Hello Barb,

I never had my heart examined. I never felt the need to do that so I expect my heart to be working correctly. Does one feel skipped beats? If yes, I never felt any. I felt my heart racing after fast running or due to utter excitement. Also I felt it beating faster after heaving my 100 Kilos up three floors on stairs.

Bettina

Hi Again Everyone,

For Carol - a hairy back would indicate Tub.

For all - if the excess hair began with the birth control pills, then the Sepia layer would seem apropo. However, Sepia, Thuja and Calc carb have already been taken without a good response, so I don't think any of these remedies is going to work. On the other hand, if coffe is drunk every day, maybe one of these is the appropriate remedy and it was antidated.

For Bettina - Corticotropinum (Cortico) also has a very acute sense of smell and a certain prophetic ability. If you were my patient, I would give you Cortico 200C, one dose and wait and see what happens.
If that doesn't help, either, I would give up the coffee and retake the remedy.

I know you have a lot of options, now, and it is probably very confusing for you.

I have given my reasons for why I don't think the current suggestions (other than Lachesis) will work and I would like to hear from some other homeopaths if they think Cortico is wrong and why.

I am not sure about Lachesis. Bettina, do your complaints tend to be right or left sided or neither? Do you feel better or worse from sleep? Do you wear loose clothing just to hide your body or does tight clothing bother you physically? Temperamentally are you competitive, jealous, suspicious or aggressive? Do you have a high or low sex drive? Do you like the sun and do you generally feel either hot or cold?

Shirley Reischman

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Hi all,

If calc carb. has been tried and hasn't worked, it may be that it is the constitutional layer and will not respond until the top layer-- a la Hering's Law--is treated. If sepia has been tried in the past and did not work, I would be willing to go along with the others and try cortico, though others still can't be counted out, such as thuja.

Snoopy

Gentlemen,

I am starting to feel indescribable relieve already. Thank you so very much. By now I can hardly wait to get to the computer and to find your kind responses.

I just now remembered another remedy I took a lot (one bottle) because of the hair: Oleum jecoris D 2 four times per day, that was - if I am not mistaken - 1998/1999. I did not get the impression that it helped any, rather - if any - the opposite. Since then the hair became worse.

There is another very emotional event I have only just now realized I did not tell, yet. I lost my former job in February 1999. The whole situation was objectively very unfair. The former boss tried to save his own neck with this for me not understandable action (I was revenged, he got fired last year). This caused a lot of misery for me but I managed to survive and now I can say that everything turned out for the better for me. Then I cried a lot and I kept wrecking my brain trying to understand the situation. I guess I pushed the whole situation away because of all the hurt and therefore forgot to tell. In August 1999 I found my present job. This job also has a lot of stress and also unfairness. Sometimes I say jokingly my salary is a reimbursement for the pain. But still, most of the time I am just happy and satisfied that I earn money, no matter how unbearable the job and how super-idiotic colleagues sometimes seem to be.

Just two weeks ago my partner's father died after a very long period of suffering from cancer. That, of course, also caused a lot of weeping and misery. The funeral is not over, yet. His wish was to be burnt and the family has to wait till next week to bury the ash-container.

To the questions:

"For all - if the excess hair began with the birth control pills, then the Sepia layer would seem apropo."
I always had more hair on my arms and 'bikini-zone' than most other girls and later women I saw. I never cared about that. In my face I had only very few stronger hairs which I picked out. The hair started really bothering me about 1998, again I am not too sure about the exact date. During the past maybe three years the hair in the face became a nuisance. And also during this time dark hair on my chest started to develop and still is in the process of gaining area. I started shaving away the hair close to the ears this year. I do that every day. There also is and has been for a long time some hair around my nipples. This also now seems to be increasing in numbers. From all of this I would say it became worse some time after I quit taking the birth control pills.

If you come to the decision that I schould take Corticotropinum and coffee might pose a problem I will certainly give up coffee at once and not give Corticotropinum the chance to fail because of coffee.


"do your complaints tend to be right or left sided or neither?"
Again, everything from memory so it must not be 100% correct: Headaches tended to develop more on the left side (looking out of my eyes, not into a mirror). Abscesses were worse on the left side below the breast. Whereas in the armpit an abscess was only located on the right side. There were smaller abscesses always on the left side (now I am really missing words and there is no dictionary around) outside on my genital but not on the leg. Directly translated: on 'the left shame lip'.

There seems to be a bit more hair on the left side of my chin and upper lip.

My eyes are pretty much the same on both sides.

