Strange case
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:55 pm
I had a strange case in today - I know, all my cases are strange!! Another "last resort" case!
Young man age 22, muscular, tanned , hair spiked up, eyebrow pierced with silver ring, university student. For the last 2 years he has had flushing of the face. he has been treated with tetracycline,, Chinese herbs, special skin care products and nothing has worked. he describes it as rosacea but no pimples. It has some good modalities - in the sun., He was abroad in the heat and didn't flush once! sunlight.
He is a very sociable lad and has to be seen with a good looking girl. he wouldn't go out with a girl unless she was good looking, yet he tells me how jealous he was when a girlfriend won a competition for being the best looking girl because she got so much attention. He loves meeting people and will chat to anyone but then says "Sometimes I will look at someone and think I don't like them. I'm big on first impressions". Loves company, hates doing anything on his own.
He has never spoken to friends about this problem of flushing as it is too personal. He hides it with his hand if he is talking to someone and it happens. He has missed lectures at college because he has felt so hot and knows he will flush. He is embarrassed about it. "I am quite superficial. If I saw someone with a red face I would notice it and I wouldn't speak to a girl who had a red face." This is all about pride. Fears - being scarred or burnt in the face. (Rubric vanity?) He says looks are important to him and he looked at Jason on Big Brother always doing his hair and thought that he was like him!!
"I don't feel normal" (Delusion - ugly?)
Other notable things - his arms were full of dark moles and he is taking Lamsil tablets are he has discoloured toe nails because of toe fungus - He has taken these before but apparently not long enough to kill the infection properly.
He says he desires meat and doesn't eat sweets or chocolate but then said that he stopped eating them when he had acne so is this a real aversion? He drinks sweet alcoholic cocktails!!
He doesn't get angry- couldn't even give me an example.
Remedies that I have thought of are Platina (he does think he is right all the time) Thuja- hiding the flushing from people , thinking it is so terrible and the fungus, moles and sexually transmitted disease.
That's basically the case.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Regards
Rochelle
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Young man age 22, muscular, tanned , hair spiked up, eyebrow pierced with silver ring, university student. For the last 2 years he has had flushing of the face. he has been treated with tetracycline,, Chinese herbs, special skin care products and nothing has worked. he describes it as rosacea but no pimples. It has some good modalities - in the sun., He was abroad in the heat and didn't flush once! sunlight.
He is a very sociable lad and has to be seen with a good looking girl. he wouldn't go out with a girl unless she was good looking, yet he tells me how jealous he was when a girlfriend won a competition for being the best looking girl because she got so much attention. He loves meeting people and will chat to anyone but then says "Sometimes I will look at someone and think I don't like them. I'm big on first impressions". Loves company, hates doing anything on his own.
He has never spoken to friends about this problem of flushing as it is too personal. He hides it with his hand if he is talking to someone and it happens. He has missed lectures at college because he has felt so hot and knows he will flush. He is embarrassed about it. "I am quite superficial. If I saw someone with a red face I would notice it and I wouldn't speak to a girl who had a red face." This is all about pride. Fears - being scarred or burnt in the face. (Rubric vanity?) He says looks are important to him and he looked at Jason on Big Brother always doing his hair and thought that he was like him!!
"I don't feel normal" (Delusion - ugly?)
Other notable things - his arms were full of dark moles and he is taking Lamsil tablets are he has discoloured toe nails because of toe fungus - He has taken these before but apparently not long enough to kill the infection properly.
He says he desires meat and doesn't eat sweets or chocolate but then said that he stopped eating them when he had acne so is this a real aversion? He drinks sweet alcoholic cocktails!!
He doesn't get angry- couldn't even give me an example.
Remedies that I have thought of are Platina (he does think he is right all the time) Thuja- hiding the flushing from people , thinking it is so terrible and the fungus, moles and sexually transmitted disease.
That's basically the case.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Regards
Rochelle
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I also see lots of elements of him in Thuja . I remember being told at college that if a case comes out confused because of the way the patient jumps from one things to another and back again think of Thuja or Lach. I did tidy it up when I sent it to the list and there were things I left out. The Blockage (nose) repeated often also makes me think Thuja. Anyway I have sent him via email a list of questions which I hope will make the choice clearer to me. I am still open to ideas and suggestions.