As long as the symptoms haven't changed, it's always a good idea to repeat the last remedy that worked in a higher potency. It looks like you have had quite a response to the Sepia, but we won't know if it's curative until things settle down, which usually takes at least a month. If at the end of the month, you are feeling better in yourself, even if you still have the physical symptoms, you should stay with the Sepia. As long as the symptoms do not completely change, you can repeat the same potency and wait another month. After one repetition of a high potency, you should go to the next potency. Each time you take it, the time needed to evaluate will increase. At some point you will no longer respond to the Sepia, at which point, if you still have symptoms, it's time to try a different remedy, taken to fit the totality at that time.

Your homeopath should know these things and know not to have you keep repeating high potencies. Please e-mail me privately if you would like more information or referals to a classical homeopath in your area.

Shirley Reischman

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Thank you Shirley for you response you did clear up a lot of my questions! I'm sure my homeopath knows all this but I really feel unless I am also educated on all this it's really hard to communicate and also to just trust him being it's my third try.

"As long as the symptoms haven't changed, it's always a good idea to repeat the last remedy that worked in a higher potency. It looks like you have had quite a response to the Sepia, but we won't know if it's curative until things settle down, which usually takes at least a month."

Thank you for saying that. I wasn't sure how long it would take.

" If at the end of the month, you are feeling better in yourself, even if you still have the physical symptoms, you should stay with the Sepia. As long as the symptoms do not completely change, you can repeat the same potency and wait another month. After one repetition of a high potency, you should go to the next potency. Each time you take it, the time needed to evaluate will increase. At some point you will no longer respond to the Sepia, at which point, if you still have symptoms, it's time to try a different remedy, taken to fit the totality at that time."

He told me to pund the bottle 10 times before each use and I must say I forgot the last time I took the remedy to do that. I wonder if that made a big difference.

Also taking an LM potency once a week: is that totaly unheard of?

As for the physical symptoms changing my glossy eyes was something I've never had before but the stiff neck and overall ache feeling is very common to me when I get my period. Today I do feel better so I will do as you say. Wait and see. It seems like such a long process. The first time I was on Sepia the next month I was better. It took just one month to feel better though the second month it did revert back maybe because he didn't go up in dose.

Also when you say at some point you will no longer respond. What does that mean. No symptoms or just the same everything and no change?

But thanks for your response it has helped me a lot!!!

Are you taking an LM in addition to the Sepia 1M. If so, DON'T! Do not take anything else while you are on a remedy.

We look at symptoms after everything has settles down. By then, you probably won't have the glossy eyes. That is a Sepia symptom, according to Murphy. So you could still be proving the remedy.

At some point, the remedy will either have cured the problem or you will still have some symptoms which do not continue to improve on the remedy, or you will have a whole new set of symptoms. If you are cured, there's nothing else you need to take. If you have a whole new set of symptoms or if you still have symptoms which are no longer responding to the remedy, it's time to change the remedy.

Hope that helps. Shirley Reischman

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Thanks for all your responses. You don't know how much more I understand now!!!! I am taking Sepia LM1. I think that is how you say it. I know it is a LM. Anway I have stoped taking it and will see my homeopath the second week in June. The Glossy eyes are gone but the hot flashes seem to be there still. I just got my period too and so far I don't have any cramps but it's too soon to tell what will happen. My skin also is pretty bad and continues to break out. I remember at first when I went up in dose with the Sepia the right side of my face brok out in more of a rash of pimples that is still slowly healing. (I don't know if that is a good sign, or a bad sign) but being I am still breaking out more than normal kinda bothers me. My homeopath said the skin is the last to get better but to me it seems like a sign that something is not right.

I was reading something on a sight someone recommended in the "Little Library".

The correct dose of the LM potency in medicinal solution produces a non-aggressive primary action, no aggravations, and a long enduring gentle curative effect by the life principle. Even during the curative response the remedy may still be repeated at suitable intervals when it is necessary to speed the cure. The curative reaction of the vital force is not disrupted by the repetition of the minimal size dose of the medicinal solution of the remedy as is witnessed by the repetition of the dry dose.

" The cycle of healing with the LM remedy is - small liquid dose - no aggravation - enduring gentle secondary effect - removal of the remedial disease - cessation of remedy duration - the complete return of health and full vitality. This demonstrates the important role that Hahnemann gave to the Lebenskraft in the 6th Organon. The goal of the LM strategy is a smooth, continuous, graduated ascent to health and vitality through 30 microtonal potencies without aggravations. "

I'm not completly sure if I understand this completly but I did relate it to my case.

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[ 25 May 2001: Message edited by: Danielle ]

Dear Danielle,

I guess I'm a little confused. I thought you were taking Sepia 1M once a week, but, in reality, you are taking Sepia LM/1 once a week, is that correct?

Even with LM's, a lot of people don't know, you're supposed to stop them if there's an aggravation or a tremendous improvement--either way. You're not just supposed to go on and on, 'cause you could acquire symptoms of the remedy (a proving).

If there's an aggravation, you're supposed to stop, wait, and see what's there when the aggravation wears off. If there's improvement, take the remedy again when the improvement dies down, but take it with fewer succussions, or diluted in more water,
so you don't suffer another aggravation.

Snoopy

I understand I am paying my homeopath and I am not second guessing him but I truly think you really have to understand homeopathy to go to one. I also think as much as I listen to him, he has to listen to me but their have been so may important things I have learned here that I didn't know before.I think that sometimes homeopaths don't get into the fine print because they think they do not have to or that we understand but for me I now need to understand things step by step which I really only have gotten on here. It's not so much second guessing but just the whole "watch and wait" see what happens, don't be so quick to take another does. I learned that on here and believe it has made a difference in my understanding and the healing of me. Thank God I can talk to my homeopath, but it's also good to know I can come on here and get advice if I feel like I need it. I am not second guessing him but when he said stay on the remedy if you can tolerate the hot flashes that just didn't sit right with me. Also my eyes got very glossy and on here Shirley mentioned " That is a Sepia symptom, according to Murphy. So you could still be proving the remedy." As for now I have stopped taking the remedy and will talk to my homeopath when I see him but after the third try at finding a homeopath I will always feel I need to understand things myself. He siad he didn't mind me giving input and he knows I read and go on this sight. I'm sure my homeopath knows what he is doing and I hope to discuss all this with him when I see him.
But thanks for all your responses it has helped me better understand the fine print.

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