Cheapest locales for excellent homeopathy?

I neglected to mention that I intend to remain in the selected local for at least 3 months, or, if I can get the necessary visa, a year or more. Long-term follow-up may be required, and airfare is expensive. Still, given that my funds may last longer outside the U.S., I consider an extended time abroad more cost-effective than seeing a U.S. homeopath.

girilal, I appreciate your humor. People do love to give advice, even (especially?) if they are not experts. (And perhaps some of that happens on some web-based homeopathy forums.) But chiefly, I hope to take advantage of differences in cost-of-living. Probably (not necessarily) the /best/ homeopaths in, say, India, can charge lower fees than the best homeopaths in the USA; but mainly, during my convalescence it would cost me less to live in, say, India, than in the USA.

I do have money; I simply want to spend it where local costs are low. For example, I recently spent a month in a village in the Peruvian Amazon region; there I met people with whom I could have negotiated room and board for $100 per month. Such things are feasible for me since I am an experienced traveler since early childhood.

Essentially, here I am asking two things:

1. Other than India, which countries (if any) are worth considering?

2. Which good homeopaths practice in regions with lowest cost of living?

Thank you all for your replies. I am pleased to see that I have found quite a humorous group of people! I will work on writing out my list of symptoms. Although I have been intimidated by this task (I have enough symptoms that no one remedy, or set of several remedies, seems to cover them all), I suspect that this, as self-reflection, as a form of meditation, may be a form of homeopathy itself.? Once I post that, I will look forward to thought-provoking responses, and, I trust, humorous ones too. :)

Indeed. :)

How much should I write? To jog my own memory, I have written a narrative, the form I generally prefer. But some consider me to be long-winded. :)

Alternately, I could use the Remedy Finder and list the names of my mental symptoms; but so many of the symptoms -- even the mental ones -- seem to apply, that I would again generate a long list.

I suspect that various responders will each have their own preferences, and that if I take one approach I'll get responses from those who prefer that approach. I'd prefer the narrative, but if everyone is against it, I'll do the other.

i am still working on the narrative. the poor state of my mind limits insight into myself and/or my trust thereof, and in addition, what i write seems awfully narcissistic and confused. i will ask some friends and relatives to help me summarize my mental symptoms. meanwhile here is a symptom grid. i would be very grateful for any insight or further direction that girilal (mr. lal?) can give me.

A few more notes; I'll try to be concise:

To evaluate my cognition I have been playing brain-training games designed by neurologists. On short-term (active) memory I score in the 12th percentile.

In perspective, in when I took a standard Weschler IQ test in 2004 I scored 146 (99.9th percentile). In 2007 my score dropped about 20 points. By now it seems much worse. Depression may damage the brain.

I have been diagnosed with depression. I have some anxiety, some lack of motivation, most worst is my ahedonia (experiencing too little pleasure from experiences expected to be pleasurable).

My other diagnoses include bipolar disorder (2007) and chronic fatigue syndrome (2008, but I think I've had it since 1992).

I have a girlfriend whom I have known for 3.5 years. We have broken up 3 times and most recently were separated for 16 months. We reuinited, as each time before, impulsively, without adequate deliberation. I do love her -- want the best for her and am motivate to attempt many compromises to benefit her and her family -- and doubt I could find another woman as sweet or as faithful. But my passion for her is too weak to motivate me to marry her. I don't know whether this is my intuition or animal self telling me she's not 'the one,' or whether this is simply my ahedonia.

I feel alternately homesick and apathetic toward my family. Both divorced parents, and my siblings, live far away from where I live, which is in our ancestral region.

I have mood swings. My moods change quickly and unexpectedly.

I tend not to have any evidence of dreams; it's possible that I don't dream at all, except for 3-4 dreams per year. This has been the case since I was 11 or 12. (Incidentally that was the same year my father stopped dreaming.)

I am compulsively, often 'brutally,' honest. This may be a reason that my subconscious keeps some secrets from me: if I were to know them, I would blurt them out to one and all.

More and more, I experience something like 'moral fatigue' or 'demoralization.' I was always overly conscientious, and now I am often nearly tired of being conscientious. My anxious disposition kept me from following my passion in youth; I became an engineer though I had begun to loathe such work by my second year of university. I have been too depressed to learn a new trade, and now at 36 I want to become a hippie -- if only this would probably require me to abandon responsibilities to my girlfriend and family.

I am hypersensitive to stimuli, especially auditory and visual. Food and touch seem to soothe me. I have this in common with some autistics. But unlike them I am not literal-minded; I am fairly poetic. (I like homeopathy for the fact that excellent practioners must think metaphorically.)

