Dear Steve, I associate a number of my cases with Guillain barre syndrome
not only because a number of the sx fit but also because of the link this
condition has with the flu vaccine - many cases date back to the 1976
outbreak after the use of the swine flu vaccine.
Onset is rapid (and in my experience very soon after the vaccine has been
given), can be ascending but not always, real weakness in legs and arms to
the point of paralysis. One case I had the person had got stuck in the bath
for 3 hours before someone came to help. There is numbness and pins and
needles type sensations and the limbs feel excessively heavy. Many other
muscles can be effected even to the point of causing acute breathing
difficulties. My clients didn't have the breathing problems but I think they
would have been covered by the Cad met as well.
Your cases seem to be complicated with other issues - mainly depression and
grief. Cadmium metallicum is one of the first remedies to consider for
influenza and it has a great deal of grief and depression in its symptom
picture so I would suggest you have a good read about it as it might fit
your cases.
Best wishes, Joy
www.homeopathicmateriamedica.com
on 11/7/03 5:37 PM, Steve Scrutton at
stevescrutton@btinternet.com wrote:
Hello Joy
I am interested to hear of your experience, and your association with
Guillan Barre syndrome. Let me share a couple of recent cases that I am
associating with the 'flu jab - they may be interesting.
The first was an elderly lady I have been treating for depression and
arthritis. By early October she was well, and phoned me to call off an
appointment as she had to go to a funeral. I saw her yesterday and although
she still felt well in herself, and her energy was good (but not as good as
before), her arthritis had returned. I could not make sense of this until
she suddenly admitted that she had the 'flu jab (she had asked my opinion,
and I had told her not to have it). The arthritis returned within a couple
of days. On asking her how long she had been having flu jabs. It seems that
she has been having them for 10 years. It was 10 years ago that her
arthritis started. A coincidence - maybe? But I think not!
The other client a younger woman who is suffering from ME, I saw her for the
first time yesterday. She is also on anti-depressants, following a
seperation, following a miscarriage - and more besides. I will be treating
this first, although I feel that Nat Mur may cover the whole picture. When I
tried to find out what was happening at the time she first contracted ME I
could find nothing. It was an exceptioally happy time, she had just got
married, and life was good. But her job (within the health services) obliged
her to have a flu vaccination. So my original email was concerned with
this - just in case I need to antidote it in time..
Steve Scrutton
Registered Homeopath
Registrar - Alliance of Registered Homeopaths
"Homeopathy is a safe, gentle and effective medical therapy"
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