Ankylosing Spondalities

Age: 33
Height: 5.4
Weight: 70

CHIEF COMPLAINT:

1. What is your chief complaint (CC)? Tell as much about it as you can, including what is the worst part of it and why it's the worst: the sensations, the kind of pain, the location, how your energy has been affected (for example, has the complaint made you restless, weak, nervous, anxious, irritable, hypersensitive, effected your thirst and appetite, your body temperature, and so on).

Ans: MAIN PROBLEM or CC -
I have Arthritis of Spine thats called Ankylosing Spondalitis. I have very stiff body. My spine vertebra's are getting fused among each other and I have lost 80% of spine movement. I cannot bend , cant turn around, My posture started to bend I have very stiff body pain all over my body. My neck has become stiff can't turn around and see. I have pain in my fingers toes, shoulder, chest, lower back , thigh, foot. I have pain in my heart like angina pain some time's my my heart pains I also get pain in left hand upto fingers. I have burning dry eyes.
I feel my whole body is like tied up with chain feel and feel like I have to pull some weight behind me to walk or do some activity.
The pain is all the time. In the morning and some time more its severe in the evening. I have to constantly take pain killer and some Alopathy medicine called Celecoxib (Celat) to keep pain free.
I also have pain below by last ribs I think I have pain in my kidney as well. But the urine test and blood test done at hospital says my kidney is fine neither any kidney stone.
Because of this problems I become angry very soon. Irritable and hypersensative. I even get irritated with loud noice on TV or music.

OTHER PROBLEMS:
- I also feel I have memory loss. I forget the name's of people. even the name of person whom I have worked. I forget when I completed some task or not I have recheck every time when I am in lengthy number of process. I cannot remember what I read.
- I get Acidity when I have any wrong food. If I have dairy product or drink coffee or use any fragrance.
- I have burning and tired eyes. ( cant read for long time on computer )
- I feel very tired all times.
- I feel very thirsty I drink atleast 10 - 12 glass water in day. also in night I get up thirsty. Also I urinate very frequently. The color of urine is more or less clear not very yellowish except the first one in the morning.
My body temperature is very warm some people even feel that I have fever when they touch me specially my hands.





2. When did this problem begin? What happened in
your life around that time? What do you think
caused it?
I am a software engineer. I use to work to for long hours on computer with irregular food habits lot of Tea and cigerette (20 Cigerette per day) on empty stomach and no excercise. I got very severe acidity.
At the same time I had some major blow to my personal life. I had some major problem with my love life and that left me very angry and helpless. I am very immotional person I was lost completly. I use to keep thinking about it all the time and I had too much anger with in me but i did not take it out on anybody nor did I spoke to anybody.
sooner after that I got pancreatitis I tried all the best Doctors and Gastroantrologist and took several opinion. I was told that I have Chronic pancreatitis I suffered for 3 years with pain then finally my friend adviced me to see Homeopath. I tried one Homeopath for 3 months but with no difference at all. Then I was told of very capable and famous homeopath I went to him and he treated me for six month to one year period by changing several medicines. My Homeopath Adviced me totally avoid Mint in all forms, perfumes , Coffee, Tea and Dairy products. Finally I stared to feel better and say in a period of 15 days to one month I started to feel 80% alright.
but suddenly I started to get very severe pain in my right hip bone and very strange the lenght of my right leg became longer say 2 inches and the difference was clearly visible. I also started to get very severe lowerback pain. I was then in dubai I could not see my homeopath I went to lot of Orthopadic doctors in duabi and I was Diagnosed with Arthritis. but no cure with my hip bone pain after all the medicines from doctors. After every 15 days I use to get attach of my hip bone pain and increase in lenght of my leg it use to be unbearable pain Some times i use to collapse with my pain.
Finally I went back to bombay to see my homeopath showed him all my XRAY';s and reports from Orthopadic doctors stating that I have Ankylosing Spondalitis( Arthritis ) but he said no no its nothing like that. he gave me some medicine and it cured my pain of hip bone in 1 months time and after that I just may be had just one or 2 attacks of hip bone pain in a period of 2 years. I came back to dubai to my work but I started pain in my whole body I started to bend and stiffness all over my body. Its been 2 years I did not see my homeopath and then last year I came to UK.


