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Andres,

I just have general question about antidoting. I know that when you antidote you use a very low potency...but i have read several places that when you antidote with the same remedy as the one that caused the symptoms (in my case would be sepia) that you are supposed to use a very high potency. Don't worry i am not taking any sepia high or low as we are still waiting but i was just curious because i have heard conflicting ideas about antidoting.

No new symptoms to report. I am still menstruating although yesterday it was pretty much gone and is back again today. This happens quite frequently with my menstruation...on 3rd or 4th day bleeding subsides almost completely then comes back next day...didnt mention that before, not sure it's important. Anyway, i am still getting hot, especially with anxiety. Last night i had a little trouble falling asleep, but not too bad. Bloating is still big problem. Other than that nothing else to say that hasnt already been said.

Best, Janey

Andres,

I think maybe you did not understand my question. I know there are two ways of antidoting...one to use specific antidote like we are doing and the other to use the same remedy that caused the symptoms (SEPIA). But if you use the same remedy (SEPIA) do you still use a very low potency or a very high one. It is not to know for myself but i am just curious because i have read both ways in so many places. Some homeopaths say use a potency that is higher than the highest one you ever took (of that same remedy) and some say use a very low potency. It seems like these would have very different effects thats all.

I will take ANT TART and report in 2 days.

Thanks again.
Janey

Andres,

Yes i trust you very much, that is why i asked you because other people saying all sorts of different things and i wanted to know what you thought. :) Thanks for the clarification.

Janey

Andres,

I am getting more and more depressed. I wake up feeling anxious, with sinking feeling in my stomach. I feel uncomfortable all the time. I keep losing weight. Only time i feel better is when i do some exercise like running, but i don't want to exercise too much for fear of losing more weight. Any kind of excess emotion is producing heat in my spine that just extends up my back, sometimes just concentrates in lower back and keeps going like waves...not sure if that makes sense, its very hard to explain. Even laughing invokes the heat. And then usually, like you already know, my whole body heats up. I fear i will never get better.

Only new symptom i noticed yesterday after taking ant. tart. was underarm sweat had a funny smell...smelled like bad odour but mixed in with some spice, but i couldnt think of which one.

Today i woke up with a headache and my whole body kind of aches as if ive been in bed for days.

Best,
Janey

Andres,
I will try sepia 4c but will have to order it.

Also i was wondering what you thought about lycopodium, it has pretty much all of my symptoms. Here are the ones it has:

Patient is thin
Weak digestion
Emaciation
malnutrition
All the mind symptoms including most important ones: Apprehension, anxiety, sad on waking, loss of self-confidence, etc.
Bloating
Yellow, thin stool
insomnia
starting in sleep
heat in back
heat flushes
perspiration
also skin symptoms: acne, same type of skin as mine, also says has effect on sebaceous glands (my skin is oily and crusty)
Hives

Also better by motion and cold, worse from heat and on right side. bad in wind.

and one other funny thing: says fan like motion of nostrils which i do.

What do you think?

Best, Janey

Andres,

I have already had liver funtion blood tests done, as well as pancrease tests and a full blood count. All of my tests came back normal, i have no liver or pancrease problems. I had these tests done one week ago. The stool is more orangish than yellow, it is like a light orange/brown, but this is different from my normal dark brown stool. Sometimes it is very loose, or sometimes it is just softer. I thought i told you all that already but i guess i forgot. Also my skin is not jaundiced at all.
I have already told you about the bloating and weight loss.

Only thing that was slightly lower than normal in my blood was globulin level (protein) but albumin was normal so doctor didn't seem at all concerned. He said i should see a GI for possible food intolerance, like maybe ceoliacs disease, but other than that he could not determine a cause for bloating and weight loss. I will see a GI on april 11th.

In mean time i am not sure what else you need to know about relation to lycopodium, i think i have already told you about all my symptoms. I just noticed that they are all covered by lycopodium. Please, what exactly do you need to know? Also, shall i still try the sepia 4c? You may still be right that i just had a bad aggravation from sepia and my body is not 'in balance' since then. Many of my symptoms did first start after taking sepia, although not all of them. Sweating started around march or april of 06 and i took sepia in summer of 05. BUT, i did notice that WHILE taking sepia, i would wake up sweating in sleep, but it would go away about 10 minutes later and i had no other problems with heat. But if sepia did cause hormonal problem, then it could just be that sweating showed up later once problem had been ongoing for some time. I really don't know, i don't even care really how it all started, i just want to find a solution.

