difficult case

[Rochelle]

I have one of those difficult cases which is plodding along but not getting there. She phoned me today to tell me how she is doing.

The latest I have got out of this 55 yr old woman with a fatigue syndrome caused initially from RSI is that the pain is better when the adrenalin is running. She has been buying a new car and has a big anxiety if it will be a good purchase.

"Have I done the right thing"?"I do something and then I doubt myself and exaggerate what may go wrong."

While she was going through all this her pain was not as evident so maybe it is a case of occupation amel rather than excitement amel. Apparently the same happened when she bought a new flat. Once she got the car the pains (whole body aching when she does too much )have been worse again .

The other thing she gets is a vertigo, sickness from riding on a train even for a couple of hours afterwards. She feels as if she is not quite walking in a straight line.

She is obsessed with her bowels but at the moment the remedy has improved them so that they are not as sluggish and she is getting an urging which is making her perform a lot faster with a looser stool. There is also fresh blood when she wipes herself from haemorrhoids.

More new evidence emerged of a possible fear of being enclosed and she is terrified to watch programmes on caving. She felt enclosed in a marquee recently because of the disorientation she felt from the noise around her.

I have discussed this case before and she is on the occasional Sanic 1M in a WP. The last time she took a dose was about 2 weeks ago which made her bowels sluggish for the first day ad she gauges how the rx is working on the state of her bowels.

If anyone has any comments on the above I would be interested to hear them.

Regards
Rochelle
www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

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[J Lucas]

Have you explored the reason why she can't watch caving - is it that
something is lurking, dark, usually enclosed but not always as some caves go
on for ever. Perhaps you need to get a bit nearer to the level and cause of
the anxiety that prevails.

Is the anxiety anything like Arg nit - anxiety when something is expected of
them, when they are expected to perform well but expect everything to go
wrong. Lyc has this also as do many other rx - both these have haemorrhoids.
Or is it more like a Gelsemium situation? I am only mentioning these rx as
there are hints of them in what you write.

What is the 'obsession with the bowels' all about, can you explain more.

Best, Joy

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on 6/7/04 11:57 PM, rochelle at rochelle@ntlworld.com wrote:

I have one of those difficult cases which is plodding along but not getting
there. She phoned me today to tell me how she is doing.

The latest I have got out of this 55 yr old woman with a fatigue syndrome
caused initially from RSI is that the pain is better when the adrenalin is
running. She has been buying a new car and has a big anxiety if it will be a
good purchase.

"Have I done the right thing"?"I do something and then I doubt myself and
exaggerate what may go wrong."

While she was going through all this her pain was not as evident so maybe it
is a case of occupation amel rather than excitement amel. Apparently the
same happened when she bought a new flat. Once she got the car the pains
(whole body aching when she does too much )have been worse again .

The other thing she gets is a vertigo, sickness from riding on a train even
for a couple of hours afterwards. She feels as if she is not quite walking
in a straight line.

She is obsessed with her bowels but at the moment the remedy has improved
them so that they are not as sluggish and she is getting an urging which is
making her perform a lot faster with a looser stool. There is also fresh
blood when she wipes herself from haemorrhoids.

More new evidence emerged of a possible fear of being enclosed and she is
terrified to watch programmes on caving. She felt enclosed in a marquee
recently because of the disorientation she felt from the noise around her.

I have discussed this case before and she is on the occasional Sanic 1M in a
WP. The last time she took a dose was about 2 weeks ago which made her
bowels sluggish for the first day ad she gauges how the rx is working on the
state of her bowels.

If anyone has any comments on the above I would be interested to hear them.

Regards
Rochelle
www.rochellemarsden.co.uk
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[Rochelle]

Joy wrote:-


How I wish I could!!! At least the Sanic has improved this more to her satisfaction and as usual in these cases there is something else that is bothering her more now. She looked on the bowel problem (which I didn't really think it was) as a marker to whether the Rx is working. Now the marker is the pain and the vertigo.

