Gentlemen,

last year I postet a problem on this homeopathic board and someone was so kind to invite me to send an e-mail. Since then I kept thinking about writing to him and I kept postponing it because: English is a foreign language for me which makes it very difficult for me to describe my problems exacly the way I feel them
But - I could not stop thinking about this e-mail and I have the very strong impression (or hope) (because I cannot stop thinking about writing) that someone here can and will help me.

The e-mail address I was given last year in August to reply to has ceased to exist.
I was asked to answer the following questions. May I just post everything? Maybe the person who sent the questions is still here with a new address or maybe somebody else might want to advise me.


This is what I received last year:
"We believe that homeopathic remedies can help you. Please revert to us with following information if you would like us to help you.

Initial Information Required for the consultation .
(Tell us all that does not appear normal to you; Ignore what is normal from the following checklist. Describe what is not normal as much as you can )

1. Name, occupation & address!"
I work as a product manager in Germany.

2. Height (Tall/ Medium/Short)
I am 167 cm tall

3. Build (Thin/Normal/Obese)
I weigh 100 Kilogramms which I find obese.

4. Age
I am 34 years old, I have no children

5. Chief Complaint- Describe the main complaints; what makes it worse or better; its location,its timing etc.
I am very much overweight and I have much too much hair all over my body. Worst is my face. On my upper lip I almost have a mustache. close to my ears I need to shave the exess hair away every day. On my chin and below my chin many, many single strong dark hairs grow which I pick out every day (At least 20 per day). The excess hair in my face is like mens's beard hair. My arms and legs are full of hair like men's arms and legs. I even have hais on my chest and breasts. This makes me feel bad. I feel that people are staring at my face, my arms and my legs because of the hair. I feel embarassed and ashamed.

Being overweight also barthers me a lot and makes me sad. I tried numerous diets but I always lacked the willpower to stick with a diet. Now I am trying to eat low-fat like stated in a book written by Susan Powter.

6. Any disorders of senses - ( Vision, Hearing, Taste, Smell )
I wear glasses. My eyes are a little bit (1 Dioptrie (German Word)) far sighted. But I also have a bended cornea. As a child I started with over 5 Dioptries far sighted.
Hearing: probably average.
Taste: probably average.
Smell: very sensitive. I detest smells like sweat, chemistry, animal excrements. People tell me I smell more than them - meaning they smell nothing but I do smell something.

7. Appetite- How is the appetite ?
Appetite is almost always there. Other people are full much earlier than I am.

8. Cravings- What food does the individual like very much ?
I like very much:
Pizza, smoked ham, potatoe chips, nougat, butter-sauce, noodles, tomatoes, chocolates

9. Aversions- What food is the individual averse to ?
I do not like:
- hot spicy food
- many cooked vegetables like: turnips, broccoly, caulyflower, brussels-sprouts, Kolrabi, cabbage, squash ...
- cooked pork-meat
- wild animals-meat
- seafood
- whipped cream-cake

10. Foods disagree - what foods disagree ?
Potatoes along with fat (like french fries) give me diarrhoea. Also fried onions (although I like and eat them very much)
Chocolate or cookies eaten shortly before bedtime make my stomach feel bad (somehow sour) throughout the night.

11. Thirst ( Thirsty/ Thirstless) - Frequency, amount etc
I experience very little thirst. If I would not force myself to drink (because I always read a person must drink a lot) I would drink less than a liter of liquid per day. I drink, because my intelligence tells me I need to, at least a liter (water with a little sugarfree juice for taste) per day. I like very ice-cold drinks but out of convenience in the office I drink at room-temperature.
I drink no more than two cups of coffee per day.

12. Stools- Describe color, consistency, size, frequency etc
Consistency: many times more soft than normal, I feel. Odor very differently, sometimes very awful like something decomposing, sometimes almost of good smell (of baked poppy seed rolls, I always think).
Frequency: Probably not unusual, on a daily basis, I think. I never cared about it.

13. Piles/ Haemorrhoids - Describe size, color , pain, conditions of aggravations & amelioration
I do not know "piles". I fear I have one haemorrhoid.

14. Urine-Describe color, consistency, frequency, sediments etc
Frequency: very frequent during days (every 1 to 2 hours). Nights: last time about 10:30 pm then nothing until about 5:30/6:00 o'clock in the morning.

