Worry, anxiety, fear, duodenal ulcers, right sided headaches, port. hyp. tension, varic. - Dr. Sameer help requested _{Page 2 of 18}

I am thankful to forum members that they are keen to solve my problems.

Sameerji,
I guess I took Lachesis on 15th night 10 pm. It is nearly 10 days.
Day 0: Night I had more severe pain in left chest. It was in muscles behind around and below nipples. I could not sleep. After 2 am or so I had dreams. Not disturbing but I couldn't sleep well.
Next 2-3 days chest pain got better. Weekend I kept sleeping as expected from Lachesis.
Once we get up, we are more active than we expect. But Lachesis does not give that activeness and freshness as I get from Nux Vom. On self pres. I would have gone for a single dose of Natr. Mur. 200. In summers, it has reduced the great sleepines and exhaustion without apparently causing any other trouble. I avoid Nat. Mur since I like sympathy.
This week I had sex twice. Masturb. type. There was no purpose or reason. It has just become a habit like a useless exercise. The imp thing is I got very exhausted as usual. I feel that every act, even without any vigor or intensity and very quick ejac. is simply draining my body of nutrients very fast. That's why I feel very tired the next day. It is not just psychological. The heavy depletion of nutrients/hormones (which hardly exist!) makes my bones ache, body dull, slight feverish and voice is changing towards heavy increasingly.
After 2nd time, I have slight vertigo too. I seems that muscles of neck and all around got thinner. The 'good mass' is drained out, so mass is imbalanced. So, body is off balance.
On stopping for 4-5 days I am naturally better. A week gap would be still better but I can't keep gap for even 8 days.

First 4-5 days I could manage without Pantodac 40 mg. But by 7th day, the slight warm feeling in stomach returned. Things are well established that if I do nothing of the 'warm' feeling, it would increase, other problems would come soon and I would have ulcer. In fact, it already might be there.
So I took Pantodac day before and yesterday. I have started to feel like taking Crocin Pain Relief (with caffeine).
I do not know how to replenish hormones or hormone therapy. These things are supposedly dangerous too. So, my only help is to take Crocin Pain Relief. It relaxes me. Brings my temp. down and makes me feel better.

Kindly read previous post prepared in afternoon.

After sleeping in afternoon I was worse. Though no problem of palpitation, etc. but on getting up I was having dull headache on top side here and there. I will say it is 'sinus' headache.

We had to go to restaurant yesterday and then I had to go different rooms in office with diff. temperatures. Had taken draft of air due to sitting on scooter. So, if my vitality is better and body reacts, it would be ENT trouble with sinus problems. But there is not much lively 'material' in the sinuses for the bacteria/viruses to eat so how can we see 'infection' type of reaction?

There seems to be something on left side. The inner ear near left throat had some ache 2 days ago. But something has settled in the left jaw, left ear, etc.

So I was not well after sleep. Finally I took Crocin Pain Relief. I had no option. This is 8:30 pm. Overall I am not feeling well. No will or inclination to study for interview. A little bit was there during the week but overall - not really.

Dr. Sameer,
I become desperate to take other homeopathic (or allopathic) medicines but somehow I am controlling w.r.t. homeopathy.
In fact since 2007 I have taken very less homeopathy except during last May-June when I tried several medicines before interview and then in Dec. 2009 I had to take homeo-medicines for acute problems.

When I would be helpless, feeling worse but nothing too specific was there, I would take Arsenic Alb. 200.
Because when my vitality was strong also and my earlier doctor used to prescribe Ars. I used to feel very good mentally.

I am a person who like to dominate situation, be in control of. When several things are going in office or social functions I want to be in all activities. If I am unable to I feel unhappy to have 'missed' things.

Out of several tens of medicines I have taken in 10 years, I have felt really better by about 7 to 10 of them. Ars. Alb. makes me feel better in the way I want to.
But it doesn't seem to work always now.

The doctor who prescribed for the longest time for me and helped me all along earlier found Nux. and Lyco. to be my constitutional remedies.

He gave me Nux. 0/5 and Lyco 0/5 alternately most of the time.

