lasts for 5 seconds), and problems concentrating.

How do you manage your health problems? How do you cope with them day to day?

I just sit on my pc, searching online for relief. Playing games and watch tv. Tried so many 'cures' to get rid of my primary shortness of breath so I can get back to work. And waiting for appointment at hospital for 24 hour acid reflux study.

Describe more on 'socially withdrawn'.

I don't like to be away from home because it tends to aggrivate my stomach and breathing problem. It's like home is a safe spot. If I'm around people and my shortness of breath arrives it tends to become worse. And I need to relax without people around me except my family. But it happens all the time when I'm home at the safe spot. But it is easier to manage.

Describe more on 'breathing distress'.

It's a feeling like my lungs doesn't inhale all the way. And I feel like the breathing isn't right. And I have some pressure in the chest. But I know for the most part I don't stop reathing, but it's a feeling that is there constant, and it's a bad feeling. Also when the shortness of breath is there my upper stomach feels bloated and I feel a pressure in the solar plexus area. Like the stomach hits the rib cage.

Describe more on 'eating up my life'. What does it mean for something to eat up a person's life? What does it mean 'eat it up'?

It means that I don't have any enjoyable life now. Can't do anything I love because the shortness of breath and that added anxiety that is there, do so that the only place I feel somewhat comfortable with this illness is at home.

What is 'perfect health'? What does it mean to have this? How do you get it? How does it get lost? How would you describe your health now?

The perfect health for me is to have a health that you don't have anything healthwise that is in the way for you to enjoy life. If I did now how to get it now it would be superb :) But I hope you can help me with that :) I would say I had a perfect health until February last year. Then I began to feel the shortness of breath coming more and more until a day I got a panic attack from the short of breath feeling, where I thought I had a heart attack and was rushed to the ER. Where they didn't find anything. The only things I would experience before that was the ordinary sicknesses like flu and ordinary sickness through the year. That everybody has.

What is a 'perfect childhood'? Are you saying that you never felt any negative feelings, never experienced any stress or disappointment or fear?

Yes that is what i'm saying. Nothing I can think of. I have had a good health. I have had some mild anxiety issues with big happenings and such through my childhood. But that is pretty normal I think?

Please describe your childhood. There is no description here at all - who were you, how did you get on with your family, how did you get on with other children, what things caused you anxiety or fear? Who were you then, and how much of that person exists now? How are you different to that child, how are you the same?

A lively and social boy. Always like to be the midpoint in the friend gang. Always have had alot of friends, I still have alot of friends. Try to get everyody around me to smile, with doing clowny stuff. Always have loved my family, have a good relationship with my family. We have a strong bond as most families have. Had never any problem to get along with other children and make friends. An ability I have taken with me to adult life. Anxiety and fear when I was child was normal stuff like when you needed to perform on stage and stuff. I played saxophone in band, had anxiety from things like that. But don't really had any fears that I can think of. All of that person exists now, just hold back by my health problems.


Describe low energy. When does it happen, what makes it worse, what makes it better, what triggers it, how does it affect your life?

It is there all the time, but I think that's much to do with lack of excersise and constant worry of my breathing and such. And sitting up late and sleeping long. I'm just in a bad cycle because of all that has happend healthwise.
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Describe the anxiety you feel every day.

I don't feel anxiety when not feeling breathing distress. I'm perfect calm when not having breathing problems and bloating. It always goes hand in hand. I don't have any worries when im breathing good. But when the breathing symptoms come the anxiety adds up and aggrivates the problem.

Describe the symptoms you have added, using the 7 questions.

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?

First of all I have to say until February 2011 I was smoking a good deal of Cannabis and was sitting alot and eating alot of junk food. After the breatlessness episodes and panic attack I stopped smoking and haven't smoked since February last year. That is maybe a good point to have in, I smoked for 2 years nearly every day. Now I don't use any of it, because I also realised how it was affecting my life in a bad way. Just sitting watching tv and eating while high.

