HomeoDr: middle child stutter _{Page 3 of 4}

Ok. I only have 200c, will that be OK? Or would it be better to get the 30c?

Ok thank you. I dosed this evening.

Yesterday and today since dosing, he seems to be having an exaggeration of existing symptoms. Around 4pm every day he gets tired. Last two days he has just crashed at 4pm, despite an early bedtime last night. He will look ill and tired, say his tummy hurts and fall asleep, then wake about 6pm crying and moaning, like he's half asleep but hurting. I will ask him what's wrong and he will say his tummy hurts.
Tonight it's around 6:30 and he has been moaning and has a fever. He says he's cold and has goose bumps despite being under a blanket (he likes to have his head covered and all the way to his toes).
His hands and feet have been cold, more so with this recent illness we're all fighting.

He also is waking often at night, moaning and crying. At bedtime, he was laying in bed and told me he has little red dots inside his legs. I thought of restless legs, so I asked him, did they feel good or bad? He said, bad. I asked, did they hurt, itch, tickle, or feel crawly? He said crawly like spiders. I tried giving him a banana (potassium) and Clark chocolate (magnesium) and a vitamin B12. Nothing seemed to help. He laid there kicking his legs for awhile till he fell asleep, then slept very restlessly.

No, it seems like he only has the fever during the evening, and it's gone in the morning.

There are no real dots on his legs, but he described the feeling of having red dots inside his legs. I didn't see anything externally.

Ok. I don't have the ferrum phos. But he seems to be better today anyway.
It's hard to get him to eat a variety of foods, especially when he is sick. He does seem to crave salt sometimes. I give him a pinch of sea salt at those times. He also loves seaweed, we ran out though. I should get him some more. I bet that has trace minerals in it.

OK.
He seems worse today. He woke up early, crying, has been teary about every little thing, and is still complaining about his tummy hurting. I haven't been hearing him say he feels like he's going to throw up, though, so at least the Nux Vomica did something.

Also he has been wanting carried a LOT the last several days (prior to Nux dose as well). He will ask to be carried around the room in my arms. Not just to be carried to somewhere he wants to go, but just to be carried, period.
He also has some green nasal and eye discharge, from this illness.

I hope you don't mind, but I may have found a good match for my middle son. I was reading in the book, "Homeopathic Treatment of Children: Pediatric Constitutional Types", by Paul Herscu, just on Google Books online. I ran across Lycopodium while looking for something else, and it's almost word for word my middle son. I wasn't able to read the complete text on it due to just being an excerpt, but I think I got most of it, and boy is it so him right now. I think the Nux Vomica maybe helped bring it out more, i don't know. But, so many things matched, like being demanding while being fearful, being overly sensitive to touch and crying at every little thing; frequent lung illnesses that go down into bronchitis, asthma; fear of being alone, especially in the dark; talking in sleep; urogenital malformations--he does have a slight malformation on one kidney, and had an undescended testicle on the left.
Headaches, multitude of abdominal complaints, being irritable and hungry on awakening, and again at 4pm; head seeming too big because the body seems small/wasting--he does seem always too skinny/puny to me. It mentioned how in infancy they may not have the coordination to suck properly. He definitely had that problem! It was a constant issue for us.
As for appetite, it said normally voracious, but occasionally it's the "I come to the table hungry but eat a few bites and am full." That seems definitely him. He eats little snacks all day long. He seems so hungry, but then only eats a little bit and then is "full". Then hungry again an hour or two later.
The food likes and dislikes did not match. He isn't big on sweets. He will eat them if offered, but doesn't ask for them. He does love lemonade though.
It mentioned a fear of strangers. Kody always has to be holding my hand when we go anywhere. Even down the driveway, he wants to hold onto me. It mentioned at nighttime, wanting to be safely ensconced under the blanket, even in the summertime. Yes! He wants that blanket no matter what. He tends to go to bed cold and wake up sweating because he won't want to take off the blanket if he gets hot. He also loves footed sleeper jammies, I assume it's sort of like wearing a big blanket.
It mentioned irritability. Oh yes. Especially when he's sick. The least thing will have him upset, angry and crying and won't stop until he gets his way. He just cries and cries and can't seem to stop.

Something I don't know if is in there, but whenever he is hurting, he wants me there, but seems irritated by being touched. I will try to comfort him by rubbing his back, patting or rocking, and he won't want that. Touch seems to be negative or painful. He will want me to be quiet, too. It's almost like he doesn't want comforted, but he absolutely wants me there with him. He is always asking me to snuggle with him until he falls asleep.

Hope you don't mind me questioning your choice-- I trust your insight. But this was just uncanny how well it matched.
What do you think?

