I am 29 year old and exhausted with this irratating cough that I cannot get rid off. I was hoping I get something out of Kevin S message, which has similar symptoms that I share.

I am anameic, and overwieght. One of my symptoms is that the cough is dry, and happens throughout the day. It bothers me when I try to sleep, but once asleep, it ceases to bother me.
Also, INCONTINENCE of urine during cough. I contract the cough in Sept./October time frame, and continues throughout Fall & Winter, and all the way to early Spring. It is okay in Spring & Summer.
I have dark circles around my eyes ( hereditary), my mom has it, and now my son too. Dislike taking bath. I dislike the sight of milk. Also do not like fruit. Don’t really like eggs. Like sugar & chocolate & carbohydrates. Cannot eat anything before 11 am. Gets tired very easily. I am not a hurried person.

PMS before and during menses. Menses vary, and last for 6-7 days. Scanty on first day, clotty and heavy on days after the first. It also drains me out. Diarheaa during menses. Also craving for chocalate during the menses time frame. Lower back, all the way to thighs/legs hurt during menses.

Have a tendency to get cramps on my calf when sleeping ( not very often though). I have always been calcuim & Iron deficient.

Rumex 30c, Drosera 30c did not help. Remedies taken so far are Sulphur 200c, Calc C 200c, Puls 200c, and Causticum 200c in the last one year. Each remedy was given to my two months apart. None have helped my so far. I have taken Ferr Phos 6x
whenever I get my periods.

Now, I am considering Sepia 30c.

Any suggestions would be really helpful.


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Dear Mom of 2,

How did you come up with "SEP"? Do you prescribe for yourself? Did you have any response at all from the "SULPH"? "SULPH" does seem to cover much of the symptomology.
Also there is a "MAGNESIUM" element in the characteristics. But "MAG-S" does not fit by using repertory (maybe not well proven); except for 1 rubric (which may not apply); 'FALLS ASLEEP DURING DRY COUGH"= "mag-s" {only remedy in rubrics).

The remedies I come up thus far are; kali-c,mag-c,nux-v,phos,sulph. These remedies cover diarhea; involuntary urination;aversion to baths; weakness during menses; aversion/aggitation to milk; if considering aversion to fruit, then only mag-c and phos. Phos for chocolates and sweets.

There is also much "ALUMINA" characteristics running through the symptomology.

What medications/treatments have you taken? What For? How often? (please explain thoroughly)

Please also clarify the cough and sleep relationship?

Have you been diagnosed as hypo-thyroid?
Have you been to a MD? (please explain) If so , then what is the report?

I will stop here for now.

P.S. Have you been using laxatives over a long period or on and off over a period of time? (please explain)

Thank you.

Well, GM & Johnstanton.Thanks for the response. Very interetesting. I am surprised that I missed Mag C. ( maybe because it does not show up under the rubric for involuntary, when coughing, sneezing, walking, laughing?) I guess that why there are experts like you guys.

Well Johstanton, to answer your questions, I have been prescribing by myself. I have been considering Sepia becuase of the following; my tiredness, indolence, Cannot bear sight of food in the morning. After listening to you'll, definetly to be reconsidered.

Regarding aversions to bath, I guess I should have phrased it as just too lazy to go and take a bath. So, it is not a true aversion to bath.
Sulphur had no effect on me. Calc Carb seemed to help my cramps, but after a while, it did reappear.

Re my sleep. What I meant was that I am not bothered with cough when I am asleep.
This cough started about 7 years back, and in my first year, I was able to get rid of it with some antibiotics. The next year was really bad. The allopathic doctor tried all kinds of medininces, inhaler etc all in vain. They did all kinds of tests, and could not find anything. Finally I was sent to an allergy specialist, who was able to help me.
I took those shots only for an year. Now for the last 3 years, I have been getting it back. Dont want to go back to those shots.
I have been taking off the counter medicines. no help in them.

Couple of additional interesting points.
I never had Backaches, except during my periods. I did have a knee pain for one year. Ortho-doc had to do a surgery to remove a small minute tumor which was apparently causing the problem.
I do get lot of pain on my wisdom teeth when I eat lot of sweets. ( it tries to cut in). I think this does fall under Mag. Carb.
I have never been constipated, so laxatives has never been in the picture. I never did like eggs from what I can remember. On the other hand, I am moody, and would sometimes crave & eat eggs, ( like once a month, maybe). But I guess the smell bother me, and hence the aversion.
Very tired in the mornings. I am more a night person. Also, my inside of the ears itch a lot in the morning. Have to dig them.
what do you guys think?

