A couple of years ago I discovered that I had Hypoglycemia, a condition which can lead to Diabetese.

It made me feel awful - especially bad were the boughts of having no energy (not even to stand up at some points) and the way it effected my emotions. It was absolute hell.

Normally the only thing I'd do if there was anything wrong with me would be to visit my local GP (Doctor). Unfortunately for me, Hypoglycemia is a condition where the body produces too much insulin - so I couldn't take insulin shots like a diabetic would.

In other words, there was nothing conventional medicine could do (at least nothing the National Health Service could offer me anyway).

So what could I do, I wondered.

Firstly, I tried vitamins and minerals. I read a lot about how taking suppliments could help your body cure all manner of ailments. Unfortunately, while the minerals and vitamins did prevent me from caching as many colds as I usually did, and helped me recover from a particularly bad strain of flu, my Hypoglycemia showed no change of any significance.

So, desperate I thought I'd try this thing I spotted called "Homeopathy." I had no idea what the heck it was, how it worked, nor anything else about it really. But I'd tried everything else (bar the far-eastern medicines) and nothing had worked yet. So it was worth a try.

I booked an appointment at the nearest place I could find. My homeopath was very nice, and tried to explain (in vain) how it all worked. To be honest at the time I couldn't care less how it worked. I just wanted to see if it made my symptoms go away.

Anyway, he gave me three tablets to take, and told me to call him two weeks later, to let him know how I was getting on.

I took the tablets over the course of a day and a bit.

My condition seemed unchanged for a little while. Then I forgot about it for a few days, and just carried on as normal.

Then about a week afterwards I thought to myself "hey I haven't had a headache for a while".. then I thought "hey I haven't had one of those really bad moods for a while either"... then the more I thought about it, I suddenly realised that my symptoms were slowly vanishing. A few days more, and the symptoms were gone. Completely. Vanished. My feeling of relief was only matched by my feeling of berwilderment.

But I shrugged my shoulders, thought "well that wasn't a waste of money after all" and got on with my life.

About a year later a friend of mine was seeking treatment for depression. He hadn't had a huge amount of luck with conventional medicine, so I suggested giving homeopathy a go. I went with him to visit the same homeopath.

When my homeopath saw me, he said to me "so how have you been since I last saw you?" To which I callously remarked, "oh yeah, those tablet things you gave me worked." To which he replied (with a somewhat shocked look on his face) "really? everything worked completely?" I said "Yes, of course. Thats what it supposed to have done, wasn't it?"

At that point he half-jokingly told me off for not ringing him two weeks afterward as I had promised, to tell him that it had worked. I think he was quite shocked at the callousnes and "of course it worked" attitude I had in reponse to his question.

As far as I saw it, I payed for a treatment to cure an ailment. It worked. I was happy. End of story.

Since then I now get homeopathic treatment for anything that's wrong. As far as I see it, it's a waste of time to go anywhere else. Why faff endlessly around with a doctor, when you can go to a homeopath and get a problem dealt with and fixed, then get on with your life?

I've learned that some people regard beleivers in homeopath to be stupid because Science hasn't yet discovered why it works. But as far as I'm concerned, it works, so I'd be bloody stupid not to use it.

[ 26. November 2002, 23:21: Message edited by: g1983 ]