Also, forgot to mention it said yellowing of skin and dark circles. Yes, that's him. Although the last couple of days I would say his face almost has an ashy/grayish look to it. He just looks very ill.

Ok thanks!

Wow, I gave the remedy this morning, and already he is showing improvement. He was much less teary today, much more agreeable, and when we went to the beach this evening, he wanted to "do it himself" (walking up a hill) instead of having to hold my hand for everything. He seemed happier and less ill-looking.

Good to know.

Hello there.
Kody has been coughing in the mornings. I have still been coughing myself in the mornings since that long illness we all had, but his cough sounds like it's getting a bit worse (more phlegm). He coughs and clears his throat when he first wakes up and then it seems clear during the day. He sometimes has a few dry coughs in the night.
He seemed whiny yesterday, and I wondered if he was getting sick. This morning he woke up with that worsened cough. We all played outside in the cold wind yesterday.
This morning he felt sick to his stomach (he has started complaining of feeling like he was going to throw up once in awhile, the last week maybe). He said he had a headache, pointing to the forehead and temples. He also felt slightly warm on his forehead, but no sweating or chills. He snuggled with me for a few minutes, got sympathy for his complaints, coughed up his phlegm, and then was ready to play.

We feel there is likely mold in this house, and will be moving in a couple of weeks.

Also his big brother has been sleeping in his bed with him. He doesn't want big brother there, because it's too crowded, but that's the only way big brother will go to sleep.

Also I gave a re-dose of Lycopodium about 4 or 5 days ago. He also has still been stuttering.

It seems to have passed. He seems ok now, not coughing that we have noticed.
Thanks.

Hello there,
I haven't posted in awhile, but wanted to see if you could advise for my middle son.
He is now 3 years old, will be 4 in the beginning of May.

I recently got diagnosed with subclinical hypothyroidism, and started some natural dessicated thyroid with good results. After seeing what symptoms were improved that I thought were just "normal" for me, such as mood, energy, sleep, dry skin, eczema, and constipation, I began to wonder if perhaps the middle son (Kody) also may be somewhat hypothyroid.

The symptoms that I notice are this.

When I read the description of a phosphorus person, with big, luminous eyes, I think of him, because he seems to have large eyes. They are gray, and his face is somewhat thin, so perhaps it makes his eyes stand out.
His skin is dry, with small white pimples on the backs of his upper arms.
His hair is fine/thin.
His nails grow relatively fast, but are thin, tend to split and rip, and he has some hangnails. His toenails look like they curve downward slightly (as if towards the ground if he is standing up).
About once every 4 days or so, he will complain about his throat hurting, and will point to about where the Adam's apple would be, right in the middle of his neck. It's random and seems to be fleeting.
He gets lots of growing pains. Seems to get a big growth spurt every winter (seems to me that that is out of season? Wouldn't most living things grow more in the summer?). When he does, he gets a lot of pain in his legs to the point of complaining about it every day and waking up crying at night. Right now he has occasional leg/foot pains, and will say his feet hurt when standing for awhile. He prefers to sit mostly.

We have been moved out of the modly house we were in since December.
His health has improved somewhat, he is no longer constantly ill, but when he is, he is always the most sick of anyone in the house. Stomach illnesses always deplete him more than anyone--he will vomit far more often and the aftereffects will linger. Respiratory illnesses will be more serious. A month or two ago, the kids all had serious colds with sudden onset, but were manageable at home, but Kody woke up in the night wheezing horribly and barely able to breathe. We took him to the ER, and he had croup. They treated him there. Only after we got home and things had calmed down did I recall that I could have tried Aconitum for the sudden onset of croup.
He also vomits or gets nauseated no matter what the illness. A common cold will make him nauseated, unable/unwilling to eat, and he might vomit a little bile.
He gets hungry often for small amounts.
He likes sips of cold water now and then, but generally seems a little under-hydrated to me, in looking at his urine. It's usually a strong yellow color, and never do I see clear or very pale urine from him. He urinates infrequently as well, perhaps 4 times a day total. It's not enough that I'm really worried for him, but enough that I wish he would drink more.
He still dislikes milk unless it's cooked into a meal. He does love cheese (cheddar or mozzarella), and once in awhile likes cilantro. He used to like beans, but doesn't now, and used to often eat seaweed but has stopped asking for it. He doesn't crave sweets but enjoys them now and then.
Se thing I noticed is this. Quite some time ago---perhaps last November--he had an attack of what seemed like appendicitis. He had right-sided pain that made him draw up his leg on that side, was crying and wailing and vomited as well. But then at hospital, he had a sudden diarrhea (smalled awful) and felt better. They kept him for observation because of elevated white blood cells and released him after a couple of nights.
Ever since then, when he gets leg pains, it's always only the right leg that hurts. He had a second similar attack about a month later with nothing found at hospital, and now occasionally has had similar pains with lesser intensity. I had read online about CHRONIC appendicitis vs acute, and how with chronic,the lumen of the appendix is partially obstructed buy not completely. It gets swollen and inflamed, but then then pressure forces the contents out and the patient feels better. It almost seems like that could be what happened. Just yesterday he curled up in a ball for just a minute and started to cry that his stomach hurt, pointing to his bellybutton. Then it passed.
He is constantly constipated. I give him a laxative tea and magnesium daily to help keep him regular. Usually his stool starts out dry and a little hard and then finishes soft. It's usually a bit dark in color. He gets some intestinal cramping before he needs to have a BM.
Since we got going giving him a daily laxative, he complains a lot less about epigastric pain. But still occasionally has those bouts of abdominal pain or leg pain on that right side. Sometimes only his right foot will hurt, but I feel it must be related since it's always that same side. He had xrays and other imaging done of his abdomen, but none of them could visualize his appendix. They concluded it looked OK without overt signs of infection, but I don't trust it 100%.