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Toothache from sweets: Staph and Hepar (I took the latter myself 2 weeks ago, because I had had tea with sugar and immediately had a toothache.)
If Sulphur had no effect, what potency did you take? and how often?

You referred to my post about an
acute cough and say you identified
with some of what is written
there.

Much of what you tell about
yourself in your posts here can
apply to many people experiencing
chronic coughs. What you need to
report here is the Modalities, the
things that make you better and
the things that make you worse.

For example, in the situation of
my sister, her cough was terribly
worse by lying down. She felt
COMPELED to sit or stand up.
Also, I knew her simillimum to be
pulsatilla and many of the other
symptoms during the flu she had
(fever, cough, mood, heat
intolerance) matched Pulsatilla.

Now, for your cough...it is a
chronic cough that you have been
dealing with for several years or
more.

You yourself are thinking about
taking sepia. Are you overall
much better from VIGOROUS
exercise?? I wrote a lot about
the mental disposition of sepias
today in one of my posts to
Carolor- please read that.

How long did you stick with and
repeat Sulphur?? Just one dose of
200?

You think this is allergies? How
long were you on the allergy shots
and did they work completely?

Tell us about your personality,
the type of relationships with
close family and friends, and
anything that bothers you in
particular.

Thank you.

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P.S.S. Any problem with back pain? Joint Pain? (please explain)

there seems to be a calc picture under (?)

aversion (?) to eggs; calc-f,carc,ferr,phos,puls, sulph.

It sounds as though you eat eggs once in a while. Is this true? When did you start disliking them? (please explain)

Thank you .

Its magn carb.the dihorrea excludes Sepia.
Take one Dose Mag carb 1M(one M) and wait.
Keep us posted.

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Homeopat MNNH Geir E.T. Marcussen
email: getm@eunet.no
http://www.homeopati.no

Hi, again.

I have thought of your situation today, and realize that this annoying cough of yours starts in Sept/Oct and persists through early spring, but is better in spring and summer. You also implied you were better from the allergy shots (do I understand correctly?).

All right, well... this time frame you mention corresponds with "the heating season". So, I ask:

a) what is the type of heating system your living space has (also, is work space different?):
1. hot air blown through vents
2. hot water transported through
radiators or baseboards
3. central stove
4. other type (please explain)


b) what is the type of fuel used by the heating system:
1. natural gas or propane
2. oil
3. wood
4. kerosens
5. coal
6. other (please explain)

"Allergies" during the season when you are having this cough can often be caused by the type of heating system, and, also, by improper ventilation (certain fuels cannot be 100% ventilated and always will pose a low-level poisoning situation to which some people cannot handle without getting at least a little bit constantly ill during the "heating season").

Now, if you add the possible problems presented by your home and work heating systems to you own unique set of modalities, you may understand further. Ask yourself, is the cough worse when it is a clear and cold and dry bright day outside?? You may be "worse from dry". Such a modality can usually be easily tested when a person has a cough, because the cough will lessen or disappear if you increase the humidity in the room. This, though, involves a bit more analysis, because I have seen patients who are better in air conditioned room, etc, etc. It is not always the "worse by dry" modality. It can be "worse by cold and dry", etc etc. If none of this is 100% obvious, though, I say let's forget pursuing this subject of the modalities of the cough It is usually my firm opinion that trying to elucidate the modalities of any one physical symptom (especially if the modalities are unclear) is a waste of time. Better to look at you as a whole person (see my questions in the previous post, where I ask you to tell us more about yourself, with as many examples as possible).

To repeat one other important point: you can also be reacting to the fuel vapours, so I always advise an investigation of the heating system whenever a patient has a symptom picture that corresponds to the time-frame when most families and businesses turn on the heat.

I bring up these subjects for your further consideration. As much as taking your proper homeopathic simillimum will strengthen you, you must concurrently make sure your environment is as healthy as possible.

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* In the last seven years, we have lived in three different states. All the homes had Central A/c & Heat. But we have not turned on the heat yet, so it is really not from Heat, but rather a seasonal change. You could say drier atmosphere, maybe?
* Allergy shots were taken in 1994 for one complete year. Yes, the cough completely ceased during that time.
*I took only one dose of Sulphur 200c.
* The Cough is usually worse after I eat, and also when I lie down. It is almost non-existant in the morning when I wake up. Also, like I said earlier, once asleep, I have no problems at all.
* When I do any vigrous excersice, do I feel better? I would answer that as a "no".
Regards,

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