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Ok he just ate a LOT of chicken..
 
joannadarling last decade
Oh, sorry, that chicken comment wasn't in response to your question of what else. We're just about to put Nico down to sleep, then I will sit down and write more.
 
joannadarling last decade
I'm trying to think of other symptoms but I'm not sure what to say, he is still the same as when I originally gave the case. Right now he has a cold so he is displaying symptoms related to that. Maybe the lack of hunger today is related to some post nasal drip, I'm never hungry when I'm swallowing a bunch of that stuff all day.

Ok, I can add that he prefers to be comforted by me over my husband. When he falls and is hurt, he reaches for me and won't be comforted by my husband. He prefers that I do his bedtime routine. I feel like him preferring me during the bedtime routine is because he wants milk and wants to be close to it and wants to make sure that he can have some if he wants it before sleeping. I also get the feeling that he is more hungry during the day than he lets on, but never eats his fill. He is easily distracted by things and people and won't eat if there is a strange person around or something cool to do. When my Aunt came over today, he couldn't eat lunch, he was too distracted.

When we were at church yesterday (hadn't been in a while), it took him a while to warm up to the situation. For the first 15 minutes or so he just sat quietly on my lap, then he started wanting to get up and move around. When we went to the nursery, there was a little one year old running around and he spent most of his time just watching her do stuff. He would sometimes see something he wanted to play with and would go over and touch it and then grab it, but then would see the one year old doing something and would stop and stare at her for a while.

Is this the kind of stuff you're wanting in regards to symptoms? You are looking for a different constitutional remedy?
 
joannadarling last decade
A few other things.. He always has milk marks on his sheets, where he burps up milk and it comes out even around his binky and gets onto the sheets. Also when I nurse him sometimes I can see his face flush as he's eating.
 
joannadarling last decade
Ok lets try a slightly different tack.

Can you get hold of Tuberculinum 200c. One dose of that.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
I just ordered it, it should be here in a few days.
 
joannadarling last decade
I am just curious - can you tell me why we're moving on from Phosphorus and why you chose Tuberculinum?
 
joannadarling last decade
Because Phosphorous is not helping. In the analysis of the symptoms, both remedies scored equally. Phosphorous is a tubercular (miasmatic) remedy, and Tuberculinum is the nosode for that miasm.

As the prescriber, you have to be alert for the poor performance of any prescription, and adapt to the reactions of the patient.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
I think Nico is teething really terribly. He is screaming randomly and throwing himself on the floor, wants to be held constantly and is chewing really hard on his pacifier. The screaming is completely random and stops after maybe 10 seconds. THen happens again maybe a minute later. Help?????
 
joannadarling last decade
Giving him Chamomilla seems to make his chronic state worse, neutralizing the Phosphorous. I am not sure this means Chamomilla is that good for him, but if you are desperate you can continue with it.

Perhaps he needs 1M of that remedy, since the state does seem very intense.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
How can a remedy that fits his symptoms and help him short term be bad for his chronic state? It's just curiosity, I really like knowing why :)

So you're saying that a 1M dose of Chamomilla might be better? Better for his teething or better for his chronic state?

I've never seen him like this before. He doesn't want me to put him down for anything. I will probably end up giving him the Chamomilla. I don't have the 1M though, so would have to give him the 200c. I don't know, we'll see how long him and I can last. He is pushing my hands on the keyboard right now because he doesn't want me typing. The noise is interrupting his youtube videos. :)
 
joannadarling last decade
Because such remedies can simply palliate or even suppress the symptoms, driving that energy back inwards, aggravating the internal problems. It is a well known dilemma in homoeopathy - to treat symptomatically may actually worsen the long-term prospects of the patient.

He is not chronically Chamomilla. His teething appears to have created an acute problem, one not dependent on his chronic weakness but on the simple common quality of him being a child at a teething age.

There are almost a hundred teething remedies though, so Chamomilla is not the only one. Chamomilla may only suit the problem superficially, which means you need to use it alot or other negative consequences occur because of using it (like all his chronic stuff resurfaces).

However, you are in a desperate situation, so we need to elimate the possibilities. One is that Cham 200 is simply not strong enough. 1M is very useful for high energy acutes, and especially in children.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Thanks for the explanation! I'll see if I can get a hold of the 1M tomorrow morning to have on hand.
 
joannadarling last decade
Repeat 200c now though, and let me know what happens.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
I distracted him for long enough tonight with other things, and just put him to bed without giving him any Chamomilla. He went down just fine, I was surprised!
 
joannadarling last decade
Ok that is good too.