Ear congestion:

Everday I have a feeling of much earwax or 'dots' that won't clear. I have small ear cannels. It affects both ears, but it's worse on the left side. I have no pain in the ears. I use to have more congestion when I wake up, and it clears a little bit through the day. But it's there in the morning again. Don't know exactly what is triggering it, because it's there all day. It started when in Februar last year with the other problems.

Impaired hearing:

I hear almost nothing on the left ear where the congestion is the worst. The right I can hear pretty well. If the congestion was the same on right ear I would not hear anything. It get worse after I have slept. Same as congestion, it's worse on the morning and clears up a little through the day, but not much. Started same time as the above.

Stuffy nose :

I have a stuffy nose that affects me most when going to sleep and in the morning. I don't have that so much through the day. When laying down it seems to happen more.

Sore throat

I don't have a sore throat often. But it come and goes, but it's more of an irritation. With mucus and redness in the throat. With some nasal drip kinda blisters back in throat. I don't have any pain there. But I tend to need to clear mucus from the area. Had some globus sensations from there, but that have stopped now.

Low energy

The low energy is more of my sitting life now I think. Not much excersise because I feel more at ease with my life with as little stress as possible until my shortness of breath clears. But it feels like no energy to do anything and gets irritated fast, if high nose around me.

Blurry vision

It's like my vision is a little foggy through the day. Like a mild cloud infront of my sight. And I sometimes just space out. Just looking throught the room not looking at anything particular. But that could be side effects from the SSRI medication.

Dizzy

I use to get dizzy spells when standing up from sitting position that lasts for some seconds. When your vision blacks out. And it feels like you will pass out. But I never pass out. Sometimes feel like I lost connection to the ground. That kinda dizzy. But that don't happen often.

Concentration problems

That have much to do with the spacing out. Where I just look through the room at nothing particular. Like I am sometimes I am just on auto modus. But I also think that is side effect from SSRI medication.

So you manage your health problems by sitting on the pc? What is it you are doing in terms of management or coping, by watching TV and playing games? What has been the pattern for you in terms of trying cures - how do you go about trying, what happens when it doesn't work? What would you say has been your overall pattern of behaviour in trying to cope with your illness, say looking at it week to week, month to month?

Has a lot to do with that I feel I manage my problems better with as little stress as possible. Trying to breath right and stuff like that. Trying to not think of my breathing. And I manage that alot better with little stress. I search online for cures that seems like my problem, if it doesn't work I move on and try other vitamins, remedies, cures online. I try to have a happy mind through it all. I am very positive person and just say to myself that everything gets better. And that has been a great motivator for me. I say to myself how good it will be to find the cure or relief.

What exactly is the feeling of people being around? How is it different to being alone?

I feel I can't be alone. Then there will be more stress. But I will be around my family that know what is happening to me. If I am around people that don't know my whole situasion. Then I feel kinda more stressed. Can't relax quite. Like I need to perform, but it's hard with the breathing problems.

What is it about home that feels so safe? What kind of safety does it give you?

Because I can just relax and dont need to do things I am not at ease with in this time. At home I can just relax and cope with the problems I have without needing to participate with things im not comfortable with when having breathing problems. If I need to perform with the breathing distress I just get more stress and it aggrivates the problem.

So the pressure in your chest or stomach, seems to stop or hinder your breathing. You say this is because your lungs cannot expand? Is that right?

It doesn't stop my breathing, I am aware that I don't gonna die or stop breathing. But it's a feeling that I don't get enough air. Like my breathing is not right. And it's a bad/stressing feeling to feel your breath is not right through the day. I don't know if they can't fully expand or it's just a feeling from my bloated stomach pressing my diaphragm or something. So then maybe the feeling of lungs hitting it.

You say that if you stand up the breathing becomes easier is that correct? When you feel this, how exactly do you stand up? If I were standing there watching you, what would I see you do? How would it appear to me? (these are things I would get you to do in clinic so I could see it - here I have to try to get you to describe it)

You would see me just standing up normal from sitting position and maybe just walk a little around. And just try to not think of it. And make myself some food or something. Because eating give me some relief from it. You wouldn't see anything else than I would do normally it's just that I feel it. And just stand up normally. You wouldn't see something unormal on the outside. All is happening inside me.

