So I am still going through my ear problem and very distressed now. I wanted to change homeopaths but every time I was ready to change, he would give me a remedy that almost felt like it was the one to do the trick, but then it would not fully do the trick. I then told him the other day I can't take this any more and if he can'thelp me I need to go else where and he told me he is consulting with two other people on my case and it is very important that I do not jump around after having come this far. BUt today I am still in pain from a second try at a remedy he gave me and he told me he has one more remedy selection he would like to try and then if that doesn't work he needs to see me back in his office. I feel like after this I am done but worried that he will not give me his notes or speak to the next homeopath if need be. He does not tell me the remedys he is goiving me and when he says to explain how my ears feel I can't say much more than pressure... extreme pressure in my ears like my ears are gonna explode. A week and a half ago I almost thought this was over and he had done it but now again I am in pain.....

I know what Snoopy and Chris had said to me a while ago and money has also been a factor of me going to someone else. I keep feeling like this is it and it's gonna be gone and then it just seems to go around in circles and I want to believe he know what he is doing but after three remedies I feel that I need to switch.... he gets me so close and then I am back to feeling horroible. It's so strange. It seems like he is very concerned and dedicated to me but I am still not better and so frustrated.

I have contacted two other homeopaths but they said they would need to know what remedie he has given me and I'd be back to square one it feels. My homeopath still can't believe that the first remedy did not completely help me and I don't know what to say... I am just so frustrated at this point and also afraid to leave him and be left with nothing....

[ 17. October 2002, 21:02: Message edited by: Danielle ]

Danielle.

Very sorry to hear that you are still not feeling well.

It is your right to know what remedies you have been given if you have asked for that information, even though he may have thought it advantageous to not reveal his choices. That said, may I ask how your remedies are being administered? One dose dry or are you being given liquid remedies that you are repeating?

If your homeopath is consulting with others regarding your case it can mean a couple of different things, in my opinion. Either he is very dedicated to helping you and is seeking outside council, which is sometimes done and admirable .....or.....he does not have the ability to manage your case. You may want to sit down and talk to him about that.

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I guess I am confused about what happens next when I see someone else... do they need to know all the remedies and the potencies and might they try a remedy again if they feel it was the correct one???

he said he would speak to someone if I decidede to change but he also said he was consulting with two people on my case.

I kept thinking he really understood what was going on for the last time I almost thought it was gone and then it started up again...

He siad there are many remedys for pressure in the ear and that is really all I feel right now extreme pressure not throbbing just all out pressure and pain.

It's hard to get so specific when all you can fell is pain and then I said well... I am depressed and feel like I have lost hope again....does that help????

And I know there is nothing really for anyone to say to me but everytime I was about to say to him I think I should see someone else he seemed to give me something that helped but nothing to totally make it go away. He tells me this is a tricky thing and I don't know what to say to him. He has helped me a little but for the past two months I have just gone in circles and the pain just goes from throbbing to almost nothing back to extreme pressure and I've about had it but am scared to leave him because he knows my case so well and doesn't want me to swith. I know I have to do what is best for me and that is what is hard and confusing.

Is your Homeopath a "Classically Trained one"?

Because true constitutional prescribing takes time and patience and often seems so near and yet so far

I know because I am undergoing it and 7 months on there are times when I too wonder where its going ......BUT ....some symptoms have cleared and some things have changed just not the ones which bug me most

maybe if you think about it its the same for you

Equally my Homeopath will not tell me what she is giving me but i know she is truly brilliant and has cured many others so i have faith

Prior to this some 20 yrs ago when i was first very ill i went to 3 Homeopaths before I found one who at least restored me to a decent level of health the first homeopath was nothing more than a charlatan , the 2nd was in her 90s and maybe if i had hung on she would have truly cured me but the 3rd one immediatly spotted what was making me ill and restored me to 90%.........when i went downhill again early this year i was recomended to my current one and i will stick with it

Thanks GPM for your reply... at this point I don't understand why he wont tell me the remedies for I will not look them up if he says not to... but I feel I need to know for my own mental note. I am lost as to what is going on when all I have are envelopes with pellets in them and I can't place a name to a remedy. When we go back to talk about how I was feeling I can't say well the Bellodonna you gave me really helped and the Lyc 30 left me aggravated I end up saying well when I was at that party two weeks ago I felt the worst but I don't know what I was on.

