An old friend, 77 years, had TURP surgery on his Prostate just over 2 months ago. He had recovered reasonably quickly after surgery but is now having a problem with urinary incontinence.

I have given him Arnica 30 and would like to know if any other remedy can help him to regain control of the sphincter muscle in his bladder which seems to have been damaged during surgery.

He does not have any other medical problems and is quite fit for his age.

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Joe De Livera
Colombo
Sri Lanka

BLADDER; PARALYSIS; incontinence, with: caust., puls., rhus-t.

BLADDER; PARALYSIS; operation, after: op.

BLADDER; PARALYSIS; old people, in (K650, G557) (Urination; involuntary; old people, in): apis, Ars., bell., camph., cann-s., canth., caust., cic., con., equis., gels., kali-p., lach., lyc., mur-ac., nat-m., op., phos., sec., sil., sulph., thuj.

BLADDER; URINATION; dribbling by drops; involuntary (K656, G561): agar., all-c., alum., apis, arg-n., arist-cl., Arn., ars., ars-i., bar-c., bell., brom., bry., cact., camph., Canth., Caust., chin-ar., Clem., coc-c., con., cop., dig., dulc., gels., hyos., iod., jug-r., mag-m., mag-p., mur-ac., nux-v., op., petr., plan., plat., Puls., rhus-a., rhus-t., sant., sel., spig., staph., stram., sulph., tab., thuj., uran-n., verb., zinc.


Just some ideas above.
Rubrics could be crossed with "Injuries - operations" as a cause. But actually it is not necessary to do so.

I think you're better off finding out the modalities and other details of the symptoms of incontinence itself - eg - urgings, pain, before/during after urination, time modalities, etc as well as concomittiants (physical general, mental), to find an appropriate remedy.
The obvious remedy to me is Caust- but that would be guessing.

Well, all the best!

[ 10. November 2003, 19:30: Message edited by: doctorleela ]

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It is better to have the whole case taken really - I have treated this before with some success. Staphysiagria has come up before, but there have been other remedies too, depending on the other aspects of the case.

Remember that even though a person may class themselves as healthy and fit, there are often homoeopathic indications of disease that may not be seen as such by the patient.

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My friend informed me that after 4 days on Arnica 30 he has noticed a distinct improvement in his condition and that he does not have to rush to the loo any more. He is also gaining more bladder control and prefers to keep on taking the Arnica which he is now taking 3 balls twice daily.

He also reports that he sleeps much better and would like to keep on taking it for some time in the future.

It amazes me how Arnica works to alleviate so many human ills. It is my favourite remedy and I consider it a Miracle Remedy.

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Joe De Livera
Colombo
Sri Lanka

Joe ,

Tell freind to modify dose and not to take daily without modifying (plussing)--add some pellets to water 4-5 tablespoons stir vigorouly and take teaspoon doses --stir before each dosing-start to run out add 4-5 tablespoons water to 1st mix --contiue as this process---THis is proper homoeopathic dosing . OK?

He is to take this until getting new symptoms or aggravation of existing--then stop--when symptoms settle and no new symptoms exist--continue above process from where he left off. VERY IMPORTANT-so not to imprint drug picture (stop-go-stop-go). OK so far?

If the symptoms do not recede and are new symptoms--depending on severity--may need antidote and/or presribe follow up remedy.

If extreme aggrvation of existing symptoms then antidote-allow case to settle or go to ARNICA 200c. OK?

IMPORTANT -if you are to give remedies then follow this. In 'ORGANON".

Questions?

John Stanton

John, the strange thing is that in India this dosage frequency is very commonly used (more 5th edition Organon). Strange but true - a practical observation.

I'm still trying to figure out how patients don't get severe aggravations and continue to improve. And they do.

Also the repetition is of dry pill doses, and not in water.

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Hahnemahn recommends this.Organon tells us all we need. BUT ;we supply willingness to practise and LEARN.

