ABCNEWS.Com Morgellons Medical Mystery Segment Tonight
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:58 pm
You know, I actually had a patient who had what sounds very much like this
condition. She had suffered from it for many years, and was exhibiting all
the symptoms of compulsive cleanliness and delusions about parasites (which
were never found) along with the lesions (they were truly frightening). She
used to be a nurse, and used her connections to find every skin and parasite
specialist in Canada and the US that she could see to find some kind of
treatment. The lesions terrified her and they were quite horrible to look
at; and she also had so little physical energy, an inability to sleep, and
constant pain and itchiness from the disease. The "fibres" you're talking
about--I haven't seen this program but on my patient's skin these fibres
seemed to connect one "lesion" to another. She claimed that when one lesion
would go away others "connected" to it (via the fibres) would come up. I'm
not sure if this is the same thing described by the tv program on ABC, as
none of the docs she'd seen could provide any kind of concrete diagnosis
about her illness.
Not surprisingly, she suffered from a terrible, suicidal depression. She
disease was so bad she had to stop working, lost her home, lost her
marriage, lost all contact with friends.
She did very well with staphysagria, then syphilinum, and the last remedy
she got was pulsatilla.
The staph was the first medicine she'd received in years that allowed her to
sleep and wake rested. Once the syphilinum was given, the lesions began to
clear up and stop coming (in the past they'd go away, but then return again;
or if one went away, another five or six would come up). Once they went
away on visible parts, she felt she could resume daily life again--go out
and see people, or undertake projects requiring what I'd say was an
extraordinary amount of time and effort (like taking on big landscaping
projects--this seemed to be the thing she liked to do, working with plants
and flowers).
So I don't think making a nosode of this disease is necessary, and I doubt
the nosode would actually correspond to the patient's "totality" anyway.
One of the great advantages of homeopathy is that you don't need a proper
name for a set of symptoms, you don't need the "official" diagnosis from
conventional medical doctors to be able to work with your patient to help
them restore their health. And, of course, you don't need to focus on the
extremely particular physicals to find the best remedy (it wouldn't be that
important to pay attention to the fibres so much--I'd want to know more
about the patient's mental state, any possible aetiologies, modalities,
other symptoms that accompany the particulars, etc. etc., just like any
other case).
Nancy
condition. She had suffered from it for many years, and was exhibiting all
the symptoms of compulsive cleanliness and delusions about parasites (which
were never found) along with the lesions (they were truly frightening). She
used to be a nurse, and used her connections to find every skin and parasite
specialist in Canada and the US that she could see to find some kind of
treatment. The lesions terrified her and they were quite horrible to look
at; and she also had so little physical energy, an inability to sleep, and
constant pain and itchiness from the disease. The "fibres" you're talking
about--I haven't seen this program but on my patient's skin these fibres
seemed to connect one "lesion" to another. She claimed that when one lesion
would go away others "connected" to it (via the fibres) would come up. I'm
not sure if this is the same thing described by the tv program on ABC, as
none of the docs she'd seen could provide any kind of concrete diagnosis
about her illness.
Not surprisingly, she suffered from a terrible, suicidal depression. She
disease was so bad she had to stop working, lost her home, lost her
marriage, lost all contact with friends.
She did very well with staphysagria, then syphilinum, and the last remedy
she got was pulsatilla.
The staph was the first medicine she'd received in years that allowed her to
sleep and wake rested. Once the syphilinum was given, the lesions began to
clear up and stop coming (in the past they'd go away, but then return again;
or if one went away, another five or six would come up). Once they went
away on visible parts, she felt she could resume daily life again--go out
and see people, or undertake projects requiring what I'd say was an
extraordinary amount of time and effort (like taking on big landscaping
projects--this seemed to be the thing she liked to do, working with plants
and flowers).
So I don't think making a nosode of this disease is necessary, and I doubt
the nosode would actually correspond to the patient's "totality" anyway.
One of the great advantages of homeopathy is that you don't need a proper
name for a set of symptoms, you don't need the "official" diagnosis from
conventional medical doctors to be able to work with your patient to help
them restore their health. And, of course, you don't need to focus on the
extremely particular physicals to find the best remedy (it wouldn't be that
important to pay attention to the fibres so much--I'd want to know more
about the patient's mental state, any possible aetiologies, modalities,
other symptoms that accompany the particulars, etc. etc., just like any
other case).
Nancy
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