3. What aggravates the CC and what brings it on?(for example, certain types of food or weather, movement, light, noise, company, talking,heat/cold, or anything else that you can thinkof; please be specific) and what makes the CC better (for example hot or cold, massage, eating, lying still, music, company...)? What does it make you do to try to feel better?
Ans:
I- (Wheat Gluten) - I feel I have become allergic to gluten wheat. It becomes severe when i have any wheat based food like bread, cake etc. Too much sweet , coffee.
II- (Sitting Position) - It becomes severe by wrong sitting postures I have to used Back support for stting on chair while working or at home. I have to now very frequently get up from seat and do streching to become straight or else I bend more.
III- ( Cold ) - I thnk it aggrevates when its too cold.
Generally feels better with either taking hot bath , doing some work out excercise. rest and sound sleep. Applying hot water bag and massage.




4. At what time of the day or night is the CC the
worst? Specify an hour if you can.
Ans : It bad in the morning but after taking bath with hot water I feel bit ok but still I have pain and by the evening I become very tired and I have severe pain all over my body unless I take Celecoxib medicine.


5. What symptoms can you identify that accompany
the CC (whether directly related or not; for example, headache with nausea; or menstrual cramps with diarrhea; a cold with irritability and anger)?
Ans : I have irritability and anger. I get into Argument very soon I get angry very soon if some thing is not right.
One very IMP symptom - When I have severe back pain I get a cyst under my groin area. Which breaks up after couple of days or a week with some blood and disappears.
Also I get temperature when I have pain in my body this is in the night time. I feel cold when I get temperature.




GENERAL QUESTIONS
6. Environment: With regard to the seasons, weather, outdoor temperature, indoor temperature, drafts, air quality, airconditioning, ocean air, mountain air, humidity, the sun/rain/thunderstorms/clouds/fog, etc.: what environmental factors give you comfort and relief, and which ones cause discomfort and distress? Try to give examples.

Ans : I feel better in Hot sunny weather. I feel even better when I do some work out and excercise/ yoga.
I feel worst after I am tired and during cold. cold gives me more pain. I feel better with hot water bath and some excercise and body work out.
IMP: I feel very tired all times and I feel to sleep.


7. What position is most uncomfortable for you?
Ans : I can't lie down on my back for long time I start pain in my lower back. I have tosleep on my side. I feel comfotable sleeeping on my right hand side. While sleeping on my left hand side I feel pain in my left thighs. When I sit I have to make sure I have very good lower back support or else I will have lowerback pain and I become bend.


8. a)Do you tend to be chilly or warm? Are there parts of your body that are colder or warmer than the rest of you? Is there a special time of day or night when they are colder or warmer? b) Do you perspire a great deal? If so, when? And where on the body? (feet, head, hair, chest, armpits, etc) Does it leave a stain of a particular color? Is there a particular odor?

Ans: I dont have any of that problems. Generally my palms are hot. I dont sweat much unless its very hot and its normal. I dont have odour in my body except for common armpit sweat odour which is also very mild and too after coming from work.


9. Describe what your tongue looks like.
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MENTAL/EMOTIONAL
10. What do you worry about? How do you deal with worries?
Ans: I worry about my health and nothing much apart from general day to day life worries. If there something I just keep thinking about it. I try do what I can do whats in my hand. I am bold guy.


11. How do you keep your house/your desk/your room/your study/your bathroom?
Ans: I like clean environment. I daily clean my desk before I start my work and I like clean house and bedding.

12. How easily do you cry? In what situations?
Ans: I dont cry very easily.

13. When you are upset, what do you do to help yourself feel better?
Ans : When I upset I feel anger in me. I keep thinking about the problems or the things said. I try to avoid getting in to argument try to keep quite.


14. What makes you angry? What do you do when you're angry?
Ans: Anything which is not rigtht or somebody attacks personally. I have to say it out to take my anger. If some thing or somebody is creating problem continuosly I will wait and give chances let it go for time but when it goes out my patience I blow it out.