Suppose a patient has imp stage in his (or her) career. There is an exam (12th std or interview or presentation and not a short one but requiring about 1 to 4 weeks of final efforts.
It is known that the constitutional remedy is likely to produce a lot of aggravation, severe headaches, irritation, sleep, diarrhea, fever, skin rashes with itching or anything, even ulcers. Such remedy may produce these things in a week or ten days and patient is likely to settle only by the end of 15 days.
Next week he has 12 exam, say.

Dr. Sameer,
What are homeopathic methods in such situations?
1. Are short term remedies given or constitutional remedies given in a suitable form? How to save patient of immediate concern?
We may provide some constitutional remedy and it may trouble him/her enough to spoil the imp stage of career. What will be the use of the health that will come some time after? Will the loss caused not interfere with further healing of patient?
2. Should the patient resort to other pathies since homeopathic methods do not exist? And other pathy may in fact have no proper solution. Is it that there is only one way of homeopathic prescribing be it patient's tour or exam or crucial work he/she needs to do like help somebody at hospital and in that case patient must wait?

I am not saying extreme measures (that are not allowed) be resorted to. I do not mean people should take banned 'performance enhancing' drugs of either allopathy or ayurveda or such remedies if any of homeopathy for a short term solution.
But it may be reasonable for example, to take Antax (or similar allowed medicine) for a day or two or 'Nice' instead of paracetamol or some ayurvedic syrup to control digestion.

The question comes what does homeopathy has to offer?
A 3rd question.
Suppose a patient is being given remedy/remedies. There is some probability that exact similimum may be different and remedy may have to be changed. Also there may be other layer(s). The patient is facing effects of remedy. Fast improvement or slow but it may take few weeks. In between some sudden important point comes like exam or tour or any urgent work.
The patient urgently needs help or at least feels so.
What is the role of homeopathy now?
Is the patient to be left to his/her fate because the science of homeopathy is just that way? Or something is done to the extent possible?

Kindly comment.

I know, my post is not expected but due to the problems I am writing.

Firstly, Pankaj ji it is a good suggestion to join college. But I feel that this 'forum' is very much for all discussions on homeopathy some of which enter into the scope of homeopathy 'course'. And then there could be a shorter answer for my questions like -
1. Yes, homeopathic methods exist for certain situations.
2. I principle there are 'NO' separate methods for different situations. A a patient wants quick relief for 2 weeks it is not possible through homeopathy. He/She must try something else.
Actually I could keep on writing but it would look as if I had got involved in arguements for the sake of arguing (while it would not be like that actually).

Coming to the suggestion of Lyco. My earlier doctor gave me Lyco 0/5 (LM5) as I already told. It did benefit but of course not so much so that I was free of medicines for long.
There are the following possibilites-
1. Lyco was very correct but I took it continuously and repetition of doses did an 'UNDO'.
2. Lyco was a very good but partial similimum.
3. Lyco was on several layers but not all, so other remedies were needed in correct sequence which did not take place.
4. Lyco looked like a very good similimum but it wasn't.
5. Finally this is possible.
Lyco was the correct similimum. Given my surgical case, it did all it had to and my capacity was already maximised. But I felt it was too low as compared to the time before surgery and comapred to many others with some problem or no problems.
So I felt my health was nowhere near what I wanted and kept on expecting more from homeopathy. I kept on trying doctors and remedies and therefore the stability from whatever little bit I had with Lyco (and Nux and occasional doses of Ars., China, Merc. Corr., etc.).

Now if I try Lyco from the old bottle kept in the house, I feel no benefit.
And I tried Lyco 30 after reading posts at abchomeopathy so that I could start from 'start'. It failed miserably. I had many problems none of my own.

If Sameer ji insists then only I will consider trying Lycopodium.

More in next post.

Sameer ji,
I am not feeling well at all. Two days ago I had terrible experience. My 7 yr. daughter fell from bed in sleep. It is common with children. She wasn't hurt.
But due to noise or my wife woke me up or whatever, I suddenly got up anticipating that the whole ceiling had fallen down on my wife and daughter. I was terribly frightened and started shouting and calling my mother. My wife was surprised at my over reaction.
Then, I was not able to sleep. As soon as I felt sleepy there was uneasiness and unknown fear. After 15 mins I felt that there was great pressure on my heart. Just terrible pressure and there was some black spirit...