What else? His energy seems low for a child. He seems like he might have a burst of energy in the late morning, may want to go play outside, and then seems grumpy and low energy the rest of the day. I tried these homeopathic thyroid pills (with a combination of remedies) and they do seem to give him more energy temporarily, but I know they are more of a palliative thing and wish for something specific for him.

https://www.vitacost.com/natrabio-homeopathic-thyroid-suppor...

He wakes up every night sometimes in the wee hours of the morning. It's either that he's had a bad dream, his diaper feels too wet (he's potty trained for day but not night yet), he's hungry, he's scared, his legs hurt, the cat was bothering him, and the list goes on. I'm not sure if he knows why he's waking up, he just wants someone with him. He usually wants me either to climb in bed with him, or to sleep in our bed with us.
He tends to fall asleep very quickly and does not fight bedtime. He will even ask to go to sleep sometimes. He sleeps later than either of his brothers usually. He seems like he could have slept longer from how he acts in the morning, kind of groggy and not very cheerful.
He doesnt want to be very active, yet when sitting still he fidgets and rocks back and forth, wiggles and just has to move around. He can't seem to keep still even though he is tired.
He seems a bit grumpy most of the day. He often will make a "mad" face (brows drawn together and nose slightly wrinkled) for many things and likes to punch/hit his big brother when he does something to make him mad.
He has been very teary lately. Anything that doesn't go his way will make him start to cry, and he seems extra sensitive to getting hurt. He will cry and wail loudly even while being held, rocked or sung to and will only if bribed with a treat, favorite TV show, or other distraction. It seems he is on edge and just keeping it together, and any little thing will make him lose it.
He is very afraid of being alone. He sometimes will have fears of being alone keeping him awake at night, even though he shares a room with his brother.
One thing I'm noticing, is that he seems to be having a hard time forming a coherent sentence. He will try and try to think of what he wants to say, beginning the phrase but getting lost in the middle, and then finally finishing it. It reminds me of the brain fog I had prior to starting the thyroid medication I am on. I would have a hard time finding the words to say what I wanted. I'd start the sentence, then not be able to think of a word I needed, get stuck for a minute, then either choose a different word or figure out the one I wanted. With Kody, it sounds similar. He sounds tired and forgetful when he talks, talking slowly, he even walks slowly most of the time, shuffling along like an old tired man.
I still feel he is too skinny, even though he is "normal" on the charts. He just looks emaciated somehow, with his dry skin and his ribs seem to stick out a bit. His upper body seems kind of weak looking. The only part of him that has much fat on it is his cute little rounded rear end. The rest of him (arms, legs, neck, chest, back) seems spindly, weak, or shrunken somehow.
He seems to take great pleasure in taking his chewable multivitamins every day, almost as if he craves something in them but yet, it does not help him. He asks for them every day without fail. He often asks for more than what his daily allowance of vitamins is.

He has these occasional spurts of activity, where I feel he is more like a normal kid should be all day, but for him they are usually short-lived. I do notice he seems to have more energy after I give those homeopathic pills. Sometimes he will get so much energy that we tell him to settle down a bit! He seems more like a kid should be at those times. Playful, laughing, asking lots of questions, talking, and running around.

So to sum up, I feel that he may have hypothyroidism like me. So many symptoms seem to match up---low immunity, dry skin, grumpy, tired/low energy, slow metabolism, weak nails (oh and vertical ridges in his nails like me. And absence of lunula on the nails except for thumbs), constipation, slow speech with what seems like word hunting, slow gait, moodiness. And then that curious bit about the seeming bout of appendicitis that never really seemed to resolve satisfactorily.
Sorry this is so darned long!