John Stanton

I have checked my friend's progress today, the 5th day after he started on the Arnica 30 and he is delighted with the improvement so far. He is gaining more confidence in retaining urine and is now drinking much more water than he used to after he was discharged from hospital. He was often depriving himself of drinking fluids whenever he had to leave home and it is only a pity that he contacted me about 2 months after surgery.

I would like to detail in brief my own experience with Prostate surgery which was performed a year ago. I was diagnosed with an enlarged Prostate in 1996 and was prescribed Hytrin by my Uro after biopsies were done. Shortly after taking the first dose I found that I was unable to stand up as my blood pressure had dropped, and having a normal BP of 120/80 the drop in pressure caused by the drug was too much for me.

I then switched over to Homeopathic remedies and started off with Conium 30 which seemed to work for a while and when the effect tapered off I changed over to Sabal 30 which seemed to have a more positive effect. The response that I was looking for with the original drug and later the Homeopathic Remedy was the lengthening of the time between visits to the loo which originally were very frequent and the easing of the blockage of urine, which in the case of most seniors is a serious problem.

I had a painful abrasion of the skin on my shin for which I took Arnica 30 thrice daily to help the wound and found that whilst it healed up in a few days, I discovered that the blockage of my urinating was hardly noticeable and my visits to the loo were normal at about every 4-5 hours.

I continued with the Arnica twice daily since 1997 to control my Prostate and it was only last year that I was compelled to have surgery immediately after a non stop flight of 21 hours to the US which seemed to have upset my metabolism and I went into urine retention, due to the low level of oxygen and the very low humidity during this long flight.

It is interesting to record that I insisted on the removal of the patient activated syringe of morphine immediately after surgery, against the advice of the surgeon and nurses and used Arnica 30, every 2 hours unknown to the medical staff who were very surprised as to how I could possibly have tolerated the pain without the morphine. It was only when I was being discharged that I told the doctors that my secret was Arnica 30 which they duly recorded for possible experimental use later. Recovery was very fast and I stopped using the Arnica about a month after surgery.

After about 6 months I discovered that I was plagued with styes in my eyelids which were very painful and would swell up causing the eye to be almost closed. I was compelled to have the styes lanced and I found that I was in a desperate situation with a never ending succession of styes in both eyelids. I then remembered that I had used Arnica successfully in treating a few cases of Acne earlier and used it for the styes which cleared up like magic, leaving a few scars on my lower eyelids which I still bear to this day after 6 months.

I now use 3 No 30 pillules of Arnica every night just before sleep and this dose keeps me free of the styes and also promotes deep sleep. I have used Arnica 30 at first twice daily and now just once daily since 1997 and I can safely state that there seems to be no contraindication to using this remedy on a daily basis, as I now do. One bonus point that I have observed recently is that the growth of my hair has improved considerably with little or no hairs falling after a shower. I now have many short hairs on my head which is obviously new growth which I can only presume has resulted in the daily use of Arnica. My BP is still 120/80 with pulse 68 which I feel at 74 years of age, may also be due to my daily use of Arnica.

I hope that this posting would be of interest to anyone who has not used Arnica for the problems mentioned above.

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Joe De Livera
Colombo
Sri Lanka

Dear Friends,

This is to keep you updated on the present condition of my friend who had a problem with incontinence after TURP. He first saw me about 2 months after surgery on November 9th and was in a bad way with frequent visits to the loo about every 15 minutes. He had to curtail the intake of fluids from the previous night whenever he had to leave home and seemed to be dehydrated as he looked very drawn when he first saw me.

I gave him Arnica 30 to be used thrice daily and he has responded very well and is now able to retain urine for about 2 minutes after he has the first inclination to go to the loo which he does about every 2 hours. He drinks a lot of fluids now as he gradually regains control of his bladder function. He does not have to get up as frequently at night as he used to do and has a restful sleep.

It is incredible what Arnica can do for suffering humanity and I consider it as the Remedy of Remedies used in Homeopathy.

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Joe De Livera
Colombo
Sri Lanka