I basically want someone to tell me whether homeopathy will work for me?

Heres my story.. I am 23 years old. I have had eczema since birth. I have a family history of eczema/asthma. Used steriod creams my whole life as well as steroid inhailers for my once severe asthma.

I have the understanding that the disease is actually just the one entity and that it just expresses itself in different ways in my body.

I have been seeing my Homeopath for a year now, since seeing her I have stopped all steroid inhalers and also stopped the steroid creams which has brought the disease to the surface and is really showing its true colors! I never knew how bad my eczema/disease really was until I stopped using the supressive creams!

So it has been a year now and the eczema had worsened ten fold. In the last 3 months even, it is now on every limb and part of my body and it seems to keep spreading faster and faster. I am told it is moving the way in which scabies moves. This is taking over my life! I am constantly scratching.. I scratch to the point where I take off chunks of skin on a daily basis. This makes even showering, washing and the application of anything to my skin painful and more irritating. I cannot sleep. Whenever I am out and about or at work I am often asked about it - which makes trying to forget about it impossible. I have had to quit my job as I cannot concentrate on anything or even function properly. I dont see friends, family.. I dont leave the house now unless I have to. I am depressed and even having suicidal feelings from this.

My Homeopath said it would take at least 2 years for my type of case to get better, but I dont know how much more of this I can take. I dont think I can handle the rate at which it is now spreading and I only get a clearing maybe one 24 hour period in every 6-8 weeks. Can someone please tell me if homeopathy will work for me? Because I have literallly lost almost a year of my life and I dont want to lose another year or two on this if it is not going to work.

I really hope and prey that this does work. I want to know if anyone else has been in or heard of a similar situation happening? I feel that two years of my life is a lot to lose and I dont understand why it takes that long? Especailly now that I am a full year into treatment and I am not seeing any improvement what so ever, in fact I am steadily getting worse to the point where the eczema totally covers my neck, hands, arms, shoulders, chest, thighs and backs of legs. Everywhere else there is eczema but just has not completely covered it.

I am reaching out for anyone who can give me encouragement or information on what I am going through. Any help will be appreciated and welcomed with open arms.

Thanks alot

Hello,

Eczema is curable. As you said the asthma and eczema are different manifestation of the same problem. In your case it is acquired from childhood and continuously suppressed up to this age. By reading your narration, it is indeed a horrible situation.
What is the exact appearance? Is it spreading in circinate manner with active borders? Usually in this type there will be an initial worsening for some time, not the whole one year. There will be many exasberations and remissions before you get rid of them.

regds

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Thank you for your response.

The appearance is very dry, flakey and dark pink. It starts as a round blotch with as you said, active borders. From there it seems to spread in all directions, widening until it meets up with another blotch where they merge in to one "mega" blotch.

On my ears it seems to be dry hunks of skin with alot of unusual weeping.

How much longer do you think until it stops spreading or getting worse? I honestly look like a monster.

Also, I am giving off alot of dead skin. Anywhere I sit i seem to be left with a white ring of skin around me. When I wake up in the mornings I feel like I am lying on sand.. this is very embarrassing for me also.

Melissa,

This is tragic, I'm saddened by your tale.
Whether or not you wish to believe in homeopathy isn't relevant. Whatever treatment you are following is patently not working. If you have been pursuing this treatment for over a year then I would suggest it is never going to work.

Go back to your medical doctor and get his advice. Any delay in doing this will only make his job harder.

Your health and happiness are what matters here, not your desire to uphold your belief in homeopathy. Good luck.

http://206.225.95.123/forumlive/showthread.php?t=48217

http://206.225.95.123/forumlive/showthread.php?t=48185

Is it a coincidance that threads about eczema and string theory are active on JREF?

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Melissa,

Unfortunately, eczema can take a long time to treat homeopathically, especially since you say that you have had it since childhood.

The treatment of eczema by any homeopath needs very careful case management and if conventional treatment is to be reduced, it needs to be done slowly, so that a flare up, such as you are talking about now is prevented.

You need to go slowly with remedies also. I don't know if you know what remedies you have been given in the past, but with eczema, I will always start with a low dose. If people with eczema are taking steroids, then I normally start with a liquid LM remedy that they take on a daily basis. They are then able to raise the potency themselves on a daily basis too. This means that they are getting a daily dose of the remedy, but it also avoids the unnecessary remedy reactions that you appear to have experienced. Once a response occurs with an LM, the remedy is stopped for a few days and then re-started. I would always give someone an acute remedy to 'hold' if they needed it just in case of flare ups.

I would suggest that you contact your present homeopath to see what they suggest. You should certainly not be in this state after a year. I wonder whether they have the right remedy in the first place.

There is no harm at all in going back to using your conventional creams if your eczema is totally out of control. If you are then given the correct LM remedy, then it can work through the steroids.

The other alternative it to go and consult another homeopath, but get your eczema under control again whilst you do this.

Good luck.


Kayvee,

No coincidence at all!!!

I'm glad to see two people giving good advice here. Get your problem under control. The steroid creme will do that, but it won't cure you. Once you are back to a point where you can live a normal life, you can pursue cure, although it may not be easy to find.

Kayveeh: No it is not a coincidence that there is a thread about this thread at the JREF. I'm not sure about the other one; I would say it would be quite a coincidende if there was NOT a thread about string theory going on there. Nearly as unlikely as there not being at least one thread about homeopathy .

Hans

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It is true that I read and occasionally post at the jref. My username there is Oleron, the name string theory just sounded cooler.
I mention this as I have nothing to hide.

I joined otherhealth because of the alarm I felt at the OP's situation. Whether homeopathy can help her or not is not the issue. Here is a person with a condition causing emotional trauma - I would recommend swift medical treatment. There simply isn't time to experiment with alternatives. I would urge other posters to echo my sentiments as Melissa is more likely to listen to veteran posters than to me.

MelissaassileM,

Continuous worsening of the condition without any relief for long time shows,the medicine selected is not proper to the case. So time to change the prescription or dr itself. The right prescription gives fast relief eventhough there may be some aggravation, not like this.
Is it diagnosed as eczema? Your symptoms seems to be like an infected tinea or tinea corporis. Are you diabetic? What about the condition of your nails?

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I can only reiterate what Pannakkal has just said. You need to find a new homeopath who will take a fresh case and start again. If you have been given the correct remedy you should definitely get some improvement within this time frame. You also need a homeopath who will manage your case very closely and that you can contact readily.