He usually gives me a dry dose..... two envelopes one to take the first night three pellets and then one pellet every morning an hour before food or brushing teeth. When I notice nothing is happening or too much is happening and I am in pain like right now I call him and let him know.

But it's dry pellets and inbetween he gave me a bellodonna 30c to take for the pain one time and it helped lesson the pain until he could tell me what is next.

I don't understand his dosing and that is what worries me .... could I have been on the right remedy but not know it beciase of the way he prescribes????

he has been very nice and dedicated but I hate that he makesme wait to tell me a remedy ... at this point I am lost as to the trail of my case and I know that is not my resonsibility but I feel at this point it is since I am not better.

Danielle

Thanks ..

He is classically trained but I don't understand his prescribing of the doses I guess he called it a maintaining dose???

Well I have been sticking with him but after the first bit of help with getting rid of the blurry vision and head aches and sensitivity to light and sound I have just been going around in circles.

I can work but have been very depressed the last week and last night I had a nightmare regarding my ears and the pain and that is why I am posting on here.

Danielle

Danielle,

You said the homeopath gives you two packets. One with 3 pellets, to be taken that night. (My understanding is that most remedies are not best taken late in evening other than say Nux V.) Has that initial night time dosing caused sleep disturbances? The other packet has the *maintaining* daily morning dose. How long do you continue that daily dosing? How long into the daily maintaining doses do symptoms return? Does that happen with each, presumably different, remedy?

I ask these questions simply to make it clearer for others in case they have comments. I am not a homeopath and couldn't begin to offer any advice. Good luck.

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Thanks GPM,

Just to let people know I finally got a computer at home!

I take that first three pellet dose at night and then the next day the maintaining dose. I assume they are the same remedy??? But I do not know. Then half way through the maintaining dose if nothing is happening he tells me to go back to taking three pellets and usualy wait to see what happens. This time round when going back to take the three pellets I had a bad aggravation and just called him and he told me to take a belladonna 30c and it helped a little. Well I end up just going around in circles although the first time I took this last remedy I was starting to feel better. Then when it didn't stay better he asked me to take three more pellets and that is when I had the aggravation. He though I might have antidoted it the first time but I didn't think I did. So that is the story but I don't understand his method but I am not a homeopath.

Belladonna always seems to help a little but even the 30c has caused me an aggravation but then I do feel better.

I don't know I am just confused and partly because I don't know what I have taken.

He knows I have a little knowledge of homeopathy and that is why he did not want me to know the remedy but if he had said please don't look, I would not have looked the remedy up.

Danielle

[ 18. October 2002, 01:40: Message edited by: Daniellehome ]

Danielle

How many of the "maintaining" doses do you take? For instance, you take 3 pellets all at once on night number one and then on day two you take 1 pellet and day three one pellet etc., right? How many days do you take the one pellet in the morning?

By the way, I think your case is just muddied up and I really would recommend Dr Leela to sort things out for you.

ALso, demand to know what remedies you are taking if you want to know I am sure he will tell you if you tell him you simply are not comfortable not knowing the name and potency of what you are putting into your body.

barb

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Hi Barb,

Well that is how I was taking the remedies...three pellets that night and then one everyday until things got worse or better. I don't know what to think or say anymore but my homeopath doesn't want to give up on me and that is nice but at the same time it's hard for me to move on.

I am not used to his prescribing.... and that is part of my concern.. he is French but I don't think that means anything.

Anyway I am just depressed and wondering if I will ever get better from this it's been about 5 months of up and down pain.

Danielle