I do have trouble remembering peoples' faces and names.

I don't sleep well, perhaps mostly because I wake many times to urinate. This is not just small bits of urine here and here; rather, my urine is copious, yellow or brownish-yellow, and frothy. I wake unrefreshed. If I urinate in a jug at night, it contains 2 liters in the morning. Each time I urinate it is about 0.75L.

My girlfriend adds that I judge myself 'harshly and belatedly.'

I may write more later as I think of it.

Oops. A correction: Where I wrote:
'I want to become a hippie -- if only this would probably require...'
please read
'I want to become a hippie -- EXCEPT that this would probably require.'

Perhaps it is relevant that:

1. Often I have been drawn to contentious and argumentative, close-knit groups of people, with whom, after some years, I eventually grow disgusted. Examples: evangelical Christian intellectuals; 'deep ecology' environmentalists

2. I was very shy around women; I was a virgin until age 33. My present girlfriend is the first woman with whom I had sex.

I regret my lack of organization; please forgive me.

If I understand you properly, no. It is difficult for me to sit to meditate. I can sit still for quite long periods of time -- until I have to urinate -- only if I am reading or listening to music.

BTW, one complication is that, for the last few years, I have been addicted to chocolate. Most of the rubriks in Sherr's proving do apply to my case. I have just posted, under separate cover, a question about how to prepare a remedy from chocolate:

http://www.abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/208196/

I also have similar questions about some more of my addictions, including wheat and dairy products. Both contain proteins (peptides homologous to opioids) that are soluble neither in water, nor in alcohol, nor in oil. But perhaps the initial succussion suffices to copy their energy in a medium of water?

I acknowledge that by asking such questions I implicitly touch on discussions about distinctions between classical or 'true' homeopathy and systems like homotoxicology. While I am familiar with the debate I have no desire to resurrect it here. ( I am only an intellectual/bookish patient who has been treated, without success, by numerous allopathic and a few homeopathic physicians.)

Mr. Lal, I don't mean to rush you, but while you are pondering, if you prefer that I also post a chronological narrative -- perhaps in order to unwrap my case like an onion's layers -- I would be happy to post one. In that event, would you please post a link to one or more examples of patient's narratives that you consider to be well-written?

An anecdote from my attempt at isopathy (or is it tautopathy?) may at least amuse you:
http://www.abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/208206/

Thank you, srisri. The Remedy Finder makes quite a case for Sulfer and I would be surprised if girilal did not also recommend Sulfur. I am eager to see his response, particular with regard to posology. Also, if I need any complementary remedies, for the symptoms not covered by Sulfur, are they effectual after Sulfur or must they be taken prior to it.

In fact, I bought Boiron's Sulf 30C from my local health food store two years ago, based on the Remedy Finder. I bought 30C because it was the only potency available there. On 15 Feb 2008 I took 5 pellets at 8:15am, and again at 5:30pm, but it did not produce any changes that I deemed noteworthy at the time. (In hindsight, I suspect it may have led to an aggravation that precipitated the most recent, 16-month separation from my girlfriend.) Perhaps another potency and/or dosing schedule would work better for me.

I might regarded as 'highly sensitive' to things like foods (I experience mental symptoms after wheat, dairy, soy, egg, peanut), but also as having a weak vital force. (I suspect my chi has been low ever since I was 19 and masturbated too much!) So, with regard to homeopathics, I do not know whether I am relatively sensitive or relatively insensitive.

In the past, I have been responsive to Boiron's Sepia 6C and Oscillococcinum 200C -- each taken as per manufacturer's recommended dosing schedule. The former, which I took in attempt to control mood swings, alleviated genital itching, and the latter, which I took to quell a flu, calmed my mind.

Sometime in 2002, I was prescribed Pulsatilla (potency not marked), and this may have played a role in my transition from an overly conscientious person to a Sulfur. (That year I quit my engineering job and began five years of self-funded medical 'research.') Circa April 2007, I was prescribed Nitricum Acidum 1M as a constitutional and was told to take a few grains once; this seemed not to produce a response.

Given my history of extensive allopathic treatment -- from age 11 months until circa 32 years old -- I would not be surprised if I need a series of antidotes to past allopathic treatments. In particular, I was heavily exposed to stannous fluoride via a gel that was prescribed for home use, and now I have numerous symptoms of fluoride remedies. Also, I had adverse reactions to at least two vaccines containing aluminum and organic mercury. In case I also need remedies for those, I would like to know in advance, whether they can be given after my constitutional remedy, be that Sulfur or another.