15. Respiration- Describe ease of respiration, type etc

16. Cough - Describe type, conditions of amelioration & aggravations

17. Expectoration- Describe color, consistency, nature etc

18. Male Sexual - How is the sexual desire, emissions etc

19- Menses- Describe the frequency, timing, color, pains etc
Very, very irregular in every aspect.
I had my menses in October, in December and in April. I am waiting since then. October was very much blood and very much pain. (Very much blood means I had to change tampons and absorbing panty liners every half hour. I felt the blood running out of me) Easter the year before last was the worst. Any time no homeopathic remedy helped ease the pain. I always returned to taking Ibuprofen because I could not stand the pain.

Till 1994 I took the pill. Then I quit the pill because I read it is very unhealthy for a person overweight. (I do not want children. We prevent children by using condomes.) After quitting the pill I had no menses for almost two years, since then very, very unregularly. Sometimes very, very light pain with only very little blood. The last times when it came it was very painful.

20- Leucorrhoea- Describe extent, color etc

21- Female Sexual- How is the sexual desire; any other issues related to women
The gynecologist told me I have poly-cystic ovaries and therefore my hormones are not in order. She wanted me to take hormones which my homeopath made me refuse.
The doctor said if I loose weight, the ovaries will also improve.

22. Sweat ( excessive/ scanty)
Yes, I sweat. A lot on my face (forehead) in summer.

23. Sleep - How is the sleep?. What kind of dreams? Position of sleep etc
I sleep very well, usually from about 10:00 p.m. till at least 6:00 a.m. (alarm clock) or later on weekends (9:00 till 10:00).

24. Aggravations- What makes the individual worse in general? What time, climate, activity etc. makes him feel worse?
I do not like a lot of sun and hot humid weather. I prefer fresh cool weather.

25. Ameliorations- What makes the individual better in general? Describe temperature, weather, climate, position etc which make the individual feel better.

26. Mind- what are the mental make up of the individual? Describe the personality
I feel I am very sensitive. I cry a lot because of lonelyness and homesickness. I live 500 kilometers away from my parents. I would rather live closer to them, but I could not find a job there, yet and I am afraid my partner would not find a job there. He will join me, though, if I leave the area I live in now. I miss the sea which I lived quite close to and I miss the flat country and the fresh breeze. I now live in a hilly area which has less wind.
I cry easyly watching TV. I cry easily out of sympathy. The reason I most easyly cry is when somebody has to leave a loved one or when a loved one of somebody dies.

I am always full of good and important ideas but I lack the power to carry them out. I even lack the will to do the work that needs to be done. Many times I feel drive- and powerless, mostly in the evenings. (My partner is the same, he does not motivate me to do otherwise.) Many evenings I lay lazy in front of the TV-Set and do nothing.


Extra information that was not asked but I feel may be useful:
I was a very thin child. I was hospitalized and force-fed when I was about two years old and had fallen ill with diarrhoea. The first picture that shows me slightly overweight is on my first day of school at six years of age.
I have a younger brother (32) who is authistic (a light case). He causes the whole family (me included) many worries.
My mother (57) became overweight when she was pregnant with me. She still is overweight and (probably because of this) quite ill. Her knees had to be operated, she has diabetes and high blood pressure. When she was younger she always had low blood pressure.
I have high blood pressure (92/133 10:20 p.m. - pulse rate: 84 yesterday. 84/125 10:10 pm pulse rate: 93 today) - I have an instrument to measure the pressure.
My father (59) is normal in weight but has high cholesterol (probably due to stess) and tinnitus.
My grandfather (my mothers father) died of cancer.
My mothers mother (they were divorced) has colon-cancer but managed to still live although physicians predicted her to die more than nine years ago. She now is 86 years old. Her mother (my great-grand-mother) died of pancreas cancer when she was 88. Her husband died shortly after the first world war (1920?) of tuberculosis. My grandmother keeps telling me the French infected him on purpose when he was a prisoner of war.

My fathers mother died when he was 4 of leucemia. His father is still alive at 90 years.

In the mornings I try to train on my "Health Rider" every day at a pulse rate below 135 beats per minute to burn fat. Many mornings I find excuses. On average I manage to train about 1 to 4 times per week. I am proud of that.

I finished German High-School and also studied at a private academy. One and a half year ago I underwent an extra education. I feel I am quite intelligent.

People tell me I am a very nice and kind person. But sometimes I cannot control my temper. Unfairness hurts me a lot and makes me very angry. I often have the feeling at my job that I have more work to do than I can get done while others earn their money with less stress at the same company.