It was a terrible experience. I have never faced such things before. I have had aggravations of feelings when I used to bleed less or heavily. Those feelings are also terrible but they are totally different.

I later tried to find out what might have caused this. that It may be that I drank 100 ml areated cold drnik in the morning that day that I rarely do. The 'gas' must have caused this. But it is strange that I have drank soft drinks earlier and have had some problems but never like this as I mentioned above.

It is 18 days after Lachesis 200.

1. I mentioned of Pantodac. I again stopped it but had to take it again. I felt quite relieved by taking for 2-3 days.
2. The burning on left has decreased much but keeps coming. After I take Pantodac it dies out.
3. Mentally I felt a little better for 3-4 days. But things are back and it has been the same most of the time.
4. No motivation to do imp things. Body tired in evening. Just feel like keep watching TV. Morning I wake up with bodyache. Go to office compulsively.
5. As mentioned, sex causes great tiredness.
6. Increasingly feel tired to write posts.

It would be nice Sameer ji if you reply to my queries asked earlier and any suggestion on my problems.

I am in the office. Will write later.

I am aware of that fact too.
You see inspite of that people are getting better guidance on the forum because of competent people here.
In my city also there are many homeopaths but none appears to practice classical homeopathy.
In my case I have seen doctors avoiding me. AND this is not due to my talkitive nature or any troublesome behaviour. The only trouble I give is that I give the feedback how I am still facing problems and real ones.
I can assure you that when on rare occasions I have felt well in the last 12-15 years, I have never 'dug' out complaints. No, not at all. Yes, under currents of stress have been there.


I believe the examples I gave earlier did not exactly come into the complex category needing immediate 'face-to-face' interaction.
When a person is known enough, you could still treat many of them for short term problems.

Thanks for responding Pankaj ji. I feel good to be able to express my self.

Dear Sameer ji,
I do not know if you are listening.
Yesterday there was internet problem at home otherwise I immediately wanted to convey these things -
1. I was having continuous 'ache' in left chest.
2. Just at the back of my throat on 'left' a spot has developed where there is continuous 'ache' or pain since 1 day. This is not like old symptom coming back.
3. By taking Pantodac again since 3 days, stools have improved. Mind also feels better by Pantodac.
4. Some burning on the line on left side keeps coming back.
5. I feel very sleepy in the afternoon.

Kindly let me know what to do.

Sameerji,
Last week was very hectic. All managerial work and not my beloved tech work. Excessive work at office and at home due to guests, exposure to all sorts of things in summer.

1. Finally I started to have same left-sided headache around left eye; sinus type but still without any apparent cold. Yesterday.
2. I had to lift 12-15 kg wooden box.
3. I also had red left eye which I sometimes feel is the sign of local blood pressure or increased blood pressure.
4. As sheer luck I may say, I got chance to be 'examiner' (viva) first time that I have been longing. But rooms were hot due to summer. Also my hands would tremble on picking up glass of water, esp. the left hand. I was compelled to use both hands to hold and drink water from plastic disposable cup. (I did it with style so that others did not know but it was quite troublesome.)
5. The same left-sided chest pain and further down along a line on left.
6. Due to excitement I was unable to sleep well during the week. Also the same problem of 'loss' of heartbeats when trying to sleep or rest from 10 am to 3 pm.
7. I got up with headache today so I finally took Crocin Pain Relief in morning. It relieved me a lot. But now I am having dull right-sided headache.
8. I have again started Pantodac regularly since 8-10 days since I could sense it was needed.


My interview is closing in but even before I can take any stress and complain of lack of concentration and all, so many other things are happening-
1. External factors. Unexpected work at inappropriate time.
2. Continued headache troubles with ulcer symptoms.
3. Pain in heart region and on left.
4. Symptoms that are not like 'mine' including trembling of hands.