Do you feel better or worse from sleep?
I like to sleep and I can sleep well. I rarely wake up during the nights. Only very few times on weekends when I slept very long I have a little headache which usually is forgotten after breakfast. I feel good when I wake up, even better when I wake up on weekends without the alarm clock. I fall asleep usually right away. At the moment it is a little harder because of the death, the uncertainty with the boat and also a little bit because of the excitement in connections with this forum - I would rather sit at the computer all the time and see what you wrote and answer right away. So, I read a few pages of a book in bed prior to sleepin to calm down and then fall asleep with no problem.

Do you wear loose clothing just to hide your body or does tight clothing bother you physically?
Tight clothing around my neck bothers me a lot. I cannot stand turtle-neck-pullovers or tight collars - even in winter I prefer to wear lower cut clothing. I do not wear necklaces. Tight pants do not bother me, I am very used to that feeling. I prefer walking in socks or barefoot inside as long as the weather permits. I never wear stockings and I hate nylons and only wear them if I must because of fancy clothing. I do not wear dresses or skirts and I wear pants with nylon-socks, never stockings.

Temperamentally are you competitive, jealous, suspicious or aggressive?
All of the above at times, probably. I can hardly say what exactly.

Do you have a high or low sex drive?
Probably more a low sex drive. I very seldomly start activities in this field, my partner does, mostly on weekends and that is ok for me. (How do I know if other women are different?)

Do you like the sun and do you generally feel either hot or cold?
I generally feel more hot than cold. I like the sun most when the air is still cool. Temperatures around 30 degrees Celsius I find too hot. If I may choose I would rather sit cooler than warmer. I like the moon. I do not draw the blinds on moonlit nights. I have very fair sun-sensitive skin. I like the sun somehow but there is always the danger of severe sunburns. I do not mind tanning due to sun, I like that and I even like minor sunburns because afterwards I have darker skin and find myself better-looking. The best for me would be to be able to look sun-tanned without having to sit in the hot sun. I do not sunbathe on purpose, I cannot stand the heat. Not even alone, it is not a problem of my figure. On the boat I am always in a t-shirt to prevent sunburns on my upper arms and chest.

Thank you very, very much for your help.

Bettina

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Shirley,

Have just read Cortico in Julian and I can understand why you are interested in it. It is a pity there is not hirutism in it though. However I have just been to the computer and found :-
Murphy - Constitution
HAIR, distribution masculine in women (2)
1 cortico, 1 sep

So I am convinced now. Have you used this remedy as I haven't?

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Hi Ricki,

No, I haven't used Cortico before, but based on Murphy's, I read up on it in Julian and also in the Synoptic2, along with several reverse MMs in CARA. It looks like a very good fit, but it's a small (unused by me) remedy. This is why I was hoping some other people would take a look at it.

I'm not happy with the number of remedies Bettina has had and I don't think any that she has already had should be repeated. I think it's time to look 'out of the box' and try a lesser known remedy, although, depending on her answers to my last set of questions, Lachesis might be a possibility. She hasn't had it before, but I'm not sure that it's that good of a fit.

It's obviously a hormonal imbalance and I think it's time to look at some of the lesser known remedies, especially given that it is one of only two listed for hirsutism in Murphys. That kind of situation always rings bells for me. I think too, that we often ignore very good remedies merely because they aren't familiar to us.

Shirley Reischman

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There may be a Lachesis layer here, but some of the things don't fit. Corticotropinum (Cortico)is left sided, does not like warmth, and has a lot of weeping. It does not have the aversion to constriction about the neck, but again, it is a small remedy without a lot of people in the proving.

My questios to all of you now is: given that there is some grief due to the death of father-in-law, should remedy administration wait a few weeks until things settle down? It does have weeping as a symptom, but I'm not sure if Bettina may be in the middle of an acute grief situation and the remedy would work better if she waited.

I do think it would be best to give up coffee, at least for the first month or so while we evaluate the response to the remedy. I am a stickler for not doing anything that might antidote the remedy until I know for sure it's working. At that point people can gradually add things, one at a time, if they must and we can tell if they antidote or not. Coffee, caffein, mint, tea tree, eucolyptus, menthol & camphor. If the person insists, coffee, caffein and mint can be added back in later. However, most people chose to not take these things because they don't want to take a chance with their remedy. Some peolple say a correct remedy can not be antidoted, but I've had a few people who were doing really well for long periods of time and then antidated the remedy, so I know they can be in some cases. I think it depends on the sensitivity of the person.

Anyway, the most important thing at this point is to decide the timing of the remedy. Lets hear what people think.

Shirley Reischman

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One more thing - in re-reading the case, Bettina did have a good response to Thuja in the past, but it only cleared a few things. So, there may still be some possibilities in that direction, too, at some point. There may be several layers here, but we won't know for sure until we see what the next remedy does.

Shirley Reischman

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Bettina - we can see that you write a lot which is great for us to get symptoms. Do you talk a lot as well???

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