For sensitive people stir a pillule in a glass of water and take 1 teaspoon. That should sort it out.

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Debbie,

LM's (with careful repetition) are the best for people like this. Its called an idiosyncratic reaction.

And as also Barb suggested, Olfaction is a good method of dispensation. Its in the 6th Organon. Hahnemamm tried it you too!

Warm regards,
doctorleela

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You can also give by olfaction for sensitive types - A practitioner (tommi ann) who sometimes visits this board has personal experience with this- perhaps if she see's this she'll give some advice.

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Hey,
Just wanted to report back that I got Nat Mur 30C on Wed the 31st and took it for the 3 days. My headache feels better, not totally gone but I dont think it iever is anyway. It had started fading before I got the Nat Mur so I'm curioous to see if it keeps fading and if it will come back again at the same point in my cycle next month. I didn't have any noticable effects when I took the remedy other than a sharp pain that shot up the left side of my head and went away again right after I took it.

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Hi Jennifer,

Glad the pain has diminished. Which part of your cycle do you generally get the headache? Also how do you feel emotionally after you took the doses. That would also be an indication of the sphere of action of the remedy. you could observe this over the next 2 weeks.

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Seems to me its time to step back and look at some things more logically

1) still nursing at 16 months !!!!is an immense drain on your body and whilst i wholeheartedly agree babies should be breast fed even the most dedicated mothers tend to stop around 9 months

2) you could be dehydrated as a result of the nursing

3) you might be Hypothyroid its a common cause of Fibromyalgia etc

4) Aluminium exposure causes headaches like you describe and fibromyalgia symptoms etc
check how your water company treats the water too

5) Appalling posture / neck displacia / back injury / even just nursing an infant and getting chilled in the middle of the night can set off a round of fibrositis symptoms ( i have been there done that )

&lt;&lt;1) still nursing at 16 months !!!!is an immense drain on your body and whilst i wholeheartedly agree babies should be breast fed even the most dedicated mothers tend to stop around 9 months&gt;&gt;

Seriously?? I would never wean my child prematurly for my own benifit. How selfish! The age of natural weaning is between 3-7years. I dont think I personally know ANYONE in real life who has only nursed 9mo. Everyone I know has nursed at least 2yrs. Most nurse until the child weans naturaly sometime past 4yrs.

&lt;&lt;2) you could be dehydrated as a result of the nursing&gt;&gt;

Not with the amount of water I drink.

&lt;&lt;3) you might be Hypothyroid its a common cause of Fibromyalgia etc&gt;&gt;

Been checked... i'm not

&lt;&lt;4) Aluminium exposure causes headaches like you describe and fibromyalgia symptoms etc
check how your water company treats the water too&gt;&gt;

I have a well... and I only drink purified or distilled water outside of my house.

&lt;&lt;5) Appalling posture / neck displacia / back injury / even just nursing an infant and getting chilled in the middle of the night can set off a round of fibrositis symptoms &gt;&gt;

Probably a contributing factor.. insurance wont pay for chiropratic though... and I dont nurse him at night. I work nights, Spouse has him at night. Besides, he sleeps through the night even on the weekends. And when he does nurse at night I sure as heck dont wake up. He just rolls over and helps himself

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Oh and doctorleela ~~&gt;

I was a bit emotional/weepy after the first dose. But that could have been just my period being due (it's late again for no reason). The headaches tend to be worse about mid-cycle. I've really got to start charting them. I tend to just try to ignore them along with the other pain in my body every day. I need to start paying attention to it all again so I can try to reduce it. I sure wish I had the mo ney to see a chiro too, it might help with this part of it. Oh well. Let me get to mid-cycle again and see if the headache comes back that fiercly again.

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You have me amazed /////////I nursed my 2 for 9 months ......both of them nursed their 5 for 9 months too ........certainly no selfish reasons for stopping ......their babies all adore food of all sorts although careful to avoid possible allergens ........i honestly know of no one who has gone beyond that even in my Mothers generation

Well, Pat, the La Leche League has done a great deal of research and one-on-one work with women all over the world to promote breastfeeding as an ideal way to raise and feed babies. The lengths of times Jennifer describes are actually what most women plan to do when breastfeeding now--and as more and more information about the role of breastfeeding in human development increases, (eg. its essential for healthy GI system development, absolutely necessary for immune system development [we are far less likely to be "allergic" to foods and other allergens, that's one huge bonus of longer term breastfeeding] as well as emotional and intellectual development), I can see that more mothers will adopt the practices promoted by groups like La Leche, as they have been tremendously supportive to mothers and have promoted some absolutely integral research. I can greatly understand how, as a result, Jennifer would feel as she does about weaning long before the benefits to her child are exhausted.

Homeopaths know that "material" forces are merely evidence of dis-ease--NOT causes. Trying to "blame" an illness on an allergy or a chemical or a child who needs nursing just will not cure the person of the dis-ease.

It is a fruitless endeavor to remove one thing from another from your life just because you suspect it may be causing your illness. Did you ever see the movie "Safe", starring Julianne Moore? She develops "environmental sensitivity" and has to remove one thing after another from her life until she's literally living in a space suit, isolated from friends, family--and stuck on an isolated and plant-less piece of dessert, listening to some new-age quack guru blather on about why she was "chosen" to suffer this way. Its not a cure, in short, is it? Its more like a punishment, and a great illustration of how disease flourishes as a result of this kind of suppression, so that it manifests not only in the body but the entire world that "sickness" forces the heroine into.

Now that is definitely not what Hahnemann had in mind with homeopathy. Personally, I think the film should be on the curriculum at every homeopathy school--because a lot of people have a hard time "getting" the whole idea about dynamics of disease, and cling to the allopathic model of illness even though they want to learn homeopathy.

That being said, I am glad that some palliation has taken place with the Nat Mur, but I agree that there are some persistent issues which come up in the case regarding "boundaries", and the lack of respect shown for them.

I see this in the whole issue about the birth control pill, which should not be used during breastfeeding; and the problem that creates its continued use--hubby's lack of respect for Jennifer in terms of reproductive ability. It is HE, after all, who does not want anymore children; Jennifer tells us that he "keeps saying he'll get snipped, but STILL HASN'T"--and he refuses to use condoms. Clearly, he is imposing the entire responsibility on Jennifer for something he wants, when a vasectomy would take about 20 minutes of microsurgery using a local anaesthetic in his doctor's office--and that would be the end of it. He'd get what he wants and everyone would be happy and healthy, with very little discomfort, time, or effort on his part (plus, it leaves him the option of changing his mind--so WHAT could be stopping him?) Instead, he wants this "luxury", but expects Jennifer and her nursing child to pay the price. That is clearly a great imposition on Jennifer.

Jennifer makes another mention of this in her description of "putting herself aside" to provide everyone else with all her effort and attention. She says she can be "ME" later. Again, negating herself by subsuming herself in other people.

Then, she describes in detail how hubby gets his own locked cabinets, his own workspace, his own computer, his own pop, his own everything--while she gets absolutely nothing of her "own", including her self. If she or the children happen to encroach even minutely on hubby's space, he roars--yet everyone else simply is not allowed the same respect they must demonstrate to him. It makes me think of that very sad rubric: MIND, Domination, ailments from long history of.

Until this fundamental issue is addressed and considered heavily in the remedy selection (I clearly understand this issue has a role in the relationship between Jennifer and her father, too) Jennifer will not be free of headaches or other illnesses. Ricky's suggestion for Carcinosin, which also considers the sleeplessness Jennifer describes, is quite a good one. I'd even think about staphysagria here too.

Divina

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