I detest housewifes work like cleaning, ironing and washing so much that I employed a lady to help me three hours per week.

One peculiar thing: I am growing to become afraid of water which astounds and annoys me. We own a boat which does not work properly (sometimes the motor quits). When the motor quits it is like a shock for me. I start to be very excited and I feel adrenalin come into my system. I would rather not be afraid of water.

I had a lot of trouble with headaches which have improved by now. Sometimes homeopathic remedies have helped in seconds (e.g. Gelsemium, Sulfur, Belladonna, Nux v., Ignatia).

My homeopath advised me to take 15 globuli of Calc. carbonicum c 200 every first day after the full moon to loose weight which I have been doing for about a year now (but forgot every few months).

1993 I left home because of my job. Then I lost 27 Kilogramms. My worst weight was 117 kg. Today I weigh 100 kg. Last year I lost 6 kg with a flue and a unhealthy protein-powder diet that I managed to stick with for two weeks. I have not been able to keep this diet again, although I tried about five times since then. Meanwhile I read so much about healthy nutrition that I will not try such a unhealthy diet again.

I have fair skin and fair, long hair and very strong fingernails and footnails (stronger than other persons).

Since about 1988 I have been suffering from various abcesses which appear in the bend under the breasts and also under my left arm. A homeopath helped here. The last one just ceased to emit the green abcess liquid under my left arm. It was there for many weeks.


Gentlemen,
I put a lot of hope into this letter to you. I would be very, very thankful If you could help me. I somehow lost faith in the homeopath I have been seeing because I am still so much overweight and the hair problem in my face becomes worse and worse and he seems not to be able to help here.

Thank you very much for listening to me. I will very much appreciate any help.

Bettina

Hi Bettina,

The first remedy to think of is Thuja 200, three doses i.e. every 30 minutes, which means if you start at 12 pm , no eating or drinking from 11.30 till 1.30 pm. That means the doses will be at 12, 12.30, 1.00 pm.

Three tablets to be sucked & chewed after 5 minutes, if they do not dissolve.


P.S.

There are so many learned colleagues of mine on this BB, which probably have some other ideas, which i think we should listen to.

Good Luck.

[ 03 July 2001: Message edited by: Shashi Roy ]

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Please do not take anything Bettina without contacting your homeopath as it may mess up what she has prescribed for you.

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Dear Ricky,

Are you in any kind of doubt about my suggestion. if you are, Please explain. It is good to talk. Innit.

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Shashi,

I thought of thuja too, but there's a lot of sepia in this case. The whole birth control pill debacle, the menstrual irregularities; then I looked in Murphy's repertory under hair, and I find "Hair: distribution masculine in women" and Sepia is one of only two remedies, and the other one I've never heard of. And then I looked up obesity and there's a rubric "obesity with uterine complaints" and sepia is there as a 2. There were only 4 remedies in that rubric, and no 3's. Sepia is also sensitive to odors.

Underneath, I think she may be Carsinosin.

I would suggest she try Sepia 6C three times a day for a month and then evaluate.

Snoopy

Bettina
Have you had any bad emotional events in your life? Do you tend to feel hot or chilly. We need to know what remedies you have already taken?

I have another remedy in mind.
I practice Classical Homeopathy that uses one remedy at a time and only one dose.
One dose of a remedy in a 200C may work several weeks depending on the remedy.
When on a remedy report back all symptoms you get. Old symptoms are good if they are not too strong. New symptoms are not good, so be sure to keep track of all your symptoms and let us know what they are.

Carole Franske DIH www.homeopathy-home.com

[ 04 July 2001: Message edited by: cib ]

Excuse me for interrupting but I thought a lot of body hair suggests tuberculim. No?

If we use grief as a leitmotif, it could be ignatia. It has hair growth,adipositas, hormonal disorder, intermittent, changing menses, adipositas,homesickness, can't stand unfairness.

Gentlemen,

thank you all for your kind responses. I am thrilled to see so many people replied. And I am also a little confused because I still do not know what remedy will help me. It seems to be a hard piece of work to find out. Thank you very much for helping me.

Carole Franske,
you asked the following:
"Have you had any bad emotional events in your life? Do you tend to feel hot or chilly. We need to know what remedies you have already taken?"

Bad emotional events:
My parents told me that when I was a baby I had to be put into a hospital and to be left there for a few days which then seemed to affect me a lot. I then and there was operated because of a umbilical hernia.

