Murphy - Enviroment
THUNDERSTORMS, during loves to watch (5)
1 bell-p, 2 carc, 1 lyc, 2 phos, 2 sep

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RSHom - Registered Homeopath

Right, she had no amel.
As for the rubrics- I don't see the gastric headaches. She said she didnt really have any stomach, intest, or gas problems. I asked her about food diet. She like to eat complete meals, meat - vegetables especially. She loves steak as I had said before but is averse to sausages and brats. Really seemed repulsed by them. I asked about music. Loves the oldies, especially like CS&N - said it made her feel peaceful and relaxed. She is messy+ The headaches have increased in freq and intensity since dental practice. I think she is also slightly allergic to latex, since it makes her itch. When she get a massage, especially her feet, she like it hard and deeply rubbed. I asked about Claustro - she first noticed the problem when scuba diving, not the diving but being enclosed in the suit, mask and tank. She said it may be more of a problem in a narrow hallway than room thing. She is still talking - good friend and my wife's boss. My wife is her dental assist.

Dear RDS,

The reason for "Gastric Headaches" was your statement that her headaches quickly progress to include nausea.

The desire for meat and fat plus the messiness only add more weight to Sulphur.

The rubric, "Must have meat" has the following remedies, all 2's:
calc, nux v, staph, sulph

She's in a profession where you would expect to find a lot of Sulphurs--the remedy with the reputation for great intelligence. They also bite their nails.

But, you can "confirm" these remedies with your client. You can sit down with her and open up Morrison's MM and read down the confirmatory symptoms for these remedies and ask her, for instance, "What sort of opinion do you have of yourself?" Sulphurs have a very high opinion of themselves. Ask how she feels about waiting in line? Sulphurs can't bear to stand still--it's their worst position. So, you can find out which remedy fits the best.

A word about Arnica. Arnica shows up as a never-well-since injury remedy. It's as if it's saying, "This head injury has never been treated, and even 40 years later, still begs to be treated." So, that's why Arn. shows up; and the other "Ailments from head injury" remedy is Nat-sulph, which may also be in the running if the other remedies fail.

Snoopy

Just a reminder--never expect to see all the symptoms of a remedy in your client. It's not possible. All you're looking for is the remedy that fits your client the best. You won't see all the symptoms of Sulph., but you might end up making the observation, "I see more sulph. than I do calc or nat-mur."

I've seen so many times people reject a remedy because the client didn't have "red lips" or "burning pains", or didn't have a red face....
The question is, what they DO have, is it there?
Is the desire for meat there? Is the fear of heights there? and so on? That's what's important.

But we don't feel good about a remedy if the modalities contradict the client.
If someone is better from pressure and the remedy is worse pressure; if someone is better motion and the remedy is worse motion, now we're thinking, "This is the wrong remedy."

Snoopy

Dear RDS,

Tell me if I have this right. She has been headache prone since childhood, but it just gets worse as she gets older, and possibly worse with every one of the traumas she's had until now finally she has them every day.

The repertory makes a distinction between fear of closed places and fear of narrow places. Which is she fearful of the most?

Pursue the messy room information. Ask if she's always had a messy room, so we can see if this speaks in some way for Sulphur or if it's just that she's too sick or too depressed to clean.

Tell her we need to know her natural inclination in terms of thirst. It doesn't help us to know her thirst in terms of the amount she drinks because she forcing herself for health reasons.

Ask if she drank in your office because of thirst or because she was trying to meet her quota of liquids for the day.

What do we know about her diet--foods she simply must have or feels deprived without. What foods does she have an aversion to?

Ask if there's an issue with digestion--constipation, gas, etc.

Thanks,
Snoopy

P.S. Please ask which kind of weather is aggravating to her.

Ask how she responds to music. (Especially some sentimental thing like "Teach Your Children Well"
by Crosby Stills and Nash.)

Snoopy

[ 26 April 2002, 00:16: Message edited by: Snoopy ]

Snoopy
I will have to get back to you on some of these, but this what I know from the first interview. Her room house is generally messy, and has been. She has a regular housekeeper who takes care of it. She went on at some length about her problems with her sister who has an extreme problem with home, personal and family hygiene.
You do have the situation right about the headaches. Thirst - usually thirsty likes regular sips of water. Foods - loves meat, steak, a fatty juicy one. Could not think of anything she was really averse to eating. No regular problem with indigestion.

This morning she had a mild headache beginning, so we tried LACH 30C, and repeated the dose after 30 min. The headache grew in intensity dramatically. She then took an Imitrex pill without much help and followed it with a shot. It didn't seem to work as well as it had in the past. Finally she was able to get to sleep - after massaging her feet, which she said always helped her which I had mentioned earlier.
I think this headache was much more intense than she has had in the past.
Do you think it was an agg.? And, where should we go from here?

Understand - after reading the MM and speaking with her I think Sulphur would be our first choice. If you could now give me a little feedback on dose/potency that would be helpful. I will not be able to meet with her until next Tues at the earliest.
Thanks again.

Dear RDS,

Just one dose of 30C in water, and wait and watch for one or two days to see if there's a change on any level, however small and report back to us.

Snoopy