1. From my previous experience I have a hunch, I should take Ars. Alb. 30 or preferably 200.
2. The effect of summer with pain in heart makes me think I should take a dose of Glonine 30 before other things.
3. If I think of most straightforward symptoms and most typical ones, then we have - The fear of interview, fear of failure, the headaches, ulcers, feel as if heart is losing its beats, lack of sleep, etc. This makes me feel I should try 'Gelsemium 200'. I have taken it earlier and though there were no troubles but I did not understand if it helped me since I used to take other things along with it.

My troubles are becoming unbearable. Only reason why I am able to sustain is that I do not do anything at home. My family members consider that he needs rest. Also I keep taking Pantodac and Crocin Pain Relief.

I think my unbearable troubles and lots of writing is giving an impression that I am talkitive, loquacious but actually that is not exactly my true state. I think there are other very peculiar and specific things that I have not been able to express.

Sameer ji,

I am having so much trouble. Please let me know if I can take any medicine before I am able to get Lachesis LM1 and LM2. I will still try to wait 'till I can bear'.

[I am unable to understand the meaning of your reply - 'If you cannot wait, there is no use for this treatment.']

Most importantly, please forgive me if I take any other 'homeopathic' medicine if things are unbearable. I am sure after a suitable gap, you will continue to suggest remedy for me.

I am terribly drowned in unknown kind of works. The astrological conditions I may say.
I even couldn't find time to order Lach. LM1, LM2.
I mentioned of very troublesome situation on 10th May.
1. As seen in past Crocin Pain Relief seems to help by sort of 'antidoting'. So next day 11th I felt better. I wondered why. Later in morning I had loose stools after long time. It was as if 'diarrhea is his great relief'. I have felt in the last 2-3 years that my diarrhea and morning diarrhea do not appear much. It is as if that has been suppressed. Because mentally I haven't been better.
2. On 12th yesterday I had dull headache but on the 'right-side' this time. It was more like 'my headache'. So I felt relieved but by evening I had to take Crocin again. I knew it would not help much now. (For safety I took 2 tabs of Gelusil too.) It didn't. The dull headache continued through the night. I could not sleep well. Finally I woke at 4 am. That reduced the ache. I tried to sleep to reduce it further. Ache reduced little more by 7 am when I woke up without good sleep. By 9 am when I was in office, the headache was gone.
3. Today again my head was relaxed and no ache. But diarrhea has started now. Occasionally there is that 'Ahh..' ache on the left side of abdomen.
4. Due to great trouble on 10th, I decided not to take Pantodac since I thought it was playing mischief. So with some risk, I have stopped taking it for the moment.

1. Due to unexpected conditions of work-load I am unable to study as expected and anyway I was not able to do that. So I have given up expectations and hope.
2. My wife hardly knows anything of my present treatment. I just gave her hint that I too am 'taking something as instructed'. She immediately warned that 'Do not take anything for few weeks if it would suddenly trouble you'. So she too has similar thoughts.
3. Looking at things I am not too keen to take Lachesis. Also my inner being is not that inclined to take it. And also I am afraid of Lachesis now lest it may install new symptoms and left-sided headaches.

But still as I am told I will try to procure Lachesis and then...take it probably, as told.

Today on 14th May, I again had headache since afternoon. By 7 pm evening it got quite troublesome. It is right-sided headache.
The left sided pain (most probably due to some intestinal inflammation/ulcer) has come up again,
By 10 pm headache seemed congestive as I lay down trying to sleep.
It is 11:40 pm now.

So just in case I need to Crocin, I have taken Pantodac. It is dangerous for me to take Crocin Pain Relief without taking Pantodac. It may cause bleeding.

Dr Sameer,
My entire week went away fighting with headaches. I feel so tired. I am not sure what I may do to get relief.

My office is '5 day week' so Sat. Sun. are 'OFF'.
This is Sat. I took Pantodac but did not take Crocin. My stomach is immediately better.
It may seem odd but obviously Pantodac helps me as well as troubles me.
Headache was better and almost gone during sleep in the night. I slept till 8 am and it was a good thing. Now it is 10:30 am and slight headache has already started.

