I would greatly appreciate help finding the closest remedy for the following symptoms.

Tired and can't think. Worse after eating. Desires to lie down. Anti-social. Avoids bumping into friends because to much of an effort to converse. Brain feels to tired. Desires to sit or lie in front of TV, alone, all day with no ambition to do anything mental or physical. Occasional cankor sores on tongue, cold sores on lips.
Symptoms seem to appear on right side from lips up, and left side below nose to toes. Itchy right eyebrow, itchy inside right ear, sore inside right nostril, Canker sore on tip of tongue right side, teeth on right side ache. cold sores on right side of upper lip and lower lip.

Now left side symptoms down to toes. Left side of face (whisker area) acne? that will not heal. It's itchy. One between the eyebrows.
Left hip achey all the time. Left foot, very itchy around toes and ball of foot with occasionll bubble with clear liquid, Must be athletes foot?

It basically feels like a low grade infection throughout the body. After eating, more tired and spacey sometimes with a dull headache, like brain is swollen. Vision gets blurry. Veins in hands become swollen. Constantly saying, "what was I thinking, I forgot". Wake up in the morning unrefreshed. If anyone has read the Yeast connection, 95% of those symptoms are present. Digestion feels very sluggish. Food feels more like a poison. Thank you for any help, Elly

I forgot to add. After large meals my heart will flutter or pound. Feels like it stops for a few seconds then pounds. I have a mitral Valve prolapse, maybe inherited? I feel asthmatic like it's hard to take a deep breath. When standing up too quickly hot flashes with sweat, feeling close to passing out. Stiff and achy behind knees after being bent. Takes a minute to straighten but then fine.

There are 34 remedies for heart pounding after eating!!
It looks like a Nat Mur case but I hesitate to prescribe without seeing you.

Please find a local professional classical homeaopth who will take a full case history and prescribe a remedy for you as an individual rather than a series of symptoms.

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RSHom - Registered Homeopath

Dear Elly,

I also thought of Nat-m. Oh well....

Any idea of how this started? What was going on in your life when this started?
A loss? Disappointment? A stress of some kind?

How about modalities. Name a few things that help you feel better...hot baths, for instance, eating a certain food....Are there any food/s that you simply must have?

What makes you worse?

What were you like before the cold sores and apathy and brain fog took over?

Thanks,

Snoopy

Hi Snoopy, I remember at age 10 being outgoing and sociable, well liked. At age 11 I fainted in school a couple of times. Nothing I can think of to cause it. I was very active and was severly bumped or banged a few times but can't pin point symptoms appearing directly after an incident. Had the wind knocked out of me falling from a tree. Hit my tail bone very hard causing my legs to numb for a about an hour. Had tonsils taken out. The first sign of brain fag was very noticeable. I was in a math contest, one of 2 remaining, and all of a sudden I couldn't think. I became embarrased. It was an awful feeling and I remember thinking "What's wrong with me?". Since then I became less social. It was hard to think. Too much of an effort. By age 13 I was exhausted all the time. In a constant daze, brain fag. Nose would bleed for no reason (lasted about a year and no longer). Easily bruise (but no longer). A stress that might be important is that my parents would fight alot, verbally, and my stomach would get all jittery and tense. They had contemplated divorce around this time. Maybe I tuned them out?

What makes me feel better? I am starving for cake or cookies first thing in the morning. I feel better for maybe 1/2 hour then ready to go back to bed.

What makes me feel worse? Eating most foods. some with most noticeble heartburn (causing sleepiness and brain fag) are beans, bananas, orange juice.

Thank you, Elly

This looks very much like Phos-ac...have you been prescribed that yet?

Indifference, difficulty concentrating, wanting to sit and watch tv all day, inability to focus thoughts, being in a daze.

One would have to differentiate with such remedies as Gels, Op, Nux-m, Alum, Phos.

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David Kempson.<br />Dip.Homoeopathic Medicine.<br />Lecturer Australian College of Natural Therapies (Brisbane Campus)<br />Member AHA, AROH, HMA<br />Member Australian Homoeopathic Association. Member#0442.

Hi Ricky, I have seen 2 homeopaths. The second one prescribed Nat Mur then a few other remedies, then Nat Mur again in a different strength, then the same over and over. About 20 different remedies in the last 3 years with Nat Mur of diff potency every few months. I even Developed ringworm at end of tongue, a leading symptom of Nat Mur. I have had NO remedies for 6 months now and my symptoms are back to normal (what I've lived with for many years). I was hoping someone here might be able to help. Since my symptoms seem to be Nat Mur, but it does not help other than an occasional improvement for a short period, does anyone have any others suggestions? I have had Sulphur also. Thank you, Elly

Nat-mur may be an underlying state, but seems less indicated for the current state. It may be that once a remedy like Ph-ac revitalises the patient, a better view of their natural state may be seen.

Nat-mur has been tried several times with no effect. I don't think repeating it will help - the presenting symptoms don't really point to it. This dazed state goes outside of the sphere of influence of Nat-mur.

I was thinking about the causation factor here too, the fall. Perhaps a remedy like Arnica might come into play, or Nat-sulph?

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David Kempson.<br />Dip.Homoeopathic Medicine.<br />Lecturer Australian College of Natural Therapies (Brisbane Campus)<br />Member AHA, AROH, HMA<br />Member Australian Homoeopathic Association. Member#0442.

Dear Elly,

You definitely have a low blood sugar problem and an addiction to junk food.

The fainting episodes may have been from low blood sugar. The food you described that you must have in the morning leads me to think of our two big low blood sugar remedies--Lycopodium and Phosphorus. I do believe that you went through a phosphorus layer at one time, based on your information about nose bleeds and bruising. But as you no longer have these symptoms, and based on the similarities between yourself and Lycopodium (herpes on face, desire for sweets, "fermentation in intestines like yeast working"), I'm inclined to recommend Lycopodium. Though I can certainly understand why some want to prescribe Phos-ac. because of the exhaustion, but the food desires aren't there--the desire for refreshing things, cold milk, soda, juicy things. Instead she mentions the cakes and cookies that she must have first thing in the morning-- a whole different orientation, it seems to me.

What do others think?

Snoopy

David,

I was definitely thinking of Nat-sulph.! But not perhaps at this moment, for these symptoms.

Snoopy