I've had TMJ since I was about 13 (almost 20 now). I've been getting treatment from a specialist, and my condition has improved greatly from those suicidally painfull earaches I had when I was 13 - sometimes I even have days were I don't have any symptoms at all! Yay. However, a lot of my success has also come from homeopathy. By reading materia medicas, messing around with the rememdy finder on abchomeopathy.com and just different remedies, I was able to find one that worked: Oleum Animale. I works very well for me. Besides helping my TMJ, it also improved my dandruff and acne problems, as well as another one. Since I was little I was always very shy and "in my own little world", as well as being one of the weird kids. However, since I started taking the remedy I started becoming a lot more socialable and I've actually started to have empathy for others, something I NEVER EVER had before...I was hard at first dealing with all these new feelings, which were very strong compared to the ones I've had all my life! As my sister said, "you're becoming normal."

I started taking Oleum Animale for about this past year. I've used 6X, 12X, and 30C. 30C seems to be the longest lasting, of course. However, something interesting happens if I take more than one or two pillules of 30C - I get depressed! I get very apathetic towards friendships with something like "They really don't like me, they just put up with me to be nice" running through my head all the time. You have to understand I never had, or really wanted friends for most of my life, I never had a single one in elementary or high school, dealing with friends is something completely new to me! I've been taking it off and on in these various potencies for about the past year.

These are the other remedies I tried, along with my reaction to them:

Causticum (6X) - Gave me a valium-like high for about 5 minutes. Then I wet the bed that night

Verbascum Thaps (6X) - Didn't do much. Just gave me a indiscriminate, very slight tooth and face ache.

Phytolacca Dec. (6X) - Ugh. Horrible sore throught, fever. Imagine having the world cold/flu of your life while getting shocked.

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Well, hopefully that was plenty of background. Oleum Animale work(ed?) well, but it seems to have done all it can do to help my condition. My response from it has plateued. Keep in mind I've only used 6X, 12X, and 30C. Do I need to go to a different potency, if so, which one? If not that, which remedy do I need to go to?

Dear cuallito, oleum animale (deer antler velvet) detailed info at Kent's Materia Medica reversed rep. Verry Intersting information. But you might want to go to a classical homeopath and have the miasmatic case taken for a deeper healing ,it seems you are only hitting the surface,there might be a need of a nosode,thus perhaps the 'block' in further healing. You might want to look into reading the mental symptoms of Carc.
In profile it says you are a student? of Homeopathy?
How on earth did you come up with ol-an? on your own i have never heard of anyone using this remedy. Interesting post THANKs
Gina Tyler

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Like I said, I came up with it poking around MMs on the homeoint.org site and the abchomepathy.com site. I just tried to come up with the most specific rubic I could for my TMJ (the one I came up with was "face; pain; pulling; jaws; extending to ear"), and abchomeopathy came up with Ol-an.

All the sources I've looked at say Ol-an is dippel's animal oil, not deer antler velvet, whatever. As long as it works!

So - do you all think I have the right remedy, but I just have a miasmatic block? What about higher potencies?

No i did not say that you have the correct remedy. Possibly not. Even for trained homeopaths it is a difficult task to find the well indicated remedy that encompases ALL OF YOU (this has to include not only physical but mental and emotional,likes dislikes,modalities.....etc) You have only rep. a few symptoms. When you have had an ailment for years its considered "Chronic",not as you imply 'acute'. (acute is something lasting minutes to a few days nothing more than one month) In these cases you need help from a trained classical homeopath. Sorry but ABC Homeopathy does not look into symptomology connection via mental/emotionals,and this must be considered if you are to pick the perfect healing remedy,no wonder there is a standstill,you must look deeper. (or i mean your homeopath must look deeper)
Miasms are predisposed inherited imprints that have caused symptomology to appear.
Gina Tyler

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