Thanks again. No need for further details (although you could point me in the direction of your mother's book - that sounds interesting - would that be the turning point at which your family "discovered" homeopathy?)

I just think that many patients will have a similar background to me in that they may not have any friends or family who use homeopathy, no background to refer to. And so when they need encouragement or perhaps a little pep talk (cos it often isn't an easy journey to make) it generally takes them in the opposite direction in that the advice from those around them will be to stick with allopathic methods. Personally I occasionally cover up when I feeling bad as if I were to be open and honest with my family they'd just understand it as a criticism of homeopathy and advise accordingly. They're very uncertain and suspicious of what I'm doing.

So it would be nice for patients to be able chat to others about their experiences, especially those further down the road with their homeopathic treatment. I guess I'm just a bit disappointed that this forum doesn't contain more personal stories, but if cured patients don't feel comfortable doing that I obviously have to accept it.

Dear Jennilee
I understand.
When i have patients that are in this mode of thinking i do have them contact one of my 'willing healed patients' and speak to them,its a good boost. Anyway the book is called "Stone Secrets" a personal story. My cousin was the author her name is Mediha Saliba. My mother goes into the 20+ yrs she suffered from RA,all the horrible traumas she went through captured by the japanese army and placed as a prisoner of war in their concentration camps in Java Indonesia.And how taking allopathic meds for all the yrs she was suffering DID ABSOLTELY NOTHING but make her worse. Homeopathy cured her 100%.

I have many cases like these,old women suffering from RA for 20-30 years! ONLY HOMEOPATHY CAN CURE,as i witness the adverse effects of what conventional meds do to these poor women.Yes even chronic cases of 30 yrs can be reversed via homeopathy!
Link to Amazon.com to find this book.........................
Gina Tyler

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Many thanks again. I couldn't actually find the book on Amazon but will have a look around elsewhere. Some of the cases on the website were helpful, although not many comparable to my own case.

I'd really like to be able to contact other UK patients and share experiences or exchange thoughts and advice. The patient's perspective is important, I think, and there is much to be said for forums which offer an opportunity for mutual support and encouragement. I don't think I can be the only one who has abandoned the previously safe-seeming environment of allopathic care but found it a bit of lonely journey with homeopathy.

It would be really nice to talk to some "willing healed patients" on this board. There are many who seek help and advice on the discussion board & I would have thought at least a proportion would come back to this board to share their story later on. Not a question for you in particular, Gina, you've been most helpful, but I can't help wondering - where do they all go????

Dear Gina!

It would be very interesting to hear more about your mothers case. How long after homeopathic treatment started was she cured?

Thank you!

Fredrik

Gina, I also searched (on Google) and couldn't find the book. Could you provide a link or an ISBN number? Many thanks .

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Dear LisaAnnan and Jennilee
Type;
www.Amazon.com I just checked a few minutes ago.........
go to section for book orders
then type
STONE SECRETS
Its #21
author
mediha f. Saliba
many books on line for sale new and used.


Dear Fredrik
the results were seen immed. but the 'cure' took a few yrs to complete.
Many remedies many potencies,many layers of disease.
It takes aprox one month for each year of illness.

Gina Tyler

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Aha! I found it in the end - it seems to come up with a blank on an overall search but then brings it up when you keep narrowing the range. No copies available in the UK so will probably have to wait a while for delivery, but never mind.

The general areas I would like to discuss/share with others would include hopes and expectations, duration of treatment, coping with work/family/other demands in the meantime, any pitfalls or milestones along the way (eg any backwards steps, "aggravations", leaps forward, any changes in your understanding of what homeopathy is all about as the treatment progresses, any misunderstandings, any clashes with allopaths and /or family members and well meaning friends regarding treatment, feelings along the way (including emotions coming up as a result of the treatment & how to keep an even keel throughout this plus manage the other stresses & strains of ordinary life), ermmmm, etc etc.

Also, from the patients perspective, any lessons learnt regarding choice of homeopath - esp. why it might not be sufficient to simply assume on the basis that someone is registered with the appropriate body that the treatment is "classical". Experience is a great teacher, of course, but it would be helpful to share information as otherwise it would seem that a certain amount of "reinventing the wheel" is going on.

Any other patients out there who feel there's a gap here? Surely not all will come from backgrounds where there is already a knowledge and acceptance of homeopathy???

