Shirl,
There's nothing to be scared about.
The mistake that has been happenning from the beginning is that your thyroid levels have not been frequently checked and kept a track of to know what is happenning.

Whatever medicine you take, one has to depend on clear indications and not - this sympptom is better and that isn't and I'm better in general or emotionally better or that complaint is better....

I simply cannot understand regulating thyroid supplementation without proper lab results. And especially autoimmune thyroiditis. This condition fluctuates so much. You need to do a series of Antibody titres over 2 months or so and see how much the antibody level fluctuates. And also autoimmune damage that has already taken place in the thyroid tissue will not regenerate in a hurry.

IF you'd like an analogy, it is like trying to adjust Insulin levels in a diabetic without Blood sugar testing. If you get hypoglycaemic symptoms, reduce the insulin arbitrarily. If you get giddy or get an infection, increase the insulin arbitrarily??? That is simply ridiculous.

Please realise that the thyroid is a gland that affects the whole body fucntion. The body metabolism is almost entirely dependent on this regulatory hormone. SO its not like having a migrane headache. This is a central fucntion like insulin.

Whatever you decide to do, there is not getting away from this fact, or getting away from doctors, especially if you are dependent on them for getting your thyroid workup done regularly.

Please keep all this in mind as you go forward from now on.

Regards,
doctorleela

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when i had reached the negativity of the above, there was a choice -

give up
or
find out how to practice in a rational way

all of the homoeopaths i consulted were single-remedy prescribers.
there was not a single right-remedy in my case - it has so far gone along the lines set out for cure in chronic diseases - requiring repeated and consistent selection of the right remedy time after time, along with skilled case management.

there are less than ten practitioners i know of worldwide who can practice in this way, following hahnemann's plan for treatment of chronic diseases.

few chronic cases go along kentian lines of "classical cures" with a single remedy. it is not a useful model for most cases, and is ignorant of hahnemann's teaching.

i entirely agree about the failure of allopathy - i have seen how it leads an ugly suppressive path towards the grave in long-term applications.

dear doctor

i hope there are more than ten; i was reflecting on how few homoeopaths i could recommend around the globe.

there is only one homoeopathic method - to cure by symptom similarity - the limitation of a given homoeopath is the limitation of her/his ability to apply it.

Well, Dr. Leela's absolutely correct--to simply denounce practitioners without even attempting to acknowledge the other issues in a case as to success and failure--its just shortsighted.

It's easy to sit in judgement of practitioners like Shirl's when you only have part of the story. No offense to Shirl, but we don't have Shirl's case notes in front of us; we don't know what the Homeopath informed her about in terms of her own necessary compliance. So coming to a conclusion that the homeopath is incompetent because "he/she doesn't do what I would have done, if I had had this patient...." accomplishes nothing.

Chris said it earlier, Dr. Leela underscored the reasoning and the need for it, and I said it too: compliance is the big issue here. The patient HAS to work with a doc on this, no matter what the doctor feels about homeopathy; and no matter what the patient feels about the doctor. The lab tests are necessary, and the adjustments to the meds have to be precise and constantly monitored as gland function's restored.

The patient should not be making these dosing decisions on her own; that is dangerous. If we keep this point in mind then we realize that thehomeopath's remedy selection has been curative, and she/he's done his/her part; the patient is now required to enlist the services of her HMO, and MD, to do her part; the service providers, who must respond to her change in health in order to properly care for her, must then do their part. No shortcuts.

Why is this so hard for you, Anna, to understand? And this confusion about a single remedy--most students get that common misunderstanding cleared up within the first week of study. I'm a little concerned that someone who is in practice doesn't understand Hahnemann's concept there.

This just means you don't know any practitioners working in the world. It's no reflection on how well others practice. Believe me, many homeopaths are doing just fine and their patients are thriving without your approval, wherever they are in the world.

[ 16. March 2003, 16:02: Message edited by: ChaChaHeels ]

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dear cha cha

you asked:

my posts above related to a different matter.

Really? Seems to me to be all the same matter.

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