Then again, when they put me into a hospital to be force fed because of the infection at about two years of age I refused to talk to my parents when they came to pick me up again. They told me I wanted to stay with the nurse and did not talk to them or show affection for a few hours.

Before I was old enough for school (about 5 years old?) while hopping around on my bed in my bedroom I cut my head on the edge of the bed. It bled a lot and was closed with no stitches. I was told not to run around but I did anyway and fell again on the head. It then was sewn but they did not leave me in the hospital.

At about 7 years my father left the family during the weeks to start a new job. He returned for visits on the weekends. I remember (and it still makes me cry to remember even now) that I always cried secretly (so my mother would not know) on Sundays when he left.

Even today having dear guests leave or having to leave my former home after staying with my parents makes me cry. Also when I have to leave on a business trip it sometimes makes me cry when I say goodbeye to my partner.

At 15 I was operated on my nose because a bone there was misplaced which made it hard to breathe through my nose for me.

I just read a book that said that even stuff that happened to mothers during pregnancy might give hints. My mother let me know that after my parents got married they moved to another town. There she felt very alone and unhappy.

I am always very happy when I return home to see my parents. I can be very, very happy! All this here reads as if I was a very sad person. Often I am quite relaxed and I can make the people around me laugh and i can laugh a lot, too.

I hope this is what you meant by 'emotional events'? Would an emotional event also be having fallen desperately in love whith someone who did not feel the same for me? This happened 1992 - 1994. In 1994 I met my current partner (we are engaged) which helped me to get over the other person.

Hot or chilly:
I prefer fresh cool air. People tell me my room at the company is one of the coldest. I feel I can stand heat much worse than cold. (I prefer cold.) Visiting other people I often feel their flats too warm. I rarely feel cold. In the car I always find a way to have fresh air blow into my face - I enjoy that a lot. If I am cold I rather take a blanket than increasing the heat in a room. I never heat my bedroom.

Remedies that I have taken:
Unfortunately I did not write them down.

During the past months I took Calcium carbonicum c 200 as described above.
About two months ago I took Chamomilla LM 6 and Sepia LM 6 for about a month daily.

I was given Tuberculinum a very long time ago more than two years. I also took Carcinominum 6 LM a very long time ago.

I remember I was given Thuja LM 18 when I started homeopathy 1994.

I took a lot of Hepar sulfuris LM 18 and C 30 and also Silicea LM 18 and C 30 because of the various abscesses I described in my previous letter.

Because of headaches I took Nux vomica, Gelsemium, Sulfur (also because of abscesses), Ignatia (I tried that when I had headaches after crying), Belladonna.

When I had a flu I took Rhus tox (also because of muscle aches after physical work) and Calcium carbonicum.

I remember I was prescribed Phosphorus when I had a cough.

Because of homesickness and because my friends mother and my cousin died I took a lot of Ignatia C 30.

Arnika when I had little cuts.

Cantharis when I had sunburns.

Coccolus after being on the boat for a weekend because the whole world seemed to rock afterwards.

Carbo veg. and China to grow stronger after a flu last year.

Often I have aphtae in my mouth. For those I took Staphisagria.

I am convinced this is not all I took. From now on I will keep record of what I am taking. The day after tomorrow would be a Calcium carb. c 200 day if you do not advise differently.

One important point about me that I forgot to mention: I have very, very much tartar (or scale? I looked those words up in a dictionary). It grows very rapidly (within days). I even had the subgingival tartar. This was removed last year. It was detected in time so I did not need an operation. Then I showed signs of periodontitis which are overcome by now. (By the way: I am very afraid of dentists, even more of their syringes.)


I am very curious now whether all this new information will now lead to a remedy that will help me loose the hair and the weight. Regular menses would also be a great achievement.

Again, thank you all very, very much for your time and thoughts.

Bettina

The second remedy in Murphy's is a homeopathic preparation of ACTH, a form of cortisone. Some of the keynotes are irregular, but heavy periods; excess body hair; timidity, especially in social situations; memory problems; inability to carry through with initiatives; heart palpitations; weeping; worse from fats; small sips of water; worse in the morning, better in the afternoon and difficult to get to sleep until after midnight; obesity; fears, particularly around death.

There are many, many symptoms. I think this may be a remedy worth considering, especially if there has been any cortisone treatment in the past.

Shirley Reischman

[ 04 July 2001: Message edited by: sreischman ]

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