15. Do you have an emotion that predominates; such as anger, depression, irritability, anxiety, jealousy, joy...or possibly two emotions that tend to alternate predictably?
Ans: When I am happy I am very happy if I am angry I will be very angry.


16. What fears do you have?
Ans: Generally nothing. Now I worry about my future related to my illness.


17. What have been the most difficult circumstances in your life? How did you cope?
Ans: Emotionally - when I had problem with my love life.I was terribly hurt and I had too much anger, I just gave time.
Physically : My sickness with Pancreatitis and Hip bone pains. I just took rest and medicines and tried everything possible. I keep reading and try to search whats good and what not.


18. What are the greatest joys you have had in
your life?
Ans: I am very social person I cannot live alone. God gifted me with very good and true friends. I feel very happy When I am with them. When I got married to my girlfriend last year. She loves me very much (touch wood). I am happy about that. I also love playing with small kids I just love it. I also feel happy to be with family back home.


19. What was your childhood like?
Ans: I was very mischeivous and fun making.


20. What bothers you most in other people? How,
if at all, do you express it?
ANS: When somebody is not faithfull, try to play games with me or manipulate things or try to use me. does not speak truth. I blow it out openly I show my anger straight I cannot hide my anger or manipulate things.


21. What causes the most problems in your relationships?
Ans: Trust.



23. What would you need to feel happy?
Ans: Group of my friends. Money to spend. Have good food and play with small kids be with my family or go back to my country.


24. What do you do for work? Ideally, what would
you like to do?
Ans: I am Database Adminsitrator. I am happy with my work. But I would like to see my own business to run.



25. If you were made President for a day, what would you change?
Ans: I would make people happy. I will be generous for poor people and I would punish corrupt politicians those people who makes communal riots, killings and ethnic cleansing.



26. When people have criticized you, what were they complaining about? Similarly, when people have praised you, what did you receive praise for?
Ans : Critics - I am dominant , I am very stubborn, I get angry very soon.
Priase - Generous and caring, praise me for my friendship.



27. What would you like to change most about
yourself?
Ans: My smoking habbit and My anger. I trust people very easily want to stop that as well.



FOOD
28. How do you feel before, during and after
meals? How do you feel if you go without a
meal?
Ans: I enjoy eating good food. If the food is good its difficult for me stop. I get annoyed very soon when I am very hungry.



29. What would you most like to eat (if you did
not have to consider calories, fat, anything
you've read about the right way to eat)?
Ans: I like to eat spicy non veg food. Indian curries and Biryani. I cannot control my hunger.



30. What foods do you dislike and refuse to eat?
What foods do you react badly to, and in what
way?
Ans: Nothing as such. I can eat anything which is made tasty. Even vegetables
Allergic for Arthritis - Gluten, curd, Sweets
Allergic to Acidity - Milk, curd, Cheese, Mayonese, Mint, Prawns, Spinach




31. How much do you drink in a day? Include
sodas, juice, coffee, tea, milk, and
alcoholic beverages as well as water. How
thirsty do you tend to get? What temperature would you like your drinks to be?

Ans: I drink hot water with teaspoon of honey as first thing in the morning.
I drink around 4 glass Orange juice but not cold. it should be like water temperature. I have stoped drinking tea, coffee. rugularly after my acidity. Earlier I use to drink atleat 8 cups in a day. Now very rarely in 15 days once coffee or black tea. I dont drink any alcohol or beer.
As mentioned earlier I feel very thirsty so I drink lot of water. After every smoke atleast I have to drink water I feel thirsty after smoking. I smoke now say 8/10 cigerette per day.



SLEEP
32. How is your sleep?
Ans: I like to sleep. If I have oppurtunity I will be very lazy just sleep whole day and night.


33. Do you do anything during sleep? (speak,
laugh, shriek, toss about, grind your teeth, drool, snore, walk, talk, etc.)
Ans: Generally I dont do anything not even snore but some times recently my wife told me I grind my teeth but thats very rare. I feel thirsty in my sleep. and some times I get spit in my mouth. I have to wake up and spit. I feel thirsty I have to get up to drink water.



