Hello

Quick background - agoraphobia due to fainting phobia, anxiety, panick attacks, phobias: bllod and injury, needles, anticipatory anxiety.

Main triggers - driving on the motorway, queues, busy places, restaurants, meetings.

Symptoms - dizzy, sweaty palms, hot, depersonalisation, panicky, looking for escape, snappy and irritable, stomach upsets. Using avoidance.

Symptoms triggered by fainting at aged 6 in restaurant, aged 9 after seeing blood, aged 15 after taking hallucenagenics (not very bright I know) and aged 18 after having blood taken. Major (worst ever) panic attack whilst driving on motorway aged 20, fine driving on mway before this incident.

Tratment pre homeopathy: medication SSRI antidepresant, discontinued 2 years ago, hospitalisation at 16 for mediaction, behavioral therapy, congnitave therapy, group therapy, relaxatin. Since then, hypnotherapy (mild and short lastinbg effectivness) irridology, naturapathy.

6 weeks ago, I consulted a local, qualified homeopath who came and did the consultation over a 3 hour period. I was given 3 pills to take over 24 hrs. I was not told what the remedy was/were.

I felt a lot worse and physically ill (anxious, on edge, sick, shaky) the next day and for the week or so afterwards which I took (after research) as a good sign. Now nothing.

I was confident this might help but I am no better.

As you can see from the above I am a 'proffesional patient' and this makes me very sad indeed and i am desperate for help.

I do not wish to go back on medication for numerous reason but i feel this was my last hope.

I don't know what I want the response to be or what i am trying to gain but you all seem like proffesionals so hopefully someone can help.

I am seeing the homeopath in a few weeks for a follow up. What should I say to her? Any questions I should ask or things I can tell her that will help her?

Please help

Helen

Helen, we seem to share a lot of symptoms.
Although I'm now 44 I am still phobic about lots of things (M'ways, bridges, heights, trains etc.), all started after taking LSD at 14. Never taken any drugs since but still struggling to get 'normal'. I have been treated by a homoeopath for about 6 months. It does take time but I am feeling much more balanced, but I know there is a long way to go yet. I wonder how many other 'victims' of LSD there are out there.
Keep going with the homeopathy, there is so much fear to geth through and so much trust to build up.

Helen
please give the following informatio
1. temperament- mild short easy excited orsome other
2.fainting condition
3. liking desliking
4 physical

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Hi Helen,

Please don't wait for the weeks to pass before talking to your homeopath: give him/her a call as soon as you can so that you can discuss what is happening. Your homeopath needs to know what's going on with your case and how you are responding to the remedy--especially if you are feeling uneasy.

No need to worry about what to say, just tell the homeopath what you've written here--that at first there was what seemed to be an aggravation, and now nothing. You may need to have another dose of whatever your homeopath has prescribed, or you may need to try and remember if anything new has come up in the way of symptoms which she/he will need to know about in order to choose a more appropriate remedy for you.

That should save you from having to write out the equivalent of 3 hours' consultation to us so that we might have a little bit of an idea about what your homeopath already knows from talking to you! I know that if you continue to work with your practitioner, you will be much farther along towards feeling better than you would be if you had to start all over with the participants on this BB.

Hope you feel better soon,
Divina

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Hi helen,
Just a word of encouragement: Don't give up on homeopathy just yet. Even if the first remedy didn't produce lasting changes, another remedy might do the trick. Give it some time and further evaluation through your homeopath. This looks like deep constitutional treatment is necessary.
Claudia (student of homeopathy)

Helen, like others who have expressed their opinions above I believe that homoeopathy can help you with your phobias.
However in my opinion it is essential to have a very good homoeopath on a case such as this, and you might have found one, but statistically the chances are in the UK, that you have not.
Can you supply the name of the person which one of us might recognise? Or give a location so that we could advise someone whom we know to be competent.

Thank you for all your replies. My homeopath is a lady called Lavinia Noblett, from Heaton Moor, Stockport, Cheshire.

I realise I have to give it time, 21 yrs of being ill isn't going to go with 3 pills, I understand that.

I will give her a call, it is a bit expensive to keep trying different remedys though - i have paid £45 and will pay £25 for the next appointment. So I can only afford another couple of follow ups.

I will wait and see.

helen

Helen, since you have 21 years to cure and only have resources for a couple more appointments, how about asking your GP for a referral to a homoeopathic hospital? The appointments take over a year to come through, but once you are on the waiting list it's only a matter of ...waiting until you have access to free homoeopathy that is not time-limited.
Some health authorities will refer to the homoeopathic hosptitals, others will not, so I hope you are in an area in which the policy is to do so.

In the meantime, perhaps Ricky or Hoppitt will see your answer as they are both practitioners in the North and might know of your homoeopath.

http://www.homeopathy-soh.org/cgi-bin/findbyregion.pl?findregion=CHESHIRE&submi t=Find+by+Region
The above link will give you members of The Society of Homeopaths in your area. Your lady doesn't appear to be registered with the Society, what is she a member of?
I understand that you don't have unlimited funds for your treatment but I'm surprised that you are being so reticent about spending money on your own health and welfare.Surely you spend money on other treats in your life ; haircuts, magazines, drinking out, club membership,petrol, a car ( tax, MOT etc) why equate the cost of your health with a finite amount? You appear to have a responsible job, surely you can stretch to enough visits to get to the bottom of your problem once and for all? Contrary to Anna's posting, there are a VAST quantity of good qualified, trained Homeopaths in the UK. There are over 10 in the location where I am based.
Don't give up the process just yet. Write down everything that you are feeling.Pass this information onto your Homeopath. She is there to help you but you must take yourself in hand and make a little plan of what you'd like cured and where you'd like to be in 6 months time.Tell her your expectations, us Homeopaths are a hardy bunch and can take a bit of flack you know!
All the best....and keep us posted.
Simon


[ 18 April 2001: Message edited by: simon ]

I know Lavinia and she was trained at my college and was in my year. She is not registered as like me she is Licensed with the Society of Homeopaths and probably like me is intending to get registered or maybe actually in the process of doing so as soon as she finds the time and the money to do it. Lavinia, like myself also completed a further postgraduate year. I am sure if she works as I do she will not object or charge for phone calls between visits. In fact she will probably encourage it.
I find now and again I have a patient that returns for a follow up and says that nothing has happened but when I go through the case history they end up saying "Oh yes I forgot about that because it's gone!!" You had an initial reaction to the remedy. To me that would mean that the remedy you were given has reacted on some level even thugh you maybe unaware of it at this moment.

By the way I don't know anyone else thinks but I don't it is necessary to quote any homeopath's name and address on a public BB. IMHO this could be dealt with by private E mail or the new system on the icons at the top of a posting.

Simon- you must be aware that there are lots of Society of Homeopaths Licensed members who won't pay the money to become registered. Anna Bryant is one of them as she discussed recently on another thread. The society will give anyone a list of the Licensed members in their area if they ask.

[ 18 April 2001: Message edited by: Ricky ]

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