Dear Jennilee
Caught sight of you link. PKDcharity.Interesting that it has to do with kidney problems.
That is my lifestory,my failing kidneys is what brought me to look at homeopathy.
I did try to post my case here on line via an longwinded posting on jacobs own homeopathic forum website,but he has made it impossible to access my own postings.Or has deleted it for some reason.
I'm sure some of my story is here on this forum but i cannot seem to find it.
Since you are involved with a charity regards kidney ailments,thought it might interest you that the path of conventional meds will conclude all kidney ailments as incurable. Yes agreed.
My birth through age 14 i was under allopathic care seeing one 'specialist' after another all over The Netherlands. One kidney had completely stoped working,the other was extremely infected,causing many of the symptoms you have listed on your website and more not listed.I was proded thousands of times via blood test,MD's were looking for a solution,none was ever found. But as your website mentioned i also was given antibiotics, for 14years! this did absolutely nothing just make my immune system go to hell.
Anyway to make this short...............I found homeopathy via dr. SK Banerjea he took my entire case, i stoped all conventional meds,i started to recover finally! Years later my life has filled with joy of feeling no pain. No more infections,only cure. I would of probably been dead if not for homeopathy.
Gina Tyler

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Oh, how interesting! I am, of course, particularly interested in case histories involving kidney complaints. I was a founder member of The PKD Charity, I suppose one of my first reactions upon diagnosis (well, after the "Why me? and the depression etc).

But as time has gone on I'm not at all sure whether this is actually the most productive route I could have taken. At the end of the day it keeps me where I am, delivers control into the hands of the medics (one of the aims of the charity is to support research into finding a cure, a situation which I've no doubt is replicated in many, many charitable organisations) and only gets me by from one week to the next with the "never, never" hope of a "cure". Naturally we would need to raise loads of money to support this. And there are, of course, thousands of other PKDers with whom I've come into contact, some of whom have joined us in the charity work.

Its just that, the whole time with this I've felt sort of coerced. Not just by my own fear and reactions, but also by the whole process of medicalisation and my conversations and contact with various specialists who see a very specific way forward (i.e the answer will come through science and only science). After a few years of barking up this tree I've ended up thinking that, well, it's as with many diseases, the "cure" will always be 5 years into the future, the fundraising could go on forever, and I'm sure there will be many "worthy" PhD projects as a result. But where does that leave the patients? Here and now?

And then when I discovered several years ago that homeopathic remedies did (unexpectedly because I'd read the scientific view) produce a reaction in me I really began to wonder about it all. You will see from my other posts that even with homeopathy things have moved slowly. I'm not even sure that I started out with a practitioner who practiced classically (although she said she did). I knew nothing about homeopathy and wasn't in a good position to judge. And, oh yes, being ill and desperate didn't help either. But my immediate perception was still that homeopathy was helping in a very different, more penetrating way that also affected me spiritually and emotionally.

So really, case histories and personal stories on board like this are very helpful. Strangely, although I am in regular contact with patients throughout the UK, I never hear from any who are trying homeopathy. This feels a bit isolating and is one of the reasons why I just wonder where all the homeopathic patients go. Unless I am the first PKDer to tread this route (surely not???). One of the positive aspects of the charity is that it is run "by the patients for the patients" and I wonder whether this approach could be extended to a homeopathic patients forum. It would certainly feel a good deal more positive and self empowering than my first approach (does that merely prop up the conventional system and perpetuate something which cannot work? A big discussion, I know, but I am at a bit of a crossroads with this all and it's hard to be objective when you're so involved in the issues).

Anyway, any thoughts on this very welcome & I would love to hear from other patients, especially those who are further along in this interesting journey.

Dear Jennilee,There must of been a reason we started to communicate. The universe is a mysterious energy field that makes things happen for reasons we as humans are not awake to. My path of kidney problems are varied and lenthy but years of research done already so if you want any imput i'd be happy to share you can also PM me.
My first suggestion is to really concentrate on the healing ability of how homeopathy works it is 180 degrees the opposite of allopathy......think about that for a moment. Anything and everything one does regards conventional meds will be toxic-anti cure regards kidney function. The kidneys are in your body to function as a filter for toxins,so why place more prescription drugs in its path ,I read on your site taking asprin is OK?............not a great idea Not only will asprin cause excessive bleeding in your stomach it will cause more toxin to deposite in your ailing kidneys.
Salt is ok but in moderation..............not a great idea. No salt is OK.
There is the other factor of what miasmatic predisposition is this based on,it is obvious that via the photo it is a sycotic miasm. The proper homeopathic miasmatic remedy needs to be addressed. In the area of homeopathy and mental/emotional/spiritual healing the kidneys represent "fear"..........this also must be addressed, allopathy does nothing regards thinking outside of the box that is why you will not have a cure not in 5yrs-10yrs. But i'm a perfect example of homeopathic cure.
Your lucky that Dr. SK Banerjea is in the UK now why dont you make an appt. with this great homeopath?
Allen College of homeopathy, 382 Baddow rd. Chelmsford,Essex CM2 9RA
allencollege@btinternet.com
35 min from liverpool street station.

Gina Tyler

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