I hope I will be able to manage. Next week there is a training so office may again a headache sort of....

Keeping patience is not much useful because troubles continue and you are inefficient and cannot do anything. Presently I am not doing anything because I am not sure what will be better and useful.

I am forced to do many things in office. It won't be good to leave them off.
My preparation for via/interview has been totally side-lined. My colleagues keep asking me how is the prep. and I have to answer them honestly - 'I am unable to....,so many other things to be wound up...'

Yesterday I could not sleep all night. It was the usual phenomenon of thoughts of office work (some technical work). Also other things. I do not have energy to describe.

I have finally taken Antax 0.25 mg few mins ago at 11:15 pm. I might taken them for 2-3 days.

Summer is intense here. Constantly 43 for several days.
Antax helped me but in office I had to attend course for 5 days in AC room. We had to go back to our rooms for lunch and also tea. I had to go from AC to very hot temp outside 2-3 times a day.

I am so exhausted...Also loose stools. Great aching, gnawing(?) pain after I eat something. Makes me bend or lie down for few minutes.

I do not know what is going on.

I am of course more concerned with health of parents. If they progress to permanent cure I am quite happy.
I do understand that after lot of homeopathic help, they will improve greatly but finally they will really be healthy when they see that their son is healthy.
My priority is anyhow to treat them first as far as possible.

Don't know when will I order lachesis LMs and when they will reach and what shall be the effect.

Medicines have not come yet.

I had great aching in stomach yesterday. It was so troublesome that at 5 am I even thought of remaining empty stomach so that I could go straight for endoscopy.
But then I recalled that my mother would be terribly disturbed if I tell about the problem and go to hospital (and get endoscopy done probably). Her health would go down like anything. All the betterment since few weeks would be washed out for her.

So I banked on my old policy. I decided to stick with the plan to do nothing till I really bleed or become unconscious or something like that.
By 7 am the aching had subsided. So I continued routine. After eating the abdomen aches and burns and pains. I took rest and slept from 11 am to 12.
There was a holiday and I took one these 3 days I have been doing nothing but sleeping in the morning and afternoon.

There could be changes in the situation and I would post it here Sameer ji 'if possible'. I had so much time but I neither studied nor enjoyed, neither worked in the house nor meditated or did anything else. The only thing I could do was sleep.
I was not sleepy but I have been tired dull and with constant aching in stomach so when I lie down and try to sleep, I do sleep...-and that's it.....

In the absence of any help, I am only going to become more and more tense about my interview. Going to another city in rains is very troublesome. We don't get rooms and we have to walk a lot. I get very worried about my health. My food is also restricted. I cannot eat chillies nor can I tolerate improperly cooked food. It is all so burdening.....

Sameer ji you may take a note of this.

Lachesis LM1 and LM2 have arrived.

I keep aching with abdominal pain 4 to 5 times a day. I am compelled to bend even though I try to hide it maximum. I am regularly on Pantodac now. My wife has obviously observed my strange uneasy moving and bending and I had to tell her. My mother too was a bit doubtful though I am always trying my best to keep this hidden from her. Some other people in office too have observed that I have some problem.

I want to add something.
I am trying to use the old trick of managing with Pantodac. In 2008 it worked half way but not totally. Finally after bleeding for 8 days when bleeding increased I did Hb tests frequently. When it dropped to 8 one fine morning and I found it difficult to stand, I had to disclose everything and go and get my self hospitalized. Any similar repetition from me and people will sort of thrash me out.


What is suggested?

I took Lachesis LM1 on 2nd June in evening. It is 3 days now.

Day1 (first 24 hours): I did not take Pantodac by chance. Things were ok during night and next day. I felt sleepy in morning. Then head was lighter but all other things were same.