In my opinion sweating is related to anxiety/nervousness and not being comfortable in my own skin, having no confidence etc. Whether this is resulting from hormone problems well maybe we'll never know. Please, tell me if i should still try sepia 4c and what else you would like to know about symptoms and lycopodium.

Best, Janey

one other thing,

I dont have the aches or muscular pains anymore, it was just that one morning. I dont usually have these.

Andres,
I haven't been able to take sepia 4c yet, but i ordered it so it will come next week sometime.

I just wanted to tell you a few things. My menstruation stopped 3 or 4 days ago (can't remember exactly) but still for the past few days i have some brown dishcharge and it makes me very itchy, sometimes burning a little bit.

Depression has gotten much better, i am feeling much more hopeful and optimistic and less anxious. Also past couple days i haven't had much heat or sweating. Yesterday morning i was sweating for like 1 hour straight and hot but not anxious or anything and i noticed that whenever i sweat like that my eyes really start to bother me. Anyway since then i have had no heat or sweating.

Also i haven't had much bloating past few days but i wanted to tell you little bit more about my stomach...it looks very strange. If you can picture this it looks like after a woman has a baby and has a lot of flabby skin/fat that just hangs there. But of course i did not have a baby. It is all concentrated in the lower center of my abdomen. It looks and feels almost like it should be held up higher but like it has just relaxed and fallen. It protrudes also. It is very odd looking because then as you go up i get very thin and have no fat at all, you can see my ribs etc. Especially my back is very thin. I dont know if any of this is important, i just find it very odd to keep getting thinner in other areas when my stomach is so flabby...it makes me wonder where all this belly fat is coming from. This started after taking sepia. Sometimes it feels like there is a lot of liquid in my stomach. The reason i say all this...i dont care about just having some belly fat...i care about why i am losing weight everywhere else while the stomach has so much extra (which i never had any belly fat before sepia). It just seems wierd. I wonder if it is because the bloating has stretched out my stomach so far that now the skin is all stretched and can hold more? who knows...when i came back to the states from france in the summer after taking sepia, people told me i looked 3 months pregnant...that is how different my body changed from sepia. I am a little nervous about taking it again, but i hope it gets rid of the bad effects.

I will report again after i take sepia.

Janey

I forgot to ask you...
there is only 3c or 6c...which is better? And does it matter if its liquid or pellets? I have never had a liquid remedy before so i don't know if there's a difference.

Andres,

Two days after ordering sepia 3c i now have an email saying 3c is no longer in stock...so i can only get 6c or 30x..so frustrating. Which one should i get?

Best, Janey

Andres,

I just wanted to report from the last few days because if i don't do it often i might forget some things.

Since thursday (3/29) i have felt MUCH happier, less depressed etc. I still have some nervousness/low anxiety sometimes but with no particular cause or reason. For instance, i am usually anxious when i wake up in the morning but i have nothing to be anxious about. Or if one day i can sleep in, i'll try but i feel anxious like i should be doing something else, sometimes i even feel guilty for being in bed!! I used to love sleeping in! I am still having the problem with heat but not as much or as bad. I think it has gone on so long that it has escalated to both a mental and physical symptom. LIke i have told you before it can come from emotions or feeling uncomfortable, or if i dont feel confident, etc. But it can also happen just if i feel the slightest bit of heat like from a warm room, my body starts to over-react...heats up and sweats.. it's like my mind has become so accustomed to associating heat with a negative experience that i am intolerant even of normal heat. THis is very frustrating because i fear i wont be able to enjoy summer like i always usually do. Today i went to a supply store and it was just a little bit warm in there (something i wouldnt have even noticed in the past) and i instantly started sweating. I dont think im actually too hot i just overreact to heat or something, am very intolerant of it. My family used to keep the house at 80 degrees and this never bothered me, i didnt even notice, in fact i was sometimes still cold! I know i have said a lot about this issue with the heat, but you always say to use a as much detail as possible.