34. Do you have trouble falling asleep? What keeps you awake? Do you wake always at a certain time? What causes you to wake up? What position do you sleep in?
Ans: I never had problem with my sleep unless I am in some pain. I get up tired frequently if dont have very sound sleep coz of my pain.



WOMEN - N/A
35. Number of pregnancies, number of children,
number of miscarriages, number of abortions
36. At what age did your menses begin? If you
have gone through menopause, at what age?
37. How frequently do they (or did they) come?
38. What about their duration, abundance, colour,
time of day when flow is greatest; any odour
or clots?
39. How do you (did you) feel before, during and
after menses?



HEALTH HISTORY
40. What medications are you taking at present?
Ans: I am taking Celecoxib (also known as Celact) for body pain for Arthritis.


41. How frequently do you get colds and flus?
Ans: I have cough but I dont get flu or colds. I get white water color sticky cough in the morning.


42. Have you had any childhood illnesses twice,
or in a very severe form, or after puberty?
Ans: I had Jaundice when I was 12 or may be 13, I had Herpes in my eyes which was very painfull say 12 years back, It came back once 5 years back and immediately doctor recognised it and got cured in one weeks time.
- I use to get some itching spots on my neck and my ears when I was 18. I use to use some oinment it use to go away and come back in summer or due to sun.




43. Have you had any vaccinations since the
standard childhood ones? Have you ever had an
adverse or unusual reaction to a vaccination?
Ans : Dont remember

44. Have you had any surgery? What and when?
Ans : None


45. Have you had at any time (mention year):
warts, cysts, Polyps, or tumors? Where were they located? How were they treated?
Ans : I get cyst as one of the symptoms when I get severe backpain. Usually it comes in groin area near by legs or under groins. Then It breaks off and disappears in a weeks time.

46. Do you tend to have any discharges (nasal,
vaginal, etc.)? What is the color, consistency?


SENSITIVITY
47. a) Do you tend to need a smaller dose of
medications than most other people?
Ans: No Concern


b) Do you need less anaesthesia than others,
or have a hard time coming out of it?

c) Do you tend to react to vitamins and herbs
and/or need hypoallergenic vitamins?

d) Are you sensitive to paint fumes, exhuast,
dry cleaning fluid, fragrances etc.?
ANS: YES CERTAINLY I AM VERY SENSITIVE TO FRAGRANCE, PAINT FUMES, DRY CLEANING FLUID, ANY MESSAGE GEL OR LOTION FRAGRANCE. I get pain in my stomach like acidity. This was discovered by my Homeopath.


48. Family history: Mention diseases, causes
and ages of deaths of father, mother,
sisters, brothers and grandparents on both
sides.
Ans: Father - Heart Attack, Diabities ( Had to do angioplaty for artery blockage )
Mother - High BP (Passed away 3 years back)
Brother - High BP



49. Construct a time line: Mention from birth
on to the present day, all IMPORTANT events
(emotional and physical traumas,
heartbreaks, divorces, work-related events,
diseases or traumas your mother had while
being pregnant with you, family stress,
death in the family or of friends,
disappointment, etc.) Mention the symptoms
experienced at those moments or which you
can date to those traumas.

ANS: 1 - 33 years
Age around 12/13 years - Jaundice
Age around 20 - Herpes in Eyes
Age around 27 - Acidity , Chronic Panceatitis
Age Around 30 - Arthritis
I had normal life with appropriate independence from family. The worst thing affected me was my problem with my love life when I was 27 where I was very very deeply hurt I cried within me I had lot of anger. I was dumped in my relationship.



50. When you stand in line at the bank or supermarket, how do you feel?
Ans: Feels restless

51. When your family member was last sick, what did you do?
Ans: When my father Had attack I kept calling very frequently suggested brothers and family members about the treatment whom , where and to make some basic procedure in case future whom to contact in the first place to be discuss and setup with doctor and where to take him directly to save time and avoid confusions. Send Home money for treatment.


