2000 was a bad year for me, full of disappointment (I just self-published a non-fiction book which became out-dated a week after publications-long story), grief (3 of my 6 cats died, my dog developed breast tumors)stress (we moved to another county, my older child started college applications) and it was crowned 3 days before my 45 b-day, on 12/9/00 with a stroke, and frankly at this point I wouldn't mind dying (although I'm not religious I have a very strong belief in reincarnation, that we are much more than a physical body, which just wears up pretty fast so we have to discard it from time to time,I just wanterd to discard it-the problem is that I didn't - it shows that OUR plans don't really count).Anyway I never was depressed! Maybe because I can distance myself from the symptoms:
numbness on the right, dominant, side of the body- but it is worst with the hand - leg feels everything basically, just as if through cotton, and besides it exzaggerates the movement, also there are certain positions -like lying on the back, right leg bend at the knee and foot in air)-when it makes jerky movements which I can't control. Head-when I want to gently lean it against the wall it bangs instead .
Left eye external lateral recti muscle doesn't work so the eye can't move and stays all the time at the inner corner.
Additionally there is a constant noise in left ear
(which bothers me the least as I got used to it, and pulsating in the whole body, but bothers me most in the eye (my world is not steady) and the headd(the pulsation turns into shaking when I want to focus etc),

I do not know much about homeopathy, unfortuntely-as it is fascinating. But since it seems that I'm keeping this body for now, I want it to be in perfect order. I started self-treatment with homeopathy few weeks ago with GELSEMIUMSEMPERVIRENS 30X, 3X a day for 3 days-no change in symptoma, although I was more aware of my numbness and eye (but rather corneea than eye muscles)
now I take a combination for restlessness:
AGARICUS/ARSENICUM/CAUSTICUM/ZINCUM/RHUS TOX-all in 4c - it's the second day and so far no changes in leg behavior but yesterday I walked better(I do not walk per se-my husband who is a wonderful guy but also tall and strong-holds me and I hold him ALL the time)
The idea is that if I see any improvement I will try them one by one. Is it a good idea?
I also have ARGENTUM NITRICUM 30X to try later.
What are your suggestions?

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Astra<br /><br />"Difficult cases take some time to be cured,<br />impossible - a little longer."

Dear Astra,

If this combination remedy is acting, you have to stick with it! We don't know why combination remedies work. Is it because the mixture creates a new remedy? Is it because one of the remedies alone is acting? We don't know. We don't like to work with them because they only come in one potency. What happens when the potency wears off and we have to go up higher, to a 6C or whatever? Well, it's not made in a 6C; do you see the problem? But, you can try to get as much out of this combination as you're able to. You should be taking it 3 or 4 times a day;
preferably by dropping about 3 pellets into a small bottle of spring water and shaking the bottle before each dose. A dose is a sip. When the bottle gets low, fill it back up WITHOUT adding more pellets. Figure on staying on this for a long time--not just a few days. Give me a report roughly once a week. If at any time you're getting worse, stop taking the remedy and let me know. Do you have any questions?

Snoopy

I have to mention this even though some might find it homeopathically incorrect. A friend took a combination remedy for severe nausea during the first few months of pregnancy...it had phos, lyc, and something else I can't remember...it worked so well...that not only did the nausea disappear but her chronic phobia of singing in public waa abated and she sang her own songs around friends. She ended up having an abortion...but got pregnant about 5 months later. When she was two months pregnant she went to mexico and picked up campliobactra which got in her bloodstream and almost died. No antibiotics would work for long...it always came back. I enter the picture..and suggest to a homeopath that one of those remedies in that nausea mixture had helped her a great deal. He tried them individually on her ..and twenty-four hours after the 3rd remedy(lyc)...she regained her appetite(she hadn't eaten for two months...and 24 hours later had to have prime rib) and the fever never came back and she is fine...and the baby is fine(most babies in utero with campliobactra die).

So I'm thinking that that idea is not such a bad idea...in my opinion.

Of course, I must add...seeing a homeopath here or elsewhere....would probably be more correct.

Very interesting. There's no doubt that these combination remedies can work and if this particular one in 4C is working, we've gotta accept that! But a few day's trial is not long enough. As long as she continues to improve she should continue it.

Snoopy

My suggestion is to stop self prescribing and get yourself better faster by having a full consultation with a professional classical homeopath!!! Even homeopaths see other homeopaths for a constitutional remedy which is what you need.

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RSHom - Registered Homeopath

Wow - I couldn't be at the computer earlier and-SURPISE!-so many answers. Thank you!
Will start from the end (I just have to be illogical).
Ricky-I do noy plan going to ANY health professionl now. As a matter of fact this is my second stroke (I was 29 then and managed to have a full recovery-I was born with AVM -some vessel malformation) and had my share of them. It would be faster or not-depending-and I am the only one who can actually feel this body.
carolorr-is it Carol?-fascinating story. Esp that I planned to do this one-by-one thing. But for some reason I am drawn to CAUSTICUM so I would start with it. 3x day at 30x? Is 30x also 15c?
Hello Snoopy-you don't live far!
That stuff with drinking the remedies (instead of just dissolving the pellets under tongue) is for increasing the potency of the combination, right?
Pellets would be of all the remedies at higher potencies. Makes sense. But this combination addresses (in a vague way, but good enough)
only one of my problems. What about the rest? Like eye? I took RUTA GRAVEOLENS-30x but it did not help me.
Someone recommended for me HELLEBORUS NIGER-what do YOU think?

Although I am educated in science (microbiology) I rely very much on gut feeling - and most of all I need help of people who know homeopathy-like you all-thanks for responding.

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Astra<br /><br />"Difficult cases take some time to be cured,<br />impossible - a little longer."

Dear Astra,

Since you have a really momentous health problem,
and since most of us here are idiots....Okay, Carol's an idiot! No, ha! ha! That was just a joke. But seriously, since most of us here are idiots, would you like a referral to someone who knows what she's doing? I always send people with serious problems to this certain mystery homeopath, who has become a mystery since someone once wrote in saying, "Hey! How come everybody refers patients to Dr. _______? I don't like it! Very suspicious if you ask me!" So,
Dr. ______ felt obligated to ask that we stop mentioning her on the BB. Personally, I think it's ridiculous! But, I'll send you a private email and give you her web site and you can check her out. It's better than taking advice from Carol.

Snoopy

[ 13. June 2003, 07:33: Message edited by: carolorr ]

Oh! Carol, did you think I called you an idiot?
You must have misunderstood. What I meant to say was, anyone who didn't take Carol's advice seriously would have to be an idiot! Yeah, that's the ticket! Now if you'll excuse me...
I just remembered I have to bake a cake!

Snoopy