I am a student homeopath and I have been also seeing a homeopath for several months. The doctor diagnosed me as having IBS and I have had various symptoms over the last 2 years. (I will not go into my symptoms at this point.)

My homeopath has tried various remedies so far (Puls, Sepia, Carcinosin, and Thuja among others) - none of which seem to have helped. Sepia seemed to make me a tiny bit better for a short while but then quickly went back to usual.

I felt that Lycopodium was a possibility as it seems quite a good constitutional fit (I have a fear of doing new things, failing in public etc) and also it fits the symptom picture quite well.

However, I have taken Lyc 200c a few days ago and have had a headache on and off, sore throat, terrible memory and my legs feel like I have pulled something at the gym!?! (I have done nothing in the last few days which could have caused this).

I had read before that Lyc can cause severe aggravations but dismissed it because I am taking it myself and not giving it to a patient.

I did a bit more research on Lycopodium from different sources today and found that feeling of stretched hamstings were in the provings along with the other things I am suffering.

Anyway, to get to the point, I would appreciate opinions on the following questions:

1 Is this me proving the remedy or just an aggravation?
2 If it is a proving do I need to Anti-dote the remedy now - will it mix the case up further if I dont?
3 I really want to ride the symptoms out and wait to see how the picture looks in a month or two (because the aggravation is managable and I am sure this is the correct remedy)- but is this advisable
4 If this is an aggravation, might that be a good sign (although obviously, not the ideal situation)

Help would be much appreciated

Kind Regards

Lou