I wonder - this could be an aggravation on the Phosphorous you know.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
That would be interesting.. How can we tell?
 
joannadarling last decade
Homoeopathic aggravation is always followed by improvement. A natural worsening of a disease is not.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
So I guess we'll know soon then?
 
joannadarling last decade
You should see some kind of change yes.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Nico woke before it was time to eat last night. My husband got confused, though, and brought him to me to nurse, so we didn't get to find out if his fits were better.

Today has been really terrible, though. He is doing the same thing he was last night. He wants me to hold him constantly. I think he was hungry, too, but refused everything I tried to feed him. Maybe it was a blood sugar thing, I don't know! He wanted me to stand and hold him, and walk around, or sit with him on my lap reading books. If he wanted to go somewhere else in the house he would point and when I would set him down so he could walk there he would cry. He wanted me to hold him and take him there. He also wanted to nurse but only took a few sips. In order to get him to nurse, I went through our nap time routine 45 minutes early. He is a sucker for routine, and once we started the routine he fell right into it and nursed a long time. But then I put him down for his nap 45 minutes early. Maybe he was tired.

I have no idea what is going on!! He was fine right after waking up this morning. We did our morning routine and then slowly he got more clingy and more clingy. I expect the same thing will happen after he gets up from his nap. Maybe he's just overtired!?

I can't get the Chamomilla 1M in town so I would have to order it. Do you think I should order it?
 
joannadarling last decade
Are his demands hard or soft right now? This holding and clinging and crying - how does it make you feel when you have to do those things for him?
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
He's not eating as much, I thought this was lack of hunger but it may also be that he is being a picky eater. He used to eat whatever was on his plate (before Phosphorus) but now he refuses most everything, spits most stuff out after tasting it, drops what he doesn't want to eat onto the floor and always asks for bananas instead of whatever he's eating.
 
joannadarling last decade
Just in case you missed my questions I will bump this, because we posted at the same time.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
That previous update was not in response to your questions. Seems like I missed it by a few seconds before I posted.

Hmm.. hard or soft... After he woke up from his nap he was demanding softly. To be picked up, carried around, held at all times. He would reach up, cock his head into his shoulder and say 'do bah' quietly. I carried him around as much as I could, and he was in a nice enough mood to be set down for a little bit if he had something interesting to play with. If he asks to be picked up quietly, and I'm not able to (when making dinner, this is the case), then he starts whining. If I continue to not pick him up, he will start crying and standing next to me with his hand on my leg, then throwing himself on the floor. He's not biting the floor anymore. If he sees me doing anything that doesn't involve him (cooking, checking email, cleaning), he goes quickly to fits. I've been trying to include him in everything I do but sometimes I can't.

In general his demands seem soft. I'm not sure if that's what you mean by soft, but I'm interpreting it as Nico needing consolation and attention at all times and when he doesn't get it he breaks down emotionally and cries from grief. He's not hitting me or anything, he just wants to be with me.

It makes me feel overwhelmed to need to carry him all the time. After he was born I struggled for the next year or more trying to find time by myself because I just couldn't relax unless I was alone to ruminate and veg out. My husband wanted time alone all the time too, so it was a struggle to see who could be the most selfish, because whoever was most selfish got time alone. I feel like it's still that way, but not to the same degree. Me and my husband tend to become disgruntled whenever either of us are forced to take care of Nico by ourselves. For example, I told my husband I needed to write this forum post and he angrily took Nico back to Nico's room to play with him. If my husband needs to do something that requires me watching Nico, I become disgruntled too. It seems like more of a struggle between me and my husband. But by me writing this forum post I am being selfish, I don't need to write it right now! I know that. I can put this off and spend time with Nico and my husband instead. I feel like by writing this post and asking my husband to take care of Nico, I'm exercising my 'right' to do whatever I want when I want it. I feel like I'm entitled to it, and I can use the excuse that it's for Nico, because, it is. I don't want to feel that way, because I'm sure Nico can sense that.

Hmm.. anyway... not sure if any of that was helpful. When I need to do these things for Nico, I feel overwhelmed because I don't know what's wrong, I don't know if it's ever going to change, I don't want Nico to struggle with food and sleeping for the rest of his life. I just want him to be better.
 
joannadarling last decade
Ok. This sounds just like a Pulsatilla situation. Can you get Pulsatilla 200c? Give him one dose and let me know how it goes.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade

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