NWS menopause

[Vera Resnick]

Any ideas on a never well since menopause? Stocky px, speaks fast and stammers when pressured, single mother, on a lot of conventional meds including HRT which she very much wants to go off.

Vera

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Vera Resnick RCHom
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Alternative Medicine
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[d_rona2000]

These have been the most frustrating cases for me. The long term use
of conventional meds seems to multiply the effects of stress more than
would be expected. Well chosen remedies seem to have very little
effect or very very slow effect. One route to explore is to treat the
current symptoms as acutes - taking the most troublesome symptom first,
while agressively work on nutrition (usually the stress and meds have
stolen nutrients to critical levels) and personal control techniques
(yoga or tai chi work very well - but sometimes other therapies work
well here). Using this approach, I have seen far better results, and
have enthusiastic clients. The well chosen remedy has sometimes had to
wait a few months - but the results were wonderful.

Donna

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[Rosemary C. Hyde, Ph.D.]

Thanks, Donna, for sharing your wisdom and experience in such cases. I
agree they are incredibly difficult and frustrating. And the remedies work
extremely slowly -- but they do eventually work, if you and the patient keep
at it. Peeling off one symptom at a time, as if an acute, does seem to be
what starts the case homeopathically. And restoring nutritional status is
essential, as you say. One thing I'd add is that a lot of "alternative"
treatments, used to excess -- herbs, cleanses, etc... -- can also produce
the same situation. It doesn't only result from allopathic medications.

Rosemary

Thoughts are things. Thoughts create things. Thoughts shape things. Thoughts
become ultimately, tangibly real.
~Sir John Templeton

[d_rona2000]

Rosemary,
I'm so glad you brought this up. Yes, the current fad of using
every 'alternative' available is causing so many problems. I usually
see people after they have 'tried everything'. That includes having
tried multiple 'alternatives' - usually in excess - following advice
from magazine articles, celebrity interviews or books, TV shows,
infomercials, and advice from well meaning health food store clerks.
They can cause just as much trouble as the pharmaceuticals.

At this point I have not seen many people using the 'over the
counter' homeopathic bend remedies, but that section is steadily
growing in our local health food stores. I wonder if they will
produce the same problems as the other 'alternative' remedies? Will
they also cause a well chosen remedy to act very slowly or
imperceptibly?

Donna

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wrote:
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[Rochelle]

It may well be NBWS HRT!!!!
Rochelle
Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

[Vera Resnick]

No, that part at least is clear although this case is very foggy. The progression was:
start of pre-menopausal symptoms - hot flushes at night with palpitations, disturbed sleep, mood swings
then high BP
then BP meds
then menses stopped
then HRT
at the same time increased sensitivity to respiratory issues (pneumonia twice)

So it doesn't look like the HRT caused, although she's high risk for it and wants to get off.

Vera

[Livingston]

Look at Lach
Lisa
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[Rochelle]

Lach is for dry flushes and it is about the only one. Sulphur sometimes works for this. For wet flushes Sepia is best. This of cause is dealing with just the flushes. Lach however is good for palpitations as well. Don't give Carc - this is what brought back my flushes and this was substantiated when I was at a Madeleine Evens lecture on menopause.
FWIW - my HBP began at menopause and I know this has happened to a lot of woman so I am wondering if it is a normal part of the picture. (My BP was normalised with Ayuvedic Ivy's Mukta Vati which I still take but not the full dose now) I still only sleep in 2 hour stints and that is over 7 years since menopause. No remedy or anything else has sorted this out. However I have never had palpitations nor mood problems. I put all the exercise I do down to this. Nothing better for stress than high impact aerobic to head banging music
Rochelle
Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

[Vera Resnick]

From my research the BP is part of the menopause picture, so if what I give touches the menopause symptoms and reduces the need/desire for HRT chances are the BP will go down too.

Carc doesn't fit many other elements of the picture.

Lach is the ONLY one for dry flushes? seems out of 5000 there's just gotta be one or two more . One remedy that's coming up is Sul-Ac, which suits a lot of the picture but has wet flushes, not dry. So I'm still looking.

She has started doing some form of breathing exercises which are helping the tension. Regarding the over-the-counter-homeopathy combos - someone actually came to me reporting bad Lachesis style headaches after taking the menopause one, headaches that she'd never had before. FYI

Thanks for all input!

Vera
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[Jean Doherty]

Mancinella has been useful in 2 of my hot flush cases. As usual detective work needed.
Occasionally Oophorinum 7c to take as needed is helpful .Jean