OK, Christmas is gone but the sickness is not!

Gave my daughter puls 30, worked nicely-need to listen to my instincts with this one in the future as it's worked well for her in the past. When this wore off gave another dose, again worked but for less time. Next time gave it in 200 and she's pretty much well at this point with the exception of lots of post nasal dripping down throat, especially (mostly) in morning. She said today that it's so thick feeling it's sticking to her saliva when she swallows.

Me, no of course nothing has worked. Nasal congestion has moved deep into sinuses, cannot blow nose and remove that rattling noise high up in nose or sinuses, which is constant. If any mucus does come out it's both thin clear and thick white. Ears have much pressure, worse right side, feel filled with fluid, hurt when swallowing, right ear a bit itchy inside on and off also. Throat sometimes sore right side, probably from ear. Forehead aches with some pressure, as do cheeks and bridge of nose. Last night had terrible chills and sensitive to light with bad headache. Coughing when air hits the back of my throat when inhaling through mouth, occasional squeak or wheeze sound when inhaling. Voice sounds so nasal and gets hoarse from mucus accumulation. No fever or real prostration, but just feel yucky very lacking in energy.

Please, any ideas? It's been a week now and it's only getting worse.
Thanks,
Sunny

Hi Sunny,

I've read through your post and it occurs to me that we haven't figured out yet when this all started--as in, what were you doing that Thursday, when you noticed you had begun to fall ill? Were you out in the cold, getting chilled (as you did say it was very cold where you are)? Perhaps narrowing down the "causes" may help us pinpoint a good rem for you.

Have you tried the pulsatilla yourself? I'm not surprised it worked well for your daughter, as it has an interesting relationship, as a remedy, with Lachesis.
I'm just wondering, as the calc did seem to have a brief effect on you, and the Pulsatilla remedy can be a good acute remedy for calc patients. I'm also thinking about Phos for you as there is such a sensitivity to the cold air in your case--aggravating the cough and aggravating the feeling of deep coldness and chilliness in general.

But, what else about you? Have you noticed any new food desires, any new habits that have popped up since the illness? That sensitivity to cold air still going on? Do you find you are (perhaps more) restless, despite a lack of energy? Is the cough still around?

Divina

This begin to sound more like sepia for your daugther, and natrium mur for you.

Hi Divina

My daughter and I started with this on the same day just hours apart, so I was thinking we must have caught this bugaboo from someone we were both around at the same time. Mine started while driving home from my daughter's school, where I was helping with a Christmas project in her class. It was very cold and windy walking to the car, then there it was.
No new food desires, actually appetite is off, spells of queasiness (but I have a chronic stomach/colon thing so hard to tell what's what here). Not as sensitive right now to the cold air, that's more at night. Really feel a little warm now, like heat from within, but no fever throughout this whole illness. The cough when the air hits my throat is less now, again worse last night (before which I was out in the windy cold again!! hmmmm), but upper chest is feeling a little funny, like when you're getting bronchitis or something like that. Maybe a little more restless, probably more likely bored than restless, not interested in doing anything though I was excited on Christmas day about something I'm supposed to do today...now, could kind of care less. I am prefering cold drinks, sometimes icy cold.

I did try the Pulsatilla 30, didn't do much. Seems everything I've tried does a tiny bit of good but nothing cures or even palliates for long. The queasiness (chronic) that I have, got so bad Tuesday evening, the thought of seeing or smelling food was horrible, just imaging walking into that house and smelling all the food was just sickening, so I took a dose of Arsenicum 30....hate to keep taking rems like this but this stomach thing is a big one for me, can't handle it at all.

At this point I would almost agree with Lisa, say let it run it's course, but with it settling deep in the sinuses now, possibly moving to the lungs (but keeping my fingers crossed on that one), I don't want to end up infected.

Hope this helps you help me!!
Thanks,
Sunny

Hi Sunny, your last posting of symptoms sounds like how I felt..and NM did it for me! NM 30 only lasted a few hours - but went up to 200 that night (or the next day..can't remember) and within 24hours I was FINE.

GM says NM for you too...maybe try a 30 and see if it helps more than the previous rem's you took...if so, then perhaps that would indicate it is indeed correct.

Hope you feel better soon..I don't wish this nasty thing on anyone!!
Lisa

Hi again,

I agree with Lisa--NM is one of the remedies for this year's flu, so taking a dose may do some good. I wouldn't worry about taking remedies during acutes in the way you are--in acute states, we often "use up" the remedies anyway. When they stop acting, they stop acting...and it's time to try something else if there is no improvement.

Try a NM30c. If there were any kind of high fever, I'd think about aconite for you, as you said you got that exposure to some icy wind and found yourself sick--or at least worse in a symptom--as a result. But since you haven't had fever, the Nat Mur may just do the trick. If you get a little improvement which "doesn't hold", take a 200c, just as Lisa did.

Hope it works well,

Divina

I took a dose of NM 30 last night, and slept deeply through the night and was finally able to sleep past the crack of dawn for a change. This morning, feel a bit better, all that's really left is the sinus fullness and pressure, and mild fullness in the ears (worse right). Kind of a roaring in left ear also. Maybe I'll go for the 200, see what happens, if nothing....I'LL BE BACK...

Sunny

Sunny, if it is any comfort, it sounds like it went with me! Hope you feel better before NY Eve! Take care,
Lisa

Thanks Lisa, I appreciate the support. It's always nice to have a partner in crime...or in sickness, as it were Not that I'm happy you had this too, ah, you know what I mean.

Lisa....was your stomach involved at all in this, or no? Trying to figure if it's part of this sickness or just my chronic thing acting up.

I did take the NM200 yesterday, and felt markedly worse for a time, but woke up today doing much better, but the sinus part of it is trying to hang on for dear life. Oh well, whatcha gonna do! I guess be thankful it didn't move into bronchitis like it usually does with me, is what I'm gonna do!

I'm not sure any rem did anything really, maybe just time is healing. I feel like that old saying, don't remember it exactly, something to the effect of - a cold will go away in a week if you leave it alone, 7 days if you treat it....or vice versa, something like that

Thanks for all the help!!
Sunny

Hi Sunny,
The changes I had after taking NM200:

The throat symptoms cleared within a couple of hours..I mean the pains were much improved! But in re-reading my thread, I remember they did resurge the next day..and then were fine after that.....

The symptoms moved mainly from sore throat (bad bad bad ) to a general achey (let's lie down and sleep this off now) kinda thing, which only lasted about 36 hours. Then I was FINE!

Only had a little residual loose cough - and felt fine otherwise.

(although I do have a headache - small one - today ).

Tummy symptoms - have a wee look at my old thread for the tummy symptoms...in general, the last three posts will show how it went overall.
http://www.homeopathyhome.com/ultima...ML/003617.html

Hope you feel better soon! Lisa

[This message has been edited by Lisa007 (edited 29 December 2000).]