52. How is your sexual energy?
Ans: Normal

53. How do you react to consolation
Ans: Normal.

54. What part of your life do you have the most difficulty coping with.
Ans: Nothing serious

55. What are your hobbies? Where would you go if you could go anywhere?
Ans: Spending time with friends going out with them. I would love to go to Maldives or Mauritiues Private Islands.

Some Additional Questions:

1. You have been treated by other homeopaths too, hence I believe that you have already used many medicines including your current disease "AS."
Ans: The Homeopath never mentioned to me about the medicine he gave me. He use to give his own medicines. He has written down all in my case register I can get that but I think its very difficult since I am in UK and my homeopath in India. But if you insist I can try to get it.

2. You did not disclose those remedies which you have used so for?
Ans: I have used Alopathy medicines - Salozopyrine and Celact and another one medicine which is for inflamation of bones.



3. What kind of pain, are you suffering with? Aching, biting, bursting, boring, cutting, burning, drawing, pinching, pressing, sore bruised, tearing etc. These type of pains are paramount importance in your case.

Ans: Actually I feel difficult to describe the pain. But still I will try to.
- I have constant pain specially it aggrevates the movement of painful area.
- I get PEIRCING, BORING constant pain the kind of pain when u get ur bone hurt.
- When its severe its like somebody is TWISTING my bone very mercilessly. Also some times I feel my some nerve have got tangled or its getting pressed by some bone.
- Its more painfull while lying down and getting up from bed. The pain also keeps moving from one join to another.
- Sometimes I have pain in my right thighs in some deep vein its like peircing and pressed and heavy feeling at one point.
- When I have acidity pain in my stomach Its Peircing pain and I get gas in my stomach.



4. In your case Stiffness, Type of pain, Sensation, location and exciting cause with modalities are important for finding.
Ans: My body has become very tight and stiff after sitting in one position reading and I my spine becomes very stiff and bend. I also have very stiff neck I cant move my neck in the normal possible directions. The movement to right/left Up & down has also become restricted and very tight.I have to stretch to become straight. the movements have also become slow.I feel like robot. My fingers and foot is paining with some burning sensation.
Pain Locations : Spine - Lower Back,upperback, my chest joins front side, my shoulders, Neck (severe), fingers, toes.



5. Is there any other case of AS in your family? is your father & mother alive, what are the most prominent death causes of your real family members?
Ans: This is the first case of AS in my family.
My mother passed away due to High Blood pressure.
My father is suffering from Artery Blockage, Sugar.




6. Still, do you have desire for tea and tobacco (ciggerets)?
ANS: I dont desire for tea but cuppacino some times. I still smoke cigarette. I take around 10 - 15 cigerette per day. I wish to quite it but cannot give up I dont have strong will power. Is it possible with Homeopathy medicine's that I stop smoking and my craving for nicotine disappears. Drinking of Tea/coffe or cuppacino gives me pain in my stomach.


7. How is your thirst? (current postion) still you are taking 10 - 15 glass of water in a day?
Ans: Yes I do feel thirst very much even while sleeping I have to get up at night around 5 o clock to drink water. I will some kind of burning and dry sensation.

8. Have you ever used sil, crot h and fl acid for your complaints "AS"?
Ans: I am sorry I dont have any Idea what was prescribed for me. As the medicines were given directly from the doctor


9. How do you feel when you start walking? Do you feel pain at start? How do you feel after doing yoga or exercise? Is there any amelioration in your symptoms after exersion or symptoms aggrevate?
Ans: I do feel pain to start up but once I start doing any activity pain recede's. I feel better and stronger after excercise and streching but again thats for couple of hours.

Hello Everybody,

I have put all the possible details about my case if still any expert needs some more clarification kindly feel free to ask. I am desperately looking for the right remedy pls help me.

Sincere Thanks.

Hi ,
I am in London and I am following very closely all the discussion and development on my case. Thanks for all your time and efforts. I agree the what I think the root cause of my problem is Acidity and imbalanced digestive system. Some medical Research says that the Cause of Arthritis could be too much harmfull bacteria in Stomach which gets carried through blood and ends up at the joins of the bones and starts damaging over there. Overall my understanding is relating to the Stomach and some bad bacteria and acidity.