I did try to explore the caving ad all I got was a "the thought of being enclosed". OK so the next step is to find what "being enclosed" means to her.!!

Regards
Rochelle
www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

[Rosemary C Hyde PhD]

I would assume at least, with the "obsession about bowels," that "anxiety about her health" would be applicable and important. FWIW

Rosemary

[Shannon Nelson]

But, I would ask her why she has this concern with her bowels, when and
where it stems from. If it's longstanding or traceable to a particular
time, it could be significant, but It could simply be a learned concern
(which could either change the rubric you'd choose, or could make it
irrelevant as a symptom). Or it could be something that she has found
empirically to be helpful for her (in which case you'd want to rep the
effects of constipation or whatever, rather than the concern with it).

Shannon

on 7/7/04 3:55 PM, Rosemary C Hyde PhD at rosemarychyde@mindspring.com
wrote:

[Rochelle]

It certainly would but she has been given Ars etc from other homeopaths in the past with no success. I get the feeling from her that the Sanic is having more effect than some of the others she has had in the past.
Rochelle
www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

[Rochelle]

I think I would have to be very diplomatic as I think she would be most offended if I dared to suggest to her that she had an obsession with her bowels!! She doesn't feel she can get on with her day until she has emptied her bowels to her satisfaction. She was a radiologist and talks in terms of poor peristalsis of the bowel and the lack of urging + the feeling of an insufficient movement. However as I said this is not what she is going on about at the moment.
I wanted to know if anyone had any ideas on the chronic fatigue syndrome caused initially from RSI where the pain is better when the adrenalin is running. Also the vertigo, sickness from riding on a train even for a couple of hours afterwards. She feels as if she is not quite walking in a straight line.

www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

[Shannon Nelson]

Does this apply?

RECTUM; CONSTIPATION; general; urging; absent (16) : alum., aran-s., bry.,
carc., curc., graph., hydr., indol., mag-m., op., pitu-a., sanic., sulph.,
term-c., thea., verat. (Or the much larger rubric, "Rectum, inactivity"?)
Can't really tell whether that's actually the problem or not, but she
probably (??) wouldn't be obsessing about them if they were moving like they
ought??)

Looking at this rubric plus the anxiety re health, plus irresolution and
want of self-confidence, plus resemblance to arsenicum (implying
fastidiousness or something like it?) -- how about Carcinosin???

Shannon
on 7/7/04 5:41 PM, rochelle at rochelle@ntlworld.com wrote:

[Shannon Nelson]

on 7/7/04 5:30 PM, rochelle at rochelle@ntlworld.com wrote:
Which still leaves...
MIND; ANXIETY; health, about (93) : acet-ac., acon., adam., aeth., agar.,
agn., aloe, alum., alum-p., alum-sil., am-c., androc., ant-t., arg., arg-n.,
arn., ars., ars-h., aur-m., bar-c., bell., blatta, bor., bov., brom., bry.,
bufo, calad., calc., calc-ar., calc-f., calc-p., calc-s., calc-sil.,
cand-a., cann-i., canth., carb-v., carc., caust., chin-ar., choc., cocc.,
cop., corv-c., cub., cupr., euph., germ., glon., grat., hep., hyos., ign.,
Kali-ar., kali-br., kali-c., kali-m., kali-p., kali-sil., kreos., lac-c.,
lac-eq., lach., lat-h., lob., lyc., m-arct., mag-m., med., merc., morg.,
nat-c., nat-m., nat-p., Nit-ac., nux-m., nux-v., ozone, parth., ph-ac.,
Phel., phos., podo., psor., puls., ruta, sel., sep., sil., spong., staph.,
sulph.

[Rosemary C Hyde PhD]

It does make me think of Cocc or Thuja, but just off the top of my head. I'm afraid I'm not connecting with the initials "RSI." Sorry, but a definition would be helpful (then I'll undoubtedly say -- "Oh, of course.") Thanks. Rosemary