OK also i have two new places of ringworm. And today in the morning i still had some brown discharge, and i have been done menstruating for like a week now so i dont think this is normal.

A good sign is i have had a couple of normal stools and no bloating. Hopefully soon i will gain some weight!! I noticed that lately i crave milk, maybe it is the protein i crave not sure. But i also think i might be lactose intolerance so since 3 or more weeks i have cut milk out of my diet. I drink almond milk instead. Sometimes if i haven eaten in a few hours, my whole body and especially my brain feels very weak and starved and my eyes will feel weak and tired too. Sometimes i even get just slightly shaky. At these times i also crave milk.

EVer since taking ARS ALB my acne has been much worse and is not getting better. I have small pimples on my cheeks and forehead and some on my chin. I have a couple bigger ones (but not very big) on my right cheeck and temple. The acne always takes a very long time to heal, leaving small purple/red marks that eventually keep fading till gone but it takes months. My skin is oily. sometimes crusty around my nose. It is very sensitive. I think it may also be sensitive to citrus but i'm not certain. This is only on my face, the skin on my body is not sensitive at all and i have no problems with skin on my body except for the ringworm.

Nothing else new. After taking sepia if you want i will repost/revise all my symptoms more organized and starting from the worst to the ones that dont affect me much. Maybe it will be easier to analyze this way.

Thank you for your contiued help.

Janey

Andres,

Couple things...brown discharge has been gone for 2 days, but today i had some greenish discharge. I haven't taken ANT. TART yet but i will tonight. Is it ok to drink golden seal tea while i'm on this remedy or should i wait a week or so before i can have this herb?

Best, Janey

Andres,
Well so far i am still feeling much better. Nervousness/anxiety is gone and i am not feeling depressed. I am keeping my fingers crossed that things stay this way because it has often been the case where i have alternating moods and suddenly i will be very depressed again. Somehow this is even worse cause you think the depression is gone and then it comes back worse than before. But anyway, i am feeling good for now so i'll just focus on that:) I barely had any heat flushes or sweating all week...just a little bit yesterday when i started to feel self-conscious about something. Anyway i think the better and better i feel hopefully my body will forget this reaction and it won't happen anymore. If it is hormonal it may start up again later in my cycle so we'll see. I think for now i just want to wait and see how things go for a full cycle. Usually the week before i menstruate is very bad so i guess that will be the test.

Acne is still very bad. And i am still worried about my weight. I eat constantly...oh thats another thing all week my appetite has been very good...im hungry a lot. But regardless i never seem to gain weight. I know it wont happen overnight, but i have always eaten very well so i dont know what to make of it. My stomach is still large in proportion to my body, is very flabby and protrudes, it almost looks like theres a a miniature basketball in there. or like everything from up higher fell and is relaxed there..not sure how to explain really. However, i have not noticed any bloating this week which is good. And so far my stools have been normal, maybe a little large, but still normal color and texture and everything.

I still have some ringworm and also still get hives in the cold. Also when i walk in cold air and then when i start to heat back up my face gets VERY red and swollen. Like the skin on my face slightly swells and i can feel it pulsing, especially my nose and cheeks. But this is more of a general swelling, not hives like on my legs and such.

So what do you think, shall i keep waiting for a few weeks to see what happens when my menstruation comes? I have my Gastroenterologist appointment on wednesday so i'll let you know what he says also.

Best, Janey

well maybe i spoke a little too soon, because again today i am sweating and feeling some nervousness....it's like a weak nervousness, almost makes me feel a bit shaky and like my brain is starved. Also i notice when i get like this my stomach also feels larger and sometimes like its full of liquid or something. UGGHH. Such weird problems!!
The only thing i know of that causes all of these symptoms is an overactive thyroid, but mine has been tested many times and always comes back normal. This has been going on far too long now, i just want to be healthy!

Janey

I forgot one other thing...past few days i didnt have any unusual discharge but today i have some green discharge again, it is translucent and about the consistency of nasal mucus when you get a cold. sorry to be so graphic.

Hi Andres,

I have a new symptom...when i'm laughing a lot i start sweating!! Under my arms. This whole sweating thing is getting weirder and weirder. Anyway, just wanted to let you know.

Talk to you soon,
JANEY