Day2: Next evening I started to have aching in abdomen so I took Pantodac. Since it was taken after food so I had to go to toilet at night. Still next day (4th June) was usual. Mentally I was procrastinating as usual and doing other jobs in office rather than the main works.
Boss had come to warn me that I must study well for interview. He wanted to indicate that preparation was my responsibility (problem) and he shed off his responsibility. Actually many other seniors in our organization are not like that. They will support their juniors and try to encourage as well as help them.
I was also told that date may be suddenly announced; this sometimes happens.
Both these things disturbed me. I am already anxious. Further I am always worried about unplanned travel. This office travel is always tense and there is always problem of ticket booking and room booking and all...Everybody suffers but I am greatly concerned about my health because I generally start to have loose motions and all. This has nothing to do with water. It has to do with change of weather, environment, indigestion due to guest house food, low immunity and sensitive health, tension due to the purpose for which I am going....etc.

Day3: Yesterday night I again skipped Pantodac. I am suddenly reluctant sometimes. The left sided abdomen pain was there but little less. I was already sleepy after LM1 dose as expected. I slept at night sort of ok but got awake at 3 am. Then again got up at 6 am (whereas I get up by 7:15). But I slept again till 7:15 am. I feel I got enough sleep. But, today morning (weekend) I was sleepy as usual . I slept from 10:30 am to 11:30 am. Then after eating a little heavy but home food (without chillies) I again slept from 2:15 pm to 3:05 pm. Throughout the evening I have felt that when I am relaxed and watching TV I can again go to sleep for several tens of minutes as often as I try.

In the evening I went to an ex-office cum far off relative cum elder brother age person. This was to discuss on interview. He knows about my situation esp. w.r.t. office. So he listened to me. I felt good by talking to him.

I have been insisting earlier that if a (homeopathic) doctor listens to me about 8 to 10 hours in sessions of about 2 hours each and allows me to express and also listens sincerely (not psuedo) and tries to understand me (and is even sympathetic when needed) and also believes in me, has faith in my statements to the extent he/she can, then - more than 40% of my health problem will get solve for long. One can say that it may take about 10-12 days.
So, I feel that just by expressing my feelings/thoughts I shall really feel good up to 50% in just over 10 days.

I wish to add that Lachesis new dose has not brought a change causing me to express things. It is only that I did not get a chance to express these things earlier since I was already prescribed Lachesis and with surity so I felt that it was not of much use describing many details about me because remedy had already been told. Now that I have given a chance to 30, 200 and LM1 potency I feel that enough has been tried and there are no strong indications of improvement (though there has been some help in physical problems) and I can now again express all that I was unable to do.

So I am expressing not so much due to effect of LM1 but due to the fact that the event of LM1 awaited so long has happened.

Sameer ji give another dose of LM1 a try if you feel so but I am afraid of the sleepiness it causes. I just do not feel like doing anyhting.

I will also now put many mental symptoms that I did not put earlier because Lachesis was already to be tried out. Of course another reason was not to disclose things as far as possible if the remedy had already been prescribed with surity. Otherwise actually I am more interested in disclosing things due to the desparation to find help.

Sameer ji kindly advise.

I think you would like to know how I am feeling overall mentally.
The answer is that head feels lighter and irritation has been a bit less. In that sense I am better. But procrastination, always doing other jobs rather than doing main work, great tiredness with lack of feeling to do the requisite work, is still continuing.
Since I did not succeed in interview last year, there has been great lack of confidence and motivation because this cam at a very wrong point of time.
I feel desperate to change my department within my company.
In the last 2 years I have been thinking on how I fit more in an academic job. But with variety of thoughts around career and my abilities and my life, I also have vision of how there are difficulties in different jobs. While that would be a good thing to be aware of the problems one might face, it is not good if one keeps on seeing difficulties in all types of work - even that work which was one's beloved work - just for the sake of being practical and to justify one's present work.
In this way I keep saying that there are problems in all types of works and my present one is also ok and that I should try to manage better, etc.
In doing so, actually I am neither liking my present work (due to its heavy responsibility, different nature of the senior and my health) and at the same time I feel that there are problems in all other things too - so - no use of doing anything else.

Physically I am slightly better with left sided abdominal pain but it continues. Real thing will be revealed when I stop Pantodac. In fact I have stopped it in last 2 days. But there is lot of sleepiness. Also tiredness from 9 am to 12 noon or so.

Well, I shall write more systematically about the things later. I should also have energy for that.