So the term 'eating up' isn't relevent to what you feel it is doing to you? It is a descriptive phrase and could be highly useful to me, but you seem to have just replaced it with 'no enjoyment'.

You could say that it's eating up my life. Because I can't work like this, just sit around in my home not doing anything. Just try to get relief online and try remedies and things like that. I tend to not feel anything of the distress when drinking. Then my breathing is nice and I don't think of it. But it is there the day after again. But try to not drink much because it's not good for my stomach.

Perfect is just 'having nothing that stops you enjoying'? If you had the perfect meal, or the perfect job - how would you describe those things?

Yeah in my situation I would say that. Because I don't enjoy anything with this breathing distress. Everything I try to do, like be with my friends and do things I normally love, I tend to go home early because I have breathing distress. So to just get to do the things I love without breathing distress would be perfect for me now. If I had a perfect meal or perfect job that would be perfect also. But not now, because I can't enjoy it because of breathing.

Perfect health appears to be health just like everyone else. Is that right? Nothing special, just the same as other people? So then what is the best way to describe your health now? (don't say 'not perfect' lol)

Perfect health for me now would be to get rid of the breathing distress. Because that's what is making so bad impact on my life now. That is the reason why I can't do the things I used to love, but don't do now because stress of being elsewhere and breathing distress. I would descrie my health as bad because of the breathing, that is eating up my life.

Does it follow then that 'perfect childhood' also means 'just like everyone else'? I might be stretching that way too far now, but you have used the same word for it.

It comes up to the same that I didn't have any things that took up my life in a big way that this main symptom breathing does now. I didn't have any health issues then that would do so much distress. That you think of it everytime and everything you do will be bad because of breathing distress.

My experience over 20 years of clinic, is very few people have a perfect childhood, so how then would the word perfect be explained?

I think I have explained that enough above. Perfect childhood for me is that I could enjoy everything without something disabling like im going through.

I am just trying to understand your use of this word (not trying to give you a hard time).

Yeah I know that. And I'm glad you do. Makes me feel you are the right person to talk to. You seem to know what you are doing :) And I'm happy for that.

So you had some issues then as a child. Describe the fear of performing on stage a bit. Is that the only thing that caused anxiety?

Yeah that just feel like general mild anxiety. Like it's supposed to be. So you can perform better. I think that anxiety is healthy to have to be at the top of your performance :) But that was nothing disabling, just like butterfly feeling in stomach kinda anxiety.

What is the experience of being 'held back' by your health problems?

The experience of that is that I feel uneased to do things I love. And to begin to work again. Because of the main symptom breathing distress. Because whatever I do beside relaxing stresses my stomach and breathing. That is why I feel held back. I don't like to do things I like because the breathing and stomach hold me back.

Okay :) That's alright, will gladly answear more if there is anything :)

Also want to add that I had a case of Salmonella poisoning the summer of 2010. That I got on vacation. That could contribute to inbalance in my system. Ran an antibiotic course for 2 weeks or something. Was pretty sick and lost about 22 pounds.

One more question about this - how long does the episode last, how long does it take before you feel it, and how quickly does it recede once you burp/stand up?

The shortness of breath can come and be there for an hour and go away for 2-3 hours and come back. And it goes in a cycle like that. If I stand up and try to burp I can get relief or not get relief. When I get relief it can be just for a couple minutes. It isn't always I manage to burp, it's like there is liquid in the food pipe or like a constriction feel.

I have ordered the Psorinum 30C and 200C. Will get it in about a week. Have to ordered from england, and i'm from norway. So it's a little longer delivery time. Will keep you updated when I get it :)

One question I have is:

In the dropper bottle that I am making the rememdy where there is 5 parts to 1 of water and alcohol. Do I just use ordinary drinking alcohol that is 40% strength?